Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Polyclonal antibody responses to HIV Env immunogens resolved using cryoEM

  • Aleksandar Antanasijevic,
  • Leigh M. Sewall,
  • Christopher A. Cottrell,
  • Diane G. Carnathan,
  • Luis E. Jimenez,
  • Julia T. Ngo,
  • Jennifer B. Silverman,
  • Bettina Groschel,
  • Erik Georgeson,
  • Jinal Bhiman,
  • Raiza Bastidas,
  • Celia LaBranche,
  • Joel D. Allen,
  • Jeffrey Copps,
  • Hailee R. Perrett,
  • Kimmo Rantalainen,
  • Fabien Cannac,
  • Yuhe R. Yang,
  • Alba Torrents de la Peña,
  • Rebeca Froes Rocha,
  • Zachary T. Berndsen,
  • David Baker,
  • Neil P. King,
  • Rogier W. Sanders,
  • John P. Moore,
  • Shane Crotty,
  • Max Crispin,
  • David C. Montefiori,
  • Dennis R. Burton,
  • William R. Schief,
  • Guido Silvestri,
  • Andrew B. Ward

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25087-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Here, the authors present cryoEMPEM, a method for high-resolution structural analysis of vaccine-elicited polyclonal antibody responses. They apply cryoEMPEM in combination with standard serology experiments to characterize the polyclonal antibody (pAb) responses elicited in rhesus macaques by HIV Env trimer immunogens and were able to determine up to 8 different polyclonal antibody structures in complex with their respective antigen from a single cryoEM dataset.