Amino Acid Changes in the HIV-1 gp41 Membrane Proximal Region Control Virus Neutralization Sensitivity

Most HIV-1 vaccines elicit neutralizing antibodies that are active against highly sensitive (tier-1) viruses or rare cases of vaccine-matched neutralization-resistant (tier-2) viruses, but no vaccine has induced antibodies that can broadly neutralize heterologous tier-2 viruses. In this study, we is...

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Main Authors: Todd Bradley, Ashley Trama, Nancy Tumba, Elin Gray, Xiaozhi Lu, Navid Madani, Fatemeh Jahanbakhsh, Amanda Eaton, Shi-Mao Xia, Robert Parks, Krissey E. Lloyd, Laura L. Sutherland, Richard M. Scearce, Cindy M. Bowman, Susan Barnett, Salim S. Abdool-Karim, Scott D. Boyd, Bruno Melillo, Amos B. Smith III, Joseph Sodroski, Thomas B. Kepler, S.Munir Alam, Feng Gao, Mattia Bonsignori, Hua-Xin Liao, M. Anthony Moody, David Montefiori, Sampa Santra, Lynn Morris, Barton F. Haynes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-10-01
Series:EBioMedicine
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396416304029