LaTonya D Williams, Gilad Ofek, Sebastian Schätzle, Jonathan R McDaniel, Xiaozhi Lu, Nathan I Nicely, Liming Wu, Caleb S Lougheed, Todd Bradley, Mark K Louder, Krisha McKee, Robert T Bailer, Sijy O'Dell, Ivelin S Georgiev, Michael S Seaman, Robert J Parks, Dawn J Marshall, Kara Anasti, Guang Yang, Xiaoyan Nie, Nancy L Tumba, Kevin Wiehe, Kshitij Wagh, Bette Korber, Thomas B Kepler, S Munir Alam, Lynn Morris, Gift Kamanga, Myron S Cohen, Mattia Bonsignori, Shi-Mao Xia, David C Montefiori, Garnett Kelsoe, Feng Gao, John R Mascola, M Anthony Moody, Kevin O Saunders, Hua-Xin Liao, Georgia D Tomaras, George Georgiou, Barton F Haynes
Induction of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) is a goal of HIV-1 vaccine development. Antibody 10E8, reactive with the distal portion of the membrane-proximal external region (MPER) of HIV-1 gp41, is broadly neutralizing. However, the ontogeny of distal MPER antibodies and the relationship of memory B cell to plasma bnAbs are poorly understood. HIV-1-specific memory B cell flow sorting and proteomic identification of anti-MPER plasma antibodies from an HIV-1-infected individual were used to isolate broadly neutralizing distal MPER bnAbs of the same B cell clonal lineage...
January 27, 2017: Science Immunology