Structure of the Inmazeb cocktail and resistance to Ebola virus escape

V Rayaprolu, BO Fulton, A Rafique, E Arturo… - Cell host & …, 2023 - cell.com
Monoclonal antibodies can provide important pre-or post-exposure protection against
infectious disease for those not yet vaccinated or in individuals that fail to mount a protective …

Viral genomics in Ebola virus research

N Di Paola, M Sanchez-Lockhart, X Zeng… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Filoviruses such as Ebola virus continue to pose a substantial health risk to humans.
Advances in the sequencing and functional characterization of both pathogen and host …

Potential neutralizing antibodies discovered for novel corona virus using machine learning

R Magar, P Yadav, A Barati Farimani - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The fast and untraceable virus mutations take lives of thousands of people before the
immune system can produce the inhibitory antibody. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 …

Remdesivir targets a structurally analogous region of the Ebola virus and SARS-CoV-2 polymerases

MK Lo, CG Albariño, JK Perry… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Remdesivir is a broad-spectrum antiviral nucleotide prodrug that has been clinically
evaluated in Ebola virus patients and recently received emergency use authorization (EUA) …

Exploring the ability of the MD+ FoldX method to predict SARS-CoV-2 antibody escape mutations using large-scale data

LA Chi, JE Barnes, JS Patel, FM Ytreberg - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Antibody escape mutations pose a significant challenge to the effectiveness of vaccines and
antibody-based therapies. The ability to predict these escape mutations with computer …

Filoviridae: insights into immune responses to Ebola virus

B Brown, C Imarogbe, E Chacon-Cruz… - Exploration of …, 2024 - explorationpub.com
Ebola virus (EBOV) is a zoonotic virus comprising of six known different species, designated
within the family Filoviridae and genus Ebolavirus. The first recorded outbreak of an EBOV …

In vivo delivery of synthetic human DNA-encoded monoclonal antibodies protect against ebolavirus infection in a mouse model

A Patel, DH Park, CW Davis, TRF Smith, A Leung… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Synthetically engineered DNA-encoded monoclonal antibodies (DMAbs) are an in vivo
platform for evaluation and delivery of human mAb to control against infectious disease …

Statistical modeling to quantify the uncertainty of FoldX-predicted protein folding and binding stability

Y Sapozhnikov, JS Patel, FM Ytreberg, CR Miller - BMC bioinformatics, 2023 - Springer
Background Computational methods of predicting protein stability changes upon missense
mutations are invaluable tools in high-throughput studies involving a large number of protein …

The mutation effect reaction norm (mu-rn) highlights environmentally dependent mutation effects and epistatic interactions

CB Ogbunugafor - Evolution, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Since the modern synthesis, the fitness effects of mutations and epistasis have been central
yet provocative concepts in evolutionary and population genetics. Studies of how the …

Atomistic simulations reveal impacts of missense mutations on the structure and function of SynGAP1

AE Ali, LL Li, MJ Courtney… - Briefings in …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
De novo mutations in the synaptic GTPase activating protein (SynGAP) are associated with
neurological disorders like intellectual disability, epilepsy, and autism. SynGAP is also …