{"id":38572,"date":"2025-07-21T06:47:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/the-impact-of-viral-evolution-on-vaccine-development-for-sars-cov-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T06:47:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:47:59","slug":"the-impact-of-viral-evolution-on-vaccine-development-for-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/the-impact-of-viral-evolution-on-vaccine-development-for-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The impact of viral evolution on vaccine development for SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><b>Curr Opin Immunol<\/b>. 2025 Jul 18;96:102612. doi: 10.1016\/j.coi.2025.102612. Online ahead of print.<\/p>\n<p><b>ABSTRACT<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In order to stay circulating in the human population over many years, viruses need to adapt to the environment, mainly to the host&#8217;s immune response, allowing for reinfection despite preexisting immunity. These different viral strategies are clearly important for guiding vaccine design. SARS-CoV-2 is no exception, using three main strategies to avoid protective and long-lived antibody responses: one very common and two rather unique tactics, consisting of 1) random mutation to partially escape existing antibody responses, 2) increasing affinity of the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the spike protein to it&#8217;s receptor Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE 2), and 3) diluting out neutralizing epitopes on the viral surface to avoid strong and enduring antibody responses. As the correlate of protection from SARS-CoV-2 is neutralizing antibody response, this review focuses on B cells, the major player in protecting against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>PMID:<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/40684673\/?utm_source=SimplePie&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_content=8900118&amp;ff=20250721004748&amp;v=2.18.0.post9+e462414\">40684673<\/a> | DOI:<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.coi.2025.102612\">10.1016\/j.coi.2025.102612<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curr Opin Immunol. 2025 Jul 18;96:102612. doi: 10.1016\/j.coi.2025.102612. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT In order to stay circulating in the human population over many years, viruses need to adapt to the environment, mainly to the host&#8217;s immune response, allowing for reinfection despite preexisting immunity. These different viral strategies are clearly important for guiding vaccine design. &#8230; <a title=\"The impact of viral evolution on vaccine development for SARS-CoV-2\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/the-impact-of-viral-evolution-on-vaccine-development-for-sars-cov-2\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The impact of viral evolution on vaccine development for SARS-CoV-2\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-opinion-in-immunology","category-publicaciones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}