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Review
. 2005;14(3-4):59-67.

Antibody polyspecificity and neutralization of HIV-1: a hypothesis

Barton F Haynes  1 , M Anthony Moody, Laurent Verkoczy, Garnett Kelsoe, S Munir Alam
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Antibody polyspecificity and neutralization of HIV-1: a hypothesis

Barton F Haynes et al. Hum Antibodies. 2005.

Abstract

HIV-1 has evolved many ways to evade protective host immune responses, thus creating a number of problems for HIV vaccine developers. In particular, durable, broadly specific neutralizing antibodies to HIV-1 have proved difficult to induce with current HIV-1 vaccine candidates. The recent observation that some broadly neutralizing anti-HIV-1 envelope monoclonal antibodies have polyspecific reactivities to host antigens have raised the hypothesis that one reason antibodies against some of the conserved HIV-1 envelope trimer neutralizing epitopes are not routinely made may be down-regulation of some specificities of anti-HIV-1 antibody producing B cells by host B cell tolerance mechanisms.

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