Institute of Gene Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilova Str. 34/5, 119334 Moscow, Russia.
National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Named after the Honorary Academician N. F. Gamaleya, 123098 Moscow, Russia.
Int J Mol Sci. 2024 Feb 7;25(4):2047. doi: 10.3390/ijms25042047.
The development of new approaches and drugs for effective control of the chronic and complicated forms of urogenital chlamydia caused by , which is suspected to be one of the main causes of infertility in both women and men, is an urgent task. We used the technology of single-domain antibody (nanobody) generation both for the production of targeting anti-chlamydia molecules and for the subsequent acquisition of anti-idiotypic nanobodies (ai-Nbs) mimicking the structure of a given epitope of the pathogen (the epitope of the Chlamydial Type III Secretion System Needle Protein). In a mouse model, we have shown that the obtained ai-Nbs are able to induce a narrowly specific humoral immune response in the host, leading to the generation of intrinsic anti- antibodies, potentially therapeutic, specifically recognizing a given antigenic epitope of . The immune sera derived from mice immunized with ai-Nbs are able to suppress chlamydial infection in vitro. We hypothesize that the proposed method of the creation and use of ai-Nbs, which mimic and present to the host immune system exactly the desired region of the antigen, create a fundamentally new universal approach to generating molecular structures as a part of specific vaccine for the targeted induction of immune response, especially useful in cases where it is difficult to prepare an antigen preserving the desired epitope in its native conformation.
研发新方法和药物以有效控制由 引起的慢性和复杂型泌尿生殖沙眼衣原体感染,这被怀疑是导致男女不孕的主要原因之一,这是一项紧迫的任务。我们使用单域抗体(纳米抗体)生成技术,既用于生产针对沙眼衣原体的靶向分子,也用于随后获得模拟病原体特定表位(衣原体 III 型分泌系统针状蛋白的表位)结构的抗独特型纳米抗体(ai-Nbs)。在小鼠模型中,我们已经证明,所获得的 ai-Nbs 能够在宿主中诱导出狭窄特异性的体液免疫反应,从而产生内在的抗抗体,具有潜在的治疗作用,能够特异性识别给定的抗原表位。用 ai-Nbs 免疫的小鼠产生的免疫血清能够在体外抑制衣原体感染。我们假设,所提出的创建和使用 ai-Nbs 的方法,模拟并向宿主免疫系统呈现抗原的确切所需区域,为生成分子结构创造了一种全新的通用方法,作为针对特定免疫反应的靶向疫苗的一部分,这在制备难以保持所需表位天然构象的抗原时特别有用。