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Comparison of antibody repertoires produced by HIV-1 infection, other chronic and acute infections, and systemic autoimmune disease.
PloS one - 30 Mar 2011
Breden Felix, Lepik Christa, Longo Nancy S, Montero Marinieve, Lipsky Peter E, Scott Jamie K
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Antibodies (Abs) produced during HIV-1 infection rarely neutralize a broad range of viral isolates; only eight broadly-neutralizing (bNt) monoclonal (M)Abs have been isolated. Yet, to be effective, an HIV-1 vaccine may have to elicit the essential features of these MAbs. The V genes of all of these bNt MAbs are highly somatically mutated, and the V(H) genes of five of them encode a long (≥ 20 aa)...
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