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HIV 16055.v8.3 SOSIP Env in Complex with Base and N625 Epitope pAbs from Rabbit 2463
Structural highlights
FunctionA0A0B5KUY7_HV1 Envelope glycoprotein gp160: Oligomerizes in the host endoplasmic reticulum into predominantly trimers. In a second time, gp160 transits in the host Golgi, where glycosylation is completed. The precursor is then proteolytically cleaved in the trans-Golgi and thereby activated by cellular furin or furin-like proteases to produce gp120 and gp41.[HAMAP-Rule:MF_04083] Surface protein gp120: Attaches the virus to the host lymphoid cell by binding to the primary receptor CD4. This interaction induces a structural rearrangement creating a high affinity binding site for a chemokine coreceptor like CXCR4 and/or CCR5. Acts as a ligand for CD209/DC-SIGN and CLEC4M/DC-SIGNR, which are respectively found on dendritic cells (DCs), and on endothelial cells of liver sinusoids and lymph node sinuses. These interactions allow capture of viral particles at mucosal surfaces by these cells and subsequent transmission to permissive cells. HIV subverts the migration properties of dendritic cells to gain access to CD4+ T-cells in lymph nodes. Virus transmission to permissive T-cells occurs either in trans (without DCs infection, through viral capture and transmission), or in cis (following DCs productive infection, through the usual CD4-gp120 interaction), thereby inducing a robust infection. In trans infection, bound virions remain infectious over days and it is proposed that they are not degraded, but protected in non-lysosomal acidic organelles within the DCs close to the cell membrane thus contributing to the viral infectious potential during DCs' migration from the periphery to the lymphoid tissues. On arrival at lymphoid tissues, intact virions recycle back to DCs' cell surface allowing virus transmission to CD4+ T-cells.[HAMAP-Rule:MF_04083] Transmembrane protein gp41: Acts as a class I viral fusion protein. Under the current model, the protein has at least 3 conformational states: pre-fusion native state, pre-hairpin intermediate state, and post-fusion hairpin state. During fusion of viral and target intracellular membranes, the coiled coil regions (heptad repeats) assume a trimer-of-hairpins structure, positioning the fusion peptide in close proximity to the C-terminal region of the ectodomain. The formation of this structure appears to drive apposition and subsequent fusion of viral and target cell membranes. Complete fusion occurs in host cell endosomes and is dynamin-dependent, however some lipid transfer might occur at the plasma membrane. The virus undergoes clathrin-dependent internalization long before endosomal fusion, thus minimizing the surface exposure of conserved viral epitopes during fusion and reducing the efficacy of inhibitors targeting these epitopes. Membranes fusion leads to delivery of the nucleocapsid into the cytoplasm.[HAMAP-Rule:MF_04083] Publication Abstract from PubMedVaccination strategies against HIV-1 aim to elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) using prime-boost regimens with HIV envelope (Env) immunogens. Epitope mapping has shown that early antibody responses are directed to easily accessible nonneutralizing epitopes on Env instead of bnAb epitopes. Autologously neutralizing antibody responses appear upon boosting, once immunodominant epitopes are saturated. Here, we use electron microscopy-based polyclonal epitope mapping (EMPEM) to elucidate how repeated immunization with HIV Env SOSIP immunogens results in the generation of Ab2alpha anti-idiotypic antibodies in rabbits and rhesus macaques. We present the structures of six anti-immune complex antibodies and find that they target idiotopes composed of framework regions of antibodies bound to Env. Examination of cryo-electron microscopy density enabled prediction of sequences for an anti-immune complex antibody, the paratope of which is enriched with aromatic amino acids. This work sheds light on current vaccine development efforts for HIV, as well as for other pathogens in which repeated exposure to antigen is required. Anti-immune complex antibodies are elicited during repeated immunization with HIV Env immunogens.,Brown S, Antanasijevic A, Sewall LM, Garcia DM, Brouwer PJM, Sanders RW, Ward AB Sci Immunol. 2025 Jan 17;10(103):eadp5218. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.adp5218. Epub , 2025 Jan 17. PMID:39823319[1] From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. References
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