The authors would like to thank the study participants who donated their samples for the advancement of scientific knowledge.The authors would also like to thank Dr.Jennie Wong(from the Medical and Scientific Communication,Research Support Unit,Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine,National University of Singapore,Singapore)for assistance in the language editing of this manuscript.This work was supported by The National High-Level Talents Program(X.X.T.),Local Innovative and Research Teams Project of Guangdong Pearl River Talents Program(2017BT01S155);Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health Open Project(X.X.T.);the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China(2022M710897,Y.P.);the Postdoctoral Startup Foundation of Guangzhou City(Y.P.);Zhongnanshan Medical Foundation of Guangdong Province(ZNSA-2020013,Z.Q.Z.).
Repurposing existing drugs to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection in airway epithelial cells(AECs)is a quick way to find novel treatments for COVID-19.Computational screening has found dicoumarol(DCM),a natural anticoagulant...
the Cryo-electron Microscopy Center,Southern University of Science and Technology,for their assistance with data collection.This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82070329 to Z.L.,82172240 to Y.W.,82025001 to J.Z.).
Dear Editor,Variants of concern(VOCs)of SARS-CoV-2 have increased transmissibility,virulence,and resistance.The emergence of new VOCs continues to pose great challenges to public health.The detailed structures of the ...
supported by the DFG(CRCs 1279 and 1506);the EU commission(Fight-nCoV);the MWK and the BMBF(Restrict-SARS-CoV-2,IMMUNOMOD).
Dear Editor,Since its first description in South Africa in November 2021,the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant rapidly outcompeted the previously dominating Delta variant.Omicron is the fifth variant of concern(VOC).It conta...
H.M,L.H,and Q.P.H.are supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101003650(ATAC);the Swedish Research Council,and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation(KAW).
In a recent study published in Nature,Suryawanshi et al.showed that primary Omicron infection only elicits a mild humoral immune response and limited cross-variant neutralization in non-vaccinated individuals.1On the ...
Three research papers were published recently to compare the virological properties of the Omicron variant with the earlier variants of concern(VOC).1,2,3 The SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529 variant,Omicron,was first detected in...
supported by grants from the National Key R&D Program and the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.2017YFA0504504,22025702,82021003,91853203,82151211 to X.Deng,and 82073874 to L.Li);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(No.20720200008 to X.Deng);Health Science and Technology Program of Fujian Province(No.2020CXB050 to J.Zheng);the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities(111 Project,B06016).
Dear Editor,COVID-19 pandemic,caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection,is raging around the world and results in millions of deaths since the end of 2019.Although various therapies including vaccines and neutralizing antibodies...
This work is supported by the Bayerische Forschungsstiftung grant AZ-1453-20C(to G.M.P.);the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,grants PO 1851/4-1(to G.P.);subsidy from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education for research on SARS-CoV-2 and a grant from the National Science Center(UMO-2017/27/B/NZ6/02488)and by EU-Horizon2020 ITN OrganoVir grant 812673(to K.P).Open Access funding enabled and organized by Project DEAL.
The here highlighted study by Garcia-Beltran et al.demonstrates that SARS-CoV-2 Omicron can largely escape the immune responses.Hence,while two doses of COVID-19 vaccines seem to be insufficient to provide protection ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We thank Sinovac Biotech Ltd for providing the inactivated vaccines as a gift for these prospective studies.This work was supported by the National Research and Development Project of China(Grant Nos.2021YFC0863300,2020YFA0707500,2018YFA0900801);the CAMS Initiative for Innovative Medicine of China(Grant No.2021-I2M-1-035);the Strategic Priority Research Program(XDB29010000,XDB37030000),CAS(YSBR-010);the Special Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.82061138007 and 92169210);Xiangxi Wang was supported by the Ten Thousand Talent Program and the NSFS Innovative Research Group(No.81921005).
Variants of concern(VOCs)like Delta and Omicron,harbor a high number of mutations,which aid these viruses in escaping a majority of known SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies(NAbs).In this study,Rhesus macaques immunize...
We thank the cryo-EM facility and the High-Performance Computing Center of Westlake University for providing technical support.We thank the Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology,Academy of Military Medical Sciences,China,for providing the SARS-CoV-2.This research was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(projects 32022037,81803429);the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST,the Leading Innovative and Entrepreneur Team Introduction Program of Hangzhou,the Special Research Program of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia of Westlake University and Tencent Foundation.
The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant shows substantial resistance to neutralization by infection-and vaccination-induced antibodies,highlighting the demands for research on the continuing discovery of broadly neutralizing a...
the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFA0505602);the National Natural Science Foundation(81930078,81872246,81802756,31470773 and 81773135);Military Medical Innovation Project(18CXZ047).
Dear Editor,The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant has rapidly displaced the Delta variant and spread across the world.The Omicron variant harbors over 60 mutations,and 15 of the mutations are located in the receptor-binding ...