USE OF MODIFIED HIV-1 FOR GENERATING FULLY HUMAN ANTIBODIES

摘要

The present invention provides highly efficient methods, and compositions related thereto, for generating high titer human antibodies or antibody fragments thereof in a mammalian subject. The methods comprise administering a virus or virus-like particle to a mammal comprising heterologous immune cells and isolating a population of immunoglobulin-producing cells from the mammal, thereby producing the antibodies or antibody fragments thereof.