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The parasite-derived rOv-ASP-1 is an effective antigen-sparing CD4+ T cell-dependent adjuvant for the trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine, and fun

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Vaccine. 2018 May 12. pii: S0264-410X(18)30636-4. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.05.029. [Epub ahead of print]
[h=1]The parasite-derived rOv-ASP-1 is an effective antigen-sparing CD4[SUP]+[/SUP] T cell-dependent adjuvant for the trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine, and functions in the absence of MyD88 pathway.[/h] Jain S[SUP]1[/SUP], George PJ[SUP]1[/SUP], Deng W[SUP]2[/SUP], Koussa J[SUP]3[/SUP], Parkhouse K[SUP]4[/SUP], Hensley SE[SUP]4[/SUP], Jiang J[SUP]5[/SUP], Lu J[SUP]6[/SUP], Liu Z[SUP]7[/SUP], Wei J[SUP]7[/SUP], Zhan B[SUP]7[/SUP], Bottazzi ME[SUP]7[/SUP], Shen H[SUP]4[/SUP], Lustigman S[SUP]8[/SUP].
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[h=3]Abstract[/h] Vaccination remains the most cost-effective biomedical approach for controlling influenza disease. In times of pandemics, however, these vaccines cannot be produced in sufficient quantities for worldwide use by the current manufacturing capacities and practices. What is needed is the development of adjuvanted vaccines capable of inducing an adequate or better immune response at a decreased antigen dose. Previously we showed that the protein adjuvant rOv-ASP-1 augments influenza-specific antibody titers and survival after virus challenge in both young adult and old-age mice when administered with the trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV3). In this study we show that a reduced amount of rOv-ASP-1, with 40-times less IIV3 can also induce protection. Apparently the potency of the rOv-ASP-1 adjuvanted IIV3 vaccine is independent of the IIV3-specific Th1/Th2 associated antibody responses, and independent of the presence of HAI antibodies. However, CD4[SUP]+[/SUP] T helper cells were indispensable for the protection. Further, rOv-ASP-1 with or without IIV3 elicited the increased level of various chemokines, which are known chemoattractant for immune cells, into the muscle 4 h after immunization, and significantly induced the recruitment of monocytes, macrophages and neutrophils into the muscles. The recruited monocytes had higher expression of the activation marker MHCII on their surface as well as CXCR3 and CCR2; receptors for IP-10 and MCP-1, respectively. These results show that the rOv-ASP-1 adjuvant allows substantial antigen sparing of IIV3 by stimulating at the site of injection the accumulation of chemokines and the recruitment of immune cells that can augment the activation of CD4[SUP]+[/SUP] T cell immune responses, essential for the production of antibody responses. Protection elicited by the rOv-ASP-1 adjuvanted IIV3 vaccine also appears to function in the absence of MyD88-signaling. Future studies will attempt to delineate the precise mechanisms by which the rOv-ASP-1 adjuvanted IIV3 vaccine works.


[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Adjuvant; Antibody isotypes; Antigen-sparing; Cell recruitment; Chemokines; Immune response

PMID: 29764680 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.05.029
 
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