Mucosal Humoral Immune Response to SIVmac239∆nef Vaccination and Vaginal Challenge.
Mucosal Humoral Immune Response to SIVmac239∆nef Vaccination and Vaginal Challenge.
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DOI:
10.4049/jimmunol.1500156
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发表时间:
2016-03-15
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Haase AT
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Zeng M;Smith AJ;Shang L;Wietgrefe SW;Voss JE;Carlis JV;Li Q;Piatak M Jr;Lifson JD;Johnson RP;Haase AT
Live attenuated vaccines such as SIV with a deleted nef gene (SIVmac239Δnef) have provided the most robust protection against subsequent vaginal challenge with wild type (WT) SIV in the SIV-rhesus macaque (RM) model of HIV-1 transmission to women. Hence, identifying correlates of this protection could enable design of an effective HIV-1 vaccine. One such pre-challenge correlate of protection from vaginal challenge has recently been identified as a system with three components: 1) IgG antibodies reacting with the viral envelope glycoprotein, trimeric gp41 (gp41t); 2) produced by plasma cells in the submucosa and ectopic tertiary lymphoid follicles in the ectocervix and vagina; and 3) concentrated on the path of virus entry by the neonatal Fc receptor in the overlying epithelium. We now examine the mucosal production of antibody component of this system post-vaginal challenge. We show that vaginal challenge immediately elicits striking increases in plasma cells not only in the female reproductive tract but also at other mucosal sites, and that these increases correlate with low but persistent replication at mucosal sites. We describe vaginal ectopic follicles that are structurally and functionally organized like follicles in secondary lymphoid organs, and provide inferential evidence for a key role of the female reproductive tract epithelium in facilitating antibody production, affinity maturation and class switch recombination. Vaccination thus accesses an epithelial-immune system axis in the female reproductive tract to respond to exposure to mucosal pathogens. Designing strategies to mimic this system could advance development of an effective HIV-1 vaccine.