Department of Microbiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China.
Vaccine. 2011 May 9;29(20):3695-702. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.03.002. Epub 2011 Mar 17.
Our previous work applied a combination of bioinformatics approaches and in vitro assays to identify the dengue-2 virus (DENV-2)-specific B- and T-cell epitopes. In this report, we first evaluated the antigenicity of both B- and T-cell epitopes reacting with different sera against DENV-2 by ELISA as well as the ability of T-cell epitope to activate CD4(+) T-cell producing IFN-γ using ELISPOT, which showed a specific reactivity between either B- or T-cell epitope and DENV-2 antisera, and a significant increase of IFN-γ producing cells in DENV-2 infected mice. Then, a multi-epitope peptide containing the above B-, T-cell epitopes of envelope domain III (EDIII) of DENV-2 and pan-DR epitope (PADRE) was bioinformatically designed and synthesized. The verification of its immunogenicity and protective effect was performed in in vitro and in vivo experiments. The results showed that a high level of antibody in mice elicited by the multi-epitope peptide was detected by ELISA and the anti-peptide sera binding to the vero cells infected with DEN-2 was observed with immunofluorescence test. More importantly, the peptide could induce lymphoproliferation in vitro and a predominant Th1 type of immune response was examined by flow cytometry. We also found that the virus replication in the mice vaccinated with the multi-epitope peptide was obviously less than that of the control groups. These results may provide some important information for the development of dengue vaccine.
我们之前的工作应用了生物信息学方法和体外测定来鉴定登革热 2 型病毒(DENV-2)特异性的 B 细胞和 T 细胞表位。在本报告中,我们首先通过 ELISA 评估了与不同抗 DENV-2 血清反应的 B 细胞和 T 细胞表位的抗原性,以及 T 细胞表位激活 CD4(+)T 细胞产生 IFN-γ的能力,通过 ELISPOT 进行检测,结果显示 B 细胞或 T 细胞表位与 DENV-2 抗血清之间具有特异性反应,并且在 DENV-2 感染的小鼠中 IFN-γ产生细胞显著增加。然后,生物信息学设计并合成了一种包含 DENV-2 包膜结构域 III(EDIII)和泛 DR 表位(PADRE)的上述 B 细胞和 T 细胞表位的多表位肽。在体外和体内实验中对其免疫原性和保护作用进行了验证。结果表明,ELISA 检测到多表位肽在小鼠中诱导产生高水平抗体,免疫荧光试验观察到抗肽血清与感染 DEN-2 的vero 细胞结合。更重要的是,该肽可在体外诱导淋巴细胞增殖,并通过流式细胞术检测到以 Th1 型为主的免疫应答。我们还发现,接种多表位肽的小鼠中的病毒复制明显少于对照组。这些结果可能为登革热疫苗的开发提供了一些重要信息。