Antiviral neutralizing antibodies: from in vitro to in vivo activity

DR Burton - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) are being increasingly used as passive antiviral reagents in
prophylactic and therapeutic modalities and to guide viral vaccine design. In vivo, nAbs can …

Dengue

G Paz-Bailey, LE Adams, J Deen, KB Anderson… - The Lancet, 2024 - thelancet.com
Dengue, caused by four closely related viruses, is a growing global public health concern,
with outbreaks capable of overwhelming health-care systems and disrupting economies …

Current advances in Zika vaccine development

Y Wang, L Ling, Z Zhang, A Marin-Lopez - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Zika virus (ZIKV), an emerging arthropod-borne flavivirus, was first isolated in Uganda in
1947 from monkeys and first detected in humans in Nigeria in 1952; it has been associated …

Massively-multiplexed epitope mapping techniques for viral antigen discovery

D Hu, AT Irving - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Following viral infection, viral antigens bind specifically to receptors on the surface of
lymphocytes thereby activating adaptive immunity in the host. An epitope, the smallest …

Evolution and activation mechanism of the flavivirus class II membrane-fusion machinery

MC Vaney, M Dellarole, S Duquerroy, I Medits… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The flavivirus envelope glycoproteins prM and E drive the assembly of icosahedral, spiky
immature particles that bud across the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum. Maturation …

Development of a blocking ELISA kit for detection of ASFV antibody based on a monoclonal antibody against full-length p72

W Caixia, Q Songyin, X Ying, Y Haoyang… - Journal of AOAC …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background African swine fever virus (ASFV) is the etiologic agent of African swine fever
(ASF), a disease of highly contagious and significant threat to pork production. At present …

A combination of two resistance mechanisms is critical for tick-borne encephalitis virus escape from a broadly neutralizing human antibody

P Svoboda, J Haviernik, P Bednar, M Matkovic… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) is a flavivirus that causes human neuroinfections and
represents a growing health problem. The human monoclonal antibody T025 targets …

Single B cell transcriptomics identifies multiple isotypes of broadly neutralizing antibodies against flaviviruses

J Lubow, LM Levoir, DK Ralph, L Belmont… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Sequential dengue virus (DENV) infections often generate neutralizing antibodies against
all four DENV serotypes and sometimes, Zika virus. Characterizing cross-flavivirus broadly …

Neutralizing antibodies to block viral entry and for identification of entry inhibitors

EH Tam, Y Peng, MXY Cheah, C Yan, T Xiao - Antiviral Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) are naturally produced by our immune system to combat viral
infections. Clinically, neutralizing antibodies with potent efficacy and high specificity have …

Molecular mechanism and structure-guided humanization of a broadly neutralizing antibody against SFTSV

P Yang, X Wu, H Shang, Z Sun, Z Wang, Z Song… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) is a novel tick-borne
bunyavirus that causes severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS), with a high …