Strategies for HIV-1 vaccines that induce broadly neutralizing antibodies

BF Haynes, K Wiehe, P Borrow, KO Saunders… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
After nearly four decades of research, a safe and effective HIV-1 vaccine remains elusive.
There are many reasons why the development of a potent and durable HIV-1 vaccine is …

Recent progress in broadly neutralizing antibodies to HIV

D Sok, DR Burton - Nature immunology, 2018 - nature.com
In this Review, we highlight some recent developments in the discovery and application of
broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); ie …

[HTML][HTML] Tracking changes in SARS-CoV-2 spike: evidence that D614G increases infectivity of the COVID-19 virus

B Korber, WM Fischer, S Gnanakaran, H Yoon… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
A SARS-CoV-2 variant carrying the Spike protein amino acid change D614G has become
the most prevalent form in the global pandemic. Dynamic tracking of variant frequencies …

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 …

Systemic HIV and SIV latency reversal via non-canonical NF-κB signalling in vivo

CC Nixon, M Mavigner, GC Sampey, AD Brooks… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Long-lasting, latently infected resting CD4+ T cells are the greatest obstacle to obtaining a
cure for HIV infection, as these cells can persist despite decades of treatment with …

Robust and persistent reactivation of SIV and HIV by N-803 and depletion of CD8+ cells

JB McBrien, M Mavigner, L Franchitti, SA Smith… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) persists indefinitely in individuals with HIV who
receive antiretroviral therapy (ART) owing to a reservoir of latently infected cells that contain …

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 …

Fab-dimerized glycan-reactive antibodies are a structural category of natural antibodies

WB Williams, RR Meyerhoff, RJ Edwards, H Li… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Natural antibodies (Abs) can target host glycans on the surface of pathogens. We studied
the evolution of glycan-reactive B cells of rhesus macaques and humans using glycosylated …

[HTML][HTML] Vaccine-induced protection from homologous tier 2 SHIV challenge in nonhuman primates depends on serum-neutralizing antibody titers

MG Pauthner, JP Nkolola, C Havenar-Daughton… - Immunity, 2019 - cell.com
Passive administration of HIV neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) can protect macaques from
hard-to-neutralize (tier 2) chimeric simian-human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV) challenge …

Tfh cells and HIV bnAbs, an immunodominance model of the HIV neutralizing antibody generation problem

C Havenar‐Daughton, JH Lee… - Immunological reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The generation of HIV bnAbs may be one of the greatest feats of the human immune system
and our best hope of finally creating an HIV vaccine. The striking amount of somatic …