Improved induction of antibodies against key neutralizing epitopes by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 gp120 DNA prime-protein boost vaccination compared to gp120 protein-only vaccination

Journal of Virology

Volumn 82, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 7369-7378

  Vaine, Michael ^a   Wang, Shixia ^a   Crooks, Emma T ^b   Jiang, Pengfei ^b   Montefiori, David C ^c   Binley, James ^b   Lu, Shan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TORREY PINES INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR STUDIES   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIBODY; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; DNA VACCINE; EPITOPE; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; PLASMID DNA; PRIMER DNA; RECOMBINANT GLYCOPROTEIN GP 120; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY COMBINING SITE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG FORMULATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RABBIT; VACCINATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION;

AIDS VACCINES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES; FEMALE; HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN GP120; HIV-1; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; RABBITS; VACCINES, DNA; VACCINES, SUBUNIT; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 47749129289     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00562-08     Document Type: Article

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