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Influenza Antigen Engineering Focuses Immune Responses to a Subdominant but Broadly Protective Viral Epitope

  • Goran Bajic
  • , Max J. Maron
  • , Yu Adachi
  • , Taishi Onodera
  • , Kevin R. McCarthy
  • , Charles E. McGee
  • , Gregory D. Sempowski
  • , Yoshimasa Takahashi
  • , Garnett Kelsoe
  • , Masayuki Kuraoka
  • , Aaron G. Schmidt

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Abstract

Eliciting protective immunity against influenza remains a major challenge. Bajic et al. show how hemagglutinin (HA) hyperglycosylation can restrict the resulting antibody repertoire to an occluded epitope at the HA head interface. These antibodies protect against influenza-virus challenge, providing insights into antigen engineering to alter antibody responses.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)827-835.e6
JournalCell Host and Microbe
Volume25
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Jun 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • broadly neutralizing antibodies
  • immunogen design
  • influenza hemagglutinin
  • protein engineering

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