National Institutes of Health/National Institute Of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID)
AI136621
United States
National Institutes of Health/National Institute Of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID)
AI145629
United States
Citation
Journal: bioRxiv / Year: 2024 Title: Immunofocusing on the conserved fusion peptide of HIV envelope glycoprotein in rhesus macaques. Authors: Payal P Pratap / Christopher A Cottrell / James Quinn / Diane G Carnathan / Daniel L V Bader / Andy S Tran / Chiamaka A Enemuo / Julia T Ngo / Sara T Richey / Hongmei Gao / Xiaoying Shen / ...Authors: Payal P Pratap / Christopher A Cottrell / James Quinn / Diane G Carnathan / Daniel L V Bader / Andy S Tran / Chiamaka A Enemuo / Julia T Ngo / Sara T Richey / Hongmei Gao / Xiaoying Shen / Kelli M Greene / Jonathan Hurtado / Katarzyna Kaczmarek Michaels / Elana Ben-Akiva / Joel D Allen / Gabriel Ozorowski / Max Crispin / Bryan Briney / David Montefiori / Guido Silvestri / Darrell J Irvine / Shane Crotty / Andrew B Ward Abstract: During infection, the fusion peptide (FP) of HIV envelope glycoprotein (Env) serves a central role in viral fusion with the host cell. As such, the FP is highly conserved and therefore an attractive ...During infection, the fusion peptide (FP) of HIV envelope glycoprotein (Env) serves a central role in viral fusion with the host cell. As such, the FP is highly conserved and therefore an attractive epitope for vaccine design. Here, we describe a vaccination study in non-human primates (NHPs) where glycan deletions were made on soluble HIV Env to increase FP epitope exposure. When delivered via implantable osmotic pumps, this immunogen primed immune responses against the FP, which were then boosted with heterologous trimers resulting in a focused immune response targeting the conserved FP epitope. Although autologous immunizations did not elicit high affinity FP-targeting antibodies, the conserved FP epitope on a heterologous trimer further matured the lower affinity, FP-targeting B cells. This study suggests using epitope conservation strategies on distinct Env trimer immunogens can focus humoral responses on desired neutralizing epitopes and suppress immune-distracting antibody responses against non-neutralizing epitopes.
In the structure databanks used in Yorodumi, some data are registered as the other names, "COVID-19 virus" and "2019-nCoV". Here are the details of the virus and the list of structure data.
Jan 31, 2019. EMDB accession codes are about to change! (news from PDBe EMDB page)
EMDB accession codes are about to change! (news from PDBe EMDB page)
The allocation of 4 digits for EMDB accession codes will soon come to an end. Whilst these codes will remain in use, new EMDB accession codes will include an additional digit and will expand incrementally as the available range of codes is exhausted. The current 4-digit format prefixed with “EMD-” (i.e. EMD-XXXX) will advance to a 5-digit format (i.e. EMD-XXXXX), and so on. It is currently estimated that the 4-digit codes will be depleted around Spring 2019, at which point the 5-digit format will come into force.
The EM Navigator/Yorodumi systems omit the EMD- prefix.
Related info.:Q: What is EMD? / ID/Accession-code notation in Yorodumi/EM Navigator
Yorodumi is a browser for structure data from EMDB, PDB, SASBDB, etc.
This page is also the successor to EM Navigator detail page, and also detail information page/front-end page for Omokage search.
The word "yorodu" (or yorozu) is an old Japanese word meaning "ten thousand". "mi" (miru) is to see.
Related info.:EMDB / PDB / SASBDB / Comparison of 3 databanks / Yorodumi Search / Aug 31, 2016. New EM Navigator & Yorodumi / Yorodumi Papers / Jmol/JSmol / Function and homology information / Changes in new EM Navigator and Yorodumi