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International Immunology 2005 17(10):1293-1302; doi:10.1093/intimm/dxh305
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A novel HBV DNA vaccine based on T cell epitopes and its potential therapeutic effect in HBV transgenic mice

Xiangming Li1, Xiaofeng Yang1,2, Yunyun Jiang1 and Jing Liu1

1 Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, People's Republic of China
2 Department of Stomatology, Medical University of South Carolina, 173 Ashley Avenue, BSB 441,Charleston, SC 29407, USA

Correspondence to: J. Liu; E-mail: leexm{at}mail.ustc.edu.cn

DNA vaccination represents a novel therapeutic strategy for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Recently, some HBV DNA vaccines have been used in the preliminary clinical trials and exhibited exciting results in chronic HBV carriers. But these vaccines only encoded the single viral antigen, the S or the PreS2/S antigen. In this study, we designed a polytope DNA vaccine encoding multiple T cell epitopes. We found that it induced stronger CTL responses than the vaccine encoding the single antigen in H-2d and H-2b mice, although the CTL response to Ld-restricted epitope suppressed the CTLs to other epitopes in H-2d-restricted mice. Interestingly, heat shock protein 70 as an adjuvant not only enhanced CTL response to the viral antigen but also overcame this epitope suppression. Furthermore, the polytope DNA vaccine resulted in a long-term down-regulation of hepatitis B virus surface antigen and inhibition of HBV DNA replication in a HBV transgenic mouse model. Therefore, our research indicates that it is practicable and feasible to design a polytope DNA vaccine for chronic hepatitis B immunotherapy.

Keywords: DNA vaccine, HBV, Hsp70, T cell epitopes, therapy

Transmitting editor: A. Kelso


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