Polyvalent DNA prime and envelope protein boost HIV-1 vaccine elicits humoral and cellular responses and controls plasma viremia in rhesus macaques following rectal challenge with an R5 SHIV isolate |
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Authors: | Pal Ranajit Wang Shixia Kalyanaraman V S Nair B C Whitney Stephen Keen Timothy Hocker Lindsey Hudacik Lauren Rose Nicolas Cristillo Anthony Mboudjeka Innocent Shen Siyuan Wu-Chou Te-Hui Montefiori David Mascola John Lu Shan Markham Phillip |
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Institution: | Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Kensington, MD 20895, USA. ranajit.pal@ablinc.com |
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Abstract: | Immunization of macaques with multivalent DNA encoding gp120 genes from HIV-1 subtypes A, B, C and E and a gag gene followed by boosting with homologous gp120 proteins elicited strong anti-gp120 antibodies capable of neutralizing homologous and to a lesser degree heterologous HIV-1 isolates. Both Env- and Gag-specific cell mediated immune (CMI) responses were detected in the immunized animals. Following rectal challenge with an SHIV isolate encoding HIV-1(Ba-L)env, plasma viremia in the infected immunized animals was significantly lower than that observed in the na?ve animals. Further, one of six immunized animals was completely protected whereas all six na?ve animals were infected. These results demonstrate that a vaccine based on priming with a polyvalent DNA vaccine from multiple HIV-1 subtypes followed by boosting with homologous Env proteins elicits anti-HIV-1 immune responses capable of controlling rectal transmission of SHIV(Ba-L). |
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Keywords: | AIDS mucosal neutralizing antibody non-human primate pre-clinical |
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