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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2008

An oligosaccharide-based HIV-1 2G12 mimotope vaccine induces carbohydrate-specific antibodies that fail to neutralize HIV-1 virions.

Joseph G Joyce, Isaac J Krauss, Hong C Song, David W Opalka, Karen M Grimm, Deborah D Nahas, Mark T Esser, Renee Hrin, Meizhen Feng, Vadim Y Dudkin and 3 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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51 citing papers in PubMed, 128 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Joseph G JoyceDepartment of Vaccines Basic Research, Merck Research Laboratories, 770 Sumneytown Pike, West Point, PA 19486, USA. joseph_joyce@merck.com
Isaac J Krauss
Hong C Song
David W Opalka
Karen M Grimm
Deborah D Nahas
Mark T Esser
Renee Hrin
Meizhen Feng
Vadim Y Dudkin
Michael Chastain
John W Shiver
Samuel J Danishefsky
Kettering University · USSarepta Therapeutics (United States) · USUnited States Military Academy · US

Funding

Synthesis of Antiinfective AgentsR01CA103823 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI DANISHEFSKY, SAMUEL J · 2003 to 2011
$5.3M
NCI NIH HHS CA103823NCI NIH HHS R01 CA103823
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The conserved oligomannose epitope, Man(9)GlcNAc(2), recognized by the broadly neutralizing human mAb 2G12 is an attractive prophylactic vaccine candidate for the prevention of HIV-1 infection. We recently reported total chemical synthesis of a series of glycopeptides incorporating one to three copies of Man(9)GlcNAc(2) coupled to a cyclic peptide scaffold. Surface plasmon resonance studies showed that divalent and trivalent, but not monovalent, compounds were capable of binding 2G12. To test the efficacy of the divalent glycopeptide as an immunogen capable of inducing a 2G12-like neutralizing antibody response, we covalently coupled the molecule to a powerful immune-stimulating protein carrier and evaluated immunogenicity of the conjugate in two animal species. We used a differential immunoassay to demonstrate induction of high levels of carbohydrate-specific antibodies; however, these antibodies showed poor recognition of recombinant gp160 and failed to neutralize a panel of viral isolates in entry-based neutralization assays. To ascertain whether antibodies produced during natural infection could recognize the mimetics, we screened a panel of HIV-1-positive and -negative sera for binding to gp120 and the synthetic antigens. We present evidence from both direct and competitive binding assays that no significant recognition of the glycopeptides was observed, although certain sera did contain antibodies that could compete with 2G12 for binding to recombinant gp120.

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Antibody SpecificityAnimalsAntibodiesBinding, CompetitiveGlycopeptidesHIV-1HIV AntibodiesHIV Envelope Protein gp120HumansMolecular MimicryNeutralization TestsOligosaccharidesVirionAntibodiesGlycopeptidesHIV AntibodiesHIV Envelope Protein gp120Oligosaccharides

Identifiers

PMID18838688
PMCPMC2562416
OpenAlexW2142839717

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