Evidence map›Paper›PMID 17707509›Full record

ArticleMolecular immunology2008

Paratope diversity in the human antibody response to Bacillus anthracis protective antigen.

Jianhui Zhou, Anuska Ullal, Justine Liberato, Jinying Sun, Wendy Keitel, Donald C Reason

Open access · greenAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Molecular immunology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jianhui ZhouChildren's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, 5700 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA 94609, USA.
Anuska Ullal
Justine Liberato
Jinying Sun
Wendy Keitel
Donald C Reason
Baylor College of Medicine · US

Funding

CONSTRUCTION OF THE VACCINE CENTERC06RR016226 · NCRR · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL &RES CTR AT OAKLAND · PI LUCAS, ALEXANDER H. · 2002 to 2002
$2.0M
Structural determinants of human immunity to anthraxR01AI057932 · NIAID · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL &RES CTR AT OAKLAND · PI REASON, DONALD C · 2004 to 2008
$2.0M
Human monoclonal panel mimicking anthrax immune globulinR01AI066508 · NIAID · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL &RES CTR AT OAKLAND · PI REASON, DONALD C · 2005 to 2005
$722k
NCRR NIH HHS C06 RR016226NCRR NIH HHS C06 RR-16226NIAID NIH HHS AI066508NIAID NIH HHS AI57932NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI057932NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI066508
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The active component of the licensed human anthrax vaccine (BioThrax, or AVA) is a Bacillus anthracis toxin known as protective antigen (PA). Second generation anthrax vaccines currently under development are also based on a recombinant form of PA. Since the current and future anthrax vaccines are based on this toxin, it is important that the immunobiology of this protein in vaccinated humans be understood in detail. We have isolated and analyzed the PA-specific antibody repertoire from an AVA-vaccinated individual. When examined at the clonal level, we find an antibody response that is complex in terms of the combinatorial elements and immunoglobulin variable genes employed. All PA-specific antibodies had undergone somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination, both signs of affinity maturation. Although the antigenic epitopes recognized by the response were distributed throughout the PA monomer, the majority of antibodies arising in this individual following vaccination recognize determinants located on the amino-terminal (PA20) sub-domain of the molecule. This latter finding may have implications for the rational design of future PA-based anthrax vaccines.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceAntibodies, BacterialAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibody FormationAntibody SpecificityAntigens, BacterialBacterial ToxinsBinding Sites, AntibodyComplementarity Determining RegionsEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayHumansImmunoglobulin Class SwitchingImmunoglobulin Fab FragmentsImmunoglobulin Heavy ChainsImmunoglobulin Light ChainsMolecular Sequence Dataanthrax toxinAntibodies, BacterialAntibodies, MonoclonalAntigens, BacterialBacterial ToxinsComplementarity Determining RegionsImmunoglobulin Fab FragmentsImmunoglobulin Heavy ChainsImmunoglobulin Light Chains

Identifiers

PMID17707509
PMCPMC2063455
OpenAlexW2045925652

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.