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Suppression of Immune Response and Protective Immunity to a Japanese Encephalitis Virus DNA Vaccine by Coadministration of an IL-12-Expressing Plasmid¹

Hsin-Wei Chen^*, Chien-Hsiung Pan^*,, Hwei-Wen Huan^*, Ming-Yi Liau^2,, Jen-Ron Chiang and Mi-Hua Tao^3,*

^* Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica; Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center; and Center for Disease Control, Department of Health, Taipei, Taiwan

IL-12 plays a central role in both innate and acquired immunity and has been demonstrated to potentiate the protective immunity in several experimental vaccines. However, in this study, we show that IL-12 can be detrimental to the immune responses elicited by a plasmid DNA vaccine. Coadministration of the IL-12-expressing plasmid (pIL-12) significantly suppressed the protective immunity elicited by a plasmid DNA vaccine (pE) encoding the envelope protein of Japanese encephalitis virus. This suppressive effect was associated with marked reduction of specific T cell proliferation and Ab responses. A single dose of pIL-12 treatment with plasmid pE in initial priming resulted in significant immune suppression to subsequent pE booster immunization. The pIL-12-mediated immune suppression was dose dependent and evident only when the IL-12 gene was injected either before or coincident with the pE DNA vaccine. Finally, using IFN- gene-disrupted mice, we showed that the suppressive activity of the IL-12 plasmid was dependent upon endogenous production of IFN-. These results demonstrate that coexpression of the IL-12 gene can sometimes produce untoward effects to immune responses, and thus its application as a vaccine adjuvant should be carefully evaluated.

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