Delineating antibody recognition in polyclonal sera from patterns of HIV-1 isolate neutralization.
Georgiev, I.S., Doria-Rose, N.A., Zhou, T., Kwon, Y.D., Staupe, R.P., Moquin, S., Chuang, G.Y., Louder, M.K., Schmidt, S.D., Altae-Tran, H.R., Bailer, R.T., McKee, K., Nason, M., O'Dell, S., Ofek, G., Pancera, M., Srivatsan, S., Shapiro, L., Connors, M., Migueles, S.A., Morris, L., Nishimura, Y., Martin, M.A., Mascola, J.R., Kwong, P.D.(2013) Science 340: 751-756
- PubMed: 23661761 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1233989
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
4J6R, 4JB9 - PubMed Abstract: 
Serum characterization and antibody isolation are transforming our understanding of the humoral immune response to viral infection. Here, we show that epitope specificities of HIV-1-neutralizing antibodies in serum can be elucidated from the serum pattern of neutralization against a diverse panel of HIV-1 isolates. We determined "neutralization fingerprints" for 30 neutralizing antibodies on a panel of 34 diverse HIV-1 strains and showed that similarity in neutralization fingerprint correlated with similarity in epitope. We used these fingerprints to delineate specificities of polyclonal sera from 24 HIV-1-infected donors and a chimeric siman-human immunodeficiency virus-infected macaque. Delineated specificities matched published specificities and were further confirmed by antibody isolation for two sera. Patterns of virus-isolate neutralization can thus afford a detailed epitope-specific understanding of neutralizing-antibody responses to viral infection.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.