Broadly neutralizing antibodies to HIV and their role in vaccine design

DR Burton, L Hangartner - Annual review of immunology, 2016 - annualreviews.org
HIV employs multiple means to evade the humoral immune response, particularly the
elicitation of and recognition by broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs). Such antibodies …

[PDF][PDF] Protein stability: a crystallographer's perspective

MC Deller, L Kong, B Rupp - Acta Crystallographica Section F …, 2016 - journals.iucr.org
Protein stability is a topic of major interest for the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and food
industries, in addition to being a daily consideration for academic researchers studying …

[HTML][HTML] High-throughput mapping of B cell receptor sequences to antigen specificity

I Setliff, AR Shiakolas, KA Pilewski, AA Murji… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
B cell receptor (BCR) sequencing is a powerful tool for interrogating immune responses to
infection and vaccination, but it provides limited information about the antigen specificity of …

Cryo-EM structure of a native, fully glycosylated, cleaved HIV-1 envelope trimer

JH Lee, G Ozorowski, AB Ward - Science, 2016 - science.org
The envelope glycoprotein trimer (Env) on the surface of HIV-1 recognizes CD4+ T cells and
mediates viral entry. During this process, Env undergoes substantial conformational …

Trimeric HIV-1-Env structures define glycan shields from clades A, B, and G

GBE Stewart-Jones, C Soto, T Lemmin, GY Chuang… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Summary The HIV-1-envelope (Env) trimer is covered by a glycan shield of∼ 90 N-linked
oligosaccharides, which comprises roughly half its mass and is a key component of HIV …

Elicitation of robust tier 2 neutralizing antibody responses in nonhuman primates by HIV envelope trimer immunization using optimized approaches

M Pauthner, C Havenar-Daughton, D Sok, JP Nkolola… - Immunity, 2017 - cell.com
The development of stabilized recombinant HIV envelope trimers that mimic the virion
surface molecule has increased enthusiasm for a neutralizing antibody (nAb)-based HIV …

Immunogenicity of stabilized HIV-1 envelope trimers with reduced exposure of non-neutralizing epitopes

SW De Taeye, G Ozorowski, AT de la Peña, M Guttman… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
The envelope glycoprotein trimer mediates HIV-1 entry into cells. The trimer is flexible,
fluctuating between closed and more open conformations and sometimes sampling the fully …

The HIV‐1 envelope glycoprotein structure: nailing down a moving target

AB Ward, IA Wilson - Immunological reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Structure determination of the HIV‐1 envelope glycoprotein (Env) presented a number of
challenges, but several high‐resolution structures have now become available. In 2013 …

[HTML][HTML] Maturation pathway from germline to broad HIV-1 neutralizer of a CD4-mimic antibody

M Bonsignori, T Zhou, Z Sheng, L Chen, F Gao… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Antibodies with ontogenies from VH 1-2 or VH 1-46-germline genes dominate the broadly
neutralizing response against the CD4-binding site (CD4bs) on HIV-1. Here, we define with …

HIV-1 neutralizing antibodies induced by native-like envelope trimers

RW Sanders, MJ van Gils, R Derking, D Sok, TJ Ketas… - Science, 2015 - science.org
INTRODUCTION A major goal of HIV-1 vaccine development is to identify immunogens
capable of inducing protective titers of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) against …