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Trial reportCell2016

HIV-1 Neutralizing Antibodies with Limited Hypermutation from an Infant.

Cassandra A Simonich, Katherine L Williams, Hans P Verkerke, James A Williams, Ruth Nduati, Kelly K Lee, Julie Overbaugh

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Trial report in Cell, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 113 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

113 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Deletions in variable region 1 of the HIV envelope accelerate V3-glycan bNAb induction in SHIV-infected rhesus macaques.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  2. Protective near-germline antibodies to malaria elicited by RTS,S/AS01bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Cassandra A SimonichDivision of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Katherine L WilliamsDivision of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Hans P VerkerkeDepartment of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
James A WilliamsDepartment of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Ruth NduatiDepartment of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
Kelly K LeeDepartment of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Julie OverbaughDivision of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Electronic address: joverbau@fredhutch.org.

Funding

University of Washington Medical Scientist Training Program: MD/PhDT32GM007266 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI HORWITZ, MARSHALL S. · 1985 to 2023
$30.4M
THE ROLE OF ANTIBODIES IN MOTHER TO CHILD HIV TRANSMISSIONR01AI076105 · NIAID · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI OVERBAUGH, JULIE M. · 2008 to 2023
$8.8M
DEFINING THE INFANT IMMUNE RESPONSE TO HIVR01AI120961 · NIAID · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI OVERBAUGH, JULIE M. · 2016 to 2020
$4.1M
CHARACTERIZATION OF HIV-1 ANTIBODY RESPONSES IN CHRONICALLY INFECTED WOMENR01AI103981 · NIAID · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI OVERBAUGH, JULIE M. · 2012 to 2015
$2.8M
Viral Pathogenesis Training ProgramT32AI083203 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI BLOOM, JESSE D, LAGUNOFF, MICHAEL · 2009 to 2023
$2.7M
Biophysical Signatures in HIV-1 Env Correlating with Mother-to-Child TransmissionR21AI112389 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI LEE, KELLY KEISEN · 2014 to 2015
$471k
Characterizing broadly neutralizing antibody responses of HIV-1-infected infantsF30AI122866 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI SIMONICH, CASSANDRA ARIEN LYNN · 2016 to 2018
$125k
NIAID NIH HHS F30 AI122866NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI076105NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI103981NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI120961NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI112389NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI083203NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007266
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

HIV-1 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) develop in a subset of infected adults and exhibit high levels of somatic hypermutation (SHM) due to years of affinity maturation. There is no precedent for eliciting highly mutated antibodies by vaccination, nor is it practical to wait years for a desired response. Infants develop broad responses early, which may suggest a more direct path to generating bnAbs. Here, we isolated ten neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) contributing to plasma breadth of an infant at ∼1 year post-infection, including one with cross-clade breadth. The nAbs bind to envelope trimer from the transmitted virus, suggesting that this interaction may have initiated development of the infant nAbs. The infant cross-clade bnAb targets the N332 supersite on envelope but, unlike adult bnAbs targeting this site, lacks indels and has low SHM. The identification of this infant bnAb illustrates that HIV-1-specific neutralization breadth can develop without prolonged affinity maturation and extensive SHM.

Indexed as

Somatic Hypermutation, ImmunoglobulinAdultAntibodies, NeutralizingEpitopesHIV AntibodiesHIV Envelope Protein gp120HIV InfectionsHumansInfantLeukocytes, MononuclearAntibodies, NeutralizingEpitopesHIV AntibodiesHIV Envelope Protein gp120

Identifiers

PMID27345369
PMCPMC4930401

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