Obeid O E, Steward M W
Department of Clinical Sciences, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U.K.
Immunology. 1994 May;82(1):16-21.
In this paper, we describe the results of experiments designed to test the hypothesis that immunogenic synthetic peptides representing non-immunodominant B- and T-cell epitopes of measles virus (MV) proteins can overcome the suppressive effect of maternal antibodies and induce anti-MV antibodies in young mice in the presence of maternal antibody to the virus. We have established a mouse model of immunosuppression by maternal antibody of both anti-MV and anti-peptide antibody responses in the young. Results obtained with this model immunization of young mice with a cocktail of synthetic peptides can overcome the suppression by maternal anti-MV antibodies and results in the induction of anti-peptide antibodies which recognize the virus. This work indicates that appropriately selected synthetic peptides have potential as vaccines which can be immunogenic and induce antibodies reactive with the virus-virus antibodies. in the presence of maternal anit-virus antibodies.
在本文中,我们描述了旨在检验以下假设的实验结果:代表麻疹病毒(MV)蛋白非免疫显性B细胞和T细胞表位的免疫原性合成肽能够克服母源抗体的抑制作用,并在幼鼠体内存在针对该病毒的母源抗体时诱导产生抗MV抗体。我们建立了一个幼鼠因母源抗体对MV和抗肽抗体反应产生免疫抑制的小鼠模型。用合成肽混合物对该模型中的幼鼠进行免疫接种所获得的结果表明,其能够克服母源抗MV抗体的抑制作用,并诱导产生可识别该病毒的抗肽抗体。这项研究表明,适当选择的合成肽具有作为疫苗的潜力,在存在母源抗病毒抗体的情况下,其具有免疫原性并能诱导产生与病毒反应的抗体。