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Landscapes of binding antibody and T-cell responses to pox-protein HIV vaccines in Thais and South Africans.

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Zhao, LP; Fiore-Gartland, A; Carpp, LN; Cohen, KW; Rouphael, N; Fleurs, L; Dintwe, O; Zhao, M; Moodie, Z; Fong, Y; Garrett, N; Huang, Y ...
Published in: PLoS One
2020

BACKGROUND: HIV vaccine trials routinely measure multiple vaccine-elicited immune responses to compare regimens and study their potential associations with protection. Here we employ unsupervised learning tools facilitated by a bidirectional power transformation to explore the multivariate binding antibody and T-cell response patterns of immune responses elicited by two pox-protein HIV vaccine regimens. Both regimens utilized a recombinant canarypox vector (ALVAC-HIV) prime and a bivalent recombinant HIV-1 Envelope glycoprotein 120 subunit boost. We hypothesized that within each trial, there were participant subgroups sharing similar immune responses and that their frequencies differed across trials. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We analyzed data from three trials-RV144 (NCT00223080), HVTN 097 (NCT02109354), and HVTN 100 (NCT02404311), the latter of which was pivotal in advancing the tested pox-protein HIV vaccine regimen to the HVTN 702 Phase 2b/3 efficacy trial. We found that bivariate CD4+ T-cell and anti-V1V2 IgG/IgG3 antibody response patterns were similar by age, sex-at-birth, and body mass index, but differed for the pox-protein clade AE/B alum-adjuvanted regimen studied in RV144 and HVTN 097 (PAE/B/alum) compared to the pox-protein clade C/C MF59-adjuvanted regimen studied in HVTN 100 (PC/MF59). Specifically, more PAE/B/alum recipients had low CD4+ T-cell and high anti-V1V2 IgG/IgG3 responses, and more PC/MF59 recipients had broad responses of both types. Analyses limited to "vaccine-matched" antigens suggested that some of the differences in responses between the regimens could have been due to antigens in the assays that did not match the vaccine immunogens. Our approach was also useful in identifying subgroups with unusually absent or high co-responses across assay types, flagging individuals for further characterization by functional assays. We also found that co-responses of anti-V1V2 IgG/IgG3 and CD4+ T cells had broad variability. As additional immune response assays are standardized and validated, we anticipate our framework will be increasingly valuable for multivariate analysis. CONCLUSIONS: Our approach can be used to advance vaccine development objectives, including the characterization and comparison of candidate vaccine multivariate immune responses and improved design of studies to identify correlates of protection. For instance, results suggested that HVTN 702 will have adequate power to interrogate immune correlates involving anti-V1V2 IgG/IgG3 and CD4+ T-cell co-readouts, but will have lower power to study anti-gp120/gp140 IgG/IgG3 due to their lower dynamic ranges. The findings also generate hypotheses for future testing in experimental and computational analyses aimed at achieving a mechanistic understanding of vaccine-elicited immune response heterogeneity.

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PLoS One

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1932-6203

Publication Date

2020

Volume

15

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1

Start / End Page

e0226803

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Young Adult
  • Thailand
  • South Africa
  • Male
  • Humans
  • HIV-1
  • HIV Infections
  • HIV Antigens
  • HIV Antibodies
  • General Science & Technology
 

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Zhao, L. P., Fiore-Gartland, A., Carpp, L. N., Cohen, K. W., Rouphael, N., Fleurs, L., … Gilbert, P. B. (2020). Landscapes of binding antibody and T-cell responses to pox-protein HIV vaccines in Thais and South Africans. PLoS One, 15(1), e0226803. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226803
Zhao, Lue Ping, Andrew Fiore-Gartland, Lindsay N. Carpp, Kristen W. Cohen, Nadine Rouphael, Llewellyn Fleurs, One Dintwe, et al. “Landscapes of binding antibody and T-cell responses to pox-protein HIV vaccines in Thais and South Africans.PLoS One 15, no. 1 (2020): e0226803. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226803.
Zhao LP, Fiore-Gartland A, Carpp LN, Cohen KW, Rouphael N, Fleurs L, et al. Landscapes of binding antibody and T-cell responses to pox-protein HIV vaccines in Thais and South Africans. PLoS One. 2020;15(1):e0226803.
Zhao, Lue Ping, et al. “Landscapes of binding antibody and T-cell responses to pox-protein HIV vaccines in Thais and South Africans.PLoS One, vol. 15, no. 1, 2020, p. e0226803. Pubmed, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0226803.
Zhao LP, Fiore-Gartland A, Carpp LN, Cohen KW, Rouphael N, Fleurs L, Dintwe O, Zhao M, Moodie Z, Fong Y, Garrett N, Huang Y, Innes C, Janes HE, Lazarus E, Michael NL, Nitayaphan S, Pitisuttithum P, Rerks-Ngarm S, Robb ML, De Rosa SC, Corey L, Gray GE, Seaton KE, Yates NL, McElrath MJ, Frahm N, Tomaras GD, Gilbert PB. Landscapes of binding antibody and T-cell responses to pox-protein HIV vaccines in Thais and South Africans. PLoS One. 2020;15(1):e0226803.

Published In

PLoS One

DOI

EISSN

1932-6203

Publication Date

2020

Volume

15

Issue

1

Start / End Page

e0226803

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Young Adult
  • Thailand
  • South Africa
  • Male
  • Humans
  • HIV-1
  • HIV Infections
  • HIV Antigens
  • HIV Antibodies
  • General Science & Technology