Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Differential processing of HIV envelope glycans on the virus and soluble recombinant trimer

  • Liwei Cao,
  • Matthias Pauthner,
  • Raiees Andrabi,
  • Kimmo Rantalainen,
  • Zachary Berndsen,
  • Jolene K. Diedrich,
  • Sergey Menis,
  • Devin Sok,
  • Raiza Bastidas,
  • Sung-Kyu Robin Park,
  • Claire M. Delahunty,
  • Lin He,
  • Javier Guenaga,
  • Richard T. Wyatt,
  • William R. Schief,
  • Andrew B. Ward,
  • John R. Yates,
  • Dennis R. Burton,
  • James C. Paulson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06121-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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HIV envelope (Env) is a potential vaccine antigen and its N-glycans are part of the epitope of broadly neutralizing antibodies. Here, the authors show that glycosylation of Env from infectious virus closely matches Env from recombinant membrane-bound trimers, while it differs significantly from recombinant soluble, cleaved Env trimers.