Journal
VACCINE
Volume 19, Issue 32, Pages 4652-4660Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(01)00233-X
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epitope; DNA; vaccines
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- NIAID NIH HHS [N01-AI-95362, AI38620-03] Funding Source: Medline
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Experimental DNA vaccines comprised of multiple minimal cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) epitopes can effectively induce broad CTL responses; however, such constructs frequently exhibit significant variation in epitope inuriunogenicity. Antigenicity assays utilizing human cells transfected with one such multiepitope construct revealed that the epitopes with poor immunogenicity were inefficiently processed in transfected cells. Compilation of a database of 94 epitope/flanking region combinations, for which immunogenicity was measured experimentally, revealed that the type of residue immediately following the carboxyl-terminus of the epitope exerted a prominent effect on immunogenicity. Experiments utilizing a variety of HBV-specific vaccine constructs demonstrated epitope immunogenicity could be modulated by the insertion of a single amino acid and the effect on immunogenicity could be ascribed to modulation of processing efficiency. These findings demonstrate that multiepitope DNA vaccines can be engineered to enhance CTL immunogenicity by increasing processing efficiency. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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