摘要:
Heterohybridomas producing human monoclonal antibodies against a neutralizing epitope of HIV-1 are prepared by transforming peripheral blood lymphocytes by Epstein-Barr virus, selecting cells producing an antibody to a synthetic peptide representing part of the neutralizing epitope, and fusing them with a heteromyeloma cell. A method for producing a human monoclonal antibody specific for a neutralizing HIV-1 epitope from the heterohybridoma is disclosed. Also provided are human neutralizing monoclonal antibodies specific for particular peptide epitopes of the V3 loop of the gp120 glycoprotein of HIV, in particular a broadly reactive antibody specific for diverse HIV-1 strains, preferably recognizing an epitope comprising an amino acid sequence GPXR or GRAF.
摘要:
Insertion of HIV-1 V3 loop peptides from the viral glycoprotein gp120 into selected, immunogenic scaffold proteins results in a recombinant polypeptide that is a potent V3 immunogen. V3 immunogens include natural and consensus V3 sequences and cyclic and reverse peptides. Preferred scaffold proteins are Cholera Toxin subunit B and homologues thereof including closely related E. coli enterotoxins. Such immunogenic polypeptides induce broadly reactive anti-gp120 antibodies specific for V3 epitopes that can neutralize heterologous HIV-1 subtypes and strains. These polypeptide, methods for preparing them, and methods for inducing anti-gp120 (V3-specific) antibody) responses using them are disclosed.
摘要:
Insertion of HIV-1 V3 loop peptides from the viral glycoprotein gp120 into selected, immunogenic scaffold proteins results in a recombinant polypeptide that is a potent V3 immunogen. V3 immunogens include natural and consensus V3 sequences and cyclic and reverse peptides. Preferred scaffold proteins are Cholera Toxin subunit B and homologues thereof including closely related E. coli enterotoxins. Such immunogenic polypeptides induce broadly reactive anti-gp120 antibodies specific for V3 epitopes that can neutralize heterologous HIV-1 subtypes and strains. These polypeptide, methods for preparing them, and methods for inducing anti-gp120 (V3-specific) antibody) responses using them are disclosed.
摘要:
Human monoclonal antibodies specific for the CD4-binding domain of HIV gp120 are useful in the neutralization of HIV and in the prevention of HIV infection and the treatment of a subject infected with HIV. Such antibodies and heterohybridomas producing them are disclosed. Synergistic mixtures of at least two human monoclonal antibodies specific for two different epitopes of gp120 are used to neutralize HIV, to prevent HIV infection and to treat a subject infected with HIV. In this synergistic mixture, one antibody has broad HIV group specificity, and is preferably specific for the CD4-binding domain. The other antibody is preferably specific for the V3 loop and has a range of neutralizing activity such that it neutralizes virus of the MN strain, MN-like families, and widely divergent HIV-1 isolates which are members of various V3 lop classes.
摘要:
Disclosed herein are eleven human lymphoblastoid cell lines producing monoclonal antibodies directed against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) proteins gp41 and p24. Also disclosed are methods for treating HIV-infected individuals using the human monoclonal antibodies and pharmaceutical formulations comprising effective amounts of the human monoclonal antibodies.