HIV Vaccine Design to Target Germline Precursors of Glycan-Dependent Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies
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Steichen, Jon M.; Kulp, Daniel W.; Escolano, Amelia; Dosenovic, Pia; Stanfield, Robyn L.; McCoy, Laura E.; Ozorowski, Gabriel; Hu, Xiaozhen; Kalyuzhniy, Oleksandr; Briney, Bryan; Schiffner, Torben; Garces, Fernando; Freund, Natalia T.; Gitlin, Alexander D.; Menis, Sergey; Georgeson, Erik; Kubitz, Michael; Adachi, Yumiko; Jones, Meaghan; Mayer, Christian T.; Ward, Andrew B.; Burton, Dennis R.; Wilson, Ian A.; Irvine, Darrell J.; Nussenzweig, Michel C.; Schief, William R.; Tokatlian, Talar; Mutafyan, Andrew Ayk; Yun, Dong Soo; ... Show more Show less
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Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against the N332 supersite of the HIV envelope (Env) trimer are the most common bnAbs induced during infection, making them promising leads for vaccine design. Wild-type Env glycoproteins lack detectable affinity for supersite-bnAb germline precursors and are therefore unsuitable immunogens to prime supersite-bnAb responses. We employed mammalian cell surface display to design stabilized Env trimers with affinity for germline-reverted precursors of PGT121-class supersite bnAbs. The trimers maintained native-like antigenicity and structure, activated PGT121 inferred-germline B cells ex vivo when multimerized on liposomes, and primed PGT121-like responses in PGT121 inferred-germline knockin mice. Design intermediates have levels of epitope modification between wild-type and germline-targeting trimers; their mutation gradient suggests sequential immunization to induce bnAbs, in which the germline-targeting prime is followed by progressively less-mutated design intermediates and, lastly, with native trimers. The vaccine design strategies described could be utilized to target other epitopes on HIV or other pathogens.
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2016-09Department
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MITJournal
Immunity
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Elsevier
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Steichen, Jon M., Daniel W. Kulp, Talar Tokatlian, Amelia Escolano, Pia Dosenovic, Robyn L. Stanfield, Laura E. McCoy, et al. “HIV Vaccine Design to Target Germline Precursors of Glycan-Dependent Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies.” Immunity 45, no. 3 (September 2016): 483–496.
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1074-7613
1097-4180