Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER
Volume 142, Issue 7, Pages 1467-1479Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.31166
Keywords
female reproductive tract; tissue resident memory; human papillomavirus; neoplasia; vaccine; CD8; CD4; adenovirus; E6; E7
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- NIH Intramural Program
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [ZIABC010579] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Recent advances in immunotherapy against cancer underscore the importance of T lymphocytes and tumor microenvironment, but few vaccines targeting cancer have been approved likely due in part to the dearth of common tumor antigens, insufficient immunogenicity and the evolution of immune evasion mechanisms during the progression to malignancy. Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are the primary etiologic agents of cervical cancer and progression from persistent HPV-infection to cervical intraepithelial lesions and eventually cancer requires persistent expression of the oncoproteins E6 and E7. This offers the opportunity to specifically target these virus-specific antigens for vaccine-induced clearance of infected cells before cancers develop. Here we have evaluated the immunogenicity of Adenovirus Types 26 and 35 derived vectors expressing a fusion of HPV16 E6 and E7 oncoproteins after intramuscular (IM) and/or intravaginal (Ivag) immunization in mice. The adenovirus vectors were shown to transduce an intact cervicovaginal epithelium. IM prime followed by Ivag boost maximized the induction and trafficking of HPV-specific CD8(+) T cells producing IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha to the cervicovaginal tract. Importantly, the cervicovaginal CD8(+) T cells expressed CD69 and CD103; hallmarks of intraepithelial tissue-resident memory CD8(+) T cells. This prime-boost strategy targeting heterologous locations also induced circulating HPV-specific CD8(+) T cell responses. Our study prompts further evaluation of Ivag immunization with adenoviral vectors expressing modified E6 and E7 antigens for therapeutic vaccination against persistent HPV infection and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.
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