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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
August 2025
Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.
The development of germline-targeting vaccines represents a potentially transformative strategy to elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV and other antigenically diverse pathogens. Here, we report on structural characterization of vaccine-elicited VRC01-class bnAb precursors in the IAVI G001 Phase 1 clinical trial with the eOD-GT8 60mer nanoparticle as immunogen. High-resolution X-ray structures of eOD-GT8 monomer complexed with Fabs of five VRC01-class bnAb precursors with >90% germline identity revealed a conserved mode of binding to the HIV CD4-binding site via IGHV1-2-encoded heavy chains, mirroring mature bnAb interactions.
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August 2025
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
VRC01-class antibodies are a genetically restricted class of antibodies capable of potently neutralizing diverse strains of HIV-1. Unmutated VRC01 precursors fail to recognize recombinant HIV-1 Envelope (Env) proteins, which necessitated the development of germline targeting vaccine immunogens capable of initiating VRC01-class B cell response. Among these, we developed an anti-idiotypic monoclonal antibody (ai-mAb)-derived VRC01 class targeting immunogen.
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May 2025
Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA.
The development of germline-targeting vaccines represents a potentially transformative strategy to elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV and other antigenically diverse pathogens. Here, we report on structural characterization of vaccine-elicited VRC01-class bnAb precursors in the IAVI G001 Phase 1 clinical trial with the eOD-GT8 60mer nanoparticle as immunogen. High-resolution X-ray structures of eOD-GT8 monomer complexed with Fabs of five VRC01-class bnAb precursors with >90% germline identity revealed a conserved mode of binding to the HIV CD4-binding site (CD4bs) via IGHV1-2-encoded heavy chains, mirroring mature bnAb interactions.
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February 2025
Department of Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
An effective HIV-1 vaccine should elicit diverse immune responses, including broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs). Such antibodies recognize regions of the viral envelope glyco-protein (Env) that are conserved among the diverse HIV-1 clades and strains. They are isolated from people living with HIV-1 to protect animals from experimental viral exposure and reduce HIV-1 acquisition in clinical settings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Virol
October 2024
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Unlabelled: VRC01-class broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) have been isolated from people with HIV-1, but they have not yet been elicited by vaccination. They are extensively somatically mutated and sometimes accumulate CDRL1 deletions. Such indels may allow VRC01-class antibodies to accommodate the glycans expressed on a conserved N276 N-linked glycosylation site in loop D of the gp120 subunit.
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