|
|
||||||||




* Tumour Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom;
Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, San Diego, CA, 92121;
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Herston, Australia; and
Cancer Research UK, Medical Oncology Unit, Oxford, United Kingdom
Many recombinant poxviral vaccines are currently in clinical trials for cancer and infectious diseases. However, these agents have failed to generate T cell responses specific for recombinant gene products at levels comparable with T cell responses associated with natural viral infections. The recent identification of vaccinia-encoded CTL epitopes, including a new epitope described in this study, allows the simultaneous comparison of CTL responses specific for poxviral and recombinant epitopes. We performed detailed kinetic analyses of CTL responses in HLA-A*0201 patients receiving repeated injections of recombinant modified vaccinia Ankara encoding a string of melanoma tumor Ag epitopes. The vaccine-driven CTL hierarchy was dominated by modified vaccinia Ankara epitope-specific responses, even in patients who had not received previous smallpox vaccination. The only recombinant epitope that was able to impact on the CTL hierarchy was the melan-A2635 analog epitope, whereas responses specific for the weaker affinity epitope NY-ESO-1157165 failed to be expanded above the level detected in prevaccination samples. Our results demonstrate that immunodominant vaccinia-specific CTL responses limit the effectiveness of poxviruses in recombinant vaccination strategies and that more powerful priming strategies are required to overcome immunodominance of poxvirus-specific T cell responses.
This article has been cited by other articles:
![]() |
K. Karwacz, S. Mukherjee, L. Apolonia, M. P. Blundell, G. Bouma, D. Escors, M. K. Collins, and A. J. Thrasher Nonintegrating Lentivector Vaccines Stimulate Prolonged T-Cell and Antibody Responses and Are Effective in Tumor Therapy J. Virol., April 1, 2009; 83(7): 3094 - 3103. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
||||
![]() |
H. M. Rowe, L. Lopes, N. Brown, S. Efklidou, T. Smallie, S. Karrar, P. M. Kaye, and M. K. Collins Expression of vFLIP in a Lentiviral Vaccine Vector Activates NF-{kappa}B, Matures Dendritic Cells, and Increases CD8+ T-Cell Responses J. Virol., February 15, 2009; 83(4): 1555 - 1562. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
||||
![]() |
V. S. Meyer, W. Kastenmuller, G. Gasteiger, M. Franz-Wachtel, T. Lamkemeyer, H.-G. Rammensee, S. Stevanovic, D. Sigurdardottir, and I. Drexler Long-Term Immunity against Actual Poxviral HLA Ligands as Identified by Differential Stable Isotope Labeling J. Immunol., November 1, 2008; 181(9): 6371 - 6383. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
||||
![]() |
M. A. Fischer, D. C. Tscharke, K. B. Donohue, M. E. Truckenmiller, and C. C. Norbury Reduction of vector gene expression increases foreign antigen-specific CD8+ T-cell priming J. Gen. Virol., September 1, 2007; 88(9): 2378 - 2386. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
||||
![]() |
S. Mitra-Kaushik, J. Cruz, L. J. Stern, F. A. Ennis, and M. Terajima Human Cytotoxic CD4+ T Cells Recognize HLA-DR1-Restricted Epitopes on Vaccinia Virus Proteins A24R and D1R Conserved among Poxviruses J. Immunol., July 15, 2007; 179(2): 1303 - 1312. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
||||
![]() |
E. Assarsson, J. Sidney, C. Oseroff, V. Pasquetto, H.-H. Bui, N. Frahm, C. Brander, B. Peters, H. Grey, and A. Sette A Quantitative Analysis of the Variables Affecting the Repertoire of T Cell Specificities Recognized after Vaccinia Virus Infection J. Immunol., June 15, 2007; 178(12): 7890 - 7901. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
||||
![]() |
M. L. Precopio, M. R. Betts, J. Parrino, D. A. Price, E. Gostick, D. R. Ambrozak, T. E. Asher, D. C. Douek, A. Harari, G. Pantaleo, et al. Immunization with vaccinia virus induces polyfunctional and phenotypically distinctive CD8+ T cell responses J. Exp. Med., June 11, 2007; 204(6): 1405 - 1416. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
||||
![]() |
L. Jing, T. M. Chong, B. Byrd, C. L. McClurkan, J. Huang, B. T. Story, K. M. Dunkley, L. Aldaz-Carroll, R. J. Eisenberg, G. H. Cohen, et al. Dominance and Diversity in the Primary Human CD4 T Cell Response to Replication-Competent Vaccinia Virus J. Immunol., May 15, 2007; 178(10): 6374 - 6386. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
||||
![]() |
J. N. Radcliffe, J. S. Roddick, P. S. Friedmann, F. K. Stevenson, and S. M. Thirdborough Prime-Boost with Alternating DNA Vaccines Designed to Engage Different Antigen Presentation Pathways Generates High Frequencies of Peptide-Specific CD8+ T Cells J. Immunol., November 15, 2006; 177(10): 6626 - 6633. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
||||
![]() |
A. Chahroudi, D. A. Garber, P. Reeves, L. Liu, D. Kalman, and M. B. Feinberg Differences and similarities in viral life cycle progression and host cell physiology after infection of human dendritic cells with modified vaccinia virus ankara and vaccinia virus. J. Virol., September 1, 2006; 80(17): 8469 - 8481. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
||||
![]() |
D. C. Tscharke, W.-P. Woo, I. G. Sakala, J. Sidney, A. Sette, D. J. Moss, J. R. Bennink, G. Karupiah, and J. W. Yewdell Poxvirus CD8+ T-Cell Determinants and Cross-Reactivity in BALB/c Mice. J. Virol., July 1, 2006; 80(13): 6318 - 6323. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
||||
| HOME | HELP | FEEDBACK | SUBSCRIPTIONS | ARCHIVE | SEARCH | TABLE OF CONTENTS |