[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 variant biology: immune escape, transmission and fitness

AM Carabelli, TP Peacock, LG Thorne… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
In late 2020, after circulating for almost a year in the human population, severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) exhibited a major step change in its …

SARS-CoV-2 biology and host interactions

S Steiner, A Kratzel, GT Barut, RM Lang… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The zoonotic emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
and the ensuing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have profoundly affected …

SARS-CoV-2 and innate immunity: the good, the bad, and the “goldilocks”

BL Sievers, MTK Cheng, K Csiba, B Meng… - Cellular & Molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
An ancient conflict between hosts and pathogens has driven the innate and adaptive arms of
immunity. Knowledge about this interplay can not only help us identify biological …

Host susceptibility and structural and immunological insight of S proteins of two SARS-CoV-2 closely related bat coronaviruses

X Ou, G Xu, P Li, Y Liu, F Zan, P Liu, J Hu, X Lu… - Cell discovery, 2023 - nature.com
The bat coronaviruses (CoV) BANAL-20-52 and BANAL-20-236 are two newly identified
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) closely related …

High-throughput identification of prefusion-stabilizing mutations in SARS-CoV-2 spike

TJC Tan, Z Mou, R Lei, WO Ouyang, M Yuan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Designing prefusion-stabilized SARS-CoV-2 spike is critical for the effectiveness of COVID-
19 vaccines. All COVID-19 vaccines in the US encode spike with K986P/V987P mutations to …

Evolutionary remodelling of N‐terminal domain loops fine‐tunes SARS‐CoV‐2 spike

D Cantoni, MJ Murray, MD Kalemera, SJ Dicken… - EMBO …, 2022 - embopress.org
The emergence of SARS‐CoV‐2 variants has exacerbated the COVID‐19 global health
crisis. Thus far, all variants carry mutations in the spike glycoprotein, which is a critical …

Receptor-binding domain (RBD) antibodies contribute more to SARS-CoV-2 neutralization when target cells express high levels of ACE2

AG Farrell, B Dadonaite, AJ Greaney, R Eguia… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Neutralization assays are experimental surrogates for the effectiveness of infection-or
vaccine-elicited polyclonal antibodies and therapeutic monoclonal antibodies targeting …

COVID-19 Biogenesis and Intracellular Transport

AA Mironov, MA Savin, GV Beznoussenko - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
SARS-CoV-2 is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The structure of SARS-CoV-2 and
most of its proteins of have been deciphered. SARS-CoV-2 enters cells through the …

Therapeutic and vaccine-induced cross-reactive antibodies with effector function against emerging Omicron variants

A Addetia, L Piccoli, JB Case, YJ Park, M Beltramello… - Biorxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Currently circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants acquired convergent mutations at receptor-
binding domain (RBD) hot spots. Their impact on viral infection, transmission, and efficacy of …

Deep mutagenesis scanning using whole trimeric SARS-CoV-2 spike highlights the importance of NTD-RBD interactions in determining spike phenotype

R Kugathasan, K Sukhova, M Moshe, P Kellam… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
New variants of SARS-CoV-2 are continually emerging with mutations in spike associated
with increased transmissibility and immune escape. Phenotypic maps can inform the …