Does the key to a successful HIV type 1 vaccine lie among the envelope sequences of infected individuals?
Does the key to a successful HIV type 1 vaccine lie among the envelope sequences of infected individuals?
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1 型 HIV 疫苗成功的关键是否在于感染个体的包膜序列?
DOI:
10.1089/aid.1995.11.1131
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发表时间:
1995
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Hurwitz,JL
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Rencher,SD;Slobod,KS;Dawson,DH;Lockey,TD;Hurwitz,JL
For the purpose of vaccine development, we have isolated env sequences from blood samples (A and B) from two asymptomatic HIV-1-infected individuals. Sample A was from an in-dividual who had testedHIV-1 seronegative 2 months previously. Sample B was from an individual whose date of seroconversion was unknown. As shown in Table 1, the donor A serum sample neutralized the laboratory stock virus HTLVIIIB (see Ref. 2 for detailed methods), but failed to neutralize a primary isolate, 500. Alternatively, sample B demonstrated neutralizing antibody activity against three tested viruses in-cluding (1) HTLV-IIIB, tested on CEMSS cells,(2) 500, tested on CEMSS cells, and (3) 1028, a second primary isolate tested on peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). We amplified ercv-encoding sequences from A and B bloodderived DNA by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and cloned the fragments by substitution into pVenv4, a pSCll-based env expression vector (see Refs. 3 and 4 for details). Numerous clones were obtained from each sample. Predicted amino acid sequences for the VI, V2, and V3 regions of re-sultant clones are aligned in Figs. 1 and 2. As demonstrated, the diversity of env from the donor A sample was more limited than that from donor B. For donor B, the greatest diversity was in the V2 loop, where deletions, substitutions, and insertions were prevalent. Preliminary analyses of V4 and V5 regions showed relatively little diversity in comparison to that of the V2 region (data not shown). The env V3 sequences from donor B lacked theGPGRAF sequence known to characterize many US isolates. Most nucleotide differences resulted in amino acid differences. It appeared from these studies that the diversity of env sequences and the breadth of antibody neutralization ca-pacity were each superior in donor B as compared to donor A. It is likely that presentation of diverse Env to the immune system contributes to the generation of protective immunity. Following HIV exposure, individuals are essentially subjected to multiple rounds of infection. That is, a cycle progresses as the generation of a neutralizing immune response forces the se-lection of viral escape mutants that in turn elicit a new set of