The first such structure of a CD1 molecule with a microbial antigen bound. It is also the first time the structure of a lipopeptide that is presented to the immune system has been solved

“This antibody is very broadly active,” says Scripps Research Professor Dennis Burton, who led the research with Scripps Research Professor Ian Wilson. “It neutralized nearly 100 different viral strains of HIV from all over the world. [During tests in the laboratory], every one of them was neutralized.”