Production and characterization of SIV envelope-specific rhesus monoclonal antibodies from a macaque asymptomatically infected with a live SIV vaccine

J. E. Robinson, K. S. Cole, D. H. Elliott, H. Lam, A. M. Amedee, R. Means, R. C. Desrosiers, J. Clements, R. C. Montelaro, M. Murphey-Corb

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Abstract

Five rhesus monoclonal antibodies (RhMAbs) were produced by rhesus EBV transformation of peripheral blood B cells from a rhesus macaque that had been asymptomatically infected with an attenuated, macrophagetropic SIV strain, 17E-CI. These MAbs recognized conformation-dependent epitopes on SIV gp120 and could not be mapped using synthetic peptides. All five RhMAbs were able to neutralize the vaccine strain and a heterologous isolate, SIV/DeltaB670. The RhMAbs did not cross-react with HIV-2; by contrast, four human MAbs derived from an HIV-2-infected person were broadly cross-reactive with both SIV and HIV-2 gp120s. Cross-competition analysis indicated that the five RhMAbs could be placed in two groups recognizing two nonoverlapping epitopes; while the HMAbs were placed in two additional competition groups. Binding of the three group I RhMAbs (1.7F, 3.11B, and 1.10A) as well as HMAb 17A was shown to be sensitive to specific amino acid alterations in V4 occurring in natural env variants. The results of this study demonstrate that RhEBV transformation provides a means to probe rhesus antibody responses to SIV infection at the monoclonal level. RhMAbs will allow structural and functional studies of envelope glycoprotein determinants that elicit protective immune responses against SIV.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1253-1262
Number of pages10
JournalAIDS research and human retroviruses
Volume14
Issue number14
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 20 1998
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Immunology
  • Virology
  • Infectious Diseases

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