Immunization with different formulations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen 85A induces immune responses with different specificity and protective efficacy

To test the relative efficacy of CD4 and CD8T cells in mediating protective immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), we compared three immunization regimes designed to induce preferentially each subset. BALB/c mice were immunized intranasally (i.n.) or parenterally with antigen 85A either in a...

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Main Authors: Tchilian, E, Ahuja, D, Hey, A, Jiang, S, Beverley, P
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado: 2013
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Ahuja, D
Hey, A
Jiang, S
Beverley, P
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Jiang, S
Beverley, P
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description To test the relative efficacy of CD4 and CD8T cells in mediating protective immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), we compared three immunization regimes designed to induce preferentially each subset. BALB/c mice were immunized intranasally (i.n.) or parenterally with antigen 85A either in a recombinant Adenoviral vector (Ad85A), as recombinant protein (r85A) or as a set of overlapping 15mer peptides (p85A). For the first time we show that i.n. immunization with overlapping 85A synthetic peptides as well as Ad85A or r85A can provide protection against Mtb challenge. For all forms of the antigen, i.n. induces greater protection against Mtb challenge than parenteral immunization. Ad85A induces a predominantly CD8T cell response against the 85A70-78 epitope, r85A a CD4 response to 85A99-118 and p85A a balanced CD4/CD8 response to the CD4 85A99-118 and CD8 85A145-152 epitopes. Immune responses to CD4 85A99-118 and CD8 85A70-78 but not CD8 85A145-152 are protective. Although Ad85A induces a strong response to the protective CD8 85A70-78 epitope, we could not induce any response to this epitope by peptide immunization. These results show that although peptide immunization can induce protective immunity to Mtb challenge, it can also induce a response to a non-protective epitope in antigen 85A, indicating that the specificity of an immune response may be more important for protection against Mtb than its magnitude. These findings have important implications for the application of such vaccines in humans. © 2013 The Authors.
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spelling oxford-uuid:a30d863f-bf2d-4a0f-8930-3fd64100a8fe2022-03-27T02:24:06ZImmunization with different formulations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen 85A induces immune responses with different specificity and protective efficacyJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:a30d863f-bf2d-4a0f-8930-3fd64100a8feEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2013Tchilian, EAhuja, DHey, AJiang, SBeverley, PTo test the relative efficacy of CD4 and CD8T cells in mediating protective immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), we compared three immunization regimes designed to induce preferentially each subset. BALB/c mice were immunized intranasally (i.n.) or parenterally with antigen 85A either in a recombinant Adenoviral vector (Ad85A), as recombinant protein (r85A) or as a set of overlapping 15mer peptides (p85A). For the first time we show that i.n. immunization with overlapping 85A synthetic peptides as well as Ad85A or r85A can provide protection against Mtb challenge. For all forms of the antigen, i.n. induces greater protection against Mtb challenge than parenteral immunization. Ad85A induces a predominantly CD8T cell response against the 85A70-78 epitope, r85A a CD4 response to 85A99-118 and p85A a balanced CD4/CD8 response to the CD4 85A99-118 and CD8 85A145-152 epitopes. Immune responses to CD4 85A99-118 and CD8 85A70-78 but not CD8 85A145-152 are protective. Although Ad85A induces a strong response to the protective CD8 85A70-78 epitope, we could not induce any response to this epitope by peptide immunization. These results show that although peptide immunization can induce protective immunity to Mtb challenge, it can also induce a response to a non-protective epitope in antigen 85A, indicating that the specificity of an immune response may be more important for protection against Mtb than its magnitude. These findings have important implications for the application of such vaccines in humans. © 2013 The Authors.
spellingShingle Tchilian, E
Ahuja, D
Hey, A
Jiang, S
Beverley, P
Immunization with different formulations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen 85A induces immune responses with different specificity and protective efficacy
title Immunization with different formulations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen 85A induces immune responses with different specificity and protective efficacy
title_full Immunization with different formulations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen 85A induces immune responses with different specificity and protective efficacy
title_fullStr Immunization with different formulations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen 85A induces immune responses with different specificity and protective efficacy
title_full_unstemmed Immunization with different formulations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen 85A induces immune responses with different specificity and protective efficacy
title_short Immunization with different formulations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen 85A induces immune responses with different specificity and protective efficacy
title_sort immunization with different formulations of mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen 85a induces immune responses with different specificity and protective efficacy
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