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ArticleVaccine2017

Human innate responses and adjuvant activity of TLR ligands in vivo in mice reconstituted with a human immune system.

Liang Cheng, Zheng Zhang, Guangming Li, Feng Li, Li Wang, Liguo Zhang, Sandra M Zurawski, Gerard Zurawski, Yves Levy, Lishan Su

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Article in Vaccine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Liang ChengLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States.
Zheng ZhangLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States.
Guangming LiLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States.
Feng LiLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States.
Li WangLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States.
Liguo ZhangKey Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Sandra M ZurawskiBaylor Institute for Immunology Research, Dallas, TX 75204, United States; Vaccine Research Institute, Université Paris-Est, Faculté de Médecine, INSERM U955, Créteil, France; Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupe Henri-Mondor Albert-Chenevier, Service d'immunologie clinique, 94010 Créteil, France.
Gerard ZurawskiBaylor Institute for Immunology Research, Dallas, TX 75204, United States; Vaccine Research Institute, Université Paris-Est, Faculté de Médecine, INSERM U955, Créteil, France; Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupe Henri-Mondor Albert-Chenevier, Service d'immunologie clinique, 94010 Créteil, France.
Yves LevyVaccine Research Institute, Université Paris-Est, Faculté de Médecine, INSERM U955, Créteil, France; Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupe Henri-Mondor Albert-Chenevier, Service d'immunologie clinique, 94010 Créteil, France.
Lishan SuLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States. Electronic address: lsu@med.unc.edu.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USAssistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris · FRBaylor University · USInstitut de Recherche Vaccinale · FRInstitute of Biophysics · CN

Funding

Protein Expression/Dengue Virology CoreU19AI109784 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI TING, JENNY P · 2014 to 2018
$20.8M
Novel therapeutic approaches to treating chronic hepatitis B virus infectionR01DK095962 · NIDDK · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI FU, YANG-XIN, SU, LISHAN · 2013 to 2016
$2.1M
NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI109784NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK095962
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

TLR ligands (TLR-Ls) represent a class of novel vaccine adjuvants. However, their immunologic effects in humans remain poorly defined in vivo. Using a humanized mouse model with a functional human immune system, we investigated how different TLR-Ls stimulated human innate immune response in vivo and their applications as vaccine adjuvants for enhancing human cellular immune response. We found that splenocytes from humanized mice showed identical responses to various TLR-Ls as human PBMCs in vitro. To our surprise, various TLR-Ls stimulated human cytokines and chemokines differently in vivo compared to that in vitro. For example, CpG-A was most efficient to induce IFN-α production in vitro. In contrast, CpG-B, R848 and Poly I:C stimulated much more IFN-α than CpG-A in vivo. Importantly, the human innate immune response to specific TLR-Ls in humanized mice was different from that reported in C57BL/6 mice, but similar to that reported in nonhuman primates. Furthermore, we found that different TLR-Ls distinctively activated and mobilized human plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs), myeloid DCs (mDCs) and monocytes in different organs. Finally, we showed that, as adjuvants, CpG-B, R848 and Poly I:C can all enhance antigen specific CD4

Indexed as

Adjuvants, ImmunologicAnimalsCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCell LineDendritic CellsHumansImmunity, InnateInterferon-alphaLigandsMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMonocytesMyeloid CellsOligodeoxyribonucleotidesPoly I-CAdjuvants, ImmunologicInterferon-alphaLigandsOligodeoxyribonucleotidesPoly I-CToll-Like ReceptorsAdjuvantCD40-targeting HIV vaccineCytotoxic T cellsHuman innate responseHumanized miceTLR ligands

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PMID28958808
PMCPMC5641266
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