Ferritin-based nanomedicine for disease treatment

Y Zhu, Y Zhu, T Cao, X Liu, X Liu, Y Yan, Y Shi… - Medical …, 2023 - degruyter.com
Ferritin is an endogenous protein which is self-assembled by 24 subunits into a highly
uniform nanocage structure. Due to the drug-encapsulating ability in the hollow inner cavity …

An explainable language model for antibody specificity prediction using curated influenza hemagglutinin antibodies

Y Wang, H Lv, QW Teo, R Lei, AB Gopal, WO Ouyang… - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
Despite decades of antibody research, it remains challenging to predict the specificity of an
antibody solely based on its sequence. Two major obstacles are the lack of appropriate …

Chimeric hemagglutinin split vaccines elicit broadly cross-reactive antibodies and protection against group 2 influenza viruses in mice

E Puente-Massaguer, K Vasilev, A Beyer… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Seasonal influenza virus vaccines are effective when they are well matched to circulating
strains. Because of antigenic drift/change in the immunodominant hemagglutinin (HA) head …

Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus nucleoprotein and GP38 subunit vaccine combination prevents morbidity in mice

E Karaaslan, TE Sorvillo, FEM Scholte, TJ O'Neal… - npj Vaccines, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Immunizing mice with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV)
nucleoprotein (NP), glycoprotein precursor (GPC), or with the GP38 domain of GPC, can be …

[HTML][HTML] Multifaceted virus-like particles: Navigating towards broadly effective influenza A virus vaccines

JAM Norizwan, WS Tan - Current Research in Microbial Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
The threat of influenza A virus (IAV) remains an annual health concern, as almost 500,000
people die each year due to the seasonal flu. Current flu vaccines are highly dependent on …

A novel “prime and pull” strategy mediated by the combination of two dendritic cell-targeting designs induced protective lung tissue-resident memory T cells against …

Z Wang, Y He, W Wang, Y Tian, C Ge, F Jia… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Vaccination is still the most promising strategy for combating influenza virus pandemics.
However, the highly variable characteristics of influenza virus make it difficult to develop …

Generation and characterization of a nanobody against the avian influenza virus H7 subtype

X Huang, W Li, X Cao, Q Zhang, Y Lin, S Xu… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Avian influenza virus (AIV) H7N9 diseases have been recently reported, raising concerns
about a potential pandemic. Thus, there is an urgent need for effective therapeutics for AIV …

[HTML][HTML] An explainable language model for antibody specificity prediction using curated influenza hemagglutinin antibodies

Y Wang, H Lv, R Lei, YH Yeung, IR Shen, D Choi… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Despite decades of antibody research, it remains challenging to predict the specificity of an
antibody solely based on its sequence. Two major obstacles are the lack of appropriate …

Eliciting a single amino acid change by vaccination generates antibody protection against group 1 and group 2 influenza A viruses

R Ray, FAN Mohamed, DP Maurer, J Huang, BA Alpay… - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) targeting the hemagglutinin (HA) stem of influenza
A viruses (IAVs) tend to be effective against either group 1 or group 2 viral diversity. In rarer …

A vaccine platform targeting lung-resident memory CD4+ T-cells provides protection against heterosubtypic influenza infections in mice and ferrets

KH Ko, HS Bae, JW Park, JS Lee, S Park, J Heo… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Lung tissue-resident memory T (TRM) cells induced by influenza vaccination are crucial for
heterosubtypic immunity upon re-exposure to the influenza virus, enabling rapid and robust …