Anti-V2 antibodies virus vulnerability revealed by envelope V1 deletion in HIV vaccine candidates

Isabela Silva de Castro, Giacomo Gorini, Rosemarie Mason, Jason Gorman, Massimiliano Bissa, Mohammad A. Rahman, Anush Arakelyan, Irene Kalisz, Stephen Whitney, Manuel Becerra-Flores, Eric Ni, Kristina Peachman, Hung V. Trinh, Michael Read, Mei Hue Liu, Donald Van Ryk, Dominic Paquin-Proulx, Zhanna Shubin, Marina Tuyishime, Jennifer PeeleMohammed S. Ahmadi, Raffaello Verardi, Juliane Hill, Margaret Beddall, Richard Nguyen, James D. Stamos, Dai Fujikawa, Susie Min, Luca Schifanella, Monica Vaccari, Veronica Galli, Melvin N. Doster, Namal P.M. Liyanage, Sarkis Sarkis, Francesca Caccuri, Celia LaBranche, David C. Montefiori, Georgia D. Tomaras, Xiaoying Shen, Margherita Rosati, Barbara K. Felber, George N. Pavlakis, David J. Venzon, William Magnanelli, Matthew Breed, Josh Kramer, Brandon F. Keele, Michael A. Eller, Claudia Cicala, James Arthos, Guido Ferrari, Leonid Margolis, Marjorie Robert-Guroff, Peter D. Kwong, Mario Roederer, Mangala Rao, Timothy J. Cardozo, Genoveffa Franchini

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Abstract

The efficacy of ALVAC-based HIV and SIV vaccines in humans and macaques correlates with antibodies to envelope variable region 2 (V2). We show here that vaccine-induced antibodies to SIV variable region 1 (V1) inhibit anti-V2 antibody-mediated cytotoxicity and reverse their ability to block V2 peptide interaction with the α4β7 integrin. SIV vaccines engineered to delete V1 and favor an α helix, rather than a β sheet V2 conformation, induced V2-specific ADCC correlating with decreased risk of SIV acquisition. Removal of V1 from the HIV-1 clade A/E A244 envelope resulted in decreased binding to antibodies recognizing V2 in the β sheet conformation. Thus, deletion of V1 in HIV envelope immunogens may improve antibody responses to V2 virus vulnerability sites and increase the efficacy of HIV vaccine candidates.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number102047
JournaliScience
Volume24
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 19 2021

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Keywords

  • Immunology
  • molecular structure
  • virology

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