On the Irrationality of Rational Design of an HIV Vaccine in Light of Protein Intrinsic Disorder
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2021
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-021-04984-5
Abstract
The lack of progress in finding an efficient vaccine for a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is daunting. In fact, this search has spanned nearly four decades without much success. There are several objective reasons for such a failure, which include the highly glycosylated nature of HIV-1, the presence of neotopes, and high mutation rates. This article argues that the presence of highly flexible and intrinsically disordered regions in both human anti-HIV-1 antibodies and the major HIV-1immunogen, its surface glycoprotein gp120, represent one of the major causes for the lack of success in utilization of structure-based reverse vaccinology.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Archives of Virology, v. 166, p. 1283-1296
Scholar Commons Citation
Uversky, Vladimir N., "On the Irrationality of Rational Design of an HIV Vaccine in Light of Protein Intrinsic Disorder" (2021). Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications. 192.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/mme_facpub/192
