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ArticleHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2015

DNA is an efficient booster of dendritic cell-based vaccine.

Jinyao Li, Antonio Valentin, Rachel Kelly Beach, Candido Alicea, Barbara K Felber, George N Pavlakis

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Article in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jinyao Lia Human Retrovirus Section; Vaccine Branch; Center for Cancer Research; National Cancer Institute ; Frederick , MD USA.
Antonio Valentin
Rachel Kelly Beach
Candido Alicea
Barbara K Felber
George N Pavlakis
Center for Cancer Research · USFrederick Community College · USFrederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research · US

Funding

Prevention of AIDSZIABC010350 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI FELBER, BARBARA K · 2009 to 2025
$30.0M
Immunotherapeutic Approaches for AIDSZIABC010749 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI PAVLAKIS, GEORGE N. · 2009 to 2022
$21.6M
Intramural NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DC-based therapeutic vaccines as a promising strategy against chronic infections and cancer have been validated in several clinical trials. However, DC-based vaccines are complex and require many in vitro manipulations, which makes this a personalized and expensive therapeutic approach. In contrast, DNA-based vaccines have many practical advantages including simplicity, low cost of manufacturing and potent immunogenicity already proven in non-human primates and humans. In this study, we explored whether DC-based vaccines can be simplified by the addition of plasmid DNA as prime or boost to achieve robust CD8-mediated immune responses. We compared the cellular immunity induced in BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice by DC vaccines, loaded either with peptides or optimized SIV Env DNA, and plasmid DNA-based vaccines delivered by electroporation (EP). We found that mature DC loaded with peptides (P-mDC) induced the highest CD8(+) T cell responses in both strains of mice, but those responses were significantly higher in the C57BL/6 model. A heterologous prime-boost strategy (P-DC prime-DNA boost) induced CD8(+) T cell responses similar to those obtained by the P-DC vaccine. Importantly, this strategy elicited robust polyfunctional T cells as well as highest antigen-specific central memory CD8+ T cells in C57BL/6 mice, suggesting long-term memory responses. These results indicate that a DC-based vaccine in combination with DNA in a heterologous DC prime-DNA boost strategy has potential as a repeatedly administered vaccine.

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Cell TransplantationImmunization, SecondaryAnimalsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesDendritic CellsFemaleImmunologic MemoryMice, Inbred BALB CMice, Inbred C57BLTransplantation, AutologousVaccines, DNAVaccines, DNAdendritic cellsDNA vaccinemicepeptide

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PMID26125100
PMCPMC4635890
OpenAlexW1577745566

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