Delineating antibody recognition in polyclonal sera from patterns of HIV-1 isolate neutralization.
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Date
2012
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American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Abstract
Serum characterization and antibody isolation are transforming our understanding of the humoral immune response to viral infection. Here, we show that epitope specificities of HIV-1–neutralizing antibodies in serum can be elucidated from the serum pattern of neutralization against a diverse panel of HIV-1 isolates. We determined “neutralization fingerprints” for 30 neutralizing antibodies on a panel of 34 diverse HIV-1 strains and showed that similarity in neutralization fingerprint correlated with similarity in epitope. We used these fingerprints to delineate specificities of
polyclonal sera from 24 HIV-1–infected donors and a chimeric siman-human immunodeficiency virus–infected macaque. Delineated specificities matched published specificities and were further confirmed by antibody isolation for two sera. Patterns of virus-isolate neutralization can thus afford a detailed epitope-specific understanding of neutralizing-antibody responses to viral infection.
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HIV infections--Immunology., HIV antibodies., HIV (Viruses)--Analysis.
Citation
Georgiev, I.S., et al. 2013. Delineating antibody recognition in polyclonal sera from patterns of HIV-1 isolate neutralization. Science. 340(6133) pp. 751-756.