Protective efficacy of serially up-ranked subdominant CD8+ T cell epitopes against virus challenges.
Protective efficacy of serially up-ranked subdominant CD8+ T cell epitopes against virus challenges.
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002041
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发表时间:
2011-05
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影响因子:
6.7
通讯作者:
Hanke T
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作者:
Im EJ;Hong JP;Roshorm Y;Bridgeman A;Létourneau S;Liljeström P;Potash MJ;Volsky DJ;McMichael AJ;Hanke T
Immunodominance in T cell responses to complex antigens like viruses is still incompletely understood. Some data indicate that the dominant responses to viruses are not necessarily the most protective, while other data imply that dominant responses are the most important. The issue is of considerable importance to the rational design of vaccines, particularly against variable escaping viruses like human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and hepatitis C virus. Here, we showed that sequential inactivation of dominant epitopes up-ranks the remaining subdominant determinants. Importantly, we demonstrated that subdominant epitopes can induce robust responses and protect against whole viruses if they are allowed at least once in the vaccination regimen to locally or temporally dominate T cell induction. Therefore, refocusing T cell immune responses away from highly variable determinants recognized during natural virus infection towards subdominant, but conserved regions is possible and merits evaluation in humans. The body's reaction to infections is dominated by strong immune responses focused on a small number of protein regions, while ignoring the other. These strong responses may be protective against invariant viruses, but fail to control viruses that can change quickly. In particular for the AIDS virus, it happens that the few targeted regions during natural infection are highly variable, and rapidly change and become unrecognized by the mounted responses, i.e. escape. Here, we demonstrated that even the naturally under-recognized protein regions can induce robust responses and confer protection against whole viruses, and therefore should be made use of by vaccination strategies.
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