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Parsons MS, Muller S, Kohler H, Grant MD, Bernard NF. On the benefits of sin. Hum Vaccin Immunother 2013; 9:1532-8. [DOI: 10.4161/hv.24460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Innovative bioinformatic approaches for developing peptide-based vaccines against hypervariable viruses. Immunol Cell Biol 2010; 89:81-9. [PMID: 20458336 DOI: 10.1038/icb.2010.65] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The application of the fields of pharmacogenomics and pharmacogenetics to vaccine design has been recently labeled 'vaccinomics'. This newly named area of vaccine research, heavily intertwined with bioinformatics, seems to be leading the charge in developing novel vaccines for currently unmet medical needs against hypervariable viruses such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis C and emerging avian and swine influenza. Some of the more recent bioinformatic approaches in the area of vaccine research include the use of epitope determination and prediction algorithms for exploring the use of peptide epitopes as vaccine immunogens. This paper briefly discusses and explores some current uses of bioinformatics in vaccine design toward the pursuit of peptide vaccines for hypervariable viruses. The various informatics and vaccine design strategies attempted by other groups toward hypervariable viruses will also be briefly examined, along with the strategy used by our group in the design and synthesis of peptide immunogens for candidate HIV and influenza vaccines.
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It has been demonstrated that HIV-1 gp120 resembles several important properties of immunoglobulins allowing it strong influence on the human immune system, especially through induction of the deceptive imprinting and deregulation of the immune network. On the other hand there are many unanswered questions concerning properties and control of the genetically modified viruses and bacteria used as vectors in AIDS vaccines. This situation opens a serious question about the safety of vectored AIDS vaccine and the ethics of their trials in humans.
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- Veljko Veljkovic
- Center for Multidisciplinary Research, Institute of Nuclear Sciences VINCA, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
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Muller S. AVOIDING DECEPTIVE IMPRINTING OF THE IMMUNE RESPONSE TO HIV-1 INFECTION IN VACCINE DEVELOPMENT. Int Rev Immunol 2009; 23:423-36. [PMID: 15370274 DOI: 10.1080/08830180490432802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Lymphocyte clonal restriction is caused by priming the immune system with an antigen and has been referred to infectious disease study as "original antigenic sin" (OAS), described first for influenza by Francis. OAS is a dominant feature of a normal immune response. Benefits of OAS come from the initial contact with the pathogen, which induces immunological memory. Memory is achieved by priming B and T cells of an immunologically naïve host, and confers protection against infection with the antigen-related pathogen. Thus, a restricted antibody response to viral or parasite antigens is not per se pathogenic. However, the interplay between a "locked-in" immune response and the high genetic variation of the pathogenic agent can result in a deception of the immune system. In the following, clonal restriction of the immune response to HIV is described by giving examples of restricted anti-HIV antibody formation in maternally infected children. Clonal restriction results in host resistance of infected individuals to emerging HIV variants and quasispecies. The problems of classical approaches of vaccine design in AIDS and the lack of protection in vaccinated patients is reviewed.
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Prior to Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV)-infected macaques becoming the 'model of choice' in the 1990s, chimpanzees were widely used in AIDS vaccine research and testing. Faced with the continued failure to develop an effective human vaccine, some scientists are calling for a return to their widespread use. To assess the past and potential future contribution of chimpanzees to AIDS vaccine development, databases and published literature were systematically searched to compare the results of AIDS vaccine trials in chimpanzees with those of human clinical trials, and to determine whether the chimpanzee trials were predictive of the human response. Protective and/or therapeutic responses have been elicited in chimpanzees, via: passive antibody transfer; CD4 analogues; attenuated virus; many types and combinations of recombinant HIV proteins; DNA vaccines; recombinant adenovirus and canarypox vaccines; and many multi-component vaccines using more than one of these approaches. Immunogenicity has also been shown in chimpanzees for vaccinia-based and peptide vaccines. Protection and/or significant therapeutic effects have not been demonstrated by any vaccine to date in humans. Vaccine responses in chimpanzees and humans are highly discordant. Claims of the importance of chimpanzees in AIDS vaccine development are without foundation, and a return to the use of chimpanzees in AIDS research/vaccine development is scientifically unjustifiable.
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- Jarrod Bailey
- New England Anti-Vivisection Society, 333 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02108, USA.
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Azizi A, Anderson DE, Torres JV, Ogrel A, Ghorbani M, Soare C, Sandstrom P, Fournier J, Diaz-Mitoma F. Induction of Broad Cross-Subtype-Specific HIV-1 Immune Responses by a Novel Multivalent HIV-1 Peptide Vaccine in Cynomolgus Macaques. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2008; 180:2174-86. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.180.4.2174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Veljkovic V, Veljkovic N, Glisic S, Ho MW. AIDS vaccine: efficacy, safety and ethics. Vaccine 2007; 26:3072-7. [PMID: 18164521 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2007.11.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2007] [Revised: 11/14/2007] [Accepted: 11/23/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has infected 50 million people worldwide and killed 16 million so far, and the epidemic is still spreading with 16,000 new cases of HIV infection daily and a projection of 100 million infected individuals by the end of the next decade. There is no question that a safe and effective acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) vaccine is urgently needed to bring the current AIDS pandemic under control. But, is preventive AIDS vaccine an attainable goal? Unfortunately, the results of many laboratory and clinical studies over the past two decades are not encouraging. We comment on the efficacy, safety and ethics of AIDS vaccine, and the urgent need for a new strategy for AIDS vaccine development.
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- Veljko Veljkovic
- Center for Multidisciplinary Research, Institute of Nuclear Sciences VINCA, 11001 Belgrade, Serbia.
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Synthetic peptide vaccines have potential to control viral infections. Successful experimental models using this approach include the protection of mice against the lethal Sendai virus infection by MHC class I binding CTL peptide epitope. The main benefit of vaccination with peptide epitopes is the ability to minimize the amount and complexity of a well-defined antigen. An appropriate peptide immunogen would also decrease the chance of stimulating a response against self-antigens, thereby providing a safer vaccine by avoiding autoimmunity. In general, the peptide vaccine strategy needs to dissect the specificity of antigen processing, the presence of B-and T-cell epitopes and the MHC restriction of the T-cell responses. This article briefly reviews the implications in the design of peptide vaccines and discusses the various approaches that are applied to improve their immunogenicity.
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- Ali Azizi
- Variation Biotechnologies Inc., 22 de Varennes, Suite 210, Gatineau, QC J8T 8R1, Canada
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Immunogenicity of a polyvalent HIV-1 candidate vaccine based on fourteen wild type gp120 proteins in golden hamsters. BMC Immunol 2006; 7:25. [PMID: 17076905 PMCID: PMC1636068 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2172-7-25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2006] [Accepted: 10/31/2006] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background One of the major obstacles in the design of an effective vaccine against HIV-1 is the hypervariability of the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein. Most HIV-1 vaccine candidates have utilized envelope glycoprotein from a single virus isolate, but to date, none of them elicited broadly reactive humoral immunity. Herein, we hypothesised that a cocktail of HIV-1 gp120 proteins containing multiple epitopes may increase the breadth of immune responses against HIV-1. We compared and evaluated the immunogenicity of HIV-1 vaccines containing either gp120 protein alone or in combinations of four or fourteen gp120s from different primary HIV-1 isolates in immunized hamsters. Results We amplified and characterized 14 different gp120s from primary subtype B isolates with both syncytium and non-syncytium inducing properties, and expressed the proteins in Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cell lines. Purified proteins were used either alone or in combinations of four or fourteen different gp120s to vaccinate golden hamsters. The polyvalent vaccine showed higher antibody titers to HIV-1 subtype B isolates MN and SF162 compared to the groups that received one or four gp120 proteins. However, the polyvalent vaccine was not able to show higher neutralizing antibody responses against HIV-1 primary isolates. Interestingly, the polyvalent vaccine group had the highest proliferative immune responses and showed a substantial proportion of cross-subtype CD4 reactivity to HIV-1 subtypes B, C, and A/E Conclusion Although the polyvalent approach achieved only a modest increase in the breadth of humoral and cellular immunity, the qualitative change in the vaccine (14 vs. 1 gp120) resulted in a quantitative improvement in vaccine-induced immunity.
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Molecular mimicry of HIV gp120: Possible implications on prevention and therapy of AIDS. ARCHIVE OF ONCOLOGY 2005. [DOI: 10.2298/aoo0504126v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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A broad range of similarities between HIV-1 gp120 and human proteins-especially those participating in immune responses-highlight gp120 as a pleiotropic protein which can influence many important functions of the human immune system. The molecular mimicry that serves to the human immunodeficiency virus as potent destructive arms against immune system could be the weak point we are in search of over decades. Examples involving sequence and informational similarities of HIV-1 gp120 and immunerelated host cell proteins important for prevention and treatment of HIV infection are presented. .
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Howe L, Craigo JK, Issel CJ, Montelaro RC. Specificity of serum neutralizing antibodies induced by transient immune suppression of inapparent carrier ponies infected with a neutralization-resistant equine infectious anemia virus envelope strain. J Gen Virol 2005; 86:139-149. [PMID: 15604441 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.80374-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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It has been previously reported that transient corticosteroid immune suppression of ponies experimentally infected with a highly neutralization resistant envelope variant of equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV), designated EIAVΔPND, resulted in the appearance of type-specific serum antibodies to the infecting EIAVΔPNDvirus. The current study was designed to determine if this induction of serum neutralizing antibodies was associated with changes in the specificity of envelope determinants targeted by serum antibodies or caused by changes in the nature of the antibodies targeted to previously defined surface envelope gp90 V3 and V4 neutralization determinants. To address this question, the envelope determinants of neutralization by post-immune suppression serum were mapped. The results demonstrated that the neutralization sensitivity to post-immune suppression serum antibodies mapped specifically to the surface envelope gp90 V3 and V4 domains, individually or in combination. Thus, these data indicate that the development of serum neutralizing antibodies to the resistant EIAVΔPNDwas due to an enhancement of host antibody responses caused by transient immune suppression and the associated increase in virus replication.
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- Laryssa Howe
- Department of Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, W1144 Biomedical Science Tower, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Sciences, Gluck Equine Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, W1144 Biomedical Science Tower, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
- Department of Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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The immune response in individuals chronically infected with HIV-1 is unable to prevent progression of disease. Diversion of immune recognition via 'Deceptive Imprinting' allows virus variants to continue the infection. Structured Interrupting of (HAART) therapy (STI) causes rebound of virus with 'wild-type' strains that stimulate the immune system. Combining STI with suppression of the dominant response against anti-wild-type virus is proposed to enhance the beneficial effects of STI.
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Garber DA, Silvestri G, Feinberg MB. Prospects for an AIDS vaccine: three big questions, no easy answers. THE LANCET. INFECTIOUS DISEASES 2004; 4:397-413. [PMID: 15219551 DOI: 10.1016/s1473-3099(04)01056-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The unremitting devastation created by the AIDS pandemic will probably only be controlled when a vaccine is developed that is safe, effective, affordable, and simple enough to permit implementation in developing countries where the impact of AIDS is most severe. Although formidable practical, political, economic, social, and ethical challenges face the AIDS vaccine development effort, the most fundamental challenges now reside at the level of the basic biology of HIV-1 infection and pathogenesis. Of these biological considerations, three questions loom especially large: can we design immunogens that will elicit neutralising antibodies that are reactive against a wide variety of primary HIV isolates; will vaccine-elicited cytotoxic T cells be fundamentally better at controlling HIV-1 replication and ameliorating disease progression than those responses that arise during natural HIV infection; and to what extent will the tremendous global genetic diversity of HIV-1 compromise the breadth of vaccine-elicited protective immunity and the overall effectiveness of an AIDS vaccine? Although these are three exceptionally challenging questions, they are now being approached with clear hypotheses whose testing is being facilitated by an ever-improving array of technologies for vaccine design and immunological characterisation. The extent to which the field of AIDS vaccine research can now come together to answer these questions in the best coordinated, most efficient manner will probably be an important determinant of how and when an effective AIDS vaccine will be developed.
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- David A Garber
- Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
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Research and clinical data reported during last 10 years indicate the possibility that AIDS vaccines based on the HIV-1 envelope protein gp120 may be worse then useless. A correct assessment of the safety of these AIDS vaccines can not be possible without data which will allow comparison of the disease status between breakthrough HIV infected vaccinated volunteers and those from the control group. Results of the recently finished clinical trial of AIDSVAX represent a good base for this important analysis.
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- Veljko Veljkovic
- Center for Multidisciplinary Research, Institute of Nuclear Sciences VINCA, P.O. Box 522, 11001 Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
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Geffin R, Hutto C, Andrew C, Scott GB. A longitudinal assessment of autologous neutralizing antibodies in children perinatally infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1. Virology 2003; 310:207-15. [PMID: 12781708 DOI: 10.1016/s0042-6822(03)00137-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The evolution of autologous neutralizing antibodies to sequential human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) isolates was studied in a population of 16 children who were perinatally infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1. The cohort included seven children with rapid disease progression (RP) and nine who had nonrapid disease progression (NRP). Four of the NRP after 6 months of age harbored viruses that could be neutralized by antibodies found in autologous contemporaneous plasma (titers up to 1:640) while the majority of longitudinally collected viruses from five NRP were resistant to neutralization with contemporaneous plasma. Because of their shorter survival, only five of the RP had studies after 6 months of age; three of the five had neutralizing antibodies to contemporaneous virus isolates and the highest titers were 1:20. The highest titers in RP (up to 1:160) occurred in specimens obtained prior to 6 months of age but these were most likely of maternal origin. Most isolates that were not neutralized by contemporaneous plasma could be neutralized using noncontemporaneous plasma obtained months to years after the virus isolates. These autologous noncontemporaneous neutralizing antibodies persisted for years, had titers that were higher to viruses isolated at younger ages, and were generally more potent in children with NRP than RP. Demonstration of neutralizing antibodies to viruses previously resistant to neutralization by contemporaneous plasma suggests a continuous evolution of virus variants in vivo that are able to escape the effect of neutralizing antibodies.
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- Rebeca Geffin
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
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Ferrantelli F, Rasmussen RA, Hofmann-Lehmann R, Xu W, McClure HM, Ruprecht RM. Do not underestimate the power of antibodies--lessons from adoptive transfer of antibodies against HIV. Vaccine 2002; 20 Suppl 4:A61-5. [PMID: 12477430 DOI: 10.1016/s0264-410x(02)00389-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Successes for neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) include potent cross-clade neutralization of primary virus isolates by human neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (nmAbs) targeting conserved envelope epitopes. Furthermore, passively administered combinations of human nmAbs prevented infection in primates, indicating that epitopes recognized by such nmAbs are key determinants for protection. Lastly, in the absence of CD8+ T cells, nAbs may act as a second line of defense during chronic infection. Taken together, these results argue for generating nAb response-based prophylactic and/or therapeutic AIDS vaccines. We suggest that the epitopes identified by passive immunization represent excellent targets for the rational design of nAb response-based AIDS vaccines.
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- Flavia Ferrantelli
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, 44 Binney Street JFB809, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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The past few months have seen encouraging successes for neutralizing antibodies against HIV; human monoclonal antibodies targeting conserved HIV envelope epitopes potently neutralized primary virus isolates, including strains of different clades. In primates, passive immunization with combinations containing human monoclonal antibodies completely prevented infection, even after mucosal virus challenges. Epitopes recognized by the protective monoclonal antibodies are important determinants for protection and provide a rational basis for AIDS vaccine development.
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- Flavia Ferrantelli
- Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Zwick MB, Bonnycastle LL, Menendez A, Irving MB, Barbas CF, Parren PW, Burton DR, Scott JK. Identification and characterization of a peptide that specifically binds the human, broadly neutralizing anti-human immunodeficiency virus type 1 antibody b12. J Virol 2001; 75:6692-9. [PMID: 11413337 PMCID: PMC114393 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.14.6692-6699.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Human monoclonal antibody (MAb) b12 recognizes a conformational epitope that overlaps the CD-4-binding site of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope. MAb b12 neutralizes a broad range of HIV-1 primary isolates and protects against primary virus challenge in animal models. We report here the discovery and characterization of B2.1, a peptide that binds specifically to MAb b12. B2.1 was selected from a phage-displayed peptide library by using immunoglobulin G1 b12 as the selecting agent. The peptide is a homodimer whose activity depends on an intact disulfide bridge joining its polypeptide chains. Competition studies with gp120 indicate that B2.1 occupies the b12 antigen-binding site. The affinity of b12 for B2.1 depends on the form in which the peptide is presented; b12 binds best to the homodimer as a recombinant polypeptide fused to the phage coat. Originally, b12 was isolated from a phage-displayed Fab library constructed from the bone marrow of an HIV-1-infected donor. The B2.1 peptide is highly specific for b12 since it selected only phage bearing b12 Fab from this large and diverse antibody library.
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- M B Zwick
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada
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Veljkovic V, Metlas R, Köhler H, Urnovitz HB, Prljic J, Veljkovic N, Johnson E, Müller S. AIDS epidemic at the beginning of the third millennium: time for a new AIDS vaccine strategy. Vaccine 2001; 19:1855-62. [PMID: 11228354 DOI: 10.1016/s0264-410x(00)00194-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Current expansion of AIDS pandemic significantly accelerates AIDS vaccine research resulting in development and clinical testing of several AIDS vaccine candidates. At the same time, available experimental and clinical data demonstrate that current AIDS vaccine strategy is unsuccessful resulting in development of inefficient and harmful vaccines. This overview briefly summarizes reported results which point out the requirement for moratorium on the current clinical trials of HIV-1 gp120/160 vaccines and urgent need for development of a new, efficient and safe AIDS vaccine strategy.
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- V Veljkovic
- Laboratory for Multidisciplinary Research, Institute of Nuclear Sciences VINCA, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
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Korber B, Gaschen B, Yusim K, Thakallapally R, Kesmir C, Detours V. Evolutionary and immunological implications of contemporary HIV-1 variation. Br Med Bull 2001; 58:19-42. [PMID: 11714622 DOI: 10.1093/bmb/58.1.19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 364] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Evolutionary modelling studies indicate less than a century has passed since the most recent common ancestor of the HIV-1 pandemic strains and, in that time frame, an extraordinarily diverse viral population has developed. HIV-1 employs a multitude of schemes to generate variants: accumulation of base substitutions, insertions and deletions, addition and loss of glycosylation sites in the envelope protein, and recombination. A comparison between HIV and influenza virus illustrates the extraordinary scale of HIV variation, and underscores the importance of exploring innovative HIV vaccine strategies. Deeper understanding of the implications of variation for both antibody and T-cell responses may help in the effort to rationally design vaccines that stimulate broad cross-reactivity. The impact of HIV-1 variation on host immune response is reviewed in this context.
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- B Korber
- Division of Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 98545, USA
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Hosie MJ, Dunsford T, Klein D, Willett BJ, Cannon C, Osborne R, Macdonald J, Spibey N, Mackay N, Jarrett O, Neil JC. Vaccination with inactivated virus but not viral DNA reduces virus load following challenge with a heterologous and virulent isolate of feline immunodeficiency virus. J Virol 2000; 74:9403-11. [PMID: 11000209 PMCID: PMC112369 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.20.9403-9411.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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It has been shown that cats can be protected against infection with the prototypic Petaluma strain of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV(PET)) using vaccines based on either inactivated virus particles or replication-defective proviral DNA. However, the utility of such vaccines in the field is uncertain, given the absence of consistent protection against antigenically distinct strains and the concern that the Petaluma strain may be an unrepresentative, attenuated isolate. Since reduction of viral pathogenicity and dissemination may be useful outcomes of vaccination, even in the absence of complete protection, we tested whether either of these vaccine strategies ameliorates the early course of infection following challenge with heterologous and more virulent isolates. We now report that an inactivated virus vaccine, which generates high levels of virus neutralizing antibodies, confers reduced virus loads following challenge with two heterologous isolates, FIV(AM6) and FIV(GL8). This vaccine also prevented the marked early decline in CD4/CD8 ratio seen in FIV(GL8)-infected cats. In contrast, DNA vaccines based on either FIV(PET) or FIV(GL8), which induce cell-mediated responses but no detectable antiviral antibodies, protected a fraction of cats against infection with FIV(PET) but had no measurable effect on virus load when the infecting virus was FIV(GL8). These results indicate that the more virulent FIV(GL8) is intrinsically more resistant to vaccinal immunity than the FIV(PET) strain and that a broad spectrum of responses which includes virus neutralizing antibodies is a desirable goal for lentivirus vaccine development.
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- M J Hosie
- Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Glasgow Veterinary School, Glasgow G61 1QH, United Kingdom.
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