{"doi":"10.1101/2025.05.27.656273","title":"Germline-targeting HIV Envelope SOSIP immunization more frequently elicits broadly-neutralizing antibody precursor responses in infant compared to juvenile rhesus macaques","abstract":"A vaccine capable of inducing broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) is essential for effective prevention against HIV in children and adolescents. Germline-targeting vaccine strategies aim to stimulate bnAb precursor B cells through carefully designed immunogens, such as the stabilized SOSIP trimers, which mimic native HIV envelope (Env) proteins while presenting key neutralizing epitopes to germline B cell receptors. Given the ability of children living with HIV to develop bnAbs earlier and at a higher frequency than adults, we compared the immunogenicity of a CD4 binding site (CD4bs) bnAb germline-targeting SOSIP trimer immunization strategy in infant (n = 5) and juvenile (n = 4) rhesus macaques (RMs). Animals received 3 doses of the germline-targeting BG505 GT1.1 immunogen, followed by 3 boosts of wild-type BG505 SOSIP, each adjuvanted with the TLR7/8 agonist, 3M-052-SE. After 1.5 years, the RMs were further boosted with a mixed clade B Env trimer nanoparticle to enhance heterologous virus neutralization responses. This germline-targeting strategy induced equivalent titers of neutralizing antibodies in both groups of RMs, yet the infants exhibited a higher magnitude of vaccine-specific IgG binding. Notably, after 3 doses of BG505 GT1.1 SOSIP, infants had higher BG505 GT1.1-specific IgD- B cells. Upon completion of the vaccine regimen, 4 of 5 infants developed a CD4bs bnAb precursor response detectable in serum compared to only 1 of 4 juveniles. Finally, administration of the mixed clade B nanoparticle was able to increase the breadth of antibody responses in 3 of 5 infants and 2 of 4 juveniles. These results suggest that immunization in early-life may enhance bnAb induction and highlight the potential for future pediatric HIV-1 vaccine strategies.","journal":"bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)","year":2025,"id":558089,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":1,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9583,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":540989,"name":"Xintao Hu","orcid":"0000-0001-5633-3806","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1173523,"name":"John Isaac","orcid":"0000-0002-5520-0734","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":332540,"name":"Xiaoying Shen","orcid":"0000-0002-8387-3952","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1173907,"name":"Dominique Davis","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":230741,"name":"Gabriel Ozorowski","orcid":"0000-0002-9695-8138","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":277780,"name":"Leigh M. 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