Antibodies to combat viral infections: development strategies and progress

G Pantaleo, B Correia, C Fenwick, VS Joo… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are appealing as potential therapeutics and prophylactics for
viral infections owing to characteristics such as their high specificity and their ability to …

Protein assembly by design

J Zhu, N Avakyan, A Kakkis, AM Hoffnagle… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Proteins are nature's primary building blocks for the construction of sophisticated molecular
machines and dynamic materials, ranging from protein complexes such as photosystem II …

Vaccination induces broadly neutralizing antibody precursors to HIV gp41

T Schiffner, I Phung, R Ray, A Irimia, M Tian… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A key barrier to the development of vaccines that induce broadly neutralizing antibodies
(bnAbs) against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other viruses of high antigenic …

[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 …

HIV-1 vaccines based on antibody identification, B cell ontogeny, and epitope structure

PD Kwong, JR Mascola - Immunity, 2018 - cell.com
HIV-1 vaccine development has been stymied by an inability to induce broadly reactive
neutralizing antibodies to the envelope (Env) trimer, the sole viral antigen on the virion …

Cryo-EM structure of a native, fully glycosylated, cleaved HIV-1 envelope trimer

JH Lee, G Ozorowski, AB Ward - Science, 2016 - science.org
The envelope glycoprotein trimer (Env) on the surface of HIV-1 recognizes CD4+ T cells and
mediates viral entry. During this process, Env undergoes substantial conformational …

Structure-based design of a fusion glycoprotein vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus

JS McLellan, M Chen, MG Joyce, M Sastry… - science, 2013 - science.org
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of hospitalization for children under 5
years of age. We sought to engineer a viral antigen that provides greater protection than …

De novo protein design enables the precise induction of RSV-neutralizing antibodies

F Sesterhenn, C Yang, J Bonet, JT Cramer, X Wen… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The ultimate goal of de novo protein design is to create proteins endowed
with new biological functions. From a structural perspective, this remains a challenge …

Antibody responses to viral infections: a structural perspective across three different enveloped viruses

CD Murin, IA Wilson, AB Ward - Nature microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
Antibodies serve as critical barriers to viral infection. Humoral immunity to a virus is achieved
through the dual role of antibodies in communicating the presence of invading pathogens in …

Structure-based vaccine antigen design

BS Graham, MSA Gilman… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Enabled by new approaches for rapid identification and selection of human monoclonal
antibodies, atomic-level structural information for viral surface proteins, and capacity for …