The ability of an oligomeric human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope antigen to elicit neutralizing antibodies against primary HIV-1 isolates is improved following partial deletion of the second hypervariable region

Journal of Virology

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 5526-5540

  Barnett, S W ^a   Lu, S ^b   Srivastava, I ^a   Cherpelis, S ^c   Gettie, A ^a,d   Blanchard, J ^d   Wang, S ^b   Mboudjeka, I ^b   Leung, L ^a   Lian, Y ^a   Fong, A ^a   Buckner, C ^c   Ly, A ^c   Hilt, S ^a   Ulmer, J ^a   Wild, C T ^e   Mascola, J R ^f,g   Stamatatos, L ^c,h  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e Panacos Pharmaceuticals   (United States)

^f WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^h AARON DIAMOND AIDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNIZATION; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; VIRUS ENVELOPE; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION;

AIDS VACCINES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; CROSS REACTIONS; GENE DELETION; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN GP120; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; MACACA MULATTA; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RABBITS; SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; VACCINES, DNA;

EID: 0035000679     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.12.5526-5540.2001     Document Type: Article

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