Harnessing the power of T cells: the promising hope for a universal influenza vaccine

EB Clemens, C Van de Sandt, SS Wong, LM Wakim… - Vaccines, 2018 - mdpi.com
Next-generation vaccines that utilize T cells could potentially overcome the limitations of
current influenza vaccines that rely on antibodies to provide narrow subtype-specific …

[HTML][HTML] Breadth of concomitant immune responses prior to patient recovery: a case report of non-severe COVID-19

I Thevarajan, THO Nguyen, M Koutsakos, J Druce… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
To the Editor—We report the kinetics of immune responses in relation to clinical and
virological features of a patient with mild-to-moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Recalling the future: immunological memory toward unpredictable influenza viruses

M Auladell, X Jia, L Hensen, B Chua, A Fox… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Persistent and durable immunological memory forms the basis of any successful vaccination
protocol. Generation of pre-existing memory B cell and T cell pools is thus the key for …

Suboptimal SARS-CoV-2−specific CD8+ T cell response associated with the prominent HLA-A*02:01 phenotype

JR Habel, THO Nguyen… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
An improved understanding of human T cell-mediated immunity in COVID-19 is important for
optimizing therapeutic and vaccine strategies. Experience with influenza shows that …

Mass spectrometry–based identification of MHC-bound peptides for immunopeptidomics

AW Purcell, SH Ramarathinam, N Ternette - Nature protocols, 2019 - nature.com
Peptide antigens bound to molecules encoded by the major histocompatibility complex
(MHC) and presented on the cell surface form the targets of T lymphocytes. This critical arm …

[HTML][HTML] CD8+ T cells specific for an immunodominant SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid epitope display high naive precursor frequency and TCR promiscuity

THO Nguyen, LC Rowntree, J Petersen, BY Chua… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
To better understand primary and recall T cell responses during coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19), it is important to examine unmanipulated severe acute respiratory syndrome …

[HTML][HTML] Clonally diverse CD38+ HLA-DR+ CD8+ T cells persist during fatal H7N9 disease

Z Wang, L Zhu, THO Nguyen, Y Wan, S Sant… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Severe influenza A virus (IAV) infection is associated with immune dysfunction. Here, we
show circulating CD8+ T-cell profiles from patients hospitalized with avian H7N9, seasonal …

Robust and prototypical immune responses toward COVID-19 vaccine in First Nations peoples are impacted by comorbidities

W Zhang, L Kedzierski, BY Chua, M Mayo, C Lonzi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
High-risk groups, including Indigenous people, are at risk of severe COVID-19. Here we
found that Australian First Nations peoples elicit effective immune responses to COVID-19 …

Immune cellular networks underlying recovery from influenza virus infection in acute hospitalized patients

THO Nguyen, M Koutsakos, CE van de Sandt… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
How innate and adaptive immune responses work in concert to resolve influenza disease is
yet to be fully investigated in one single study. Here, we utilize longitudinal samples from …

Molecular basis for universal HLA-A*0201–restricted CD8+ T-cell immunity against influenza viruses

SA Valkenburg, TM Josephs… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Memory CD8+ T lymphocytes (CTLs) specific for antigenic peptides derived from internal
viral proteins confer broad protection against distinct strains of influenza A virus (IAV) …