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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
卷 165, 期 8, 页码 4748-4755出版社
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.165.8.4748
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CTL together with anti-envelope Abs represent major effecters for viral clearance during hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. The induction of strong cytotoxic and Ab responses against the envelope proteins after DNA-based immunization has been proposed as a promising therapeutic approach to mediate viral clearance in chronically infected patients. Here, we studied the CTL responses against previously described hepatitis B surface Ag (HBsAg)-HLA-A*0201-restricted epitopes after DNA-based immunization in HLA-A*0201 transgenic mice. The animal model used was Human Human D-b (HHD) mice, which are deficient for mouse MHC class I molecules (beta(2)-microglobulin(-/-) Db-/-) and transgenic for a chimeric HLA-A*0201/D-b molecule covalently bound to the human beta(2)-microglobulin (HHD+/+), Immunization of these mice with a DNA vector encoding the small and the middle HBV envelope proteins carrying HBsAg induced CTL responses against several epitopes in each animal, This study performed on a large number; of animals described dominant epitopes with specific CTL induced in all animals and others,vith a weaker frequency of recognition. These results confirmed the relevance of the HHD transgenic mouse model in the assessment of vaccine constructs for human use. Moreover, genetic immunization of HLA-A2 transgenic mice generates IFN-gamma-secreting CD8(+) T lymphocytes specific for endogenously processed peptides and with recognition specificities similar to those described during self-limited infection in humans. This suggests that responses induced by DNA immunization could have the same immune potential as those developing during natural HBV infection in human patients.
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