Publication Date:
2011-07-30
Description:
The isolation of broadly neutralizing antibodies against influenza A viruses has been a long-sought goal for therapeutic approaches and vaccine design. Using a single-cell culture method for screening large numbers of human plasma cells, we isolated a neutralizing monoclonal antibody that recognized the hemagglutinin (HA) glycoprotein of all 16 subtypes and neutralized both group 1 and group 2 influenza A viruses. Passive transfer of this antibody conferred protection to mice and ferrets. Complexes with HAs from the group 1 H1 and the group 2 H3 subtypes analyzed by x-ray crystallography showed that the antibody bound to a conserved epitope in the F subdomain. This antibody may be used for passive protection and to inform vaccine design because of its broad specificity and neutralization potency.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Corti, Davide -- Voss, Jarrod -- Gamblin, Steven J -- Codoni, Giosiana -- Macagno, Annalisa -- Jarrossay, David -- Vachieri, Sebastien G -- Pinna, Debora -- Minola, Andrea -- Vanzetta, Fabrizia -- Silacci, Chiara -- Fernandez-Rodriguez, Blanca M -- Agatic, Gloria -- Bianchi, Siro -- Giacchetto-Sasselli, Isabella -- Calder, Lesley -- Sallusto, Federica -- Collins, Patrick -- Haire, Lesley F -- Temperton, Nigel -- Langedijk, Johannes P M -- Skehel, John J -- Lanzavecchia, Antonio -- G0600369/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- MC_U117584222/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Aug 12;333(6044):850-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1205669. Epub 2011 Jul 28.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute for Research in Biomedicine, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21798894" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Antibodies, Neutralizing/*immunology/isolation & purification
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Antibodies, Viral/*immunology/isolation & purification
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Antibody Specificity
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Antigens, Viral/*immunology
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Cells, Cultured
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Cross Reactions
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Epitopes/immunology
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Ferrets
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Glycosylation
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Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus/*immunology
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Humans
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Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
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Immunization, Passive
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Immunoglobulin Variable Region/immunology
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Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype/immunology
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Influenza A virus/*immunology
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Influenza B virus/immunology
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Influenza, Human/immunology
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Mice
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Models, Molecular
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Orthomyxoviridae Infections/immunology/prevention & control/therapy
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Plasma Cells/immunology
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Protein Multimerization
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Protein Structure, Secondary
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics