Fig. 1.

Comparison of antibody response against HERV-K (HML-2) recombinant capsid protein (a). Detection of antibodies against recombinant HERV-K (HML-2) capsid protein was performed by ELISA assay for 40 seronegative low risk healthy donors (SNLR) and 80 chronic HIV subjects: 40 elite controllers (EC) and 40 viremic non-controllers (VNC). Individual dots represent the mean of 4 independent experiments. Correlation of capsid specific T cell responses in elite controllers (b). Both specific T cell and antibody responses were assayed by Elispot and ELISA respectively using the recombinant HERV-K (HML-2) protein for 18 elite controllers. Individual dots represent the mean of 4 independent experiments for the ELISA assay. The statistical significance between the different groups was established using a Kruskal–Wallis and Dunn’s Multiple Comparison test for A and a non-parametric Spearman test for B. A p value <0.05 was considered as significant. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001; ****p < 0.0001