Grace E. Mantus, Gabriele Cerutti, Michael Chambers, Rebecca A. Gillespie, Geoffrey D. Shimberg, Abby Spangler, Jason Gorman, Tongqing Zhou, Chen-Hsiang Shen, Masaru Kanekiyo, Peter D. Kwong, Lawrence Shapiro, Sarah F. Andrews
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Abstract
Elicitation of antibodies to the influenza hemagglutinin stem is a critical part of universal influenza vaccine strategies. While numerous broadly reactive stem antibodies have been isolated, our understanding of how these antibodies mature within the human B cell repertoire is limited. Here, we isolated and tracked two stem-specific antibody lineages over a decade in a single participant that received multiple seasonal and pandemic influenza vaccinations. Despite similar binding and neutralization profiles, antibodies from these lineages utilized fundamentally different interactions to engage the central epitope on the influenza stem. Structural analysis of an unmutated common ancestor from one lineage identified critical residues that were the main drivers of increased affinity and breadth to group 1 influenza subtypes. These observations demonstrate the heterogeneous pathways by which stem-specific antibodies can mature within the human B cell repertoire.
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Structure aims to publish papers of exceptional interest in the field of structural biology. The journal strives to be essential reading for structural biologists, as well as biologists and biochemists that are interested in macromolecular structure and function. Structure strongly encourages the submission of manuscripts that present structural and molecular insights into biological function and mechanism. Other reports that address fundamental questions in structural biology, such as structure-based examinations of protein evolution, folding, and/or design, will also be considered. We will consider the application of any method, experimental or computational, at high or low resolution, to conduct structural investigations, as long as the method is appropriate for the biological, functional, and mechanistic question(s) being addressed. Likewise, reports describing single-molecule analysis of biological mechanisms are welcome.
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