Developing predictive animal models to assess how candidate vaccines and infection influence the ontogenies of Envelope (Env)-specific antibodies is critical for the development of an HIV vaccine. Here we use two nonhuman primate models to compare the roles of antigen persistence, diversity and innate immunity. We perform longitudinal analyses of HIV Env-specific B-cell receptor responses to SHIVAD8 infection and Env protein vaccination with eight different adjuvants. A subset of the SHIVAD8-infected animals with higher viral loads and greater Env diversity show increased neutralization associated with increasing somatic hypermutation (SHM) levels over time. The use of adjuvants results in increased ELISA titres but does not affect the mean SHM levels or CDR H3 lengths. Our study shows how the ontogeny of Env-specific B cells can be tracked, and provides insights into the requirements for developing neutralizing antibodies that should facilitate translation to human vaccine studies. HIV vaccine development will be facilitated by having animal models that are predictive for translation to humans. Here, the authors use two nonhuman primate models to compare the effects of natural infection and different adjuvants on antigen persistence, diversity and humoral immunity.
Analysis of immunoglobulin transcripts and hypermutation following SHIVAD8 infection and protein-plus-adjuvant immunization
J. Francica,Zizhang Sheng,Zhenhai Zhang,Y. Nishimura,M. Shingai,A. Ramesh,B. Keele,S. Schmidt,Barbara Flynn,S. Darko,R. Lynch,Takuya Yamamoto,Rodrigo Matus-Nicodemos,D. Wolinsky,B. Barnabas,R. Blakesley,G. Bouffard,Shelise Y. Brooks,Holly Coleman,M. Dekhtyar,M. Gregory,Xiaobin Guan,Jyoti Gupta,Joel Han,S. Ho,R. Legaspi,Quino L. Maduro,Catherine A. Masiello,Baishali Maskeri,Jennifer C Mcdowell,Casandra Montemayor,J. Mullikin,Morgan Park,Nancy L. Riebow,Karen Schandler,B. Schmidt,Christina Sison,Mal Stantripop,James W. Thomas,Pamela J. Thomas,Meghana Vemulapalli,Alice C. Young,M. Nason,N. Valiante,P. Malyala,E. De Gregorio,S. Barnett,Manmohan J. Singh,D. O’hagan,R. Koup,J. Mascola,Malcolma . Martin,T. Kepler,D. Douek,L. Shapiro,R. Seder
Published 2015 in Nature Communications
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2015-04-10
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