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B-cell-lineage immunogen design in vaccine development with HIV-1 as a case study.
Nature biotechnology - 7 May 2012
Haynes Barton F, Kelsoe Garnett, Harrison Stephen C, Kepler Thomas B
Abstract excerpt
Failure of immunization with the HIV-1 envelope to induce broadly neutralizing antibodies against conserved epitopes is a major barrier to producing a preventive HIV-1 vaccine. Broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (BnAbs) from those subjects who do produce them after years of chronic HIV-1 infection have one or more unusual characteristics, including polyreactivity for host antigens, extensive somatic...
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