Antibody responses to viral infections: a structural perspective across three different enveloped viruses

CD Murin, IA Wilson, AB Ward - Nature microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
Antibodies serve as critical barriers to viral infection. Humoral immunity to a virus is achieved
through the dual role of antibodies in communicating the presence of invading pathogens in …

To bnAb or not to bnAb: defining broadly neutralising antibodies against HIV-1

SA Griffith, LE McCoy - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Since their discovery, antibodies capable of broad neutralisation have been at the forefront
of HIV-1 research and are of particular interest due to in vivo passive transfer studies …

Broad cross-reactivity across sarbecoviruses exhibited by a subset of COVID-19 donor-derived neutralizing antibodies

CA Jette, AA Cohen, PNP Gnanapragasam… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Many anti-severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (anti-SARS-CoV-2) neutralizing
antibodies target the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) binding site on viral spike …

[HTML][HTML] Cryo-ET of Env on intact HIV virions reveals structural variation and positioning on the Gag lattice

VM Prasad, DP Leaman, KN Lovendahl, JT Croft… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
HIV-1 Env mediates viral entry into host cells and is the sole target for neutralizing
antibodies. However, Env structure and organization in its native virion context has eluded …

Tailored design of protein nanoparticle scaffolds for multivalent presentation of viral glycoprotein antigens

G Ueda, A Antanasijevic, JA Fallas, W Sheffler… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Multivalent presentation of viral glycoproteins can substantially increase the elicitation of
antigen-specific antibodies. To enable a new generation of anti-viral vaccines, we designed …

[HTML][HTML] Human immunoglobulin repertoire analysis guides design of vaccine priming immunogens targeting HIV V2-apex broadly neutralizing antibody precursors

JR Willis, ZT Berndsen, KM Ma, JM Steichen… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) to the HIV envelope (Env) V2-apex region are
important leads for HIV vaccine design. Most V2-apex bnAbs engage Env with an …

Immunization expands B cells specific to HIV-1 V3 glycan in mice and macaques

A Escolano, HB Gristick, ME Abernathy… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies protect against infection with HIV-1 in animal
models, suggesting that a vaccine that elicits these antibodies would be protective in …

Stabilized HIV-1 envelope immunization induces neutralizing antibodies to the CD4bs and protects macaques against mucosal infection

KO Saunders, RJ Edwards, K Tilahun… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
A successful HIV-1 vaccine will require induction of a polyclonal neutralizing antibody (nAb)
response, yet vaccine-mediated induction of such a response in primates remains a …

Partially open HIV-1 envelope structures exhibit conformational changes relevant for coreceptor binding and fusion

H Wang, CO Barnes, Z Yang, MC Nussenzweig… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2018 - cell.com
HIV-1 Env, a trimer of gp120-gp41 heterodimers, mediates membrane fusion after binding
host receptor CD4. Receptor binding displaces V1V2 loops from Env's apex, allowing …

Sequential immunization of macaques elicits heterologous neutralizing antibodies targeting the V3-glycan patch of HIV-1 Env

A Escolano, HB Gristick, R Gautam… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) against HIV-1 develop after prolonged virus and
antibody coevolution. Previous studies showed that sequential immunization with a V3 …