supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFC2303403);the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars(82225021);supported by the Young Scientists in Basic Research(YSBR-010).
Almost all the neutralizing antibodies targeting the receptor-binding domain(RBD)of spike(S)protein show weakened or lost efficacy against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)emerged or emerging...
funded by the National Science and Technology Innovation 2030 Major Project of China(No.2021ZD0203900);the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(No.2019YFA0802103);the Department of Science and Technology of Zhejiang Province(No.2021C03104);the Guangzhou Science Innovation and Development Program(No.201803010092);the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Institute of Brain Science(No.NYKFKT2019006);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.92253302);the Construction Project of Collaborative Response and Intervention Platform for Chinese and Western Medicine(No.ZY2018-2020-FWTX-7004).
Dear Editor,The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 rapidly evolutes to increase its infectivity and transmissibility,facilitates its immune escape,impairs vaccine efficacy,and currently causes repeated infections in human,w...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(92269115,82061138020,32270996,82102365);The Science and Technology Innovation Program of Hunan Province of China(2022RC3079);Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province of China(2021JJ40006,2022JJ30095);Educational Commission of Hunan Province of China(21A0529);The Clinical Medical Innovation Technology Guide Project of Hunan Province(2021SK50304,2021SK50306 and 2021SK50312);General Project of Health Commission of Hunan Province(B202303087545,D202302076189);SC1-PHE-CORONAVIRUS-2020:"Advancing knowledge for the clinical and public health response to the 2019-nCoV epidemic"from the European Commission(CORONADX,no.101003562)(Y.-P.L);NSF KP-06-DK-3/2(2020),Republic of Bulgaria.
Long-term humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-2 is essential for preventing reinfection. The production of neutralizing antibody (nAb)and B cell differentiation are tightly regulated by T follicular help (T_(FH)) cells. Howe...
This work was supported by grants from the Swedish Cancer Foundation and Swedish Research Council(to M.C.and Y.T.B.);the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Fellows program(to Y.T.B.).
In a recent study published in Nature Immunology,Zheng et al.discovered that intratumoral NK cells were smooth and rounded as opposed to the typical vili-rich,rougher surface of normal NK cells.1 This phenotype was li...
Dear Editor,The severe coagulation syndrome in numerous organs is the major life-threatening conditions characterizing the acute infection by SARS-CoV-2.Endothelial inflammation/dysfunction,platelet hyper-reactivity,g...
Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission(Z211100002521026).
Dear Editor,COVID-19 lung pathology is characterized by interstitial pneumonia with cell-cell fusion-induced syncytia and extensive tissue damage.1 The correlation between viral fusogenicity and pathogenicity has been...
Research in the Förster lab gets supported by the German Center for Infection Research TTU 01.938(grant no 80018019238);German Center for Lung Research(grant 82DZL002B1);Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG,German Research Foundation)Excellence Strategy EXC 2155“RESIST”(Project ID39087428);SFB 900/3(Project B1,158989968)and FO334/7-1(all to RF).
Sokal et al.reported recently in Immunity that the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant evades recognition by 70%of anti-spike protein antibodies generated by memory B cells(MBCs)from mRNA vaccine-immunized individuals that wer...
supported by grants from the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFE0204503);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32170139 and 81730061);Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(2021A1515010788 and 2022A1515011190);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(21622101).
The recent studies published in Science and Cell Research investigated the structures and biochemical mechanism of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 spike trimer with ACE2 as well as an effective antibody JMB2002 a...
financially supported by the National Key R&D Project of China 2018YFA0902300;the National Natural Science Foundation of China 81830101;the Biological Safety Project 19SWAQ08;the Medical Innovation Project 17SAZ13 and Beijing Nova Program Z171100001117119.
Dear Editor,During the COVID-19 pandemic,several SARS-CoV-2 variants such as Alpha,Delta,and Omicron successively became dominant worldwide.The infection of SARS-CoV-2 is triggered by the binding of spike protein to t...
We gratefully acknowledge the authors,originating and submitting laboratories of the sequences from GISAID’s EpiCoV™Database that this study used.This work was supported by grants from the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFE0204503);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32170139 and 81730061);Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(2018B030312010,2021A1515010788,and 2022A1515011190);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(21622101);Guangdong Science and Technology Program key projects(2021B1212030014).
The current pandemic of COVID-19 is fueled by more infectious emergent Omicron variants.Ongoing concerns of emergent variants include possible recombinants,as genome recombination is an important evolutionary mechanis...