Effects of anti-gp120 monoclonal antibodies on CD4 receptor binding by the env protein of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 - PubMed (original) (raw)

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Effects of anti-gp120 monoclonal antibodies on CD4 receptor binding by the env protein of human immunodeficiency virus type 1

P S Linsley et al. J Virol. 1988 Oct.

Abstract

Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to defined peptide epitopes on gp120 from human immunodeficiency virus type 1 were used to investigate the involvement of their epitopes in gp120 binding to the CD4 receptor. Recombinant vaccinia viruses were constructed that expressed either full-length gp120 (v-ED6), or a truncated gp120 lacking 44 amino acids at the carboxyl terminus (v-ED4). Binding of these glycoproteins to the CD4 receptor was detected directly with metabolically labeled gp120 or indirectly with the gp120 MAbs. Truncated gp120 from v-ED4 bound to CD4-positive cells less than 1/12 as well as gp120 from v-ED6, indicating that the C-terminal region of gp120, which is conserved in numerous isolates of human immunodeficiency virus type 1, is critical for CD4 binding. However, MAb 110-1, which recognizes a peptide contained in the region deleted from v-ED4 (amino acids 489 through 511), did not inhibit binding of gp120 to CD4. MAb 110-1 also reacted with gp120 bound to the CD4 receptor, indicating that the epitope for this antibody does not directly interact with CD4. A second MAb, 110-4, which recognizes a peptide epitope located between amino acids 303 and 323 and has potent viral neutralizing activity, also bound to gp120 on the CD4 receptor. Furthermore, pretreatment of gp120 with MAb 110-4 at concentrations approximately 1,000-fold higher than those required for complete virus neutralization inhibited subsequent CD4 binding by only about 65%. Taken together, these data suggest that neutralization mediated by antibody 110-4 does not result from binding of this MAb to the CD4-binding site of gp120.

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