[HTML][HTML] Passive immunotherapy of viral infections:'super-antibodies' enter the fray

LM Walker, DR Burton - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2018 - nature.com
Antibodies have been used for more than 100 years in the therapy of infectious diseases,
but a new generation of highly potent and/or broadly cross-reactive human monoclonal …

Immune response to dengue and Zika

A Elong Ngono, S Shresta - Annual review of immunology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Flaviviruses such as dengue (DENV), yellow fever (YFV), West Nile (WNV), and Zika (ZIKV)
are human pathogens of global significance. In particular, DENV causes the most prevalent …

[HTML][HTML] High genetic barrier to SARS-CoV-2 polyclonal neutralizing antibody escape

F Schmidt, Y Weisblum, M Rutkowska, D Poston… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The number and variability of the neutralizing epitopes targeted by polyclonal antibodies in
individuals who are SARS-CoV-2 convalescent and vaccinated are key determinants of …

Enhanced SARS-CoV-2 neutralization by dimeric IgA

Z Wang, JCC Lorenzi, F Muecksch, S Finkin… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), primarily infects cells at mucosal surfaces. Serum …

[HTML][HTML] Convergent antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in convalescent individuals

DF Robbiani, C Gaebler, F Muecksch, JCC Lorenzi… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
During the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, severe acute respiratory
syndrome-related coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has led to the infection of millions of people …

Antibody potency, effector function, and combinations in protection and therapy for SARS-CoV-2 infection in vivo

A Schäfer, F Muecksch, JCC Lorenzi, SR Leist… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - rupress.org
SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, has been responsible for over 42 million
infections and 1 million deaths since its emergence in December 2019. There are few …

[HTML][HTML] Autoantibodies against chemokines post-SARS-CoV-2 infection correlate with disease course

J Muri, V Cecchinato, A Cavalli, AA Shanbhag… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 associates with diverse
symptoms, which can persist for months. While antiviral antibodies are protective, those …

Zika virus infection enhances future risk of severe dengue disease

LC Katzelnick, C Narvaez, S Arguello… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The Zika pandemic sparked intense interest in whether immune interactions among dengue
virus serotypes 1 to 4 (DENV1 to-4) extend to the closely related Zika virus (ZIKV). We …

[PDF][PDF] Antibody affinity shapes the choice between memory and germinal center B cell fates

C Viant, GHJ Weymar, A Escolano, S Chen… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Immunological memory is required for protection against repeated infections and is the basis
of all effective vaccines. Antibodies produced by memory B cells play an essential role in …

Germline-encoded amino acid–binding motifs drive immunodominant public antibody responses

EL Shrock, RT Timms, T Kula, EL Mena, AP West Jr… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Despite the vast diversity of the antibody repertoire, infected individuals often mount
antibody responses to precisely the same epitopes within antigens. The immunological …