Exploiting Pre-Existing CD4+ T Cell Help from Bacille Calmette-Guérin Vaccination to Improve Antiviral Antibody Responses

Copyright © 2020 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc..

The continuing emergence of viral pathogens and their rapid spread into heavily populated areas around the world underscore the urgency for development of highly effective vaccines to generate protective antiviral Ab responses. Many established and newly emerging viral pathogens, including HIV and Ebola viruses, are most prevalent in regions of the world in which Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection remains endemic and vaccination at birth with M. bovis bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is widely used. We have investigated the potential for using CD4+ T cells arising in response to BCG as a source of help for driving Ab responses against viral vaccines. To test this approach, we designed vaccines comprised of protein immunogens fused to an immunodominant CD4+ T cell epitope of the secreted Ag 85B protein of BCG. Proof-of-concept experiments showed that the presence of BCG-specific Th cells in previously BCG-vaccinated mice had a dose-sparing effect for subsequent vaccination with fusion proteins containing the Ag 85B epitope and consistently induced isotype switching to the IgG2c subclass. Studies using an Ebola virus glycoprotein fused to the Ag 85B epitope showed that prior BCG vaccination promoted high-affinity IgG1 responses that neutralized viral infection. The design of fusion protein vaccines with the ability to recruit BCG-specific CD4+ Th cells may be a useful and broadly applicable approach to generating improved vaccines against a range of established and newly emergent viral pathogens.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:205

Enthalten in:

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 205(2020), 2 vom: 15. Juli, Seite 425-437

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ng, Tony W [VerfasserIn]
Wirchnianski, Ariel S [VerfasserIn]
Wec, Anna Z [VerfasserIn]
Fels, J Maximilian [VerfasserIn]
Johndrow, Christopher T [VerfasserIn]
Saunders, Kevin O [VerfasserIn]
Liao, Hua-Xin [VerfasserIn]
Chan, John [VerfasserIn]
Jacobs, William R [VerfasserIn]
Chandran, Kartik [VerfasserIn]
Porcelli, Steven A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acyltransferases
Antibodies, Viral
Antigen 85B, Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Antigens, Bacterial
Bacterial Proteins
EC 2.3.-
EC 2.3.1.-
Ebola Vaccines
Immunoglobulin G
Journal Article
Recombinant Fusion Proteins
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Viral Envelope Proteins

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 15.03.2021

Date Revised 16.07.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.4049/jimmunol.2000191

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM310933072