The SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein biosynthesis, structure, function, and antigenicity: implications for the design of spike-based vaccine immunogens

L Duan, Q Zheng, H Zhang, Y Niu, Y Lou… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), poses a grave threat to global public …

Analytical characterization of liposomes and other lipid nanoparticles for drug delivery

Y Fan, M Marioli, K Zhang - Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lipid nanoparticles, especially liposomes and lipid/nucleic acid complexed nanoparticles
have shown great success in the pharmaceutical industry. Their success is attributed to …

[HTML][HTML] Controlling timing and location in vaccines

DJ Irvine, A Aung, M Silva - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Vaccines are one of the most powerful technologies supporting public health. The adaptive
immune response induced by immunization arises following appropriate activation and …

[HTML][HTML] Fabrication of active targeting lipid nanoparticles: Challenges and perspectives

I Menon, M Zaroudi, Y Zhang, E Aisenbrey… - Materials Today Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Targeted drug and gene delivery is the key for precision therapy. Lipid nanoparticles as non-
viral vectors have attracted extensive attentions in treating a variety of diseases, such as …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging vaccine nanotechnology: from defense against infection to sniping cancer

C Feng, Y Li, BE Ferdows, DN Patel, J Ouyang… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2022 - Elsevier
Looking retrospectively at the development of humanity, vaccination is an unprecedented
medical landmark that saves lives by harnessing the human immune system. During the …

Infection with wild-type SARS-CoV-2 elicits broadly neutralizing and protective antibodies against omicron subvariants

B Ju, Q Zhang, Z Wang, ZQ Aw, P Chen, B Zhou… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 have substantial ability to escape infection-and
vaccine-elicited antibody immunity. Here, we investigated the extent of such escape in nine …

Stabilized HIV-1 envelope immunization induces neutralizing antibodies to the CD4bs and protects macaques against mucosal infection

KO Saunders, RJ Edwards, K Tilahun… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
A successful HIV-1 vaccine will require induction of a polyclonal neutralizing antibody (nAb)
response, yet vaccine-mediated induction of such a response in primates remains a …

Shaping humoral immunity to vaccines through antigen-displaying nanoparticles

DJ Irvine, BJ Read - Current opinion in immunology, 2020 - Elsevier
Strategies to qualitatively and quantitatively enhance the humoral response to
immunizations with protein and polysaccharide antigens are of broad interest for …

Single-component multilayered self-assembling protein nanoparticles presenting glycan-trimmed uncleaved prefusion optimized envelope trimers as HIV-1 vaccine …

YN Zhang, J Paynter, A Antanasijevic, JD Allen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Uncleaved prefusion-optimized (UFO) design can stabilize diverse HIV-1 envelope
glycoproteins (Envs). Single-component, self-assembling protein nanoparticles (1c-SApNP) …

Advances in nanomedicine for the treatment of infectious diseases caused by viruses

SR Dash, CN Kundu - Biomaterials Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Viruses have a worldwide impact on healthcare and social and economic growth because
they are the largest cause of mortality due to infectious diseases. Furthermore, the long-term …