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SUBMITTER: Frey G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2268799 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frey Gary G Peng Hanqin H Rits-Volloch Sophia S Morelli Marco M Cheng Yifan Y Chen Bing B
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080305 10
Most antibodies induced by HIV-1 are ineffective at preventing initiation or spread of infection because they are either nonneutralizing or narrowly isolate-specific. Rare, "broadly neutralizing" antibodies have been detected that recognize relatively conserved regions on the envelope glycoprotein. Using stringently characterized, homogeneous preparations of trimeric HIV-1 envelope protein in relevant conformations, we have analyzed the molecular mechanism of neutralization by two of these antib ...[more]