Miller Elizabeth, Bhardwaj Nina
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Hess Center for Science and Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases , 1470 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10029 , USA.
Expert Opin Biol Ther. 2014 Nov;14(11):1545-9. doi: 10.1517/14712598.2014.950652. Epub 2014 Aug 21.
Augmentation of adaptive immunity via HIV therapeutic vaccination may be a key component of curative strategies. Adoptive dendritic cell (DC) immunotherapies may prove useful in enhancing the success of these approaches by circumventing certain defects in DC function during HIV infection. Thus far, DC immunotherapies that utilize autologous, inactivated virus as an immunogen have provided the most promising results however, are beset with practical constraints. Consequently, alternative forms of immunogens are under investigation, with an emphasis on RNA-based approaches. Here we review the data from DC immunotherapy trials for HIV infection and discuss challenges and future directions in the field.
通过HIV治疗性疫苗接种增强适应性免疫可能是治愈策略的关键组成部分。过继性树突状细胞(DC)免疫疗法可能通过规避HIV感染期间DC功能的某些缺陷,有助于提高这些方法的成功率。迄今为止,利用自体灭活病毒作为免疫原的DC免疫疗法已取得了最有前景的结果,然而,该疗法存在实际限制。因此,正在研究替代形式的免疫原,重点是基于RNA的方法。在此,我们综述了HIV感染DC免疫疗法试验的数据,并讨论了该领域的挑战和未来方向。