Topic

Antibody immune escape

The capacity of a pathogen's surface proteins to avoid neutralisation by antibodies raised against earlier versions, typically assessed with pseudovirus neutralisation and binding assays.

Current clusters

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A reverse mutation gives Europe's rising BA.3.2.2 branch a firmer hold on ACE2

Structural work on RE.2.2 from Gao George Fu's laboratory finds tighter receptor binding, a reshuffled antibody escape profile and a spike glycan at N529 that has not been seen in earlier SARS-CoV-2 variants.

Publishers:phys.org

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