期刊
VACCINE
卷 28, 期 7, 页码 1758-1765出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.12.015
关键词
HIV; Vaccine; Immunogenicity; Alpha-gal epitopes
资金
- University of Massachusetts Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) [P30 A1042845]
- NIH [R01 A165250]
Developing an effective HIV-1 vaccine will require strategies to enhance antigen presentation to the immune system. In a previous study we demonstrated a marked increase in immunogenicity of the highly glycosylated HIV-1 gp120 protein following enzymatic addition of alpha-gal epitopes to the carbohydrate chains. In the present study we determined whether gp120(alpha gal) can also serve as an effective platform for targeting other HIV-1 proteins to APC and thus increase immunogenicity of both proteins. For this purpose we produced a recombinant fusion protein between gp120 and the HIV-1 Matrix p24 protein (gp120/p24). Multiple alpha-gal epitopes were synthesized enzymatically on the gp120 portion of the fusion protein to generate a gp120(alpha gal)/p24 vaccine. Immune responses to gp120(alpha gal)/p24 compared to gp120/p24 vaccine lacking alpha-gal epitopes were evaluated in alpha 1,3galactosyltransferase knockout (KO) mice. These mice lack alpha-gal epitopes and, therefore, are capable of producing the anti-Gal antibody. T cell responses to p24, as assessed by ELISPOT and by CD8+ T cells intracellular staining assays for IFN gamma, was on average 12- and 10-fold higher, respectively, in gp120 alpha(gal)/p24 immunized mice than in mice immunized with gp120/p24. In addition, cellular and humoral immune responses against gp120 were higher by 10-30-fold in mice immunized with gp120(alpha gal)/p24 than in gp120/p24 immunized mice. Our data suggest that the alpha-gal epitopes on the gp120 portion of the fusion protein can significantly augment the immunogenicity of gp120, as well as that of the fused viral protein which lacks alpha-gal epitopes. This strategy of anti-Gal mediated targeting to APC may be used for production of effective HIV-1 vaccines comprised of various viral proteins fused to gp120. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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