ジャーナル: Nat Commun / 年: 2023 タイトル: Antibody-directed evolution reveals a mechanism for enhanced neutralization at the HIV-1 fusion peptide site. 著者: Bailey B Banach / Sergei Pletnev / Adam S Olia / Kai Xu / Baoshan Zhang / Reda Rawi / Tatsiana Bylund / Nicole A Doria-Rose / Thuy Duong Nguyen / Ahmed S Fahad / Myungjin Lee / Bob C Lin / ...著者: Bailey B Banach / Sergei Pletnev / Adam S Olia / Kai Xu / Baoshan Zhang / Reda Rawi / Tatsiana Bylund / Nicole A Doria-Rose / Thuy Duong Nguyen / Ahmed S Fahad / Myungjin Lee / Bob C Lin / Tracy Liu / Mark K Louder / Bharat Madan / Krisha McKee / Sijy O'Dell / Mallika Sastry / Arne Schön / Natalie Bui / Chen-Hsiang Shen / Jacy R Wolfe / Gwo-Yu Chuang / John R Mascola / Peter D Kwong / Brandon J DeKosky / 要旨: The HIV-1 fusion peptide (FP) represents a promising vaccine target, but global FP sequence diversity among circulating strains has limited anti-FP antibodies to ~60% neutralization breadth. Here we ...The HIV-1 fusion peptide (FP) represents a promising vaccine target, but global FP sequence diversity among circulating strains has limited anti-FP antibodies to ~60% neutralization breadth. Here we evolve the FP-targeting antibody VRC34.01 in vitro to enhance FP-neutralization using site saturation mutagenesis and yeast display. Successive rounds of directed evolution by iterative selection of antibodies for binding to resistant HIV-1 strains establish a variant, VRC34.01_mm28, as a best-in-class antibody with 10-fold enhanced potency compared to the template antibody and ~80% breadth on a cross-clade 208-strain neutralization panel. Structural analyses demonstrate that the improved paratope expands the FP binding groove to accommodate diverse FP sequences of different lengths while also recognizing the HIV-1 Env backbone. These data reveal critical antibody features for enhanced neutralization breadth and potency against the FP site of vulnerability and accelerate clinical development of broad HIV-1 FP-targeting vaccines and therapeutics.