Insights into dengue immunity from vaccine trials

EE Ooi, S Kalimuddin - Science translational medicine, 2023 - science.org
The quest for an effective dengue vaccine has culminated in two approved vaccines and
another that has completed phase 3 clinical trials. However, shortcomings exist in each …

Mechanisms of antibody-dependent enhancement of infectious disease

TJ Wells, T Esposito, IR Henderson… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) of infectious disease is a phenomenon whereby
host antibodies increase the severity of an infection. It is well established in viral infections …

SARS-CoV-2 Spike triggers barrier dysfunction and vascular leak via integrins and TGF-β signaling

SB Biering, FT Gomes de Sousa, LV Tjang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Severe COVID-19 is associated with epithelial and endothelial barrier dysfunction within the
lung as well as in distal organs. While it is appreciated that an exaggerated inflammatory …

Human antibodies for viral infections

JE Crowe Jr - Annual review of immunology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Antibodies have been used to prevent or treat viral infections since the nineteenth century,
but the full potential to use passive immunization for infectious diseases has yet to be …

Molecular insights into the flavivirus replication complex

K Van den Elsen, JP Quek, D Luo - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Flaviviruses are vector-borne RNA viruses, many of which are clinically relevant human viral
pathogens, such as dengue, Zika, Japanese encephalitis, West Nile and yellow fever …

Flavivirus nonstructural proteins and replication complexes as antiviral drug targets

K van den Elsen, BLA Chew, JS Ho, D Luo - Current opinion in virology, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Molecular structures and predicated models of flaviviral NS proteins.•Recent
advance in antiviral development targeting NS proteins.•Inhibitors targeting NS4B entering …

Flavivirus NS1 and its potential in vaccine development

KL Carpio, ADT Barrett - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Flavivirus genus contains many important human pathogens, including dengue,
Japanese encephalitis (JE), tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), West Nile (WN), yellow fever (YF) …

The step-by-step assembly mechanism of secreted flavivirus NS1 tetramer and hexamer captured at atomic resolution

Q Pan, H Jiao, W Zhang, Q Chen, G Zhang, J Yu… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Flaviviruses encode a conserved, membrane-associated nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) with
replication and immune evasion functions. The current knowledge of secreted NS1 (sNS1) …

CryoEM structures of the multimeric secreted NS1, a major factor for dengue hemorrhagic fever

B Shu, JSG Ooi, AWK Tan, TS Ng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Dengue virus infection can cause dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). Dengue NS1 is
multifunctional. The intracellular dimeric NS1 (iNS1) forms part of the viral replication …

Innate and adaptive immune evasion by dengue virus

MF Lee, GZ Voon, HX Lim, ML Chua… - Frontiers in Cellular and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease which causes significant public health concerns in
tropical and subtropical countries. Dengue virus (DENV) has evolved various strategies to …