Figure 5. Statistical correlation of HIV-2 neutralization titers with kinetic and thermodynamic properties.
A. ID50 values of HIV-2 neutralization by rabbit immune sera, performed in the absence and presence of sCD4. The statistical significance (p value) of the increase in HIV-2-neutralization titer (in the presence of sCD4) with the increase in the number of stabilizing cysteines (2CC, 3CC, 4CC) was analyzed by Mann-Whitney test. B. Linear regression analysis showing correlations of HIV-2-neutralization titer with kinetic and thermodynamic parameters. Left, with reciprocal of affinity (1/kD); middle, with reciprocal of the association rate constant (1/ka); right, with the percent of epitope stabilization, as measured from the entropy change (−TΔS) relative to that of coreV3S.
