Current approaches to HIV vaccine development: a narrative review

J Kim, S Vasan, JH Kim, JA Ake - Journal of the International …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction The development of an effective vaccine to protect against HIV is a longstanding
global health need complicated by challenges inherent to HIV biology and to the execution …

HIV mRNA vaccines—progress and future paths

Z Mu, BF Haynes, DW Cain - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic introduced the world to a new type of vaccine based on mRNA
encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs). Instead of delivering antigenic proteins directly …

Controlling the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein conformation

R Henderson, RJ Edwards, K Mansouri… - Nature structural & …, 2020 - nature.com
The coronavirus (CoV) spike (S) protein, involved in viral–host cell fusion, is the primary
immunogenic target for virus neutralization and the current focus of many vaccine design …

A multiclade env–gag VLP mRNA vaccine elicits tier-2 HIV-1-neutralizing antibodies and reduces the risk of heterologous SHIV infection in macaques

P Zhang, E Narayanan, Q Liu, Y Tsybovsky… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
The development of a protective vaccine remains a top priority for the control of the HIV/AIDS
pandemic. Here, we show that a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine co-expressing …

Lipid nanoparticle encapsulated nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccines elicit polyfunctional HIV-1 antibodies comparable to proteins in nonhuman primates

KO Saunders, N Pardi, R Parks, S Santra, Z Mu… - npj Vaccines, 2021 - nature.com
The development of an effective AIDS vaccine remains a challenge. Nucleoside-modified
mRNAs formulated in lipid nanoparticles (mRNA-LNP) have proved to be a potent mode of …

mRNA-encoded HIV-1 Env trimer ferritin nanoparticles induce monoclonal antibodies that neutralize heterologous HIV-1 isolates in mice

Z Mu, K Wiehe, KO Saunders, R Henderson, DW Cain… - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
The success of nucleoside-modified mRNAs in lipid nanoparticles (mRNA-LNP) as COVID-
19 vaccines heralded a new era of vaccine development. For HIV-1, multivalent envelope …

Rapid and focused maturation of a VRC01-class HIV broadly neutralizing antibody lineage involves both binding and accommodation of the N276-glycan

J Umotoy, BS Bagaya, C Joyce, T Schiffner, S Menis… - Immunity, 2019 - cell.com
Summary The VH1-2 restricted VRC01-class of antibodies targeting the HIV envelope CD4
binding site are a major focus of HIV vaccine strategies. However, a detailed analysis of …

New vaccine design and delivery technologies

M Kanekiyo, D Ellis, NP King - The Journal of Infectious …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Technological advances in immunology, protein design, and genetic delivery have unlocked
new possibilities for vaccine concepts and delivery technologies that were previously …

Env exceptionalism: why are HIV-1 Env glycoproteins atypical immunogens?

PJ Klasse, G Ozorowski, RW Sanders, JP Moore - Cell host & microbe, 2020 - cell.com
Recombinant HIV-1 envelope (Env) glycoproteins of ever-increasing sophistication have
been evaluated as vaccine candidates for over 30 years. Structurally defined mimics of …

Disruption of the HIV-1 Envelope allosteric network blocks CD4-induced rearrangements

R Henderson, M Lu, Y Zhou, Z Mu, R Parks… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The trimeric HIV-1 Envelope protein (Env) mediates viral-host cell fusion via a network of
conformational transitions, with allosteric elements in each protomer orchestrating host …