T cell-inducing vaccine durably prevents mucosal SHIV infection even with lower neutralizing antibody titers

PS Arunachalam, TP Charles, V Joag, VS Bollimpelli… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Recent efforts toward an HIV vaccine focus on inducing broadly neutralizing antibodies, but
eliciting both neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) and cellular responses may be superior. Here …

Recent advances on HIV DNA vaccines development: Stepwise improvements to clinical trials

T Rezaei, S Khalili, B Baradaran, J Mosafer… - Journal of Controlled …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract According to WHO (World Health Organization) reports, more than 770,000 people
died from HIV and almost 1.7 million people becoming newly infected in the worldwide in …

Immunogenicity and protective efficacy of a highly thermotolerant, trimeric SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain derivative

SK Malladi, UR Patel, RS Rajmani, R Singh… - ACS Infectious …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The receptor binding domain (RBD) of SARS-CoV-2 is the primary target of neutralizing
antibodies. We designed a trimeric, highly thermotolerant glycan engineered RBD by fusion …

HIV-1 vaccination by needle-free oral injection induces strong mucosal immunity and protects against SHIV challenge

AT Jones, X Shen, KL Walter, CC LaBranche… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The oral mucosa is an attractive site for mucosal vaccination, however the thick squamous
epithelium limits antigen uptake. Here we utilize a modified needle-free injector to deliver …

A clade C HIV-1 vaccine protects against heterologous SHIV infection by modulating IgG glycosylation and T helper response in macaques

A Sahoo, AT Jones, N Cheedarla, S Gangadhara… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The rising global HIV-1 burden urgently requires vaccines capable of providing
heterologous protection. Here, we developed a clade C HIV-1 vaccine consisting of priming …

V2-specific antibodies in HIV-1 vaccine research and natural infection: controllers or surrogate markers

R Duerr, MK Gorny - Vaccines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Most human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) vaccine trials have lacked efficacy and empirical
vaccine lead targets are scarce. Thus far, the only independent correlate of reduced risk of …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 by HIV-1 specific broadly neutralizing antibodies and polyclonal plasma

N Mishra, S Kumar, S Singh, T Bansal, N Jain… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Cross-reactive epitopes (CREs) are similar epitopes on viruses that are recognized or
neutralized by same antibodies. The S protein of SARS-CoV-2, similar to type I fusion …

A cutting-edge immunoinformatics approach for design of multi-epitope oral vaccine against dreadful human malaria

M Pritam, G Singh, S Swaroop, AK Singh… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Human malaria is a pathogenic disease mainly caused by Plasmodium falciparum, which
was responsible for about 405,000 deaths globally in the year 2018. To date, several …

Design and characterization of a self-assembling protein nanoparticle displaying HIV-1 Env V1V2 loop in a native-like trimeric conformation as vaccine antigen

CP Karch, H Bai, OB Torres, CA Tucker… - … , Biology and Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
The RV144 HIV-1 clinical trial demonstrated modest vaccine efficacy and identified IgG
antibodies against the Env V1V2 loop that inversely correlated with risk of infection. Based …

Bridging vaccine-induced HIV-1 neutralizing and effector antibody responses in rabbit and rhesus macaque animal models

J Pollara, DI Jones, T Huffman, RW Edwards… - Journal of …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Studies in animal models are essential prerequisites for clinical trials of candidate HIV
vaccines. Small animals, such as rabbits, are used to evaluate promising strategies prior to …