title: Role of intrastructural/intermolecular help in immunization with peptide-phospholipid complexes.
abstract: The design of effective subunit vaccines requires the inclusion of both B and T cell epitopes. The best mechanism for including both types of epitopes within an Ag is dependent upon how the Ag is processed by the APC for presentation to a responsive Th cell. If it is more efficient to process a single molecule for both helper and primary epitopes, than covalent linkage of B cells and T cell epitopes for intramolecular presentation of help would be recommended. If however, separate peptides containing either B or Th cell epitopes could be included within a single complex for the elicitation of intermolecular/intrastructural help, more antigenically diverse structures could be designed. This paper reports that it is possible to generate intermolecular/intrastructural help within an antigenic peptide-phospholipid (PL) complex. These peptide-PL complexes use well defined epitopes from Plasmodium falciparum as Ag. In addition to generating intrastructural help, we have shown that the Ir to these peptide-PL complexes is controlled by Ir genes and is similar to the Ir to the circumsporozoite protein of this pathogen.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albany Medical College, NY 12208.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Goodman-Snitkoff
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Good
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Berzofsky
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Mannino
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan / Q000276:immunology; D000917:Antibody Formation; D000953:Antigens, Protozoan / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology*; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D000939:Epitopes; D005802:Genes, MHC Class II; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology*; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology*; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum / Q000276:immunology; D015800:Protozoan Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D006377:T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer / Q000276:immunology; D014614:Vaccines, Synthetic / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan; D000953:Antigens, Protozoan; D000939:Epitopes; D010455:Peptides; D010743:Phospholipids; D015800:Protozoan Proteins; D014614:Vaccines, Synthetic; C041595:circumsporozoite protein, Protozoan