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ReviewExpert review of vaccines2008

Viral sequence diversity: challenges for AIDS vaccine designs.

Sean P McBurney, Ted M Ross

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Review in Expert review of vaccines, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. New prospects for a preventive HIV-1 vaccine.Journal of virus eradication · 2015
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  13. HIV-1 vaccines: challenges and new perspectives.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2014
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  20. The evolution of HIV: inferences using phylogenetics.Molecular phylogenetics and evolution · 2012
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sean P McBurneyUniversity of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Center for Vaccine Research, Program in Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. spm10@pitt.edu
Ted M Ross
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

PITT AIDS RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAMT32AI065380 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BARRATT-BOYES, SIMON M · 2005 to 2020
$3.2M
Elicitation of broad immunity using VLPs with consensus envsR01AI068507 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI ROSS, TED M · 2007 to 2009
$2.1M
NIAID NIH HHS R01AI065380-02NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI068507NIAID NIH HHS R01AI068507NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI065380
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Among the greatest challenges facing AIDS vaccine development is the intrinsic diversity among circulating populations of HIV-1 in various geographical locations and the need to develop vaccines that can elicit enduring protective immunity to variant HIV-1 strains. While variation is observed in all of the viral proteins, the greatest diversity is localized to the viral envelope glycoproteins, evidently reflecting the predominant role of these proteins in eliciting host immune recognition and responses that result in progressive evolution of the envelope proteins during persistent infection. Interestingly, while envelope glycoprotein variation is widely assumed to be a major obstacle to AIDS vaccine development, there is very little experimental data in animal or human lentivirus systems addressing this critical issue. In this review, the state of vaccine development to address envelope diversity will be presented, focusing on the use of centralized and polyvalent sequence design as mechanisms to elicit broadly reactive immune responses.

Indexed as

Polymorphism, GeneticAIDS Vaccinesenv Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency VirusHIV-1HIV InfectionsHumansAIDS Vaccinesenv Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Identifiers

PMID18980542
PMCPMC2702717
OpenAlexW2104491322

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