Hertz Tomer, Beatty P Robert, MacMillen Zachary, Killingbeck Sarah S, Wang Chunling, Harris Eva
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel.
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109; and.
J Immunol. 2017 May 15;198(10):4025-4035. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1700029. Epub 2017 Apr 5.
Dengue is a global public health problem and is caused by four dengue virus (DENV) serotypes (DENV1-4). A major challenge in dengue vaccine development is that cross-reactive anti-DENV Abs can be protective or potentially increase disease via Ab-dependent enhancement. DENV nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) has long been considered a vaccine candidate as it avoids Ab-dependent enhancement. In this study, we evaluated survival to challenge in a lethal DENV vascular leak model in mice immunized with NS1 combined with aluminum and magnesium hydroxide, monophosphoryl lipid A + AddaVax, or Sigma adjuvant system+CpG DNA, compared with mice infected with a sublethal dose of DENV2 and mice immunized with OVA (negative control). We characterized Ab responses to DENV1, 2, and 3 NS1 using an Ag microarray tiled with 20-mer peptides overlapping by 15 aa and identified five regions of DENV NS1 with significant levels of Ab reactivity in the NS1 + monophosphoryl lipid A + AddaVax group. Additionally, we profiled the Ab responses to NS1 of humans naturally infected with DENV2 or DENV3 in serum samples from Nicaragua collected at acute, convalescent, and 12-mo timepoints. One region in the wing domain of NS1 was immunodominant in both mouse vaccination and human infection studies, and two regions were identified only in NS1-immunized mice; thus, vaccination can generate Abs to regions that are not targeted in natural infection and could provide additional protection against lethal DENV infection. Overall, we identified a small number of immunodominant regions, which were in functionally important locations on the DENV NS1 protein and are potential correlates of protection.
登革热是一个全球性的公共卫生问题,由四种登革病毒(DENV)血清型(DENV1 - 4)引起。登革热疫苗研发中的一个主要挑战是,交叉反应性抗DENV抗体可能具有保护作用,也可能通过抗体依赖增强作用(ADE)潜在地加重疾病。长期以来,DENV非结构蛋白1(NS1)被认为是一种疫苗候选物,因为它可避免ADE。在本研究中,我们评估了在致死性DENV血管渗漏模型中,用NS1与氢氧化铝和氢氧化镁、单磷酰脂质A + AddaVax或Sigma佐剂系统 + CpG DNA联合免疫的小鼠,与感染亚致死剂量DENV2的小鼠和用OVA免疫的小鼠(阴性对照)相比,对攻击的存活率。我们使用覆盖有重叠15个氨基酸的20肽段的抗原微阵列,对DENV1、2和3 NS1的抗体反应进行了表征,并在NS1 + 单磷酰脂质A + AddaVax组中确定了DENV NS1的五个具有显著抗体反应水平的区域。此外,我们分析了在尼加拉瓜收集的急性、恢复期和12个月时间点的血清样本中,自然感染DENV2或DENV3的人类对NS1的抗体反应。NS1翼域中的一个区域在小鼠疫苗接种和人类感染研究中均为免疫显性,另外两个区域仅在NS1免疫的小鼠中被鉴定;因此,疫苗接种可产生针对自然感染中未靶向区域的抗体,并可能提供针对致死性DENV感染的额外保护。总体而言,我们确定了少数免疫显性区域,这些区域位于DENV NS1蛋白功能重要的位置,是潜在的保护相关因素。