Eliciting neutralizing antibodies against the membrane proximal external region of HIV-1 Env by chimeric live attenuated influenza A virus vaccines

Despite significant efforts directed toward research on HIV-1 vaccines, a truly effective immunogen has not been achieved. However, the broadly neutralizing antibodies (BnAbs) 2F5 and 4E10, targeting the highly conserved membrane proximal external region (MPER) of HIV-1, are two promising tools for vaccine development. Here we engrafted the MPER into the linker domain between the trimeric core structure and the transmembrane domain of influenza A virus HA2 to investigate the potential of such chimeric viruses to elicit HIV-1 neutralizing antibodies. In the context of proliferating attenuated influenza A viruses, these HIV-1 neutralizing antibody epitopes could be continuously expressed and mimicked their native conformation to induce humoral immune responses. While MPER-specific antibodies could be detected in serum of guinea pigs vaccinated with the chimeric viruses, they exhibited only weakly neutralizing activities. These antisera from vaccinated animals neutralized viruses of clades B and BC (tier 1), but not of clades AE (tier 1) and C (tier 2). These results suggest that influenza A virus can be used as a vehicle for displaying MPER and inducing BnAbs, but it provides limited protection against HIV-1 infection. In the future development of HIV-1 vaccines by rational design, a more effective live virus vector or multiple antigens should be chosen to facilitate the process of neutralizing antibody maturation..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:33

Enthalten in:

Vaccine - 33(2015), 32, Seite 3859-3864

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Su, Weiheng [VerfasserIn]
Kong, Wei [Sonstige Person]
Zang, Yang [Sonstige Person]
Nie, Jianhui [Sonstige Person]
Du, Dongchuan [Sonstige Person]
Jiang, Chunlai [Sonstige Person]
Zhang, Yan [Sonstige Person]
Li, Na [Sonstige Person]
Liu, Xintao [Sonstige Person]
Wang, Youchun [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Antigens
Attenuated influenza A virus
HIV-1 vaccine
Immunoglobulins
Infections
Influenza
MPER
Nuclear magnetic resonance--NMR
Peptides
Plasmids
Proteins
Studies
Vaccines
Viral infections
Viruses

doi:

10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.06.072

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC196988875X