Chemistry, structure and function of approved oligonucleotide therapeutics

M Egli, M Manoharan - Nucleic Acids Research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Eighteen nucleic acid therapeutics have been approved for treatment of various diseases in
the last 25 years. Their modes of action include antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), splice …

The clinical progress of mRNA vaccines and immunotherapies

AJ Barbier, AY Jiang, P Zhang, R Wooster… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The emergency use authorizations (EUAs) of two mRNA-based severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV)-2 vaccines approximately 11 months after publication of …

Evolution and neutralization escape of the SARS-CoV-2 BA. 2.86 subvariant

K Khan, G Lustig, C Römer, K Reedoy, Z Jule… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Omicron BA. 2.86 subvariant differs from Omicron BA. 2 as well as recently
circulating variants by over 30 mutations in the spike protein alone. Here we report on the …

Bivalent SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines increase breadth of neutralization and protect against the BA. 5 Omicron variant in mice

SM Scheaffer, D Lee, B Whitener, B Ying, K Wu… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants
in the Omicron lineage has resulted in diminished Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2

A Sette, J Sidney, S Crotty - Annual review of immunology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
A large body of evidence generated in the last two and a half years addresses the roles of T
cells in SARS-CoV-2 infection and following vaccination. Infection or vaccination induces …

Emerging COVID-19 variants and their impact on SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis, therapeutics and vaccines

Q Fernandes, VP Inchakalody, M Merhi… - Annals of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The emergence of novel and evolving variants of SARS-CoV-2 has fostered the need for
change in the form of newer and more adaptive diagnostic methods for the detection of …

Immunological memory to SARS‐CoV‐2 infection and COVID‐19 vaccines

A Sette, S Crotty - Immunological reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Immunological memory is the basis of protective immunity provided by vaccines and
previous infections. Immunological memory can develop from multiple branches of the …

Vaccine adjuvants: mechanisms and platforms

T Zhao, Y Cai, Y Jiang, X He, Y Wei, Y Yu… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Adjuvants are indispensable components of vaccines. Despite being widely used in
vaccines, their action mechanisms are not yet clear. With a greater understanding of the …

IL-1 and IL-1ra are key regulators of the inflammatory response to RNA vaccines

S Tahtinen, AJ Tong, P Himmels, J Oh… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The use of lipid-formulated RNA vaccines for cancer or COVID-19 is associated with dose-
limiting systemic inflammatory responses in humans that were not predicted from preclinical …

COVID-19 vaccine update: vaccine effectiveness, SARS-CoV-2 variants, boosters, adverse effects, and immune correlates of protection

WY Chi, YD Li, HC Huang, TEH Chan, SY Chow… - Journal of biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been the most severe public health
challenge in this century. Two years after its emergence, the rapid development and …