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VACCINE
Volume 23, Issue 7, Pages 963-974Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2004.03.072
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DNA vaccine; HIV gp120; Th1/Th2 cell
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Like most DNA vaccines, intramuscular immunization with plasmid DNA coding for influenza virus haemagglutinin (HApDNA) induced Th1 responses and IgG2a antibodies in mice. However, plasmid DNA coding for HIV gp 120 (gp120pDNA) induced Th2-biased responses and predominantly IgG1 antibodies. Responses to gp120pDNA switched to a Th1-type in IL-10-defective mice and to exclusively IgG2a antibodies in IL-4-defective mice. Conversely, antigen- specific IFN-gamma production induced by gp120pDNA or HApDNA was reduced in IL-12-defective mice, whereas addition of plasmid DNA coding for IL- 12 enhanced Th1 responses. Plasmid DNA stimulated IL- 10 and IL- 12 production by macrophages and dendritic cells (DCs) in vitro and anti-IL-10 antibodies enhanced IL- 12 production and DC maturation in response to gp120pDNA. Our findings suggest that T cell responses induced by DNA vaccines is influenced by the nature of the antigen, and that the induction of Th2-biased responses with gp120pDNA is mediated in part through the stimulation of innate IL-10, which inhibits activation of DCs that direct the induction of Th1 cells. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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