Elicitation of broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV-1 – the germline/maturation hypothesis
We have previously observed that all known broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV-1 are highly divergent from their putative germline predecessors in contrast to bnAbs against henipaviruses and SARS coronavirus, which are much less divergent from their germline counterparts. We have hyp...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-08-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Immunology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fimmu.2014.00398/full |