Abstract
Background Successful vaccines (e.g. tetanus) can induce long-lived antibody levels that are maintained by long-lived plasma cells and do not correlate with numbers of blood memory B-cells. Early events during HIV-1 acute infection may impair the timely onset of neutralizing antibody responses. Thus, an effective HIV-1 vaccine should elicit high levels of durable antibodies by long-lived plasma cells. We asked if HIV-1 envelope-specific memory responses are sustained by memory B-cells in the settings of HIV-1 gp120 envelope vaccination and chronic HIV-1 infection (CHI).
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Open AccessHIV-1 envelope induces memory B cell responses that correlate with plasma antibody levels after gp120 protein vaccination or chronic HIV-1 infection
Successful vaccines can induce long-lived antibody levels that are maintained by long-lived plasma cells and do not correlate with numbers of blood memory B-cells
HIV-1 envelope induces memory B cell responses that correlate with plasma antibody levels after gp120 protein vaccination or chronic HIV-1 infection
Summary
HIV-1 envelope induces memory B cell responses that correlate with plasma antibody levels after gp120 protein vaccination or chronic HIV-1 infection. Address: 1Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center – Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Durham, NC, USA, 2Duke University Medical Center – Department of Immunology, Durham, USA and 3Duke University Medical Center – Department of Medicine, Durham, USA. Published: 22 October 2009 Retrovirology 2009, 6(Suppl 3):P76 doi:10.1186/1742-4690-6-S3-P76. AIDS Vaccine 2009 Anna Laura Ross Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2105-10-S12-info.pdf
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