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 …

The unique biology of germinal center B cells

C Young, R Brink - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
Germinal center (GC) B cells are the source of the high-affinity, class-switched antibodies
required for protective immunity. The unique biology of GC B cells involves iterative rounds …

Vaccination induces HIV broadly neutralizing antibody precursors in humans

DJ Leggat, KW Cohen, JR Willis, WJ Fulp, AC Decamp… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) can protect against HIV infection but have not been
induced by human vaccination. A key barrier to bnAb induction is vaccine priming of rare …

[HTML][HTML] Antibodies from primary humoral responses modulate the recruitment of naive B cells during secondary responses

JMJ Tas, JH Koo, YC Lin, Z **e, JM Steichen… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Vaccines generate high-affinity antibodies by recruiting antigen-specific B cells to germinal
centers (GCs), but the mechanisms governing the recruitment to GCs on secondary …

Role of nanoscale antigen organization on B-cell activation probed using DNA origami

R Veneziano, TJ Moyer, MB Stone, EC Wamhoff… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Vaccine efficacy can be increased by arraying immunogens in multivalent form on virus-like
nanoparticles to enhance B-cell activation. However, the effects of antigen copy number …

Vaccination induces broadly neutralizing antibody precursors to HIV gp41

T Schiffner, I Phung, R Ray, A Irimia, M Tian… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A key barrier to the development of vaccines that induce broadly neutralizing antibodies
(bnAbs) against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other viruses of high antigenic …

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] Multifaceted effects of antigen valency on B cell response composition and differentiation in vivo

Y Kato, RK Abbott, BL Freeman, S Haupt, B Groschel… - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
How antigen valency affects B cells in vivo during immune responses is not well understood.
Here, using HIV immunogens with defined valencies ranging from 1 to 60, we investigated …

Engineered immunogen binding to alum adjuvant enhances humoral immunity

TJ Moyer, Y Kato, W Abraham, JYH Chang, DW Kulp… - Nature Medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Adjuvants are central to the efficacy of subunit vaccines. Aluminum hydroxide (alum) is the
most commonly used vaccine adjuvant, yet its adjuvanticity is often weak and mechanisms …

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 …