“…Due to the structural insights gained thus far, it appears that immunogen design strategies that target V3 need to take into account V3 structure and not simply focus on sequence. Design strategies include stabilization of V3 peptides on protein scaffolds or chimeras [34,79,109,162,313], conformationally constraining V3 via mutagenesis or chemically [13,14,28,118,122,277,278,336,337], conjugation of V3 peptides to foreign or carrier proteins [59,64,65,154], and identifying V3 variants or consensus sequences representative of potential V3 structures [93,94,138,206,325].…”