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Lecture 28 - HIV vaccine? Flashcards

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How many people are currently infected with HIV?

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35.3 million

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How many people have died due to HIV?

Compare this to other things

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42 million

Many more than world wars combined, Black death, Influenza outbreaks

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How many people have been cured from HIV?

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Berlin patient: seems to have largely cleared the virus

Atlanta baby: also seems to have cleared the virus

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Describe the structure of HIV

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Icosahedral capsid
- cone shaped
Envelope
Glycoproteins
- envelope spikes
Matrix
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What is notable about enveloped viruses?

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Labile in the environment

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Describe the genome of HIV

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Two copies of RNA genome

Covered by nucleocapsid

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What is the CA capsid?

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This is what makes up the icosahedral capsid of HIV

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What proteins does HIV make?

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  1. gag: structural proteins
  2. pol: enzymes (reverse transcriptase etc)
  3. env: glycoproteins
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Describe how HIV replicates

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  1. Surface glycoproteins
  2. Fusion
  3. Uncoating
  4. Reverse transcription
  5. Insertion into host genome
  6. Transcription and translation
  7. Budding
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Which cells does HIV infect?

Why these cells in particular?

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CD4+ T cells

Virus surface proteins bind to CD4 protein

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What is important about RT?

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Reverse transcriptase

Very error prone

One mistake everytime the genome is reverse transcribed

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What does ‘Integrated provirus’ mean?

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It’s genome is inserted into the host genome

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What are the phases of HIV infection?

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  • Primary
  • Clinical latency
  • Symptomatic disease
  • AIDS
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Describe primary infection

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  • Shortly after infection, lasts a few weeks
  • High numbers of circulating virus
  • Rapid loss of CD4+ in blood and lymph nodes
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What happens during clinical latency?

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  • Virus continues to replicate
  • Immune system keeps levels quite low
  • Ongoing decline in CD4+ T cells
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What happens after a number of years of clinical latency?

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  • Very few CD4+ left

* Immune system no longer able to control opportunistic infections

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What are the yellow nodules seen in the gut?

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Healthy Peyer’s patches with lymphocytes

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What happens to the GALT in HIV+ patients?

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  • 60% of T cells in GALT are lost within days
  • Loss of tight junctions
  • Decreased cytokine production

→ increased infection from the GIT

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Describe the immune response to HIV in general

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Initial: After primary infection, the immune response can contain the virus to a certain extent
An equilibrium is reached

Later: HIV escapes immune system

• Immune system depletion

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What allows HIV to eventually avoid the immune response?

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The rapid mutation due to RT
• antibodies can’t recognise new clones
• CD8+ doesn’t recognise either

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Describe what happens once the HIV escapes the immune system

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Loss of T cells

No help for
• B cells
• macrophages

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Describe macrophage activity during HIV infection

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Decreased:
• phagocytosis
• chemotaxis
• removal of pathogens

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What sort of infections occur later on?

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  • Fungal infections

* Sarcomas

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When do people start to feel sick with HIV infection?

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After years of infection

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What factors affect outcome of infection?
Virus Immune response Co-morbidity
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What are the targets of HIV antivirals?
``` Replication cycle: • reverse transcriptase enzyme inhibitors • protease inhibitors • integrase inhibitors • entry inhibitors ```
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What sort of things kills HIV+ people nowadays?
Diseases as a result of chronic immune activation • Liver disease • Non-AIDS Cancers • Heart disease
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What is HAART?
Highly active anti-retroviral therapy Many antivirals given Less chance of resistance Quite expensive
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Describe the efficacy of HAART
With use of HAART, HIV+ people increase their life span dramatically Life expectancy only 10 less than HIV- people
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Describe the goal of UNAIDS
HAART is very expensive, and many people in the third world can't get therapy This organisation aims to treat 15 million people by 2015
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What happens when HAART is stopped?
Virus comes back
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How can we prevent HIV?
- Preventative vaccine - ``` Treatment Microbicides Condoms Pre-exposure prophylaxis Voluntary male circumcision ```
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What are the pros of treatment as opposed to vaccine development?
* direct * short time span * can see the result * tolerate side effects
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What are the issues with vaccine development?
* only see the negative effects * healthy people * indirect * no markers * high risk
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What are the hurdles for an HIV vaccine?
* deplete natural immune response * huge diversity * avoids antibody neutralisation * avoids NK responses * avoids T lymphocyte responses * latency
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Compare the diversity of HIV with influenza
More diversity in one HIV patient that influenza all over the world
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What would the ideal HIV vaccine be?
* prevents transmission * safe, minimal reactions * single dose * long lasting * cheap * stable * theraputic
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What immune responses do we want?
• strong T cell responses → CTL kill infected cells • broad neutralising antibody responses
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What does neutralising antibody target in HIV?
Envelope proteins, structured trimers
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What was in the first HIV vaccine? | What types of vaccine were they?
Envelope protein subunit Virus like particles Whole inactivated virus
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What was the STEP trial?
Initially: Strong CD8+ and CD4+ responses Later in phase III: • higher rates of infection in vaccine group • increased viral load
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What is in the current HIV vaccine?
Live attenuated virus
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What are the stages in vaccine development?
Phase I Phase II Phase III More and more volunteers in each phase
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Describe what happened to the B clade vaccine
Didn't get past phase I Because there was poor CD8+ and CD4+ responses
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Describe RV144 vaccine
Low expectations However, 31% efficacy • lower rates of infection • some prevention of transmission
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What did RV 144 tell us about protection from infection?
Protection greatest when treated early in low risk patients
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What should we focus on while we still don't have a vaccine?
* Minimise transmission * Microbicides * Antiretroviral therapy
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Describe the characteristic of broad neutralising antibodies
* Many mutations * Long loop to access the epitopes on HIV surface spikes * self-reactive
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Describe the efficacy of male circumcision against HIV?
More effective than the most effective vaccine to date No used in Africa
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What is viral load?
The amount of virus in an involved body fluid | A measure of severity
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What is the implication on B cell activity due to CD4+ depletion?
* general increase in antibody * auto-antibody * poor response to vaccines * reduced killing of encapsulated bacteria
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Which cells of the immune system have reduced function due to HIV infection?
* Neutrophils * Phagocytes * Natural Killer cells * T cells * B cells
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Describe the effects of increased immune activation
Leads to other diseases: • cariovascular disease • liver disease • non-AIDS cancers
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Describe which proteins were used in the 'dead protein' vaccines.
gp120 (which is highly glycosylated)
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What is the most successful mechanism of preventing transmission to date? Why?
HAART • reduces viral load • reduced inoculum in the community "Treatment as Prevention"
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Why is it beneficial that bnAb are self-reactive?
HIV is an 'evolution machine', and has many anitgens that resemble self-antigens. These antibodies thus recognise these self-antigens on HIV

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