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Acknowledgments We would like to thank Drs. Jun Ninomiya-Tsuji and Kunihiro Matsumoto for providing Flag-tagged human TRAF6 CMV-based expression vector and Dr. Toshihisa Komori for 6×OSE2-luc+ reporter vector. This study was supported by Grants-in-Aid from the MEXT, MHLW, and AMED of Japan.
Introduction While progress in the treatment and prevention of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the past decade has resulted in significant reductions in the number of HIV-related deaths and new infections especially among infants, most authorities acknowledge that long term effective control will require the development of an effective HIV vaccine (Corey et al., 2011; Fauci and Marston, 2014). The promise of an HIV-1 vaccine received an important boost with the finding of partial efficacy in the RV144 trial (Rerks-Ngarm et al., 2009). The initial results of this moderately effective pox-protein prime-boost strategy were met with considerable skepticism. However, additional investigations evaluating correlates of protection have shown persons with enhanced responses to several HIV-1 peptides or immunogens exhibit 58–75% efficacy (Rolland et al., 2012; Gartland et al., 2014; Li et al., 2014; Yates et al., 2014). Antibody responses to such proteins and peptides tend to be clade specific. As such, most candidate HIV vaccine regimens now entering efficacy trials are mainly based upon a single clade design. While expanding the breadth of vaccine responses by designing a more universal immunogen is under investigation; these approaches are primarily focused on expanding the T-cell rather than B-cell responses (Santra et al., 2010; Borthwick et al., 2014).Antibody responses to circulating strains of viruses in a population with such approaches still vary considerably by clade and strain and most immune correlates associated with HIV acquisition are antibody related (Tomaras et al., 2013; Gottardo et al., 2013; Haynes et al., 2012).