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ArticleACS chemical biology2025

Utilizing Machine Learning to Improve Neutralization Potency of an HIV-1 Antibody Targeting the gp41 N-Heptad Repeat.

Maria V Filsinger Interrante, Shaogeng Tang, Soohyun Kim, Varun R Shanker, Brian L Hie, Theodora U J Bruun, Wesley Wu, John E Pak, Daniel Fernandez, Peter S Kim

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Article in ACS chemical biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Exceptionally broad HIV-1 neutralization via bispecific antibody-mediated prepositioning.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Maria V Filsinger InterranteStanford Biophysics Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7728-799X
Shaogeng TangSarafan ChEM-H, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States.
Soohyun KimSarafan ChEM-H, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States.
Varun R ShankerStanford Biophysics Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, United States.
Brian L HieSarafan ChEM-H, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States.
Theodora U J BruunStanford Medical Scientist Training Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford California 94305, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7462-2537
Wesley WuChan Zuckerberg Biohub─San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States.
John E PakChan Zuckerberg Biohub─San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States.
Daniel FernandezMacromolecular Structure, Nucleus at Sarafan ChEM-H, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States.
Peter S KimSarafan ChEM-H, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States.

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM007365 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI CHUA, KATRIN F · 1985 to 2021
$33.8M
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) pp.711-759P41GM103393 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI HODGSON, KEITH O · 2012 to 2019
$30.6M
Creating high-resolution, epitope-focused vaccinesDP1AI158125 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI KIM, PETER S · 2020 to 2024
$5.9M
Cell Surface Receptor Recognition and Membrane Fusion in Mammalian FertilizationR00HD104924 · NICHD · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Shaogeng Tang · 2024 to 2026
$723k
Characterization of the human antibody response to a novel neutralizing HIV-1 epitopeF30AI152943 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI FILSINGER INTERRANTE, MARIA VICTORIA · 2021 to 2023
$94k
NIAID NIH HHS DP1 AI158125NIAID NIH HHS F30 AI152943NICHD NIH HHS R00 HD104924NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103393NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007365
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The N-heptad repeat (NHR) of the HIV-1 gp41 prehairpin intermediate (PHI) is an attractive potential vaccine target with high sequence conservation across diverse strains. However, despite the potency of NHR-targeting peptides and clinical efficacy of the NHR-targeting entry inhibitor enfuvirtide, no potently neutralizing NHR-directed monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) nor antisera have been identified or elicited to date. The lack of potent NHR-binding mAbs both dampens enthusiasm for vaccine development efforts at this target and presents a barrier to performing passive immunization experiments with NHR-targeting antibodies. To address this challenge, we previously developed an improved variant of the NHR-directed mAb D5, called D5_AR, which is capable of neutralizing diverse tier-2 viruses. Building on that work, here we present the 2.7Å-crystal structure of D5_AR bound to NHR mimetic peptide IQN17. We then utilize protein language models and supervised machine learning to generate small (

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Antibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, NeutralizingHIV-1HIV AntibodiesHIV Envelope Protein gp41Machine LearningHumansModels, MolecularNeutralization TestsAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, Neutralizinggp41 protein, Human immunodeficiency virus 1HIV AntibodiesHIV Envelope Protein gp41

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PMID40540236
PMCPMC12281478

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