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Targeting concatenated HIV antigens to human CD40 expands a broad repertoire of multifunctional CD4+ and CD8+ T cells
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| Author | Flamar, Anne-Laure Xue, Yaming Zurawski, Sandra M. Montes, Monica King, Bryan Sloan, Louis Oh, Sang Kon Banchereau, Jacques Levy, Yves Zurawski, Gerard |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | Journal: Aids Objective: Targeting HIV antigens directly to dendritic cells using monoclonal antibodies against cell-surface receptors has been shown to evoke potent cellular immunity in animal models. The objective of this study was to configure an anti-human CD40 antibody fused to a string of five highly conserved CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell epitope-rich regions of HIV-1 Gag, Nef and Pol (αCD40.HIV5pep), and then to demonstrate the capacity of this candidate therapeutic vaccine to target these HIV peptide antigens to human dendritic cells to expand functional HIV-specific T cells. Methods: Antigen-specific cytokine production using intracellular flow cytometry and multiplex bead-based assay, and suppression of viral inhibition, were used to characterize the T cells expanded by αCD40.HIV5pep from HIV-infected patient peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) and dendritic cell/T-cell co-cultures. Results: This candidate vaccine expands memory CD4+ and CD8+ T cells specific to multiple epitopes within all five peptide regions across a wide range of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) haplotypes from HIV-infected patient PBMC and dendritic cell/T-cell co-cultures. These in vitro expanded HIV antigen-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cells produce multiple cytokines and chemokines. αCD40.HIV5pep-expanded CD8+ T cells have characteristics of cytotoxic effector cells and are able to kill autologous target cells and suppress HIV-1 replication in vitro. Conclusion: Our data demonstrate the therapeutic potential of this CD40-targeting HIV candidate vaccine in inducing a broad repertoire of multifunctional T cells in patients. |
| Related Links | http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc3859846?pdf=render https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3859846/pdf |
| Ending Page | 2051 |
| Page Count | 11 |
| Starting Page | 2041 |
| ISSN | 02699370 |
| e-ISSN | 14735571 |
| DOI | 10.1097/qad.0b013e3283624305 |
| Journal | Aids |
| Issue Number | 13 |
| Volume Number | 27 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
| Publisher Date | 2013-08-24 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Aids Dendritic Cell T Cell |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Infectious Diseases Immunology and Allergy Immunology |