HIV-1 vaccine design through minimizing envelope metastability.
He, L., Kumar, S., Allen, J.D., Huang, D., Lin, X., Mann, C.J., Saye-Francisco, K.L., Copps, J., Sarkar, A., Blizard, G.S., Ozorowski, G., Sok, D., Crispin, M., Ward, A.B., Nemazee, D., Burton, D.R., Wilson, I.A., Zhu, J.(2018) Sci Adv 4: eaau6769-eaau6769
- PubMed: 30474059 
- DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau6769
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
6CE0 - PubMed Abstract: 
Overcoming envelope metastability is crucial to trimer-based HIV-1 vaccine design. Here, we present a coherent vaccine strategy by minimizing metastability. For 10 strains across five clades, we demonstrate that the gp41 ectodomain (gp41 ECTO ) is the main source of envelope metastability by replacing wild-type gp41 ECTO with BG505 gp41 ECTO of the uncleaved prefusion-optimized (UFO) design ...