Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
Nat Commun. 2017 Jun 8;8:15711. doi: 10.1038/ncomms15711.
The RV144 Thai trial HIV-1 vaccine of recombinant poxvirus (ALVAC) and recombinant HIV-1 gp120 subtype B/subtype E (B/E) proteins demonstrated 31% vaccine efficacy. Here we design an ALVAC/Pentavalent B/E/E/E/E vaccine to increase the diversity of gp120 motifs in the immunogen to elicit a broader antibody response and enhance protection. We find that immunization of rhesus macaques with the pentavalent vaccine results in protection of 55% of pentavalent-vaccine-immunized macaques from simian-human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV) challenge. Systems serology of the antibody responses identifies plasma antibody binding to HIV-infected cells, peak ADCC antibody titres, NK cell-mediated ADCC and antibody-mediated activation of MIP-1β in NK cells as the four immunological parameters that best predict decreased infection risk that are improved by the pentavalent vaccine. Thus inclusion of additional gp120 immunogens to a pox-prime/protein boost regimen can augment antibody responses and enhance protection from a SHIV challenge in rhesus macaques.
RV144 泰国试验的 HIV-1 重组痘病毒(ALVAC)和重组 HIV-1 gp120 亚类 B/亚类 E(B/E)蛋白疫苗显示出 31%的疫苗效力。在这里,我们设计了一种 ALVAC/五价 B/E/E/E/E 疫苗,以增加免疫原中 gp120 基序的多样性,从而引发更广泛的抗体反应并增强保护作用。我们发现,用五价疫苗免疫恒河猴可使 55%的五价疫苗免疫猴免受猴免疫缺陷病毒(SHIV)的攻击。系统血清学分析抗体反应,确定了针对感染 HIV 的细胞的血浆抗体结合、峰值 ADCC 抗体滴度、NK 细胞介导的 ADCC 和 NK 细胞中 MIP-1β的抗体介导激活,这四个免疫参数可最好地预测感染风险降低,并且五价疫苗可改善这些参数。因此,在痘苗病毒初免/蛋白加强方案中加入额外的 gp120 免疫原可以增强抗体反应,并增强恒河猴对 SHIV 攻击的保护作用。