The conformational states of the HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins

Q Wang, A Finzi, J Sodroski - Trends in microbiology, 2020 - cell.com
During HIV-1 entry into target cells, binding of the virus to host receptors, CD4 and
CCR5/CXCR4, triggers serial conformational changes in the envelope glycoprotein (Env) …

The HIV Env glycoprotein conformational states on cells and viruses

C Zhao, H Li, TH Swartz, BK Chen - Mbio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The HIV Env glycoprotein is the surface glycoprotein responsible for viral entry into CD4+
immune cells. During infection, Env also serves as a primary target for antibody responses …

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 …

Characterization of HIV-1 nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccines in rabbits and rhesus macaques

N Pardi, CC LaBranche, G Ferrari, DW Cain… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2019 - cell.com
Despite the enormous effort in the development of effective vaccines against HIV-1, no
vaccine candidate has elicited broadly neutralizing antibodies in humans. Thus, generation …

An asymmetric opening of HIV-1 envelope mediates antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity

N Alsahafi, N Bakouche, M Kazemi, J Richard, S Ding… - Cell host & …, 2019 - cell.com
The HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein (Env)(gp120-gp41) 3 is the target for neutralizing
antibodies and antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC). HIV-1 Env is flexible …

Epistatic pathways can drive HIV-1 escape from integrase strand transfer inhibitors

Y Hikichi, JR Grover, A Schäfer, W Mothes… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
People living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) receiving integrase strand transfer
inhibitors (INSTIs) have been reported to experience virological failure in the absence of …

Asymmetric conformations of cleaved HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein trimers in styrene-maleic acid lipid nanoparticles

K Wang, S Zhang, EP Go, H Ding, WL Wang… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
During virus entry, the pretriggered human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) envelope
glycoprotein (Env) trimer initially transits into a default intermediate state (DIS) that remains …

Alterations in gp120 glycans or the gp41 fusion peptide-proximal region modulate the stability of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein …

Z Zhang, Q Wang, HT Nguyen, HC Chen… - Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein (Env) trimer mediates
entry into host cells by binding receptors, CD4 and CCR5/CXCR4, and fusing the viral and …

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 …

The β20–β21 of gp120 is a regulatory switch for HIV-1 Env conformational transitions

A Herschhorn, C Gu, F Moraca, X Ma, M Farrell… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The entry of HIV-1 into target cells is mediated by the viral envelope glycoproteins (Env).
Binding to the CD4 receptor triggers a cascade of conformational changes in distant …