Endocytosis Deficient Murine Xcl1-Fusion Vaccine Enhances Protective Antibody Responses in Mice

Targeting antigen to surface receptors on dendritic cells (DCs) can improve antibody response against subunit vaccines. We have previously observed that human XCL1-fusion vaccines target murine Xcr1+ DCs without actively inducing endocytosis of the antigen, resulting in enhanced antibody responses in mice. However, the use of foreign chemokines for targeting is undesirable when translating this observation to human or veterinary medicine due to potential cross-reactive responses against the endogenous chemokine. Here we have identified a mutant version of murine Xcl1, labeled Xcl1(Δ1) owing to removal of a conserved valine in position 1 of the mature chemokine, that retains specific binding to Xcr1+ DCs without inducing endocytosis of the receptor. DNA immunization with Xcl1(Δ1) conjugated to influenza hemagglutinin (HA) induced improved antibody responses, with higher end point titers of IgG compared to WT Xcl1-HA. The Xcl1(Δ1) fusion vaccine also resulted in an increased number of HA reactive germinal center B cells with higher avidity toward the antigen, and serum transfer experiments show that Xcl1(Δ1)-HA induced antibody responses provided better protection against influenza infection as compared to WT Xcl1-HA. In summary, our observations indicate that targeting antigen to Xcr1+ DCs in an endocytosis deficient manner enhances antibody responses. This effect was obtained by introducing a single mutation to Xcl1, suggesting our strategy may easily be translated to human or veterinary vaccine settings.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in immunology - 10(2019) vom: 21., Seite 1086

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gudjonsson, Arnar [VerfasserIn]
Andersen, Tor Kristian [VerfasserIn]
Sundvold-Gjerstad, Vibeke [VerfasserIn]
Bogen, Bjarne [VerfasserIn]
Fossum, Even [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antibodies, Viral
Antibody response
CDC1 dendritic cells
Chemokines, C
DNA vaccine
Hemagglutinin, human influenza A virus
Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus
Influenza Vaccines
Journal Article
Recombinant Fusion Proteins
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Targeting
Vaccine
Vaccines, Subunit
Xcl1
Xcl1 protein, mouse

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Date Completed 30.09.2020

Date Revised 30.09.2020

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fimmu.2019.01086

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM297741942