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    A potent Henipavirus cross-neutralizing antibody reveals a dynamic fusion-triggering pattern of the G-tetramer

    The Hendra and Nipah viruses (HNVs) are highly pathogenic pathogens without approved interventions for human use. In addition, the interaction pattern between the attachment (G) and fusion (F) glycoproteins re...

    Pengfei Fan, Mengmeng Sun, **nghai Zhang, Huajun Zhang, Yujiao Liu in Nature Communications (2024)

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    Potent human neutralizing antibodies against Nipah virus derived from two ancestral antibody heavy chains

    Nipah virus (NiV) is a World Health Organization priority pathogen and there are currently no approved drugs for clinical immunotherapy. Through the use of a naïve human phage-displayed Fab library, two neutra...

    Li Chen, Mengmeng Sun, Huajun Zhang, **nghai Zhang, Yanfeng Yao in Nature Communications (2024)

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    Both chimpanzee adenovirus-vectored and DNA vaccines induced long-term immunity against Nipah virus infection

    Nipah virus (NiV) is a highly lethal zoonotic paramyxovirus that poses a severe threat to humans due to its high morbidity and the lack of viable countermeasures. Vaccines are the most crucial defense against ...

    Mingqing Lu, Yanfeng Yao, Xuekai Zhang, Hang Liu, Ge Gao, Yun Peng in npj Vaccines (2023)

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    RBD-homodimer, a COVID-19 subunit vaccine candidate, elicits immunogenicity and protection in rodents and nonhuman primates

    The pandemic of COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 has raised a new challenges to the scientific and industrious fields after over 1-year spread across different countries. The ultimate approach to end the pandemic...

    **aoyan Pan, Jian Shi, Xue Hu, Yan Wu, Liang Zeng, Yanfeng Yao in Cell Discovery (2021)

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    Correction to: Transmission of H7N9 influenza virus in mice by different infective routes

    Linlin Bao, Lili Xu, Hua Zhu, Wei Deng, Ting Chen, Qi Lv, Fengdi Li in Virology Journal (2021)

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    A SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody with extensive Spike binding coverage and modified for optimal therapeutic outcomes

    COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 constitutes a global public health crisis with enormous economic consequences. Monoclonal antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 can provide an important treatment option to fight...

    Yu Guo, Lisu Huang, Guangshun Zhang, Yanfeng Yao, He Zhou in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Characterization of neutralizing antibody with prophylactic and therapeutic efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 in rhesus monkeys

    Efficacious interventions are urgently needed for the treatment of COVID-19. Here, we report a monoclonal antibody (mAb), MW05, with SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing activity by disrupting the interaction of receptor b...

    Shuang Wang, Yun Peng, Rongjuan Wang, Shasha Jiao, Min Wang in Nature Communications (2020)

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    Correction to: The mouse and ferret models for studying the novel avian-origin human influenza A (H7N9) virus

    An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Lili Xu, Linlin Bao, Wei Deng, Hua Zhu, Ting Chen, Qi Lv, Fengdi Li in Virology Journal (2020)

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    Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Virus in a Wild Land Bird in Central China, Late 2015

    Yanfeng Yao, Tao Zhang, Wenhai Yang, Zhiyong Shao, Bin He in Virologica Sinica (2018)

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    Characterization of a reassortant H11N9 subtype avian influenza virus isolated from bean goose along the East Asian–Australian flyway

    During the surveillance of avian influenza viruses in the Dongxi Lake wetland of Hubei in 2015–2016, an H11N9 avian influenza virus was isolated from a bean goose (Anser fabalis). Phylogenetic analysis showed tha...

    Yanfeng Yao, Zhiyong Shao, Bin He, Wenhai Yang, Jianjun Chen, Tao Zhang in Virus Genes (2017)

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    Analysis of Platform and Payload Integrated Design Technology for Optical Remote Sensing Satellites

    Driven by the goal of high resolution, high agility and low cost, the integrated design technology of satellite platform and payload considering payload as center is an important trend in the development of ad...

    Yanfeng Yao in 3rd International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications (2017)

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    MERS coronavirus induces apoptosis in kidney and lung by upregulating Smad7 and FGF2

    Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) causes sporadic zoonotic disease and healthcare-associated outbreaks in human. MERS is often complicated by acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) an...

    Man-Lung Yeung, Yanfeng Yao, Lilong Jia, Jasper F. W. Chan in Nature Microbiology (2016)

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    Distribution of enterovirus 71 RNA in inflammatory cells infiltrating different tissues in fatal cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease

    In previous studies of hand, foot, and mouth disease patients fatally infected with enterovirus 71 (EV71), the distribution of viral protein, but not the genome, was determined. To understand the pathogenesis ...

    Pin Yu, Zifen Gao, Yuanyuan Zong, Linlin Bao, Lili Xu, Wei Deng in Archives of Virology (2015)

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    Transmission of H7N9 influenza virus in mice by different infective routes

    On 19 February 2013, the first patient infected with a novel influenza A H7N9 virus from an avian source showed symptoms of sickness. More than 349 laboratory-confirmed cases and 109 deaths have been reported ...

    Linlin Bao, Lili Xu, Hua Zhu, Wei Deng, Ting Chen, Qi Lv, Fengdi Li in Virology Journal (2014)

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    An adjuvanted inactivated murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) vaccine induces potent and long-term protective immunity against a lethal challenge with virulent MCMV

    Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a ubiquitous pathogen that causes serious problems in immunocompromised or immunologically immature hosts. Vaccination is the preferred approach for prevention of HCMV infection...

    Huadong Wang, Yanfeng Yao, Chaoyang Huang, **ngxing Fu in BMC Infectious Diseases (2014)

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    Comparative analysis of antibody induction and protection against influenza virus infection by DNA immunization with HA, HAe, and HA1 in mice

    Plasmid DNA vaccines are considered alternatives to inactivated influenza virus vaccines to control influenza. Vaccination with a hemagglutinin (HA)-, HA ectodomain (HAe)-, or HA subunit 1 (HA1)-based vaccine...

    Jianjun Chen, Qian Liu, Quanjiao Chen, Chaochao **ong, Yanfeng Yao in Archives of Virology (2014)

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    Evaluation of neutralizing efficacy of monoclonal antibodies specific for 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus in vitro and in vivo

    Pandemic influenza A virus (H1N1) 2009 poses a serious public-health challenge worldwide. To characterize the neutralizing epitopes of this virus, we generated a panel of eight monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) aga...

    Jianjun Chen, Bin Yan, Quanjiao Chen, Yanfeng Yao, Huadong Wang in Archives of Virology (2014)

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    The mouse and ferret models for studying the novel avian-origin human influenza A (H7N9) virus

    The current study was conducted to establish animal models (including mouse and ferret) for the novel avian-origin H7N9 influenza virus.

    Lili Xu, Linlin Bao, Wei Deng, Hua Zhu, Ting Chen, Qi Lv, Fengdi Li in Virology Journal (2013)

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    Immunization with cytomegalovirus envelope glycoprotein M and glycoprotein N DNA vaccines can provide mice with complete protection against a lethal murine cytomegalovirus challenge

    Human cytomegalovirus virions contain three major glycoprotein complexes (gC I, II, III), all of which are required for CMV infectivity. These complexes also represent major antigenic targets for anti-viral im...

    Huadong Wang, Yanfeng Yao, Chaoyang Huang, Quanjiao Chen, Jianjun Chen in Virologica Sinica (2013)

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    Characterization of low-pathogenic H6N6 avian influenza viruses in central China

    Three strains of H6N6 subtype avian influenza virus (AIV) were isolated from live-poultry markets of central China during 2009-2010. A phylogenetic analysis showed that these isolates originated from gene reas...

    Yanfeng Yao, Huadong Wang, Quanjiao Chen, Hongbo Zhang, Tao Zhang in Archives of Virology (2013)