title: A rational design of synthetic peptide vaccine with a built-in adjuvant. A modular approach for unambiguity.
abstract: We describe a peptide vaccine model containing a built-in adjuvant. This model used a multiple antigen peptide system (MAPS) to amplify peptide antigens and a lipoamino acid, tripalmitoyl glyceryl cysteine (P3C), as a built-in adjuvant. An 18-residue peptide antigen (B2) derived from the third variable domain (amino acid 312-329) of the glycoprotein gp120 of type I human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) was used in this model. This peptide antigen is a suitable target since it consists of neutralizing, T-helper, and T-cytotoxic epitopes. The peptide antigen in a tetravalent MAPS format (B2M-P3C) with a lipophilic attachment was synthesized by two routes for comparison: a direct stepwise approach and an indirect modular approach. In the stepwise approach, each residue was sequentially added to the peptide resin to give B2M-P3C and the P3C was incorporated to the side chain of a carboxyl terminal lysine as Fmoc-Lys(P3C). In the modular approach, a module containing a chloroacetylated core matrix of MAPS (M-P3C) with a carboxyl tetrapeptide bearing Lys(P3C) and a second module containing the peptide antigen B2 with a cysteine at its terminus were synthesized and purified separately, and then coupled to each other to form B2M-P3C. In the modular approach, the molecular ion of B2M-P3C was unambiguously identified by ion-spray mass spectrometry. B2M-P3C, administered in liposomes without any adjuvant such as Freund's complete adjuvant, was used to immunize mice and found to induce gp120-specific antibodies in vitro, and prime cytotoxic T lymphocytes in vivo.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors: Rockefeller University, New York, NY.
authors: J P
authors: JP
authors: Defoort
authors: B
authors: B
authors: Nardelli
authors: W
authors: W
authors: Huang
authors: J P
authors: JP
authors: Tam
mesh_terms: D016915:AIDS Vaccines / Q000737:chemistry*; D000276:Adjuvants, Immunologic / Q000737:chemistry*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000917:Antibody Formation / Q000276:immunology; D015195:Drug Design; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D007114:Immunization; D008081:Liposomes; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010455:Peptides / Q000276:immunology*; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology; D014614:Vaccines, Synthetic / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D016915:AIDS Vaccines; D000276:Adjuvants, Immunologic; D008081:Liposomes; D010455:Peptides; D014614:Vaccines, Synthetic