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Effects of Darwinian Selection and Mutability on Rate of Broadly Neutralizing Antibody Evolution during HIV-1 Infection.
PLoS computational biology - 1 May 2016
Sheng Zizhang, Schramm Chaim A, Connors Mark, Morris Lynn, Mascola John R, Kwong Peter D, Shapiro Lawrence
Abstract excerpt
Accumulation of somatic mutations in antibody variable regions is critical for antibody affinity maturation, with HIV-1 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) generally requiring years to develop. We recently found that the rate at which mutations accumulate decreases over time, but the mechanism governing this slowing is unclear. In this study, we investigated whether natural selection and/or mutability of the...
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