Guttormsen H K, Wetzler L M, Finberg R W, Kasper D L
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Infect Immun. 1998 May;66(5):2026-32. doi: 10.1128/IAI.66.5.2026-2032.1998.
We have developed an adoptive cell transfer model in mice to study the ability of a glycoprotein conjugate vaccine to induce immunologic memory for the polysaccharide moiety. We used type III capsular polysaccharide from the clinically relevant pathogen group B streptococci conjugated to tetanus toxoid (GBSIII-TT) as our model vaccine. GBS are a major cause of neonatal infections in humans, and type-specific antibodies to the capsular polysaccharide protect against invasive disease. Adoptive transfer of splenocytes from mice immunized with the GBSIII-TT conjugate vaccine conferred anti-polysaccharide immunologic memory to naive recipient mice. The transfer of memory occurred in a dose-dependent manner. The observed anamnestic immune response was characterized by (i) more rapid kinetics, (ii) isotype switching from immunoglobulin M (IgM) to IgG, and (iii) 10-fold-higher levels of type III-specific IgG antibody than for the primary response in animals with cells transferred from placebo-immunized mice. The adoptive cell transfer model described in this paper can be used for at least two purposes: (i) to evaluate conjugate vaccines with different physicochemical properties for their ability to induce immunologic memory and (ii) to study the cellular interactions required for an immune response to these molecules.
我们在小鼠中建立了一种过继性细胞转移模型,以研究糖蛋白结合疫苗诱导针对多糖部分的免疫记忆的能力。我们使用与破伤风类毒素结合的临床相关病原体B族链球菌的III型荚膜多糖(GBSIII-TT)作为我们的模型疫苗。GBS是人类新生儿感染的主要原因,针对荚膜多糖的型特异性抗体可预防侵袭性疾病。用GBSIII-TT结合疫苗免疫的小鼠脾细胞的过继转移赋予了未免疫的受体小鼠抗多糖免疫记忆。记忆的转移呈剂量依赖性。观察到的回忆性免疫反应的特征为:(i)动力学更快;(ii)从免疫球蛋白M(IgM)到IgG的同种型转换;(iii)在从用安慰剂免疫的小鼠转移细胞的动物中,III型特异性IgG抗体水平比初次反应高10倍。本文所述的过继性细胞转移模型至少可用于两个目的:(i)评估具有不同理化性质的结合疫苗诱导免疫记忆的能力;(ii)研究对这些分子产生免疫反应所需的细胞相互作用。