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 …

Impact of non-proteinogenic amino acids in the discovery and development of peptide therapeutics

Y Ding, JP Ting, J Liu, S Al-Azzam, P Pandya, S Afshar - Amino Acids, 2020 - Springer
With the development of modern chemistry and biology, non-proteinogenic amino acids
(NPAAs) have become a powerful tool for developing peptide-based drug candidates. Drug …

Stabilized coronavirus spikes are resistant to conformational changes induced by receptor recognition or proteolysis

RN Kirchdoerfer, N Wang, J Pallesen, D Wrapp… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) emerged in 2002 as a highly
transmissible pathogenic human betacoronavirus. The viral spike glycoprotein (S) utilizes …

[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 …

A next-generation cleaved, soluble HIV-1 Env trimer, BG505 SOSIP. 664 gp140, expresses multiple epitopes for broadly neutralizing but not non-neutralizing …

RW Sanders, R Derking, A Cupo, JP Julien… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
A desirable but as yet unachieved property of a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-
1) vaccine candidate is the ability to induce broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs). One …

Conformational dynamics of single HIV-1 envelope trimers on the surface of native virions

JB Munro, J Gorman, X Ma, Z Zhou, J Arthos… - Science, 2014 - science.org
The HIV-1 envelope (Env) mediates viral entry into host cells. To enable the direct imaging
of conformational dynamics within Env, we introduced fluorophores into variable regions of …

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

D Lyumkis, JP Julien, N De Val, A Cupo, CS Potter… - Science, 2013 - science.org
The HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein (Env) trimer contains the receptor binding sites and
membrane fusion machinery that introduce the viral genome into the host cell. As the only …

A potent and broad neutralizing antibody recognizes and penetrates the HIV glycan shield

R Pejchal, KJ Doores, LM Walker, R Khayat, PS Huang… - Science, 2011 - science.org
The HIV envelope (Env) protein gp120 is protected from antibody recognition by a dense
glycan shield. However, several of the recently identified PGT broadly neutralizing …

Native‐like Env trimers as a platform for HIV‐1 vaccine design

RW Sanders, JP Moore - Immunological reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We describe the development and potential use of various designs of recombinant HIV‐1
envelope glycoprotein trimers that mimic the structure of the virion‐associated spike, which …

Cryo‐electron microscopy–a primer for the non‐microscopist

JLS Milne, MJ Borgnia, A Bartesaghi… - The FEBS …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Cryo‐electron microscopy (cryo‐EM) is increasingly becoming a mainstream technology for
studying the architecture of cells, viruses and protein assemblies at molecular resolution …