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 …

Reverse vaccinology 2.0: Human immunology instructs vaccine antigen design

R Rappuoli, MJ Bottomley, U D'Oro, O Finco… - Journal of Experimental …, 2016 - rupress.org
Traditionally, vaccines have been developed by cultivating infectious agents and isolating
the inactivated whole pathogen or some of its purified components. 20 years ago, reverse …

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 …

A particulate saponin/TLR agonist vaccine adjuvant alters lymph flow and modulates adaptive immunity

M Silva, Y Kato, MB Melo, I Phung, BL Freeman… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Saponins are potent and safe vaccine adjuvants, but their mechanisms of action remain
incompletely understood. Here, we explored the properties of several saponin formulations …

[HTML][HTML] Slow delivery immunization enhances HIV neutralizing antibody and germinal center responses via modulation of immunodominance

KM Cirelli, DG Carnathan, B Nogal, JT Martin… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Conventional immunization strategies will likely be insufficient for the development of a
broadly neutralizing antibody (bnAb) vaccine for HIV or other difficult pathogens because of …

Sustained antigen availability during germinal center initiation enhances antibody responses to vaccination

HH Tam, MB Melo, M Kang, JM Pelet… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Natural infections expose the immune system to escalating antigen and inflammation over
days to weeks, whereas nonlive vaccines are single bolus events. We explored whether the …

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 …

Epitope-based vaccine design yields fusion peptide-directed antibodies that neutralize diverse strains of HIV-1

K Xu, P Acharya, R Kong, C Cheng, GY Chuang… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
A central goal of HIV-1 vaccine research is the elicitation of antibodies capable of
neutralizing diverse primary isolates of HIV-1. Here we show that focusing the immune …

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 …