Extended Data Fig. 5: Layout and timeline of experiments for the pregnant females in Groups A–C and their offspring in Groups 7–11. | Nature

Extended Data Fig. 5: Layout and timeline of experiments for the pregnant females in Groups A–C and their offspring in Groups 7–11.

From: Determinants of successful AAV-vectored delivery of HIV-1 bNAbs in early life

Extended Data Fig. 5

Sixteen pregnant female rhesus macaques at similar gestational stages were selected on the basis of having little or no serum reactivity to AAV-8 by ELISA. These animals were then divided into three groups depending on whether they were treated with recombinant forms of rh-3BNC117-IgG1. The Group A dams (n = 8) received no bNAb infusion and underwent cesarean (c)-section when their pregnancies reached term at gestational week 24. The only exceptions were dams rhA-1 and rhA-3, which delivered their babies vaginally ahead of schedule. The dams in Groups B and C (n = 4 each) were treated intravenously with 30 mg/kg of recombinant rh-3BNC117-IgG1-LS or rh-3BNC117-IgG1, respectively, at gestational week 22 and then underwent c-section two weeks later. The offspring of the dams in Groups A-C were transferred to the nursery after birth and then assigned to Groups 7–11. The infants in Groups 7–11 were treated intramuscularly (IM) with 2.0 × 1012 genome copies ml–1 of an AAV-8/rh-3BNC117-IgG1-LS vector at postnatal weeks 4, 8, or 12, as depicted.

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