HIV gp120-specific cell-mediated immune responses in mice after oral immunization with recombinant Salmonella.
Salmonella is of great interest as a potential human immunodeficiency virus vaccine vector because of its ability to elicit potent mucosal and systemic immune responses when administered orally. To determine whether such a vaccine could elicit an immune response in mice, plasmids expressing HIV gp120-LAI were introduced into attenuated S. typhimurium. Three serial doses of 10(10) recombinant organisms were administered orally to BALB/c mice at 2-week intervals. Immunized mice but not control mice demonstrated proliferative T cell responses to gp120-LAI, comparable in magnitude to the proliferative responses to Salmonella antigens. Immunized mice had detectable serum and intestinal Salmonella-specific IgA and serum Salmonella-specific IgG. However, no gp120-specific antibody was detected in either serum or intestinal washes. These results indicate that live recombinant Salmonella-based vaccine constructs can induce HIV-specific cellular immune responses in vivo.
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Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80267, USA.
Wunderlich
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Ziegler
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Schleicher
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Duke
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Looney
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Fang
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