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Overview

Graham Simmons is affiliated with the Vitalant Research Institute in the United States. Their scientific work primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a specific focus on Infectious Diseases. They have also contributed to research areas within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Immunology, Epidemiology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Their publications reflect significant engagement with topics related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, including clinical research and detection methods. Other areas of focus include mosquito-borne diseases and viral infections more broadly.

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research

Some of the recent papers associated with this researcher are:

  • Estimated US Infection- and Vaccine-Induced SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence Based on Blood Donations, July 2020-May 2021 (2021), published in JAMA
  • Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in COVID-19 convalescent blood using a coronavirus antigen microarray (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence and neutralizing activity in donor and patient blood (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Emergence of Multiple SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Escape Variants in an Immunocompromised Host Undergoing Convalescent Plasma Treatment (2021), published in mSphere
  • SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence and neutralizing activity in donor and patient blood from the San Francisco Bay Area (2020), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Mars Stone
  • Michael P. Busch
  • Clara Di Germanio
  • Wah Chiu
  • Rachel Martinelli

Their work has been published extensively across several scientific venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Transfusion
  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Best Publications

  • Characterization of severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) spike glycoprotein-mediated viral entry

    Graham Simmons;Jacqueline D. Reeves;Andrew J. Rennekamp;Sean M. Amberg

  • A broad-spectrum chemokine antagonist encoded by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus

    Thomas N. Kledal;Mette M. Rosenkilde;Florence Coulin;Graham Simmons

  • Aminooxypentane-RANTES Induces CCR5 Internalization but Inhibits Recycling: A Novel Inhibitory Mechanism of HIV Infectivity

    Matthias Mack;Bruno Luckow;Peter J. Nelson;Josef Cihak

  • Differential Downregulation of ACE2 by the Spike Proteins of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus and Human Coronavirus NL63

    Ilona Glowacka;Stephanie Bertram;Petra Herzog;Susanne Pfefferle

  • Primary, syncytium-inducing human immunodeficiency virus type 1 isolates are dual-tropic and most can use either Lestr or CCR5 as coreceptors for virus entry.

    G Simmons;D Wilkinson;J D Reeves;M T Dittmar

  • The Spike Protein of the Emerging Betacoronavirus EMC Uses a Novel Coronavirus Receptor for Entry, Can Be Activated by TMPRSS2, and Is Targeted by Neutralizing Antibodies

    Stefanie Gierer;Stephanie Bertram;Franziska Kaup;Florian Wrensch

  • KSHV-encoded CC chemokine vMIP-III is a CCR4 agonist, stimulates angiogenesis, and selectively chemoattracts TH2 cells

    Johnny T. Stine;Christi Wood;Mark Hill;Angela Epp

  • Ebola Virus Glycoproteins Induce Global Surface Protein Down-Modulation and Loss of Cell Adherence

    Graham Simmons;Rouven J. Wool-Lewis;Frédéric Baribaud;Robert C. Netter

  • Inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus fusion by a monoclonal antibody to a coreceptor (CXCR4) is both cell type and virus strain dependent.

    Aine McKnight;David Wilkinson;G Simmons;Simon Talbot

  • Broadly Neutralizing Alphavirus Antibodies Bind an Epitope on E2 and Inhibit Entry and Egress

    Julie M. Fox;Feng Long;Melissa A. Edeling;Hueylie Lin

  • CXCR4 as a functional coreceptor for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection of primary macrophages

    Graham Simmons;Jacqueline D. Reeves;Áine McKnight;Nathalie Dejucq

  • Primary human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) isolates infect CD4-negative cells via CCR5 and CXCR4: comparison with HIV-1 and simian immunodeficiency virus and relevance to cell tropism in vivo.

    Jacqueline D. Reeves;Sam Hibbitts;Graham Simmons;Áine McKnight

  • CD4-independent infection by HIV-2 (ROD/B): use of the 7-transmembrane receptors CXCR-4, CCR-3, and V28 for entry.

    Jacqueline D. Reeves;Áine McKnight;Sandra Potempa;Graham Simmons

  • Endosomal proteolysis by cathepsins is necessary for murine coronavirus mouse hepatitis virus type 2 spike-mediated entry.

    Zhaozhu Qiu;Susan T. Hingley;Graham Simmons;Christopher Yu

  • A Single Asparagine-Linked Glycosylation Site of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Spike Glycoprotein Facilitates Inhibition by Mannose-Binding Lectin through Multiple Mechanisms

    Yanchen Zhou;Kai Lu;Susanne Pfefferle;Stephanie Bertram

  • HIV-1 tropism and co-receptor use

    Matthias T. Dittmar;Áine McKnight;Graham Simmons;Paul R. Clapham

  • Multiple extracellular domains of CCR-5 contribute to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 entry and fusion.

    Laurent Picard;Graham Simmons;Christine A. Power;Alexandra Meyer

  • No Evidence of Murine-Like Gammaretroviruses in CFS Patients Previously Identified as XMRV-Infected

    Konstance Knox;Donald Carrigan;Graham Simmons;Graham Simmons;Fernando Teque

  • Highly Conserved Regions within the Spike Proteins of Human Coronaviruses 229E and NL63 Determine Recognition of Their Respective Cellular Receptors

    Heike Hofmann;Graham Simmons;Graham Simmons;Andrew J. Rennekamp;Chawaree Chaipan

  • Different host cell proteases activate the SARS-coronavirus spike-protein for cell-cell and virus-cell fusion.

    Graham Simmons;Stephanie Bertram;Ilona Glowacka;Imke Steffen

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael P. Busch
Michael P. Busch University of California, San Francisco
Brad J. Biggerstaff
Brad J. Biggerstaff Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Susan L. Stramer
Susan L. Stramer American Red Cross
Alessandro Sette
Alessandro Sette La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology
Charles Y. Chiu
Charles Y. Chiu University of California, San Francisco
Natalie J. Thornburg
Natalie J. Thornburg Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Steven Kleinman
Steven Kleinman University of British Columbia
Barry N. Kreiswirth
Barry N. Kreiswirth Center for Discovery and Innovation
Susan I. Gerber
Susan I. Gerber Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Michael C. Zody
Michael C. Zody New York Genome Center

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