COVID‐19 and plasma cells: Is there long‐lived protection?

DC Nguyen, PA Lamothe, MC Woodruff… - Immunological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Infection with SARS‐CoV‐2, the etiology of the ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic, has
resulted in over 450 million cases with more than 6 million deaths worldwide, causing global …

Instructing durable humoral immunity for COVID-19 and other vaccinable diseases

D Bhattacharya - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Many aspects of SARS-CoV-2 have fully conformed with the principles established by
decades of viral immunology research, ultimately leading to the crowning achievement of …

[HTML][HTML] Germinal centre-driven maturation of B cell response to mRNA vaccination

W Kim, JQ Zhou, SC Horvath, AJ Schmitz, AJ Sturtz… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Germinal centres (GC) are lymphoid structures in which B cells acquire affinity-enhancing
somatic hypermutations (SHM), with surviving clones differentiating into memory B cells …

Vaccination induces HIV broadly neutralizing antibody precursors in humans

DJ Leggat, KW Cohen, JR Willis, WJ Fulp, AC Decamp… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) can protect against HIV infection but have not been
induced by human vaccination. A key barrier to bnAb induction is vaccine priming of rare …

[HTML][HTML] Imprinted SARS-CoV-2-specific memory lymphocytes define hybrid immunity

LB Rodda, PA Morawski, KB Pruner, ML Fahning… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Immune memory is tailored by cues that lymphocytes perceive during priming. The severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic created a situation in …

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron-neutralizing memory B cells are elicited by two doses of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine

R Kotaki, Y Adachi, S Moriyama, T Onodera… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants have mutations in the spike receptor binding domain (RBD)
with potential to evade neutralizing antibody. In particular, the Beta and Omicron variants …

[HTML][HTML] Persistent B cell memory after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination is functional during breakthrough infections

S Terreri, EP Mortari, MR Vinci, C Russo, C Alteri… - Cell host & …, 2022 - cell.com
Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections in fully vaccinated individuals are considered a
consequence of waning immunity. Serum antibodies represent the most measurable …

The incidence of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection in persons with naturally acquired immunity with and without subsequent receipt of a single dose of BNT162b2 vaccine: a …

S Gazit, R Shlezinger, G Perez, R Lotan… - Annals of Internal …, 2022 - acpjournals.org
Background: There is insufficient evidence regarding the magnitude and durability of
protection conferred by a combined effect of naturally acquired immunity after SARS-CoV-2 …

[HTML][HTML] Antibody affinity and cross-variant neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA. 1, BA. 2 and BA. 3 following third mRNA vaccination

L Bellusci, G Grubbs, FT Zahra, D Forgacs… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
There is limited knowledge on durability of neutralization capacity and antibody affinity
maturation generated following two versus three doses of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines in …

[HTML][HTML] B-cell and antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2: infection, vaccination, and hybrid immunity

D Lapuente, TH Winkler, M Tenbusch - Cellular & Molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in 2019
prompted scientific, medical, and biotech communities to investigate infection-and vaccine …