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Cytokine and Costimulatory Factor-Encoding Plasmids as Adjuvants for DNA Vaccination

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The induction of a potent and long-lasting immunity is one of the most important elements to consider in developing an effective vaccine. DNA vaccines induce markedly stronger CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) activity than do traditional peptide vaccines through their particular mechanism of antigen presentation mediated by MHC class I molecules. Induction of CTL specific to pathogenic viruses is thought to provide a reliable means of protecting a host from infection and halting disease progression, as these cells can directly recognize and lyse infected cells. However, in most of the early studies showing induction of pathogen-specific CTL, antigen-encoding immunogenic DNA alone was used and DNA vectors encoding immunomodulating molecules were not considered. It now appears that various types of immunomodulatory molecules such as cytokines (IL-1 [1 ], IL-2 [2 ], IL-12 [3 ], IFN-γ [4 ], IL-7 [5 7 ], and GM-CSF [8 ,9 ]), chemokines (TCA-3 [10 ], RANTES [11 ], MIP-1 [11 ]), and costimulatory molecules (CD40L [12 ], B7-1 [13 ] and B7-2 [14 ]) could enhance or modify the specific immune responses elicited by DNA immunization (see Table 1 ).
Table 1  Summary of Effects of Cytokines after Conventional Vaccination and of Expression Plasmids following DNA Immunization

Immunomodulatory Molecules

Effect

 

Ref.

A. Cytokine proteins

     

IL-1

Antibody (Ab)

(23 ,24 )

IL-2

Ab

(2 ,25 ,26 )

IL-12

TH1(DTH)

(3 )

IFN-γ

Ab, DTH

(4 ,25 ,27 )

GM-CSF

Ab

(28 ,29 )

B. Expression plasmids

     

IL-12

CTL

↑(i.m. and i.n.)

(15 ,21 ,22 ,30 )

 

DTH

↑(i.m. and i.n.)

(5 ,21 )

 

Ab

→(i.m. and i.n.)

(15 ,22 )

GM-CSF

Ab

↑(i.m.)

(9 ,18 ,22

 

CTL

↑(i.m.)

(18 )

 

3 H-TdR uptake

↑(i.m.)

(9 )

TCA3

CTL

↑(i.m.)

(31 )

 

DTH

↑(i.m.)

(31 )

 

Ab

→(i.m.)

(31 )

B7-1

CTL

→(i.m.)

(19 )

 

DTH

→(i.m.)

(19 )

 

Ab

→(i.m.)

(19 )

B7-2

CTL

↑(i.m.)

(19 )

 

DTH

↑(i.m.)

(19 )

 

Ab

→(i.m.)

(19 )

CD40(L)

     
 

Ab

→(i.m.)

(A. Ihata et al., Unpublished data)

 

CTL

↑(i.m.)

(A. Ihata et al., Unpublished data)

i.m., intramuscular administration; i.n., intranasal administration; Ab, antibody production; DTH, delayed type hypersensitivity; 3 H-TdR, incorporation of 3 H-Thymidine; ↑, activated immune response.
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