Phylogenetic Approach to Plant Allergy Vaccines

植物过敏疫苗的系统发育方法

• 批准号: 7760239
• 负责人: Randall M Goldblum
• 金额: $ 29.49万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-03-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7760239
• 关键词: Affect; Algorithms; Allergen Immunotherapy; Allergens; Allergic; Allergic Reaction; Allergic rhinitis; Amino Acid Sequence; Anaphylaxis; Asthma; Base Sequence; Basophils; Binding; Binding Sites; Biodiversity; Biological Factors; Blocking Antibodies; CD4 Positive T Lymphocytes; Characteristics; Chimeric Proteins; Clinical; Clinical Trials; Complementary DNA; Computational algorithm; Coniferophyta; Cypress; Data; Developed Countries; Development; Disease; Dose; Epitope Mapping; Epitopes; Equilibrium; Europe; Gene Library; Generations; Genes; Genomics; Gerda brand of difluprednate; Hay fever; Helper-Inducer T-Lymphocyte; Homologous Gene; Homology Modeling; Human; Hypersensitivity; IgE; Immune response; Immunization; Immunologist; Immunotherapy; Inflammation; Injection of therapeutic agent; Japan; Juniperus; Libraries; Mediating; Molecular; Nature; Patients; Phylogenetic Analysis; Plants; Pollen; Population; Process; Reaction; Recombinants; Research Personnel; Risk; Safety; Serum; Source; Southern Europe; Structural Biologist; Structure; System; Testing; Trees; Vaccines; Variant; allergic airway disease; antimicrobial; cost; experience; genetic variant; microbial; multidisciplinary; novel; novel vaccines; pathogen; peripheral blood; prevent; response; safety testing; three dimensional structure; three-dimensional modeling; vaccine efficacy

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Allergic diseases of the airways, including asthma and allergic rhinitis are increasing in industrialized countries, where up to 30% of some populations are now affected. Cedar pollen is a major cause of seasonal allergic rhinitis (pollinosis) in Central U.S.A, Southern Europe and Japan. Effective immunization holds the greatest promise for preventing and treating allergic diseases. Current immunotherapy is limited by the risk of producing IgE-mediated, localized or anaphylactic reactions. The hypothesis to be tested in this proposal is that the molecular biodiversity of plants can be used to identify natural sources of allergens with reduced capacity to bind IgE, while retaining their capacity to induce T-helper cell responses. The specific aims to test this hypothesis are to: 1) Create a library of genetic sequences for homologues of two major mountain cedar allergens, by PCR amplification and automated nucleotide sequencing of genomic and cDNA from up to 138 cedar / cypress species. 2) Identify within this library genetic variants of the allergens, in which the amino acid sequence of the IgE binding sites (epitopes) differ from those of the sensitizing allergens and use novel computational algorithms and automated homology modeling to determine in which variants the 3-D structures of one or more IgE epitopes are likely to be disrupted. 3) Express the genes for the selected variants of the allergens as fusion proteins and test their binding of serum IgE from cedar allergic patients from Central U.S.A, Southern Europe and Japan, their ability to induce degranulation of blood basophils from cedar-allergic patients, and to induce T-helper responses. These studies will be performed by an established, multidisciplinary team of immunologists, structural biologists and a botanist, who have experience in the discovery and characterization of cedar allergens. Successful completing these studies will result in a new generation of allergy vaccines, the efficacy of which can be tested, without expensive safety testing. A better understanding of the structural characteristics of allergenic epitopes will expedite the development of new vaccines against numerous allergens.

描述（由申请人提供）：在工业化国家，包括哮喘和过敏性鼻炎在内的气道过敏性疾病正在增加，目前有高达30%的人口受到影响。在美国中部、南欧和日本，雪松花粉是季节性过敏性鼻炎（花粉症）的主要原因。 有效的免疫接种是预防和治疗过敏性疾病的最大希望。目前的免疫疗法受到产生IgE介导的局部或过敏性反应的风险的限制。 在这个建议中要测试的假设是，植物的分子生物多样性可以用来识别自然来源的过敏原与IgE结合的能力降低，同时保留其诱导T辅助细胞反应的能力。测试这一假设的具体目标是：1）通过PCR扩增和来自多达138种雪松/柏树的基因组和cDNA的自动核苷酸测序，创建两种主要山地雪松过敏原的同源物的遗传序列文库。2)在该文库中鉴定过敏原的遗传变体，其中IgE结合位点（表位）的氨基酸序列不同于致敏过敏原的氨基酸序列，并使用新的计算算法和自动同源性建模来确定在哪些变体中一个或多个IgE表位的3-D结构可能被破坏。3)将所选过敏原变体的基因表达为融合蛋白，并测试它们与来自美国中部、南欧和日本的雪松过敏患者的血清IgE的结合，它们诱导来自雪松过敏患者的血液嗜碱性粒细胞脱粒的能力，以及诱导T辅助细胞应答的能力。 这些研究将由免疫学家，结构生物学家和植物学家组成的多学科团队进行，他们在发现和表征雪松过敏原方面具有经验。 成功完成这些研究将导致新一代的过敏疫苗，其有效性可以测试，而无需昂贵的安全性测试。更好地了解过敏原表位的结构特征将加快针对许多过敏原的新疫苗的开发。

项目成果

A single mouse monoclonal antibody, E58 modulates multiple IgE epitopes on group 1 cedar pollen allergens.

• DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2016.04.006
• 发表时间: 2016-06
• 期刊: Molecular immunology
• 影响因子: 3.6
• 作者: Goldblum RM;Ning B;Judy BM;Holthauzen LM;van Bavel J;Kamijo A;Midoro-Horiuti T
• 通讯作者: Midoro-Horiuti T

Molecular patterns in the isotype-specific antibody responses to the major cedar aeroallergen Jun a 1.

• DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2018.08.007
• 发表时间: 2018-09
• 期刊: Molecular immunology
• 影响因子: 3.6
• 作者: Goldblum RM;Madagoda-Desilva RS;Zhang Y;van Bavel J;Midoro-Horiuti T
• 通讯作者: Midoro-Horiuti T

Epitope mapping with random phage display library.

使用随机噬菌体展示库进行表位作图。

• DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-992-5_28
• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
• 作者: Midoro-Horiuti,Terumi;Goldblum,RandallM
• 通讯作者: Goldblum,RandallM

The expression of a mountain cedar allergen comparing plant-viral apoplastic and yeast expression systems.

山雪松过敏原的表达比较植物病毒质外体和酵母表达系统。

• DOI: 10.1007/s10529-008-9665-x
• 发表时间: 2008
• 期刊: Biotechnology letters
• 影响因子: 2.7
• 作者: Moehnke,MarcieH;Midoro-Horiuti,Terumi;Goldblum,RandallM;Kearney,ChristopherM
• 通讯作者: Kearney,ChristopherM

Environmental estrogens induce mast cell degranulation and enhance IgE-mediated release of allergic mediators.

• DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9378
• 发表时间: 2007-01
• 期刊: Environmental health perspectives
• 影响因子: 10.4
• 作者: Narita S;Goldblum RM;Watson CS;Brooks EG;Estes DM;Curran EM;Midoro-Horiuti T
• 通讯作者: Midoro-Horiuti T