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ArticleVaccine2012

Infected dendritic cells are sufficient to mediate the adjuvant activity generated by Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus replicon particles.

Daniel R Tonkin, Alan Whitmore, Robert E Johnston, Mario Barro

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Article in Vaccine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Daniel R TonkinGlobal Vaccines Inc, 7020 Kit Creek Rd, Ste. 240, PO Box 14827, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA. dtonkin@globalvaccines.org
Alan Whitmore
Robert E Johnston
Mario Barro
Global Vaccines (United States) · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

A Novel Systemic and Mucosal Adjuvant for BiodefenseU01AI070976 · NIAID · GLOBAL VACCINES, INC. · PI JOHNSTON, ROBERT E. · 2006 to 2010
$6.3M
Role of innate immune responses in the activity of an Alphavirus based adjuvant.R01AI088250 · NIAID · GLOBAL VACCINES, INC. · PI JOHNSTON, ROBERT E. · 2011 to 2014
$2.1M
Effect of a viral replicon adjuvant on dendritic cell activityF32AI082894 · NIAID · GLOBAL VACCINES, INC. · PI TONKIN, DANIEL · 2009 to 2010
$98k
NIAID NIH HHS F32 AI082894NIAID NIH HHS F32AI082894NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI088250NIAID NIH HHS R01-AI088250NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI070976NIAID NIH HHS U01-AI070976
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Replicon particles derived from Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEE) are infectious non-propagating particles which act as a safe and potent systemic, mucosal, and cellular adjuvant when delivered with antigen. VEE and VEE replicon particles (VRP) can target multiple cell types including dendritic cells (DCs). The role of these cell types in VRP adjuvant activity has not been previously evaluated, and for these studies we focused on the contribution of DCs to the response to VRP. By analysis of VRP targeting in the draining lymph node, we found that VRP induced rapid recruitment of TNF-secreting monocyte-derived inflammatory dendritic cells. VRP preferentially infected these inflammatory DCs as well as classical DCs and macrophages, with less efficient infection of other cell types. DC depletion suggested that the interaction of VRP with classical DCs was required for recruitment of inflammatory DCs, induction of high levels of many cytokines, and for stable transport of VRP to the draining lymph node. Additionally, in vitro-infected DCs enhanced antigen-specific responses by CD4 and CD8 T cells. By transfer of VRP-infected DCs into mice we showed that these DCs generated an inflammatory state in the draining lymph node similar to that achieved by VRP injection. Most importantly, VRP-infected DCs were sufficient to establish robust adjuvant activity in mice comparable to that produced by VRP injection. These findings indicate that VRP infect, recruit and activate both classical and inflammatory DCs, and those DCs become mediators of the VRP adjuvant activity.

Indexed as

Adjuvants, ImmunologicAnimalsAntibodies, ViralCytokinesDendritic CellsEncephalitis Virus, Venezuelan EquineFemaleImmunity, CellularImmunity, MucosalInflammationLymph NodesLymphocyte ActivationMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicAdjuvants, ImmunologicAntibodies, ViralCytokines

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PMID22531556
PMCPMC3519277
OpenAlexW1995236257

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