Griffith, SA;
McCoy, LE;
(2021)
To bnAb or Not to bnAb: Defining Broadly Neutralising Antibodies Against HIV-1.
Frontiers in Immunology
, 12
, Article 708227. 10.3389/fimmu.2021.708227.
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Abstract
Since their discovery, antibodies capable of broad neutralisation have been at the forefront of HIV-1 research and are of particular interest due to in vivo passive transfer studies demonstrating their potential to provide protection. Currently an exact definition of what is required for a monoclonal antibody to be classed as a broadly neutralising antibody (bnAb) has not yet been established. This has led to hundreds of antibodies with varying neutralisation breadth being studied and has given insight into antibody maturation pathways and epitopes targeted. However, even with this knowledge, immunisation studies and vaccination trials to date have had limited success in eliciting antibodies with neutralisation breadth. For this reason there is a growing need to identify factors specifically associated with bnAb development, yet to do this a set of criteria is necessary to distinguish bnAbs from non-bnAbs. This review aims to define what it means to be a HIV-1 bnAb by comparing neutralisation breadth, genetic features and epitopes of bnAbs, and in the process highlights the challenges of comparing the array of antibodies that have been isolated over the years.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | To bnAb or Not to bnAb: Defining Broadly Neutralising Antibodies Against HIV-1 |
Location: | Switzerland |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.3389/fimmu.2021.708227 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.708227 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © 2021 Griffith and McCoy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). |
Keywords: | HIV-1, broadly neutralising antibody, somatic hypermutation, complementary determining region, epitope |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Infection and Immunity |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10138661 |
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