Antibodies to combat viral infections: development strategies and progress

G Pantaleo, B Correia, C Fenwick, VS Joo… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are appealing as potential therapeutics and prophylactics for
viral infections owing to characteristics such as their high specificity and their ability to …

insights on current FDA-approved monoclonal antibodies against Ebola virus infection

O Tshiani Mbaya, P Mukumbayi… - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The unprecedented 2013-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak accelerated several medical
countermeasures (MCMs) against Ebola virus disease (EVD). Several investigational …

Ebola virus epidemiology, transmission, and evolution during seven months in Sierra Leone

DJ Park, G Dudas, S Wohl, A Goba, SLM Whitmer… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Summary The 2013–2015 Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic is caused by the Makona
variant of Ebola virus (EBOV). Early in the epidemic, genome sequencing provided insights …

[HTML][HTML] Human adaptation of Ebola virus during the West African outbreak

RA Urbanowicz, CP McClure, A Sakuntabhai, AA Sall… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
The 2013–2016 outbreak of Ebola virus (EBOV) in West Africa was the largest recorded. It
began following the cross-species transmission of EBOV from an animal reservoir, most …

Longitudinal analysis of the human B cell response to Ebola virus infection

CW Davis, KJL Jackson, AK McElroy, P Halfmann… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Ebola virus (EBOV) remains a public health threat. We performed a longitudinal study of B
cell responses to EBOV in four survivors of the 2014 West African outbreak. Infection …

Structural and molecular basis for Ebola virus neutralization by protective human antibodies

J Misasi, MSA Gilman, M Kanekiyo, M Gui, A Cagigi… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Ebola virus causes hemorrhagic fever with a high case fatality rate for which there is no
approved therapy. Two human monoclonal antibodies, mAb100 and mAb114, in …

Structures of protective antibodies reveal sites of vulnerability on Ebola virus

CD Murin, ML Fusco, ZA Bornholdt… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Ebola virus (EBOV) and related filoviruses cause severe hemorrhagic fever, with up to 90%
lethality, and no treatments are approved for human use. Multiple recent outbreaks of EBOV …

Antigenic subversion: a novel mechanism of host immune evasion by Ebola virus

GS Mohan, W Li, L Ye, RW Compans, C Yang - PLoS pathogens, 2012 - journals.plos.org
In addition to its surface glycoprotein (GP1, 2), Ebola virus (EBOV) directs the production of
large quantities of a truncated glycoprotein isoform (sGP) that is secreted into the …

African swine fever virus uses macropinocytosis to enter host cells

EG Sánchez, A Quintas, D Pérez-Núñez… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
African swine fever (ASF) is caused by a large and highly pathogenic DNA virus, African
swine fever virus (ASFV), which provokes severe economic losses and expansion threats …

Ebola vaccine–induced protection in nonhuman primates correlates with antibody specificity and Fc-mediated effects

M Meyer, BM Gunn, DC Malherbe… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Although substantial progress has been made with Ebola virus (EBOV) vaccine measures,
the immune correlates of vaccine-mediated protection remain uncertain. Here, five mucosal …