Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-17-2015
Publication Title
PloS One
Department
Thayer School of Engineering
Abstract
Design of an envelope-based immunogen capable of inducing a broadly neutralizing anti- body response is thought to be key to the development of a protective HIV-1 vaccine. How- ever, the broad diversity of viral variants and a limited ability to produce native envelope have hampered such design efforts. Here we describe adaptation of the yeast display sys- tem and use of a combinatorial protein engineering approach to permit directed evolution of HIV envelope variants. Because the intrinsic instability and complexity of this trimeric glyco- protein has greatly impeded the development of immunogens that properly represent the structure of native envelope, this platform addresses an essential need for methodologies with the capacity to rapidly engineer HIV spike proteins towards improved homogeneity, stability, and presentation of neutralizing epitopes. We report for the first time the display of a designed SOSIP gp140 on yeast, and the in vitro evolution of derivatives with greatly im- proved expression and binding to conformation-dependent antibodies. These efforts repre- sent an initial and critical step toward the ability to rapidly engineer HIV-1 envelope immunogens via directed evolution.
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0117227
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Grimm, Sebastian K.; Battles, Michael B.; and Ackerman, Margaret E., "Directed Evolution of a Yeast-Displayed HIV-1 SOSIP gp140 Spike Protein toward Improved Expression and Affinity for Conformational Antibodies" (2015). Dartmouth Scholarship. 2638.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/2638
