Article
Inhibition of HIV-1 infection by monoclonal antibodies to carbohydrates of Schistosoma mansoni.
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MELLO, M.A. et al. Cinhibition of HIV-1 infection by monoclonal antibodies to carbohydrates of Schistosoma mansoni. Medical Microbiology Immunology, v. 194, n.1-2, p. 61-5, jan. 2005.
0300-8584
Autor
Mello, Marco Antônio Gomes
Mascarenhas, Rita Elizabeth Moreira
Ferraro, Geraldo Argolo
Harn Junior, Donald A
Castro Filho, Bernardo Galvão
Bou-Habib, Dumith Chequer
Resumen
Patients infected with HIV-1 develop a potent humoral immune response against the virus, but HIV-1 primary isolates are remarkably resistant to neutralizing antibodies. Considering that the envelope glycoprotein of HIV-1 (gp120/41) is heavily glycosylated, we investigated whether anti-carbohydrate antibodies could inhibit HIV-1 infection in vitro. We studied the neutralizing activity of three monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) raised to carbohydrates of Schistosoma mansoni, against seven primary isolates of HIV-1. Assays were performed infecting peripheral blood mononuclear cells from normal donors with viral isolates previously treated with mAbs. Viral strains used were tropic for the coreceptors CCR5, CXCR4, and dual-tropic ones. We found that the anti-glycan mAbs vigorously inhibited HIV-1 infection, regardless of the preferential coreceptor usage of the isolate, in a dose-response manner. Importantly, five isolates were resistant to neutralization by two HIV-1 antibody-positive human sera endowed with potent anti-HIV-1 inhibitory activity. Our findings suggest that carbohydrates of the HIV-1 viral envelope may be a target of an effective humoral immune response elicited by vaccination.