Emory Vaccine Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, 954 Gatewood Road, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA.
Immunity. 2010 Oct 29;33(4):516-29. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2010.10.006.
Vaccination is one of the greatest triumphs of modern medicine, yet we remain largely ignorant of the mechanisms by which successful vaccines stimulate protective immunity. Two recent advances are beginning to illuminate such mechanisms: realization of the pivotal role of the innate immune system in sensing microbes and stimulating adaptive immunity, and advances in systems biology. Recent studies have used systems biology approaches to obtain a global picture of the immune responses to vaccination in humans. This has enabled the identification of early innate signatures that predict the immunogenicity of vaccines, and identification of potentially novel mechanisms of immune regulation. Here, we review these advances and critically examine the potential opportunities and challenges posed by systems biology in vaccine development.
疫苗接种是现代医学的最大成就之一,但我们对成功的疫苗如何刺激保护性免疫的机制仍知之甚少。最近的两项进展开始揭示这些机制:认识到先天免疫系统在感知微生物和刺激适应性免疫方面的关键作用,以及系统生物学的进展。最近的研究使用系统生物学方法来获得人类对疫苗接种的免疫反应的全貌。这使得能够识别预测疫苗免疫原性的早期先天特征,并确定潜在的新型免疫调节机制。在这里,我们回顾这些进展,并批判性地检查系统生物学在疫苗开发中带来的潜在机遇和挑战。