Publication Date:
1993-01-08
Description:
Synthetic peptides corresponding to microbial epitopes stimulate T cell immunity but their immunogenicity is poor and their half-lives are short. A viral epitope inserted into the complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR3) loop of the heavy chain of a self immunoglobulin (Ig) molecule was generated from the Ig context and was presented by I-Ed class II molecules to virus-specific, CD4+ T cells. Chimeric Ig-peptide was presented 100 to 1000 times more efficiently than free synthetic peptide and was able to prime virus-specific T cells in vivo. These features suggest that antigenized Ig can provide an improved and safe vaccine for the presentation of microbial and other peptides.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zaghouani, H -- Steinman, R -- Nonacs, R -- Shah, H -- Gerhard, W -- Bona, C -- AI13013/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI18316/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI24460/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1993 Jan 8;259(5092):224-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7678469" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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Antigen-Presenting Cells/*immunology
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Antigens, Viral/*immunology
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Arsenic/immunology
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*Arsenicals
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Base Sequence
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CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
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DNA/genetics
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Epitopes/*immunology
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Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus
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Hemagglutinins, Viral/genetics/immunology
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Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/immunology
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Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/genetics/immunology
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Immunoglobulin Variable Region/genetics/immunology
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Immunoglobulins/genetics/*immunology
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred BALB C
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Mutagenesis
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Receptors, Fc/immunology
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Recombinant Fusion Proteins/immunology
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Transfection
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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