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ArticleJournal of virology2013

Identification of an HIV-1 clade A envelope that exhibits broad antigenicity and neutralization sensitivity and elicits antibodies targeting three distinct epitopes.

Simon Hoffenberg, Rebecca Powell, Alexei Carpov, Denise Wagner, Aaron Wilson, Sergei Kosakovsky Pond, Ross Lindsay, Heather Arendt, Joanne Destefano, Sanjay Phogat and 12 more

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Article in Journal of virology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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22 authors.

Simon HoffenbergVaccine Design and Development Lab, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Rebecca Powell
Alexei Carpov
Denise Wagner
Aaron Wilson
Sergei Kosakovsky Pond
Ross Lindsay
Heather Arendt
Joanne Destefano
Sanjay Phogat
Pascal Poignard
Steven P Fling
Melissa Simek
Celia Labranche
David Montefiori
Terri Wrin
Pham Phung
Dennis Burton
Wayne Koff
C Richter King
Christopher L Parks
Michael J Caulfield

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) PG9 and PG16 were isolated from an International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) Protocol G subject infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) clade A. Both antibodies are highly potent and neutralize greater than 70% of viruses tested. We sought to begin immunogen design based on viral sequences from this patient; however, pseudoviruses prepared with 19 envelope sequences from this subject were resistant to neutralization by PG9 and PG16. Therefore, we used a bioinformatics approach to identify closely related viruses that were potentially sensitive to PG9 and PG16. A most-recent common ancestor (MRCA) sequence for the viral envelope (Env) was determined and aligned with 99 subtype A gp160 sequences from the Los Alamos HIV database. Virus BG505.W6M.ENV.C2 (BG505) was found to have the highest degree of homology (73%) to the MRCA sequence. Pseudoviruses prepared with this Env were sensitive to neutralization with a broad panel of bNAbs, including PG9 and PG16. When expressed by 293T cells as soluble gp120, the BG505 monomer bound well to both PG9 and PG16. We further showed that a point mutation (L111A) enabled more efficient production of a stable gp120 monomer that preserves the major neutralization epitopes. Finally, we showed that an adjuvanted formulation of this gp120 protein elicited neutralizing antibodies in rabbits (following a gp120 DNA vaccine prime) and that the antisera competed with bNAbs from 3 classes of nonoverlapping epitopes. Thus, the BG505 Env protein warrants further investigation as an HIV vaccine candidate, as a stand-alone protein, or as a component of a vaccine vector.

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Antibodies, NeutralizingComputational BiologyEpitopesFemaleGenotypeHIV-1HIV AntibodiesHIV Envelope Protein gp120HIV InfectionsHumansAntibodies, NeutralizingEpitopesHIV AntibodiesHIV Envelope Protein gp120

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PMID23468492
PMCPMC3648150

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