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Efficient Priming of CD4⁺ and CD8⁺ T Cells by DNA Vaccination Depends on Appropriate Targeting of Sufficient Levels of Immunologically Relevant Antigen to Appropriate Processing Pathways¹

Catherine Rush^2,*,, Tim Mitchell^* and Paul Garside

^* Division of Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, and Western Infirmary, Department of Immunology and Bacteriology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

The initial cellular events and interactions that occur following DNA immunization are likely to be key to determining the character and magnitude of the resulting immune response, and as such, a better understanding of these events could ultimately lead to the design of more effective pathogen-appropriate DNA vaccines. Therefore, we have used a variety of sensitive cell-based techniques to study the induction of adaptive immunity in vivo. We examined the efficacy of induction of Ag-specific CD4⁺ and CD8⁺ T cell responses in vivo by the adoptive transfer of fluorescently labeled Ag-specific TCR transgenic T cells and have demonstrated how such approaches can be used to study the effect of simple DNA construct manipulations on immunological priming. OVA-specific CD8⁺ and CD4⁺ T cells were activated and divided in vivo following immunization with DNA constructs that targeted OVA expression to different subcellular locations; however, the kinetics and degree of cell proliferation were dependent on the cellular location of the expressed protein. DNA vectors encoding cell-associated OVA resulted in greater CD8⁺ T cell division compared with other forms of OVA. In contrast, soluble secreted OVA targeted to the classical secretory pathway enhanced division of CD4⁺ T cells. Furthermore, the inclusion of mammalian introns to enhance protein expression increased the ability of poorly immunogenic forms of Ag to activate naive T cells, indicating that not only the location, but also the amount of Ag expression, is important for efficient T cell priming following DNA injection.

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