Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Engineered B cells expressing an anti-HIV antibody enable memory retention, isotype switching and clonal expansion

  • Alessio D. Nahmad,
  • Yuval Raviv,
  • Miriam Horovitz-Fried,
  • Ilan Sofer,
  • Tal Akriv,
  • Daniel Nataf,
  • Iris Dotan,
  • Yaron Carmi,
  • David Burstein,
  • Yariv Wine,
  • Itai Benhar,
  • Adi Barzel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19649-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Chronic antiretroviral therapy does not eradicate HIV infection. Here, the authors describe a potentially one-shot alternative by engineering B cells to express anti-HIV antibodies and undergo memory retention, isotype switching and clonal expansion