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Antibody Response and Therapy in COVID-19 Patients: Significance in Vaccine Development

Version 1 : Received: 5 August 2020 / Approved: 6 August 2020 / Online: 6 August 2020 (12:16:11 CEST)

How to cite: Lu, L.; Zhang, H.; Zhan, M.; Jiang, J.; Yin, H.; Dauphars, D.J.; Li, S.; Li, Y.; He, Y. Antibody Response and Therapy in COVID-19 Patients: Significance in Vaccine Development. Preprints 2020, 2020080166. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202008.0166.v1 Lu, L.; Zhang, H.; Zhan, M.; Jiang, J.; Yin, H.; Dauphars, D.J.; Li, S.; Li, Y.; He, Y. Antibody Response and Therapy in COVID-19 Patients: Significance in Vaccine Development. Preprints 2020, 2020080166. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202008.0166.v1

Abstract

The newly emerged severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected millions of people and caused tremendous morbidity and mortality worldwide. Effective treatment for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to SARS-CoV-2 infection is lacking and different therapeutic strategies are under testing. Host humoral and cellular immunity to SARS-CoV-2 infection is a critical determinant for patients’ outcome. SARS-CoV-2 infection results in seroconversion and production of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. The antibodies may suppress viral replication through neutralization but also might also participate in COVID-19 pathogenesis through a process termed antibody-dependent enhancement. Rapid progress has been made in the research of antibody response and therapy in COVID-19 patients including characterization of the clinical features of antibody responses in different populations infected by SARS-CoV-2, treatment of COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma and intravenous immunoglobin products, isolation and characterization of a large panel of monoclonal neutralizing antibodies, as well as preliminary clinical results from several COVID-19 vaccine candidates. In this review, we summarize the recent progress and discuss the implications of these findings in vaccine development.

Keywords

COVID-19, seroconversion, neutralizing antibody, spike protein, SARS-CoV-2, convalescent plasma, vaccine

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Immunology and Allergy

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