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Simmons HC, Finney J, Kotaki R, Adachi Y, Moseman. A protective and broadly binding antibody class engages the influenza virus hemagglutinin head at its stem interface. mBio. 2025 May 20:e0089225
submited by kickingbird at May, 21, 2025 9:54 AM from mBio. 2025 May 20:e0089225

Influenza infection and vaccination impart strain-specific immunity that protects against neither seasonal antigenic variants nor the next pandemic. However, antibodies directed to conserved sites can confer broad protection. Here, we identify and characterize a class of human antibodies that engage a previously undescribed, conserved epitope on the influenza hemagglutinin (HA) protein. Prototype antibody S8V1-157 binds at the normally occluded interface between the HA head and stem. Antibodies to this HA head-stem interface epitope are non-neutralizing in vitro but protect against lethal influenza infection in mice. These antibodies bind to most influenza A subtypes and seasonal human variants, and are present at low frequencies in the memory B cell populations of multiple human donors. Vaccines designed to elicit these antibodies might contribute to "universal" influenza immunity.

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