Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Presenting native-like trimeric HIV-1 antigens with self-assembling nanoparticles

  • Linling He,
  • Natalia de Val,
  • Charles D. Morris,
  • Nemil Vora,
  • Therese C. Thinnes,
  • Leopold Kong,
  • Parisa Azadnia,
  • Devin Sok,
  • Bin Zhou,
  • Dennis R. Burton,
  • Ian A Wilson,
  • David Nemazee,
  • Andrew B. Ward,
  • Jiang Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12041
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The development of native-like envelope trimers has been a major focus in the efforts to produce HIV vaccines. Here the authors demonstrate the production and characterization of virus-like nanoparticles displaying trimeric HIV-1 antigens with the potential to elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies.