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2004 FEB 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have identified a broadly cross-reactive HIV-neutralizing human monoclonal antibody Fab by sequential antigen panning of a phage display library.
"Identification of broadly cross-reactive human monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) has major implications for development of vaccines, inhibitors, and research tools. Here we describe a sequential antigen panning (SAP) methodology that may facilitate the selection of such antibodies. An HIV-specific antibody Fab (m18) was selected from a human Fab phage-display library by SAP against several recombinant soluble HIV envelope glycoproteins (Envs) and Env-sCD4 complexes," scientists in the United States report.
"This Fab bound to a variety of recombinant soluble Envs (gp140s) from primary HIV isolates representing different clades, and inhibited cell fusion and virus entry mediated by Envs of primary HIV isolates," stated Dimiter S. Dimitrov at the National Cancer Institute and collaborators in the United States. "The methodology and the results may have implications for development of HIV vaccines and inhibitors, as well ...