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Journal of Virology, November 2000, p. 10025-10033, Vol. 74, No. 21
Veterans Affairs Medical Center and New York
University School of Medicine, New York, New
York1; St. Louis University, St.
Louis, Missouri2; Chiron Corporation,
Emeryville, California3; and Aventis
Pasteur, Campus Merieux, Marcy L'Etoile, France4
Received 3 May 2000/Accepted 21 July 2000
A human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) vaccine that will be useful in
diverse geographic regions will need to induce a broad immune response
characterized by cross-clade immunity. To test whether a clade B-based
HIV candidate vaccine could induce interclade humoral responses,
including neutralizing activity against primary HIV-1 isolates, sera
were tested from recipients of a vaccine consisting of recombinant
canarypox virus vCP205 and recombinant gp120SF2. Serum
antibodies exhibited strong immunochemical cross-reactivity with V3
peptides from clades B, C, and F, with weaker activity for several V3
peptides from clades A, D, G, and H; essentially no reactivity could be
demonstrated with V3 peptides from clades E and O. Extensive
cross-clade reactivity was also documented by enzyme-linked
immunosorbent assay with all nine recombinant HIV envelope
glycoproteins tested from clades B, D, and E. In addition, vaccinees'
sera displayed significant neutralizing activity against 5 of 14 primary isolates tested, including one X4 virus and two dualtropic
viruses (from clade B) and two R5 viruses (from clades B and C). This
is the first demonstration of the induction by a candidate HIV vaccine
constructed from clade B laboratory strains of HIV of neutralizing
activity against R5 and clade C primary isolates. The data suggest
that, by virtue of their ability to induce cross-clade immune
responses, appropriately formulated HIV vaccines based on a finite
number of HIV isolates may ultimately be able to protect against the
wide range of HIV isolates affecting the populations of many geographic regions.
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A Human Immunodeficiency Virus Prime-Boost
Immunization Regimen in Humans Induces Antibodies That Show Interclade
Cross-Reactivity and Neutralize Several X4-, R5-, and Dualtropic Clade
B and C Primary Isolates

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Corresponding author. Mailing address: c/o VA Medical
Center (Room 18124N), 423 E. 23rd St., New York, NY 10010. Phone: (212) 951-3211. Fax: (212) 951-6321. E-mail:
zollas01{at}popmail.med.nyu.edu.
Present address: Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Rockville, Md.
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