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The Journal of Immunology, 2005, 175: 3309-3317.
Copyright © 2005 by The American Association of Immunologists

{alpha}-Galactosylceramide Can Act As a Nasal Vaccine Adjuvant Inducing Protective Immune Responses against Viral Infection and Tumor1

Sung-Youl Ko*, Hyun-Jeong Ko*, Woo-Sung Chang*, Se-Ho Park{dagger}, Mi-Na Kweon{ddagger} and Chang-Yuil Kang2,*

* Laboratory of Immunology, College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea; {dagger} Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, Korea; and {ddagger} Mucosal Immunology Section, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Korea

{alpha}-Galactosylceramide ({alpha}-GalCer) is a ligand of invariant V{alpha}14+ NKT cells and is presented by CD1d molecule on APC. NKT cells produce a large amount of Th1 and Th2 cytokines in response to {alpha}-GalCer-presented APC. In this study, we assessed whether {alpha}-GalCer could act as an effective nasal vaccine adjuvant for mucosal vaccine that would be capable of inducing systemic as well as mucosal immune responses. When {alpha}-GalCer was administered with OVA via the intranasal route to C57BL/6 and BALB/c mice, significant OVA-specific mucosal secretory IgA, systemic IgG, and CTL responses were induced with mixed Th1 and Th2 cytokine profiles seen in both strains of mice. Interestingly, as BALB/c mice were intranasally immunized with PR8 hemagglutinin Ag isolated from influenza virus A/PR/8/34 together with {alpha}-GalCer, significant protection was afforded against influenza viral infection. When {alpha}-GalCer was coimmunized with a replication-deficient live adenovirus to BALB/c mice, it significantly induced both humoral and cellular immune responses. In addition, intranasal administration of OVA with {alpha}-GalCer showed complete protection against EG7 tumor challenge in C57BL/6. The adjuvant effects induced by intranasal coadministration with {alpha}-GalCer were blocked in CD1d–/– mice, indicating that the immune responses were exclusively mediated by CD1d molecule on APC. Most interestingly, intranasally coadministered {alpha}-GalCer activated naive T cells and triggered them to differentiate into functional effector T cells when CFSE-labeled OT-1 cells were adoptively transferred into syngeneic mice. Overall, our results are the first to show that {alpha}-GalCer can act as a nasal vaccine adjuvant inducing protective immune responses against viral infections and tumors.




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