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ArticleScientific reports2017

Conformational Heterogeneity of the HIV Envelope Glycan Shield.

Mingjun Yang, Jing Huang, Raphael Simon, Lai-Xi Wang, Alexander D MacKerell

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Glycans in Virus-Host Interactions: A Structural Perspective.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2021
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  15. Visualization of the HIV-1 Env glycan shield across scales.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  17. Beyond Shielding: The Roles of Glycans in SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mingjun YangUniversity of Maryland Computer-Aided Drug Design Center, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Jing HuangUniversity of Maryland Computer-Aided Drug Design Center, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9639-2907
Raphael SimonCenter for Vaccine Development, Institute for Global Health, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Lai-Xi WangDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, 8051 Regents Drive, Room, 3500, College Park, Maryland, USA.
Alexander D MacKerellUniversity of Maryland Computer-Aided Drug Design Center, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. amackerell@rx.umaryland.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4290-182X
University of Maryland, Baltimore · USUniversity of Maryland, College Park · US

Funding

Carbohydrate force fields for structure, dynamics and molecular recognitionR01GM070855 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI MACKERELL, ALEXANDER D · 2005 to 2018
$3.5M
Synthetic HIV Vaccine Targeting Glycopeptide Neutralizing EpitopesR01AI113896 · NIAID · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI WANG, LAI-XI · 2014 to 2018
$2.3M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI113896NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM070855
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To better understand the conformational properties of the glycan shield covering the surface of the HIV gp120/gp41 envelope (Env) trimer, and how the glycan shield impacts the accessibility of the underlying protein surface, we performed enhanced sampling molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of a model glycosylated HIV Env protein and related systems. Our simulation studies revealed a conformationally heterogeneous glycan shield with a network of glycan-glycan interactions more extensive than those observed to date. We found that partial preorganization of the glycans potentially favors binding by established broadly neutralizing antibodies; omission of several specific glycans could increase the accessibility of other glycans or regions of the protein surface to antibody or CD4 receptor binding; the number of glycans that can potentially interact with known antibodies is larger than that observed in experimental studies; and specific glycan conformations can maximize or minimize interactions with individual antibodies. More broadly, the enhanced sampling MD simulations described here provide a valuable tool to guide the engineering of specific Env glycoforms for HIV vaccine design.

Indexed as

Molecular ConformationMolecular Dynamics SimulationCD4 Antigensenv Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency VirusEpitopesGlycosylationHIV AntibodiesHIV Envelope Protein gp120HumansPolysaccharidesProtein BindingStructure-Activity RelationshipCD4 Antigensenv Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency VirusEpitopesHIV AntibodiesHIV Envelope Protein gp120Polysaccharides

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PMID28667249
PMCPMC5493700
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