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ArticleThe Journal of experimental medicine2011

Initial antibodies binding to HIV-1 gp41 in acutely infected subjects are polyreactive and highly mutated.

Hua-Xin Liao, Xi Chen, Supriya Munshaw, Ruijun Zhang, Dawn J Marshall, Nathan Vandergrift, John F Whitesides, Xiaozhi Lu, Jae-Sung Yu, Kwan-Ki Hwang and 22 more

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Article in The Journal of experimental medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 147 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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147citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
8.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

147 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 208 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

32 authors at 8 institutions in 3 countries.

Hua-Xin LiaoDuke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA. hliao@duke.edu
Xi Chen
Supriya Munshaw
Ruijun Zhang
Dawn J Marshall
Nathan Vandergrift
John F Whitesides
Xiaozhi Lu
Jae-Sung Yu
Kwan-Ki Hwang
Feng Gao
Martin Markowitz
Sonya L Heath
Katharine J Bar
Paul A Goepfert
David C Montefiori
George C Shaw
S Munir Alam
David M Margolis
Thomas N Denny
Scott D Boyd
Eleanor Marshal
Michael Egholm
Birgitte B Simen
Bozena Hanczaruk
Andrew Z Fire
Gerald Voss
Garnett Kelsoe
Georgia D Tomaras
M Anthony Moody
Thomas B Kepler
Barton F Haynes
Pediatrics and Genetics · USInternational Vaccine Institute · KRDuke University · USUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham · USStanford Medicine · USAaron Diamond AIDS Research Center · USGlaxoSmithKline (Belgium) · BEUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Viral Sequencing CoreU19AI067854 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI BHARDWAJ, NINA · 2006 to 2011
$290.5M
Vaccines and Diagnostics TrialsU54AI065359 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI BARBOUR, ALAN G. · 2005 to 2013
$88.8M
Virology, Immunology, and Microbiology CoreP30AI050410 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DAVID M. MARGOLIS · 2001 to 2026
$76.9M
Social and Behavioral Sciences CoreP30AI064518 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Nwora Lance Okeke · 2005 to 2026
$50.5M
Regional Biocontainment Laboratory (RBL)UC6AI058607 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI WILLIAMS, R SANDERS · 2003 to 2005
$16.3M
Neutralizing Antibody Induction by Centralized GenesP01AI061734 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI HAYNES, BARTON F. · 2005 to 2009
$11.7M
Duke University Center for Translational ResearchP30AI051445 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI FROTHINGHAM, RICHARD · 2002 to 2006
$8.1M
B-cell Tolerance and Humoral Immunity to HIV-1R01AI081579 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI KELSOE, GARNETT H · 2009 to 2012
$1.6M
NCRR FACSARIA CELL SORTER: LUNGS10RR019145 · NCRR · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI HAYNES, BARTON F · 2004 to 2004
$435k
NCRR NIH HHS S10 RR019145NCRR NIH HHS S10RR019145NIAID NIH HHS AI64518NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI061734NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI050410NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI051445NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI064518NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI081579NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI067854NIAID NIH HHS U54 AI065359NIAID NIH HHS UC6 AI058607
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The initial antibody response to HIV-1 is targeted to envelope (Env) gp41, and is nonneutralizing and ineffective in controlling viremia. To understand the origins and characteristics of gp41-binding antibodies produced shortly after HIV-1 transmission, we isolated and studied gp41-reactive plasma cells from subjects acutely infected with HIV-1. The frequencies of somatic mutations were relatively high in these gp41-reactive antibodies. Reverted unmutated ancestors of gp41-reactive antibodies derived from subjects acutely infected with HIV-1 frequently did not react with autologous HIV-1 Env; however, these antibodies were polyreactive and frequently bound to host or bacterial antigens. In one large clonal lineage of gp41-reactive antibodies, reactivity to HIV-1 Env was acquired only after somatic mutations. Polyreactive gp41-binding antibodies were also isolated from uninfected individuals. These data suggest that the majority of gp41-binding antibodies produced after acute HIV-1 infection are cross-reactive responses generated by stimulating memory B cells that have previously been activated by non-HIV-1 antigens.

Indexed as

MutationAdultCell LineageFemaleHIV-1HIV AntibodiesHIV Envelope Protein gp41HumansMalePhylogenyPlasma CellsSequence Analysis, DNAViral LoadViremiaHIV AntibodiesHIV Envelope Protein gp41

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PMID21987658
PMCPMC3201211
OpenAlexW2112194489

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