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Overview

Yuxian He is affiliated with the Peking Union Medical College Hospital in China and has contributed extensively to research in Medicine, with a focus on Immunology and Microbiology. Their work spans several subfields, notably Infectious Diseases, Virology, Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Their research portfolio includes significant contributions in topics such as HIV Research and Treatment, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, Animal Virus Infections Studies, and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions.

Frequent collaborators in their work include Yuanmei Zhu, Huihui Chong, Danwei Yu, Liangrong Zheng, and Hongxia Yan.

Yuxian He's research has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Antiviral Research
  • Journal of Virology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Emerging Microbes & Infections
  • Cellular and Molecular Immunology

Among their recent papers are:

  • Adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 in BALB/c mice for testing vaccine efficacy, 2020, Science
  • Design of Potent Membrane Fusion Inhibitors against SARS-CoV-2, an Emerging Coronavirus with High Fusogenic Activity, 2020, Journal of Virology
  • Identification of SARS-CoV RBD-targeting monoclonal antibodies with cross-reactive or neutralizing activity against SARS-CoV-2, 2020, Antiviral Research
  • Cross-reactive neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 by serum antibodies from recovered SARS patients and immunized animals, 2020, Science Advances
  • Rapid adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 in BALB/c mice: Novel mouse model for vaccine efficacy, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Isolation and characterization of viruses related to the SARS coronavirus from animals in southern China.

    Y. Guan;B. J. Zheng;Y. Q. He;X. L. Liu

  • The spike protein of SARS-CoV — a target for vaccine and therapeutic development

    Lanying Du;Yuxian He;Yusen Zhou;Shuwen Liu

  • Evidence that TMPRSS2 Activates the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Spike Protein for Membrane Fusion and Reduces Viral Control by the Humoral Immune Response

    Ilona Glowacka;Stephanie Bertram;Marcel A. Müller;Paul Allen

  • Quantifying residual HIV-1 replication in patients receiving combination antiretroviral therapy.

    Linqi Zhang;B. Ramratnam;K. Tenner-Racz;Yuxian He

  • Adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 in BALB/c mice for testing vaccine efficacy.

    Hongjing Gu;Qi Chen;Guan Yang;Lei He

  • Interaction between heptad repeat 1 and 2 regions in spike protein of SARS-associated coronavirus: implications for virus fusogenic mechanism and identification of fusion inhibitors.

    Shuwen Liu;Gengfu Xiao;Yibang Chen;Yuxian He

  • Receptor-binding domain of SARS-CoV spike protein induces highly potent neutralizing antibodies: implication for developing subunit vaccine.

    Yuxian He;Yusen Zhou;Shuwen Liu;Zhihua Kou

  • Measuring recent thymic emigrants in blood of normal and HIV-1-infected individuals before and after effective therapy.

    Linqi Zhang;Sharon R. Lewin;Martin Markowitz;Hsi-Hsun Lin

  • IFITM proteins restrict viral membrane hemifusion

    Kun Li;Ruben M. Markosyan;Yi-Min Zheng;Ottavia Golfetto

  • The V1/V2 domain of gp120 is a global regulator of the sensitivity of primary human immunodeficiency virus type 1 isolates to neutralization by antibodies commonly induced upon infection.

    Abraham Pinter;William J. Honnen;Yuxian He;Miroslaw K. Gorny

  • Receptor-binding domain of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus spike protein contains multiple conformation-dependent epitopes that induce highly potent neutralizing antibodies.

    Yuxian He;Hong Lu;Pamela Siddiqui;Yusen Zhou

  • Cleavage and Activation of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Spike Protein by Human Airway Trypsin-Like Protease

    Stephanie Bertram;Ilona Glowacka;Marcel A. Müller;Hayley Lavender

  • Potent cross-reactive neutralization of SARS coronavirus isolates by human monoclonal antibodies

    Zhongyu Zhu;Samitabh Chakraborti;Yuxian He;Anjeanette Roberts

  • N-Substituted Pyrrole Derivatives as Novel Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Entry Inhibitors That Interfere with the gp41 Six-Helix Bundle Formation and Block Virus Fusion

    Shibo Jiang;Hong Lu;Shuwen Liu;Qian Zhao

  • Identification of N-phenyl-N′-(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-piperidin-4-yl)-oxalamides as a new class of HIV-1 entry inhibitors that prevent gp120 binding to CD4

    Qian Zhao;Liying Ma;Shibo Jiang;Hong Lu

  • Theaflavin derivatives in black tea and catechin derivatives in green tea inhibit HIV-1 entry by targeting gp41.

    Shuwen Liu;Hong Lu;Qian Zhao;Yuxian He

  • SARS vaccine development.

    Shibo Jiang;Yuxian He;Shuwen Liu

  • Design of Potent Membrane Fusion Inhibitors against SARS-CoV-2, an Emerging Coronavirus with High Fusogenic Activity.

    Yuanmei Zhu;Danwei Yu;Hongxia Yan;Huihui Chong

  • Receptor-binding domain of SARS-CoV spike protein induces long-term protective immunity in an animal model.

    Lanying Du;Guangyu Zhao;Yuxian He;Yan Guo

  • Design and Evaluation of Sifuvirtide, a Novel HIV-1 Fusion Inhibitor

    Yuxian He;Yuxian He;Yonghong Xiao;Haifeng Song;Qing Liang

Frequent Co-Authors

Shibo Jiang
Shibo Jiang Fudan University
Yusen Zhou
Yusen Zhou Zhengzhou University
Shuwen Liu
Shuwen Liu Southern Medical University
Bo-Jian Zheng
Bo-Jian Zheng University of Hong Kong
Lanying Du
Lanying Du Georgia State University
Abraham Pinter
Abraham Pinter Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sara Lustigman
Sara Lustigman New York Blood Center
Stefan Pöhlmann
Stefan Pöhlmann German Primate Center
Taisheng Li
Taisheng Li Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Kwok-Yung Yuen
Kwok-Yung Yuen University of Hong Kong

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