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    Fab-dimerized glycan-reactive antibodies are a structural category of natural antibodies.
    (Cell, 2021-05-18) Williams, Wilton B; Meyerhoff, R Ryan; Edwards, RJ; Li, Hui; Manne, Kartik; Nicely, Nathan I; Henderson, Rory; Zhou, Ye; Janowska, Katarzyna; Mansouri, Katayoun; Gobeil, Sophie; Evangelous, Tyler; Hora, Bhavna; Berry, Madison; Abuahmad, A Yousef; Sprenz, Jordan; Deyton, Margaret; Stalls, Victoria; Kopp, Megan; Hsu, Allen L; Borgnia, Mario J; Stewart-Jones, Guillaume BE; Lee, Matthew S; Bronkema, Naomi; Moody, M Anthony; Wiehe, Kevin; Bradley, Todd; Alam, S Munir; Parks, Robert J; Foulger, Andrew; Oguin, Thomas; Sempowski, Gregory D; Bonsignori, Mattia; LaBranche, Celia C; Montefiori, David C; Seaman, Michael; Santra, Sampa; Perfect, John; Francica, Joseph R; Lynn, Geoffrey M; Aussedat, Baptiste; Walkowicz, William E; Laga, Richard; Kelsoe, Garnett; Saunders, Kevin O; Fera, Daniela; Kwong, Peter D; Seder, Robert A; Bartesaghi, Alberto; Shaw, George M; Acharya, Priyamvada; Haynes, Barton F
    Natural antibodies (Abs) can target host glycans on the surface of pathogens. We studied the evolution of glycan-reactive B cells of rhesus macaques and humans using glycosylated HIV-1 envelope (Env) as a model antigen. 2G12 is a broadly neutralizing Ab (bnAb) that targets a conserved glycan patch on Env of geographically diverse HIV-1 strains using a unique heavy-chain (VH) domain-swapped architecture that results in fragment antigen-binding (Fab) dimerization. Here, we describe HIV-1 Env Fab-dimerized glycan (FDG)-reactive bnAbs without VH-swapped domains from simian-human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV)-infected macaques. FDG Abs also recognized cell-surface glycans on diverse pathogens, including yeast and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike. FDG precursors were expanded by glycan-bearing immunogens in macaques and were abundant in HIV-1-naive humans. Moreover, FDG precursors were predominately mutated IgM+IgD+CD27+, thus suggesting that they originated from a pool of antigen-experienced IgM+ or marginal zone B cells.
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    Initiation of HIV neutralizing B cell lineages with sequential envelope immunizations.
    (Nature communications, 2017-11-23) Williams, Wilton B; Zhang, Jinsong; Jiang, Chuancang; Nicely, Nathan I; Fera, Daniela; Luo, Kan; Moody, M Anthony; Liao, Hua-Xin; Alam, S Munir; Kepler, Thomas B; Ramesh, Akshaya; Wiehe, Kevin; Holland, James A; Bradley, Todd; Vandergrift, Nathan; Saunders, Kevin O; Parks, Robert; Foulger, Andrew; Xia, Shi-Mao; Bonsignori, Mattia; Montefiori, David C; Louder, Mark; Eaton, Amanda; Santra, Sampa; Scearce, Richard; Sutherland, Laura; Newman, Amanda; Bouton-Verville, Hilary; Bowman, Cindy; Bomze, Howard; Gao, Feng; Marshall, Dawn J; Whitesides, John F; Nie, Xiaoyan; Kelsoe, Garnett; Reed, Steven G; Fox, Christopher B; Clary, Kim; Koutsoukos, Marguerite; Franco, David; Mascola, John R; Harrison, Stephen C; Haynes, Barton F; Verkoczy, Laurent
    A strategy for HIV-1 vaccine development is to define envelope (Env) evolution of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) in infection and to recreate those events by vaccination. Here, we report host tolerance mechanisms that limit the development of CD4-binding site (CD4bs), HCDR3-binder bnAbs via sequential HIV-1 Env vaccination. Vaccine-induced macaque CD4bs antibodies neutralize 7% of HIV-1 strains, recognize open Env trimers, and accumulate relatively modest somatic mutations. In naive CD4bs, unmutated common ancestor knock-in mice Env+B cell clones develop anergy and partial deletion at the transitional to mature B cell stage, but become Env- upon receptor editing. In comparison with repetitive Env immunizations, sequential Env administration rescue anergic Env+ (non-edited) precursor B cells. Thus, stepwise immunization initiates CD4bs-bnAb responses, but immune tolerance mechanisms restrict their development, suggesting that sequential immunogen-based vaccine regimens will likely need to incorporate strategies to expand bnAb precursor pools.