A Neutralizing Antibody Recognizing Primarily N-Linked Glycan Targets the Silent Face of the HIV Envelope
- National Inst. of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD (United States). National Inst. of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
- Frederick National Lab. for Cancer Research, MD (United States)
- National Inst. of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD (United States). National Inst. of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID); Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States)
- National Inst. of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD (United States). National Inst. of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and National Inst. of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
- Walter Reed Army Inst. of Research, Silver Spring, MD (United States); Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD (United States)
- Rockefeller Univ., New York, NY (United States). Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
- Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan)
- National Inst. of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD (United States), National Human Genome Research Inst. (NHGRI)
- National Inst. of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD (United States). National Inst. of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
- The Scripps Research Inst., La Jolla, CA (United States); Ragon Inst., Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Walter Reed Army Inst. of Research, Silver Spring, MD (United States)
- National Inst. of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD (United States). National Inst. of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID); Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
- Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan); The Scripps Research Inst., La Jolla, CA (United States)
- National Inst. of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD (United States). National Inst. of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID); Rockefeller Univ., New York, NY (United States). Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
- NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC), Bethesda, MD (United States). Comparative Sequencing Program
Virtually the entire surface of the HIV-1-envelope trimer is recognized by neutralizing antibodies, except for a highly glycosylated region at the center of the “silent face” on the gp120 subunit. From an HIV-1-infected donor, #74, we identified antibody VRC-PG05, which neutralized 27% of HIV-1 strains. The crystal structure of the antigen-binding fragment of VRC-PG05 in complex with gp120 revealed an epitope comprised primarily of N-linked glycans from N262, N295, and N448 at the silent face center. Furthermore, somatic hypermutation occurred preferentially at antibody residues that interacted with these glycans, suggesting somatic development of glycan recognition. Resistance to VRC-PG05 in donor #74 involved shifting of glycan-N448 to N446 or mutation of glycan-proximal residue E293. HIV-1 neutralization can thus be achieved at the silent face center by glycan-recognizing antibody; along with other known epitopes, the VRC-PG05 epitope completes coverage by neutralizing antibody of all major exposed regions of the prefusion closed trimer.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID); National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI); National Institutes of Health (NIH); International AIDS Vaccine Initiative’s (IAVI’s) Neutralizing Antibody Consortium; Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Academia Sinica; Ministry of Science and Technology
- Contributing Organization:
- NISC Comparative Sequencing Program
- Grant/Contract Number:
- R21 AI108399; HHSN261200800001E; W-31-109-Eng-38; R01 AI131722; 106-0210- 01-15-02; 104-0210-01-09-02; 103-2321-B-001-004; R01 AI072155
- OSTI ID:
- 1506497
- Journal Information:
- Immunity, Vol. 48, Issue 3; ISSN 1074-7613
- Publisher:
- Cell PressCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- ENGLISH
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