Alterations in the immunogenic properties of soluble trimeric human immunodeficiency virus type 1 envelope proteins induced by deletion or heterologous substitutions of the V1 loop

Journal of Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 9932-9946

  Ching, Lance ^a,b   Stamatatos, Leonidas ^a,b  

^a Seattle BioMed   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS REACTING ANTIBODY; GLYCOPROTEIN E1; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 140; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; EPITOPE; GP140 ENVELOPE PROTEIN, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIGEN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS VACCINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PRIMER DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; EPITOPE MAPPING; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMMUNOGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GUINEA PIG; HELA CELL LINE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SOLUBILITY;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

AIDS VACCINES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; ENV GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES; GUINEA PIGS; HELA CELLS; HIV ANTIBODIES; HIV ANTIGENS; HIV-1; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 77956839028     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00868-10     Document Type: Article

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