Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Rational design of a trispecific antibody targeting the HIV-1 Env with elevated anti-viral activity

  • James J. Steinhardt,
  • Javier Guenaga,
  • Hannah L. Turner,
  • Krisha McKee,
  • Mark K. Louder,
  • Sijy O’Dell,
  • Chi-I Chiang,
  • Lin Lei,
  • Andrey Galkin,
  • Alexander K. Andrianov,
  • Nicole A. Doria-Rose,
  • Robert T. Bailer,
  • Andrew B. Ward,
  • John R. Mascola,
  • Yuxing Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03335-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Broadly neutralizing antibodies targeting HIV Env could potentially be utilized as therapeutics. Here, Steinhardt et al. engineer a trispecific antibody with specificity for the receptor-binding site, a conserved Env glycan patch and the Env membrane proximal region with nearly pan-isolate neutralization breadth and high potency.