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ReviewCurrent topics in microbiology and immunology2015

Structural characterization of viral epitopes recognized by broadly cross-reactive antibodies.

Peter S Lee, Ian A Wilson

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Review in Current topics in microbiology and immunology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 74 papers.

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74citing papers in PubMed
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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

74 citing papers in PubMed, 99 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Peter S LeeDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology and Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.
Ian A Wilson
Scripps Research Institute · US

Funding

PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNOLOGY OF DISEASET32AI007244 · NIAID · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI NEMAZEE, DAVID · 1985 to 2022
$8.8M
Structural insights into pandemic and emerging influenza virusesR56AI099275 · NIAID · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI WILSON, IAN A · 2013 to 2013
$823k
NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI099275NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007244
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Influenza hemagglutinin (HA) is the major surface glycoprotein on influenza viruses and mediates viral attachment and subsequent fusion with host cells. The HA is the major target of the immune response, but due to its high level of variability, as evidenced by substantial antigenic diversity, it had been historically considered to elicit only a narrow, strain-specific antibody response. However, a recent explosion in the discovery of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) to influenza virus has identified two major supersites of vulnerability on the HA through structural characterization of HA-antibody complexes. These commonly targeted epitopes are involved with receptor binding as well as the fusion machinery and, hence, are functionally conserved and less prone to mutation. These bnAbs can neutralize viruses by blocking infection or the spread of infection by preventing progeny release. Structural analyses of these bnAbs show they exhibit striking similarities and trends in recognition of the HA and use recurring recognition motifs, despite substantial differences in their germline genes. This information can be utilized in design of novel therapeutics as well as in immunogens for improved vaccines with greater breadth and efficacy.

Indexed as

EpitopesAntibodies, ViralCross ReactionsHemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza VirusHumansOrthomyxoviridaeAntibodies, ViralEpitopesHemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus

Identifiers

PMID25037260
PMCPMC4358778
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