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Willemsen RA, Debets R, Chames P, Bolhuis RLH. Genetic engineering of T cell specificity for immunotherapy of cancer. Hum Immunol 2003; 64:56-68. [PMID: 12507815 DOI: 10.1016/s0198-8859(02)00730-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The ultimate goal of immunotherapy of cancer is to make use of the immune system of patients to eliminate malignant cells. Research has mainly focused on the generation of effective antigen specific T-cell responses because of the general belief that T-cell immunity is essential in controlling tumor growth and protection against viral infections. However, the isolation of antigen specific T cells for therapeutic application is a laborious task and it is often impossible to derive autologous tumor specific T cells to be used for adoptive immunotherapy. Therefore, strategies were developed to genetically transfer tumor specific immune receptors into patients T cells. To this end, chimeric receptors were constructed that comprise antibody fragments specific for tumor associated antigens, linked to genes encoding signaling domains of the T-cell receptor (TCR) or Fc receptor. T cells expressing such chimeric antibody receptors recapitulate the immune specific responses mediated by the introduced receptor. Recently, we introduced chimeric TCR genes into primary human T lymphocytes and demonstrated that these T cell transductants acquired the exquisite major histocompatibility complex (MHC) restricted tumor specificity dictated by the introduced TCR. Importantly, the introduction of chimeric TCR bypasses problems associated with the introduction of nonmodified TCR genes, such as pairing of introduced TCR chains with endogenous TCR chains and unstable TCRalpha expression. A novel strategy which is completely independent of available tumor specific T-cell clones for cloning of the TCR genes was recently used to transfer MHC restricted tumor specificity to T cells. Human "TCR-like" Fab fragments obtained by in vitro selection of Fab phages on soluble peptide/MHC complexes were functionally expressed on human T lymphocytes, resulting in MHC restricted, tumor specific lysis and cytokine production. In addition, affinity maturation of the antibody fragment on Fab phages allows improvement of the tumor cell killing capacity of chimeric Fab receptor engrafted T cells. Developments in retroviral transfer technology now enables the generation of large numbers of antigen specific T cells that can be used for adoptive transfer to cancer patients. In this article we summarize the developments in adoptive T cell immunogenetic therapy and discuss the limitations and perspectives to improve this technology toward clinical application.
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- Ralph A Willemsen
- Department of Clinical and Tumor Immunology, Erasmus Medical Center-Daniel den Hoed, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Matsui M, Moriya O, Abdel-Aziz N, Matsuura Y, Miyamura T, Akatsuka T. Induction of hepatitis C virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes in mice by immunization with dendritic cells transduced with replication-defective recombinant adenovirus. Vaccine 2002; 21:211-20. [PMID: 12450696 DOI: 10.1016/s0264-410x(02)00460-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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We studied the potential of dendritic cells (DCs) in priming hepatitis C virus (HCV)-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) in mice. Recombinant adenovirus expressing HCV core (Adex1SR3ST) was employed to express core in DCs. Core-specific CTLs are effectively elicited by injecting Adex1SR3ST-transduced DCs, whereas injection of Adex1SR3ST does not result in effective priming. Further, Adex1SR3ST-transduced DCs more efficiently prime core-specific CTLs than Adex1SR3ST-transduced macrophages, or DCs treated with an anthrax toxin fusion protein reported previously. Upon challenge with recombinant HCV-core-expressing vaccinia virus, vaccinia titers are significantly reduced in mice immunized with Adex1SR3ST-transduced DCs. Thus, adenovirus-transduced DCs may be a promising candidate for a CTL-based vaccine against HCV.
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- Masanori Matsui
- Department of Microbiology, Saitama Medical School, Moroyama-Cho, Iruma-Gun, Saitama 350-0495, Japan
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Vogel TU, Friedrich TC, O'Connor DH, Rehrauer W, Dodds EJ, Hickman H, Hildebrand W, Sidney J, Sette A, Hughes A, Horton H, Vielhuber K, Rudersdorf R, De Souza IP, Reynolds MR, Allen TM, Wilson N, Watkins DI. Escape in one of two cytotoxic T-lymphocyte epitopes bound by a high-frequency major histocompatibility complex class I molecule, Mamu-A*02: a paradigm for virus evolution and persistence? J Virol 2002; 76:11623-36. [PMID: 12388723 PMCID: PMC136802 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.22.11623-11636.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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It is now accepted that an effective vaccine against AIDS must include effective cytotoxic-T-lymphocyte (CTL) responses. The simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-infected rhesus macaque is the best available animal model for AIDS, but analysis of macaque CTL responses has hitherto focused mainly on epitopes bound by a single major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecule, Mamu-A*01. The availability of Mamu-A*01-positive macaques for vaccine studies is therefore severely limited. Furthermore, it is becoming clear that different CTL responses are able to control immunodeficiency virus replication with varying success, making it a priority to identify and analyze CTL responses restricted by common MHC class I molecules other than Mamu-A*01. Here we describe two novel epitopes derived from SIV, one from Gag (Gag(71-79) GY9), and one from the Nef protein (Nef(159-167) YY9). Both epitopes are bound by the common macaque MHC class I molecule, Mamu-A*02. The sequences of these two eptiopes are consistent with the molecule's peptide-binding motif, which we have defined by elution of natural ligands from Mamu-A*02. Strikingly, we found evidence for the selection of escape variant viruses by CTL specific for Nef(159-167) YY9 in 6 of 6 Mamu-A*02-positive animals. In contrast, viral sequences encoding the Gag(71-79) GY9 epitope remained intact in each animal. This situation is reminiscent of Mamu-A*01-restricted CTL that recognize Tat(28-35) SL8, which reproducibly selects for escape variants during acute infection, and Gag(181-189) CM9, which does not. Differential selection by CTL may therefore be a paradigm of immunodeficiency virus infection.
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- Thorsten U Vogel
- Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53715, USA
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van Baalen CA, Stittelaar KJ, Osterhaus ADME, Guillon C, Gruters RA. The choice of antigen for therapeutic immunization against AIDS. Trends Immunol 2002; 23:478-9. [PMID: 12297418 DOI: 10.1016/s1471-4906(02)02304-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Vaccination with Rev and Tat can induce or boost immune responses that control HIV more effectively than those generated in the context of a natural infection.
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Allen TM, Kelleher AD, Zaunders J, Walker BD. STI and beyond: the prospects of boosting anti-HIV immune responses. Trends Immunol 2002; 23:456-60. [PMID: 12200068 DOI: 10.1016/s1471-4906(02)02297-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Twenty years into the HIV epidemic, highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) represents the only effective intervention to control HIV-1 disease progression. However, the prospect of life-long treatment with HAART is challenging given cumulative drug toxicities, difficulties with adherence to complicated regimens and the looming emergence of drug-resistant viruses. The challenges are even greater in resource-poor settings where costs and logistical problems with delivery represent formidable obstacles. Alternative approaches to long-term control of viral replication and disease progression are clearly needed.
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- Todd M Allen
- Partners AIDS Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Division of AIDS, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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O'Connor DH, Allen TM, Watkins DI. Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte escape monitoring in simian immunodeficiency virus vaccine challenge studies. DNA Cell Biol 2002; 21:659-64. [PMID: 12396608 DOI: 10.1089/104454902760330192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Several vaccine studies have ameliorated disease progression in simian-human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV) infections. The successes of these vaccines have been largely attributed to protective effects of cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) responses, although the precise correlates of immune protection remain poorly defined. It is now well established that vigorous CTL and antibody responses can rapidly select for viral escape variants after HIV and SIV infection. Here we suggest that viral variation analyses should be performed on viruses derived from vaccinated, SIV-, or SHIV-challenged animals as a routine component of vaccine evaluation to determine the contribution of immune responses to the success (or failure) of the vaccine regimen. To illustrate the importance of escape analysis, we show that rapid emergence of escape variants postchallenge contributed to the failure of a DNA prime/MVA boost vaccine regimen encoding SIV Tat.
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- David H O'Connor
- University of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Pathology, Madison, Wisconsin 53709, USA.
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Cheng WF, Hung CF, Pai SI, Hsu KF, He L, Ling M, Wu TC. Repeated DNA vaccinations elicited qualitatively different cytotoxic T lymphocytes and improved protective antitumor effects. J Biomed Sci 2002. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02254996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Chames P, Willemsen RA, Rojas G, Dieckmann D, Rem L, Schuler G, Bolhuis RL, Hoogenboom HR. TCR-like human antibodies expressed on human CTLs mediate antibody affinity-dependent cytolytic activity. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2002; 169:1110-8. [PMID: 12097420 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.2.1110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The permanent genetic programming via gene transfer of autologous T cells with cell surface receptors directed toward tumor-related Ags holds great promise for the development of more-specific tumor therapies. In this study we have explored the use of Abs directed to MHC-peptide complexes (or TCR-like Abs) to engraft CTLs with exquisite specificity for cancer cells. First, we affinity matured in vitro a previously selected TCR-like Ab, Fab-G8, which is highly specific for the peptide melanoma-associated Ag-A1 presented by the HLA-A1 molecule. A combination of L chain shuffling, H chain-targeted mutagenesis, and in vitro selection of phage display libraries yielded a Fab-G8 Ab derivative, Fab-Hyb3, with an 18-fold improved affinity yet identical peptide fine specificity. Fab-G8 and Fab-Hyb3 were expressed on primary human T lymphocytes as cell surface-anchored Fab, demonstrating that T cells expressing the high-affinity Fab-Hyb3 molecule eradicate tumor cells much more effectively. Furthermore, the gain in ligand-binding affinity resulted in a 2-log improvement in the detection of peptide/MHC complexes on melanoma-associated Ag-A1 peptide-loaded cells. In summary, an affinity-matured Ab specifically recognizing a cancer-related peptide/MHC complex was generated and used to improve the tumor cell killing capacity of human T cells. This strategy, based on engraftment of T cells with in vitro engineered Abs, is an attractive alternative to the laborious, and in many cases unsuccessful, generation of highly potent tumor-specific T lymphocytes.
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MESH Headings
- Antibody Affinity/genetics
- Antibody Specificity
- Antigen Presentation/genetics
- Antigens, Neoplasm
- Cloning, Molecular
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/genetics
- Gene Targeting
- Genetic Vectors/chemical synthesis
- HLA-A1 Antigen/immunology
- Humans
- Immunodominant Epitopes/immunology
- Immunodominant Epitopes/metabolism
- Immunoglobulin Fab Fragments/biosynthesis
- Immunoglobulin Fab Fragments/genetics
- Immunoglobulin Fab Fragments/metabolism
- Immunoglobulin Fab Fragments/physiology
- Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/biosynthesis
- Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/chemistry
- Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/metabolism
- Immunoglobulin Light Chains/biosynthesis
- Immunoglobulin Light Chains/chemistry
- Immunoglobulin Light Chains/metabolism
- Melanoma-Specific Antigens
- Neoplasm Proteins/immunology
- Protein Binding/genetics
- Protein Binding/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/physiology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/metabolism
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/metabolism
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- Patrick Chames
- Department of Pathology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- T M Allen
- Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
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O'Connor DH, Allen TM, Vogel TU, Jing P, DeSouza IP, Dodds E, Dunphy EJ, Melsaether C, Mothé B, Yamamoto H, Horton H, Wilson N, Hughes AL, Watkins DI. Acute phase cytotoxic T lymphocyte escape is a hallmark of simian immunodeficiency virus infection. Nat Med 2002; 8:493-9. [PMID: 11984594 DOI: 10.1038/nm0502-493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 319] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) responses peak coincident with the decline in acute HIV viremia. Despite two reports of CTL-resistant HIV variants emerging during acute infection, the contribution of acute CTL escape to HIV pathogenesis remains unclear. Difficulties inherent in studying acute HIV infection can be overcome by modeling virus-host interactions in SIV-infected rhesus macaques. We sequenced 21 complete simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)mac239 genomes at four weeks post-infection to determine the extent of acute CTL escape. Here we show that viruses from 19 of 21 macaques escaped from CTLs during acute infection and that these escape-selecting CTLs were responsive to lower concentrations of peptide than other SIV-specific CTLs. Interestingly, CTLs that require low peptide concentrations for stimulation (high 'functional avidity') are particularly effective at controlling other viral infections. Our results suggest that acute viral escape from CTLs is a hallmark of SIV infection and that CTLs with high functional avidity can rapidly select for escape variants.
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- David H O'Connor
- Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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Parks GD, Alexander-Miller MA. High avidity cytotoxic T lymphocytes to a foreign antigen are efficiently activated following immunization with a recombinant paramyxovirus, simian virus 5. J Gen Virol 2002; 83:1167-1172. [PMID: 11961272 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-83-5-1167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Our previous work has shown that high avidity cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) are optimal for virus clearance in vivo and thus it is necessary that an effective vaccine is capable of eliciting high avidity CTL. To determine if vaccination with the paramyxovirus simian virus 5 (SV5) elicits a high avidity response to a model foreign antigen, a recombinant virus was engineered to express chicken ovalbumin (rSV5-Ova). To compare the CTL response elicited with rSV5-Ova and a recombinant vaccinia virus expressing ovalbumin (rVV-Ova), mice were vaccinated intranasally with various doses of each vector and the Ova-specific CTL response was determined by ELISPOT analysis. Here, it has been shown that rSV5 can be equally as effective as rVV in eliciting antigen-specific CTL, in terms of both the total number of CTL and the number of high avidity cells. This has implications for both the design of vaccine vectors and the route utilized for vaccine administration for the elicitation of high avidity CTL responses. The advantages and future potential use of rSV5 vaccine vectors are discussed.
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- Griffith D Parks
- Department of Microbiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Room 5108 Gray Building, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA1
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- Department of Microbiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Room 5108 Gray Building, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA1
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Kumaraguru U, Gierynska M, Norman S, Bruce BD, Rouse BT. Immunization with chaperone-peptide complex induces low-avidity cytotoxic T lymphocytes providing transient protection against herpes simplex virus infection. J Virol 2002; 76:136-41. [PMID: 11739679 PMCID: PMC135705 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.1.136-141.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Heat shock proteins loaded with viral peptides were shown to induce a CD8+ T cell response and confer protective immunity against challenge with herpes simplex virus (HSV). The delivery system consisted of recombinant human hsp70 coupled to the peptide SSIEFARL, which is the immunodominant peptide epitope, recognized by HSV specific T cells in C57BL/6 mice. Immunization resulted in CD8+ T-cell responses, measured by peptide-specific tetramers and peptide-induced intracellular gamma interferon expression and cytotoxicity, similar to responses resulting from immunization with a recombinant vaccinia virus that expressed SSIEFARL as a minigene (VvgB) and UV-inactivated HSV. However, the durability of the hsp70-SSIEFARL response was less than that resulting from VvgB and HSV immunization and in addition the CD8+ T-cell responses in the memory phase were functionally less effective. Mice challenged soon after immunization showed excellent immunity, but by 90 days postimmunization this had waned to be significantly less than the level of immunity in both VvgB- and HSV-immunized mice.
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- Udayasankar Kumaraguru
- Department of Microbiology and Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-0845, USA
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Estcourt MJ, Ramsay AJ, Brooks A, Thomson SA, Medveckzy CJ, Ramshaw IA. Prime-boost immunization generates a high frequency, high-avidity CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocyte population. Int Immunol 2002; 14:31-7. [PMID: 11751749 DOI: 10.1093/intimm/14.1.31] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Development and expansion of high-avidity T cell populations may be important for the success of immunization strategies against HIV and other pathogens that have presented major problems for vaccine development. We have used tetrameric-MHC complexes ex vivo and lytic assays to show that 'prime-boost' immunization with DNA vaccines and recombinant poxvirus vectors generates high frequencies of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) that recognize target cells expressing very low levels of specific antigen. These cells persist for at least 6 months at levels representing approximately 10% of the CD8(+) T cell population. Using a novel in vivo assay, we also found that prime-boost immunized animals were capable of eliminating target cells expressing 10- to 100-fold less immunogenic peptide than mice given either vector alone. In addition, viral challenge led to rapid expansion of CTL effectors in prime-boost groups, to levels representing >30% of total CD8(+) T cell numbers. Strategies that generate specific T cells of high avidity, optimizing early detection of infected cells, offer new hope for effective prophylaxis and immunotherapy.
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- Marie J Estcourt
- John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2610, Australia
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Berzofsky JA, Ahlers JD, Belyakov IM. Strategies for designing and optimizing new generation vaccines. Nat Rev Immunol 2001; 1:209-19. [PMID: 11905830 DOI: 10.1038/35105075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 253] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Although the field of immunology developed in part from the early vaccine studies of Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur and others, vaccine development had largely become the province of virologists and other microbiologists, because the model for classic vaccines was to isolate the pathogen and prepare a killed or attenuated pathogen vaccine. Only recently has vaccinology returned to the realm of immunology, because a new understanding of immune mechanisms has allowed translation of basic discoveries into vaccine strategies.
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- J A Berzofsky
- Molecular Immunogenetics and Vaccine Research Section, Metabolism Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1578, USA.
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Gray PM, Parks GD, Alexander-Miller MA. A novel CD8-independent high-avidity cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response directed against an epitope in the phosphoprotein of the paramyxovirus simian virus 5. J Virol 2001; 75:10065-72. [PMID: 11581375 PMCID: PMC114581 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.21.10065-10072.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Adoptive transfer studies have shown that cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) of high avidity, capable of recognizing low levels of peptide-MHC I molecules, are more efficient at reducing viral titers than are low-avidity CTL, thus establishing CTL avidity as a critical parameter for the ability of a CTL to clear virus in vivo. It has been well documented that CTL of high avidity are relatively CD8 independent, whereas low-avidity CTL require CD8 engagement in order to become activated. In this study we have analyzed the antiviral CTL response elicited following infection with the paramyxovirus simian virus 5 (SV5). We have identified the immunodominant and subdominant CTL responses and subsequently assessed the avidity of these responses by their CD8 dependence. This is the first study in which the relationship between immunodominance and CTL avidity has been investigated. The immunodominant response was directed against an epitope present in the viral M protein, and subdominant responses were directed against epitopes present in the P, F, and HN proteins. Similarly to other CTL responses we have analyzed, the immunodominant response and the subdominant F and HN responses were comprised of both high- and low-avidity CTL. However, the subdominant response directed against the epitope present in the P protein is novel, as it is exclusively high avidity. This high-avidity response is independent of both the route of infection and expression by recombinant SV5. A further understanding of the inherent properties of P that elicit only high-avidity CTL may allow for the design of more efficacious vaccine vectors that preferentially elicit high-avidity CTL in vivo.
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- P M Gray
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
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Derby MA, Snyder JT, Tse R, Alexander-Miller MA, Berzofsky JA. An abrupt and concordant initiation of apoptosis: antigen-dependent death of CD8+ CTL. Eur J Immunol 2001; 31:2951-9. [PMID: 11592071 DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(2001010)31:10<2951::aid-immu2951>3.0.co;2-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The ability of CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) to clear viral infections may be limited when high avidity CTL encounter supra-optimal antigen density on antigen-presenting cells (APC) and undergo antigen-dependent apoptosis of CTL (ADAC). Previously, we have shown ADAC in CD8+ populations to be Fas independent, TNF-alpha receptor 2 (TNFR2) mediated, caspase dependent, and accompanied by a decrease in Bcl-2. We now employ flow cytometry to follow ADAC within individual CD8+ cells to demonstrate that the intense TCR signal induced in high avidity CTL by supra-optimal antigen density results 8 - 16 h later in a caspase-independent TNFR2 down-modulation that is directly related to the stimulating APC antigen density and concludes in a rapid onset of apoptosis by 18 - 24 h. Individual CTL undergoing apoptosis exhibit a dramatic and concurrent: (1) positive staining with Annexin V and propidium iodide; (2) transformation to a smaller cell size characteristic of apoptosis; and (3) a nearly complete loss of Bcl-2, c-IAP1, and TRAF2. We conclude that the antigen-dependent apoptosis of CD8+ CTL occurs when a tandem TCR/TNFR2 signal initiates an abrupt and concordant onset of multiple apoptotic events.
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- M A Derby
- Molecular Immunogenetics and Vaccine Research Section, Metabolism Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1578, USA
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Ansari AA, Bostik P, Mayne AE, Villinger F. Failure to expand influenza and tetanus toxoid memory T cells in vitro correlates with disease course in SIV infected rhesus macaques. Cell Immunol 2001; 210:125-42. [PMID: 11520079 DOI: 10.1006/cimm.2001.1810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Marked decreases in influenza (flu) and tetanus toxoid (T.T.) antigen specific CD8(+) and CD4(+) T cell memory responses were noted shortly after SIV infection in monkeys that go on to develop clinical disease within 18 months (normal progressor, NP) following SIV infection but not in monkeys that remain asymptomatic >3 years post SIV infection (long-term nonprogressor, LTNP). While PBMCs from NP and LTNP monkeys demonstrate both low and high avidity flu and T.T. specific CD8(+) and CD4(+)T cell immune responses prior to SIV infection, the PBMCs from NP but not LTNP fail to generate high avidity T cell responses post SIV infection. This failure to generate high avidity T cell responses in vitro correlated with increased apoptotic cell death in PBMC cultures from NP animals. Since high avidity antigen specific CTLs have been shown to be most efficient in eliminating viral infections, the present finding has important implications for the evaluation of the level of immune reconstitution following various modalities of therapy in HIV-1 infected patients.
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- A A Ansari
- Department of Pathology & Lab. Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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