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SUBMITTER: Cowton VM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7794244 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cowton Vanessa M VM Owsianka Ania M AM Fadda Valeria V Ortega-Prieto Ana Maria AM Cole Sarah J SJ Potter Jane A JA Skelton Jessica K JK Jeffrey Nathan N Di Lorenzo Caterina C Dorner Marcus M Taylor Garry L GL Patel Arvind H AH
NPJ vaccines 20210108 1
HCV vaccine development is stymied by the high genetic diversity of the virus and the variability of the envelope glycoproteins. One strategy to overcome this is to identify conserved, functionally important regions-such as the epitopes of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs)-and use these as a basis for structure-based vaccine design. Here, we report an anti-idiotype approach that has generated an antibody that mimics a highly conserved neutralizing epitope on HCV E2. Crucially, a mutagenesi ...[more]