Fusion peptide of HIV-1 as a site of vulnerability to neutralizing antibody

Author:

Kong Rui1,Xu Kai1,Zhou Tongqing1,Acharya Priyamvada1,Lemmin Thomas2,Liu Kevin1,Ozorowski Gabriel345,Soto Cinque1,Taft Justin D.1,Bailer Robert T.1,Cale Evan M.1,Chen Lei1,Choi Chang W.1,Chuang Gwo-Yu1,Doria-Rose Nicole A.1,Druz Aliaksandr1,Georgiev Ivelin S.1,Gorman Jason1,Huang Jinghe6,Joyce M. Gordon1,Louder Mark K.1,Ma Xiaochu7,McKee Krisha1,O’Dell Sijy1,Pancera Marie1,Yang Yongping1,Blanchard Scott C.8,Mothes Walther7,Burton Dennis R.910,Koff Wayne C.11,Connors Mark6,Ward Andrew B.345,Kwong Peter D.1,Mascola John R.1

Affiliation:

1. Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

2. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.

3. Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.

4. Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology and Immunogen Discovery, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.

5. International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.

6. HIV-Specific Immunity Section, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

7. Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06536, USA.

8. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA.

9. Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative Neutralizing Antibody Center, Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology and Immunogen Discovery, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.

10. Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Boston, MA 02142, USA.

11. International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, New York, NY 10038, USA.

Abstract

An antibody to block viral fusion A small fraction of HIV-1–infected individuals develop broad and potent antibodies that bind the HIV-1 envelope protein (Env). These antibodies recognize a limited set of conserved epitopes on Env, such as Env's host receptor-binding site. Kong et al. now report a neutralizing antibody isolated from an HIV-1–infected individual that binds to the fusion peptide of Env. This is unexpected because viruses often try to mask such key components of their cell entry machinery from antibody attack. Crystal structures of the antibody bound to the fusion peptide and to Env itself define the epitope, provide insight into the specific mechanism of antibody binding, and may inform HIV-1 vaccine design. Science , this issue p. 828

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NIH

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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