[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic strategies for COVID-19: progress and lessons learned

G Li, R Hilgenfeld, R Whitley, E De Clercq - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has stimulated tremendous
efforts to develop therapeutic strategies that target severe acute respiratory syndrome …

SARS-CoV-2 spike S2-specific neutralizing antibodies

CJ Li, SC Chang - Emerging Microbes & Infections, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Since the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), numerous neutralizing
antibodies (NAbs) against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) …

[HTML][HTML] Broadly neutralizing anti-S2 antibodies protect against all three human betacoronaviruses that cause deadly disease

P Zhou, G Song, H Liu, M Yuan, W He, N Beutler, X Zhu… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Pan-betacoronavirus neutralizing antibodies may hold the key to developing broadly
protective vaccines against novel pandemic coronaviruses and to more effectively respond …

[HTML][HTML] Prefusion-stabilized SARS-CoV-2 S2-only antigen provides protection against SARS-CoV-2 challenge

CL Hsieh, SR Leist, EH Miller, L Zhou… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Ever-evolving SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs) have diminished the
effectiveness of therapeutic antibodies and vaccines. Developing a coronavirus vaccine that …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 omicron variants harbor spike protein mutations responsible for their attenuated fusogenic phenotype

SB Park, M Khan, SC Chiliveri, X Hu, P Irvin… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Since the emergence of the Omicron variants at the end of 2021, they quickly became the
dominant variants globally. The Omicron variants may be more easily transmitted compared …

An engineered recombinant protein containing three structural domains in SARS-CoV-2 S2 protein has potential to act as a pan-human coronavirus entry inhibitor or …

X Wang, L Sun, Z Liu, L Xing, Y Zhu, W Xu… - Emerging Microbes & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The threat to global health caused by three highly pathogenic human coronaviruses (HCoV),
SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV, calls for the development of pan-HCoV …

[HTML][HTML] A recent SARS-CoV-2 infection enhances antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity against Several Omicron subvariants following a fourth mRNA vaccine …

G Beaudoin-Bussières, A Tauzin, K Dionne… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Since the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, several variants of concern (VOCs),
such as the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Omicron variants, have arisen and spread …

[HTML][HTML] Functional and antigenic characterization of SARS-CoV-2 spike fusion peptide by deep mutational scanning

R Lei, E Qing, A Odle, M Yuan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The fusion peptide of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is functionally important for membrane
fusion during virus entry and is part of a broadly neutralizing epitope. However, sequence …

[HTML][HTML] Engineered immunogens to elicit antibodies against conserved coronavirus epitopes

AB Kapingidza, DJ Marston, C Harris, D Wrapp… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 primarily target the receptor binding domain of the spike
protein, which continually mutates to escape acquired immunity. Other regions in the spike …

Evidence of antigenic drift in the fusion machinery core of SARS-CoV-2 spike

TJC Tan, AK Verma, A Odle, R Lei… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Antigenic drift of SARS-CoV-2 is typically defined by mutations in the N-terminal domain and
receptor binding domain of spike protein. In contrast, whether antigenic drift occurs in the S2 …