HIV experimental vaccines based on the iscom technology using envelope and GAG gene products.
Copyright policy )HIV experimental vaccines based on the iscom technology using envelope and GAG gene products.
In previous experiments gp160 incorporated into iscom was shown to induce neutralizing antibodies to the homologous as well as the heterologous isolates of HIV-1 (Akerblom et al., AIDS Res., 1991). In the present work we have incorporated into iscoms three defined recombinant DNA products of HIV-1. The carboxy-terminal part of gp120 expressed in E. Coli-PB-1; a chimera containing parts of both p24 and p15 expressed in E. coli-GAG; and baculovirus gp160 cloned in baculovirus and produced in insect cells. Immune responses were induced by the iscom preparations to the homologous antigen as well as to defined recombinant products and to the synthetic peptide RP135 (aa 304-328) harboring a neutralizing epitope. Sera from mice immunized with PB1-iscoms and gp160 (baculo) iscoms were tested in a syncytie inhibition assay. The serum from a mouse immunized with PB1 iscoms reacted strongly with the synthetic peptide RP135 and also neutralized the homologous isolate HIV-1/IIIB with a neutralization titer of 1/64. Three gp160 (baculo) iscom antisera were tested, of which two reacted strongly with the synthetic peptide RP135 but did not neutralize the homologous isolate HIV-1/IIIB. High serum titers were induced in mice by the gp160 iscoms (2 micrograms) to homologous antigen and the recombinant DNA E. coli construct p121 covering part of gp41. The ceilings of the antibody responses were reached after two immunizations. The PB1- and GAG-iscoms required three immunizations to reach the ceiling of the antibody response.
AIDS Vaccines, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Blotting, Western, Vaccination, HIV Core Protein p24, Gene Products, env, Gene Products, gag, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, HIV Antibodies, HIV Envelope Protein gp120, Nucleocapsid Proteins, gag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Recombinant Proteins, HIV Envelope Protein gp160, Mice, Escherichia coli, Animals, Protein Precursors, ISCOMs
AIDS Vaccines, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Blotting, Western, Vaccination, HIV Core Protein p24, Gene Products, env, Gene Products, gag, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, HIV Antibodies, HIV Envelope Protein gp120, Nucleocapsid Proteins, gag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Recombinant Proteins, HIV Envelope Protein gp160, Mice, Escherichia coli, Animals, Protein Precursors, ISCOMs
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