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Editor, Senior Moderator
Vaccine. 2011 Jun 7. [Epub ahead of print]
Complete protection against a H5N2 avian influenza virus by a DNA vaccine expressing a fusion protein of H1N1 HA and M2e.
Park KS, Seo YB, Lee JY, Im SJ, Seo SH, Song MS, Choi YK, Sung YC.
Source
Laboratory of Cellular Immunology, Division of Molecular and Life Sciences, POSTECH, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea.
Abstract
Most influenza vaccines target hemagglutinin (HA) in order to protect the host against infection. However, theses vaccines are strain-specific due to major antigenic variations of HA. Since it is difficult to predict epidemic and pandemic strains of influenza virus, the development of effective vaccines against divergent influenza viruses is urgently needed. Although M2e-based vaccines are associated with weaker protection than HA-based vaccines that induce neutralizing antibodies against challenge virus matched-strain, the extracellular domain of Matrix 2 protein (M2e) is one of a potential broad-spectrum immunogen because it contains highly conserved sequences among influenza A viruses. In this study, M2e sequence was fused to H1N1 HA DNA (M2e-HA) and the immunogenicity and antiviral efficacy of this DNA vaccine was evaluated in response to challenge with a heterosubtypic H5N2 avian influenza virus. Compared to vaccination with HA or M2e DNA alone, vaccination with M2e-HA DNA or combination of M2e DNA and HA DNA (M2e DNA+HA DNA) induced a broad immunity without evidence of immune interference. In addition, HA-specific CD8(+) and M2e-specific T cell responses elicited by M2e-HA DNA vaccination were significantly higher than those of HA or M2e DNA vaccine alone, respectively. Following challenge with a heterosubtypic influenza virus infection, vaccination with M2e-HA DNA conferred complete protection against mortality. In combination, these results suggest that DNA vaccines expressing a fusion protein, M2e-HA, may provide an attractive approach for the development of broad-spectrum influenza vaccines.
Copyright ? 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PMID:
21664216
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21664216
Complete protection against a H5N2 avian influenza virus by a DNA vaccine expressing a fusion protein of H1N1 HA and M2e.
Park KS, Seo YB, Lee JY, Im SJ, Seo SH, Song MS, Choi YK, Sung YC.
Source
Laboratory of Cellular Immunology, Division of Molecular and Life Sciences, POSTECH, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea.
Abstract
Most influenza vaccines target hemagglutinin (HA) in order to protect the host against infection. However, theses vaccines are strain-specific due to major antigenic variations of HA. Since it is difficult to predict epidemic and pandemic strains of influenza virus, the development of effective vaccines against divergent influenza viruses is urgently needed. Although M2e-based vaccines are associated with weaker protection than HA-based vaccines that induce neutralizing antibodies against challenge virus matched-strain, the extracellular domain of Matrix 2 protein (M2e) is one of a potential broad-spectrum immunogen because it contains highly conserved sequences among influenza A viruses. In this study, M2e sequence was fused to H1N1 HA DNA (M2e-HA) and the immunogenicity and antiviral efficacy of this DNA vaccine was evaluated in response to challenge with a heterosubtypic H5N2 avian influenza virus. Compared to vaccination with HA or M2e DNA alone, vaccination with M2e-HA DNA or combination of M2e DNA and HA DNA (M2e DNA+HA DNA) induced a broad immunity without evidence of immune interference. In addition, HA-specific CD8(+) and M2e-specific T cell responses elicited by M2e-HA DNA vaccination were significantly higher than those of HA or M2e DNA vaccine alone, respectively. Following challenge with a heterosubtypic influenza virus infection, vaccination with M2e-HA DNA conferred complete protection against mortality. In combination, these results suggest that DNA vaccines expressing a fusion protein, M2e-HA, may provide an attractive approach for the development of broad-spectrum influenza vaccines.
Copyright ? 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PMID:
21664216
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21664216