Hepatitis C Virus–Escape Studies for Human Monoclonal Antibody AR4A Reveal Isolate-Specific Resistance and a High Barrier to Resistance
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Hepatitis C Virus–Escape Studies for Human Monoclonal Antibody AR4A Reveal Isolate-Specific Resistance and a High Barrier to Resistance. / Velázquez-moctezuma, Rodrigo; Galli, Andrea; Law, Mansun; Bukh, Jens; Prentoe, Jannick.
In: The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 219, No. 1, 2019, p. 68-79.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Hepatitis C Virus–Escape Studies for Human Monoclonal Antibody AR4A Reveal Isolate-Specific Resistance and a High Barrier to Resistance
AU - Velázquez-moctezuma, Rodrigo
AU - Galli, Andrea
AU - Law, Mansun
AU - Bukh, Jens
AU - Prentoe, Jannick
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Global control of hepatitis C virus (HCV) depends on development of a prophylactic vaccine. We studied escape for cross-genotype-reactive neutralizing antibody AR4A, providing valuable information for HCV vaccine design. We cultured HCV Core-NS2 recombinants H77(genotype 1a)/JFH1 or the highly-antibody-sensitive hypervariable region 1 (HVR1)-deleted variants H77/JFH1∆HVR1 and J6(genotype 2a)/JFH1∆HVR1 in Huh7.5 cells with AR4A. Long-term AR4A exposure of H77/JFH1 and H77/JFH1∆HVR1 did not yield resistance. However, J6/JFH1∆HVR1 developed the envelope-E2 substitutions I696T or I696N, which reduced AR4A binding (I696N>I696T). I696N conferred greater AR4A-resistance than I696T in J6/JFH1∆HVR1, whereas the reverse was observed in J6/JFH1. This was because I696N, but not I696T, conferred broadly increased antibody neutralization sensitivity to J6/JFH1. I696N and I696T abrogated infectivity of H77/JFH1 and broadly increased neutralization sensitivity of S52(genotype 3a)/JFH1. In conclusion, I696 is in the AR4A epitope, which has a high barrier to resistance, thus strengthening the rationale for its inclusion in rational HCV vaccine designs.
AB - Global control of hepatitis C virus (HCV) depends on development of a prophylactic vaccine. We studied escape for cross-genotype-reactive neutralizing antibody AR4A, providing valuable information for HCV vaccine design. We cultured HCV Core-NS2 recombinants H77(genotype 1a)/JFH1 or the highly-antibody-sensitive hypervariable region 1 (HVR1)-deleted variants H77/JFH1∆HVR1 and J6(genotype 2a)/JFH1∆HVR1 in Huh7.5 cells with AR4A. Long-term AR4A exposure of H77/JFH1 and H77/JFH1∆HVR1 did not yield resistance. However, J6/JFH1∆HVR1 developed the envelope-E2 substitutions I696T or I696N, which reduced AR4A binding (I696N>I696T). I696N conferred greater AR4A-resistance than I696T in J6/JFH1∆HVR1, whereas the reverse was observed in J6/JFH1. This was because I696N, but not I696T, conferred broadly increased antibody neutralization sensitivity to J6/JFH1. I696N and I696T abrogated infectivity of H77/JFH1 and broadly increased neutralization sensitivity of S52(genotype 3a)/JFH1. In conclusion, I696 is in the AR4A epitope, which has a high barrier to resistance, thus strengthening the rationale for its inclusion in rational HCV vaccine designs.
U2 - 10.1093/infdis/jiy481
DO - 10.1093/infdis/jiy481
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 30102355
VL - 219
SP - 68
EP - 79
JO - Journal of Infectious Diseases
JF - Journal of Infectious Diseases
SN - 0022-1899
IS - 1
ER -
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