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Passive neutralizing antibody controls SHIV viremia and enhances B cell responses in infant macaques

  • Cherie T. Ng
  • , J. Pablo Jaworski
  • , Pushpa Jayaraman
  • , William F. Sutton
  • , Patrick Delio
  • , Larene Kuller
  • , David Anderson
  • , Gary Landucci
  • , Barbra A. Richardson
  • , Dennis R. Burton
  • , Donald N. Forthal
  • , Nancy L. Haigwood

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Abstract

Maternal HIV-1-specific antibodies are efficiently transferred to newborns, but their role in disease control is unknown. We administered neutralizing IgG, including the human neutralizing monoclonal IgG1b12, at levels insufficient to block infection, to six newborn macaques before oral challenge with simian-HIV strain SF162P3 (SHIVSF162P3). All of the macaques rapidly developed neutralizing antibodies and had significantly reduced plasma viremia for six months. These studies support the use of neutralizing antibodies in enhancing B cell responses and viral control in perinatal settings.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1117-1119
Number of pages3
JournalNature medicine
Volume16
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2010

Funding

We would like to thank Z. Brower for technical support, D. Morris and K. Filer for manuscript preparation, M.L. Marthas and K.K.A. Van Rompay for advice on subcutaneous dosing of IgG and oral inoculation of infants, J. Overbaugh (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) for the Env-deleted viral backbone plasmid Q23ΔEnv, S. Barnett and I. Srinivasan (Novartis) for recombinant gp120-SF162 and V. Planelles (University of Utah) for the plasmid pEMC*. M. Piatak and J.D. Lifson (Science Applications International Corporation) kindly provided RNA standards and advice on real-time PCR. SHIVSF162P3 was supplied by N. Miller (US National Institutes of Health Division of AIDS) and R. Pal (Advanced Bioscience Labs). TZM-bl were supplied by the US National Institutes of Health AIDS Research Reference Reagent Program. This study was supported by grants from the US National Institutes of Health R01HD038653 (N.L.H.), R01AI33292 (D.R.B.) and R01AI052039 (D.N.F.) and from the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (N.L.H.).

FundersFunder number
Author National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Health The Bev Hartig Huntington's Disease Foundation National Institutes of HealthR01AI33292, R01HD038653
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesR01AI052039
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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