Eliciting tyrosine-sulfated neutralizing antibodies recognizing the Env apex

引发识别 Env 顶点的酪氨酸硫酸化中和抗体

• 批准号: 10013483
• 负责人: Michael R. Farzan
• 金额: $ 23.13万
• 依托单位: SCRIPPS FLORIDA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-06 至 2022-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10013483
• 关键词: Abbreviations; Affinity; Antibodies; Antibody Diversity; Antigen Targeting; Antigens; B-Lymphocytes; Binding; Binding Sites; Characteristics; Data; Engineering; Epitopes; Foundations; Genes; Glycoproteins; Goals; HIV; HIV-1; HIV-1 vaccine; Hemocyanin; Human; Immune Sera; Immunization; Immunize; Immunoglobulin Somatic Hypermutation; Individual; Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin; Knowledge; Light; Modeling; Mutation; Polysaccharides; Population; Property; Protein Family; Rattus; Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell; Side; Sulfate; Testing; Transferase; Vaccines; Wistar Rats; Work; base; complementarity-determining region 3; crosslink; design; disulfide bond; interest; nanoparticle; neutralizing antibody; nonhuman primate; novel strategies; prevent; protein-tyrosine sulfotransferase; scaffold; success; transmission process; tyrosine O-sulfate

PROJECT SUMMARY An effective HIV-1 remains an important but elusive goal. One promising approach to such a vaccine uses sequential immunization to guide B-cell receptor (BCR) maturation. To do so, one first amplifies immature unmutated precursors of a particular class of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs). These precursor BCR are then shepherded to recognize HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein (Env) using increasingly native Env antigens. Sequential immunization strategies for both VRC01- and V3-glycan-classes of bNAbs are being developed. Here we establish the foundations for using the same general strategy to elicit V2-glycan/apex antibodies. Apex bNAbs have properties that both complicate such an approach but ultimately make success more likely. Specifically these bNAbs bind Env largely through their long, acidic and tyrosine-sulfated heavy-chain CDR3 region. Thus there is less need for extensive somatic hypermutaion characteristic of V3-glycan and VRC01-class bNAbs. However, apart from their long sulfated CDR3 regions, apex bNAbs have few distinguishing features. Here we show that we can elicit antibodies in rats with long tyrosine-sulfated CDR3 regions using anti-sulfotyrosine antibodies as antigens. We propose to optimize this approach and use it in concert with oligomeric forms of Env trimers to elicit anti-apex antibodies. These studies will develop a potentially easier approach to generating broad and potent anti-HIV-1 antisera.

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