Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Pentavalent HIV-1 vaccine protects against simian-human immunodeficiency virus challenge

  • Todd Bradley,
  • Justin Pollara,
  • Sampa Santra,
  • Nathan Vandergrift,
  • Srivamshi Pittala,
  • Chris Bailey-Kellogg,
  • Xiaoying Shen,
  • Robert Parks,
  • Derrick Goodman,
  • Amanda Eaton,
  • Harikrishnan Balachandran,
  • Linh V. Mach,
  • Kevin O. Saunders,
  • Joshua A. Weiner,
  • Richard Scearce,
  • Laura L. Sutherland,
  • Sanjay Phogat,
  • Jim Tartaglia,
  • Steven G. Reed,
  • Shiu-Lok Hu,
  • James F. Theis,
  • Abraham Pinter,
  • David C. Montefiori,
  • Thomas B. Kepler,
  • Kristina K. Peachman,
  • Mangala Rao,
  • Nelson L. Michael,
  • Todd J. Suscovich,
  • Galit Alter,
  • Margaret E. Ackerman,
  • M. Anthony Moody,
  • Hua-Xin Liao,
  • Georgia Tomaras,
  • Guido Ferrari,
  • Bette T. Korber,
  • Barton F. Haynes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15711
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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A previous human HIV-1 vaccine clinical trial, boosting with HIV envelope protein from two strains, demonstrated moderate vaccine efficacy. Here, Bradleyet al. show that a pentavalent HIV envelope protein boost improves protection from viral challenge in non-human primates and they identify immune correlates of protection.