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Hexon-modified Recombinant E1-deleted Adenovirus Vectors as Dual Specificity Vaccine Carriers for Influenza Virus

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Mol Ther. 2012 Dec 11. doi: 10.1038/mt.2012.248. [Epub ahead of print]
Hexon-modified Recombinant E1-deleted Adenovirus Vectors as Dual Specificity Vaccine Carriers for Influenza Virus.
Zhou D, Wu TL, Emmer KL, Kurupati R, Tuyishime S, Li Y, Giles-Davis W, Zhou X, Xiang Z, Liu Q, Ratcliffe SJ, Ertl HC.
Source

1] The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA [2] Unit of Anti-Infection Immunity and Vaccine Research, Institute Pasteur of Shanghai, Shanghai, P.R. China.
Abstract

To determine if an ordered and repetitive display of an epitope promoted induction of superior antibody responses, we compared B-cell responses to an influenza A virus epitope that was either encoded as a transgene by an adenovirus (Ad) vector or expressed on the vector's surface. To this end, we constructed a panel of influenza A virus vaccines based on chimpanzee-derived replication-defective adenovirus (AdC) vectors of serotype SAd-V25 also called AdC68. AdC68 vectors were modified to express a linear B-cell epitope of the ectodomain of matrix 2 (M2e) within variable regions 1 (VR1) or 4 (VR4) of the adenovirus hexon. Additional vectors with wild-type or M2e-modified hexon encoded M2e fused to the influenza A virus nucleoprotein (NP) as a transgene product. Hexon-modified vectors were tested for immunogenicity and efficacy in mice in comparison to vectors with native hexon expressing the M2e-NP fusion protein. Upon priming, vectors expressing M2e within VR1 of hexon induced M2e-specific antibody responses of higher magnitude and avidity than those carrying M2e within VR4 or vectors expressing the M2e as part of a transgene product. CD8(+) T-cell responses to the transgenic NP were comparable between vectors. M2e-specific antibody responses could be boosted by a second dose of the VR1 hexon-modified vector but not by repeated immunization with the VR4 hexon-modified vector.Molecular Therapy (2012); doi:10.1038/mt.2012.248.

PMID:
23229092
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23229092
 
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