Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Vaccine elicitation of HIV broadly neutralizing antibodies from engineered B cells

  • Deli Huang,
  • Jenny Tuyet Tran,
  • Alex Olson,
  • Thomas Vollbrecht,
  • Mary Tenuta,
  • Mariia V. Guryleva,
  • Roberta P. Fuller,
  • Torben Schiffner,
  • Justin R. Abadejos,
  • Lauren Couvrette,
  • Tanya R. Blane,
  • Karen Saye,
  • Wenjuan Li,
  • Elise Landais,
  • Alicia Gonzalez-Martin,
  • William Schief,
  • Ben Murrell,
  • Dennis R. Burton,
  • David Nemazee,
  • James E. Voss

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19650-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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A vaccine to generate durable HIV broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAb) from engineered B cells holds promise as an HIV functional cure. Here, the authors show that CRISPR/Cas-modified B cells expressing bnAbs as functional antigen receptors can be immunized to generate long-lived, germinal centre matured bnAb memory and plasma cells in mice.