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Alexander Yermanos

ETH Zurich, UMC Utrecht
Verified email at ethz.ch
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[PDF][PDF] Deep mutational learning predicts ACE2 binding and antibody escape to combinatorial mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain

…, J Han, L Frei, SW Metcalfe, MD Overath, A Yermanos… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The continual evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and the emergence of variants that show resistance
to vaccines and neutralizing antibodies threaten to prolong the COVID-19 pandemic. …

[HTML][HTML] Computational strategies for dissecting the high-dimensional complexity of adaptive immune repertoires

E Miho, A Yermanos, CR Weber, CT Berger… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The adaptive immune system recognizes antigens via an immense array of antigen-binding
antibodies and T-cell receptors, the immune repertoire. The interrogation of immune …

Tissue-resident CD8+ T cells drive compartmentalized and chronic autoimmune damage against CNS neurons

…, C Gonzalez-Fierro, XH Nguyen, A Yermanos… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
The mechanisms underlying the chronicity of autoimmune diseases of the central nervous
system (CNS) are largely unknown. In particular, it is unclear whether tissue-resident memory …

[HTML][HTML] A novel anti-HER2 anthracycline-based antibody-drug conjugate induces adaptive anti-tumor immunity and potentiates PD-1 blockade in breast cancer

…, M Buchi, A Kashyap, U Haessler, A Yermanos… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2019 - Springer
Increasing evidence suggests that antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) can enhance anti-tumor
immunity and improve clinical outcome. Here, we elucidate the therapeutic efficacy and …

Tissue-resident memory CD8+ T cells cooperate with CD4+ T cells to drive compartmentalized immunopathology in the CNS

I Vincenti, N Page, K Steinbach, A Yermanos… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
In chronic inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), immune cells persisting
behind the blood-brain barrier are supposed to promulgate local tissue destruction. The …

immuneSIM: tunable multi-feature simulation of B-and T-cell receptor repertoires for immunoinformatics benchmarking

CR Weber, R Akbar, A Yermanos, M Pavlović… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
B- and T-cell receptor repertoires of the adaptive immune system have become a key target
for diagnostics and therapeutics research. Consequently, there is a rapidly growing number …

[PDF][PDF] Discovery and validation of human genomic safe harbor sites for gene and cell therapies

E Aznauryan, A Yermanos, E Kinzina, A Devaux… - Cell Reports …, 2022 - cell.com
Existing approaches to therapeutic gene transfer are marred by the transient nature of gene
expression following non-integrative gene delivery and by safety concerns due to the …

[HTML][HTML] A single-cell atlas of lymphocyte adaptive immune repertoires and transcriptomes reveals age-related differences in convalescent COVID-19 patients

…, R Vazquez-Lombardi, A Yermanos… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
COVID-19 disease outcome is highly dependent on adaptive immunity from T and B
lymphocytes, which play a critical role in the control, clearance and long-term protection against …

Modulation of asymmetric cell division as a mechanism to boost CD8+ T cell memory

…, I Barnstorf, NS Baumann, K Pallmer, A Yermanos… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Asymmetric partitioning of fate determinants is a mechanism that contributes to T cell
differentiation. However, it remains unclear whether the ability of T cells to divide asymmetrically is …

[HTML][HTML] Tcf1+ cells are required to maintain the inflationary T cell pool upon MCMV infection

SPM Welten, A Yermanos, NS Baumann… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cytomegalovirus-based vaccine vectors offer interesting opportunities for T cell-based
vaccination purposes as CMV infection induces large numbers of functional effector-like cells that …