title: DNA vaccination primes MHC class I-restricted, simian virus 40 large tumor antigen-specific CTL in H-2d mice that reject syngeneic tumors.
abstract: We investigated the stimulation of a MHC class I-restricted response of CTL to the SV40 large tumor Ag (T-Ag) by different vaccination strategies in H-2d and H-2b mice. Immunization with plasmid DNA or exogenous T-Ag, or infection with SV40, primed CTL to T-Ag in H-2b mice; these three different types of Ag delivery primed T-Ag-specific CTL populations with similar epitope/restriction specificities. In H-2d mice, i.m. immunization with plasmid DNA, but neither immunization with exogenous protein Ag nor SV40 infection, primed CTL to T-Ag. T-Ag-specific H-2d CTL were primed by DNA-based immunization in vivo, expressed the CD4-CD8+ phenotype, and were L(d)-restricted. In H-2d (DBA/2) mice, T-Ag-specific immune responses primed by plasmid DNA injection, but not those primed by exogenous T-Ag or SV40 infection, mediated CD8+ CTL-dependent rejection of T-Ag-expressing P815/T tumor grafts. The data indicate that immunization by plasmid DNA injection is an efficient strategy to induce class I-restricted CTL responses against oncogene-encoded Ags of low immunogenicity that mediate tumor rejection.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ulm, Germany.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schirmbeck
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Böhm
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Reimann
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000952:Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming / Q000235:genetics; D000939:Epitopes / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D006084:Graft Rejection; D006183:H-2 Antigens; D015395:Histocompatibility Antigens Class I; D008297:Male; D012515:Mast-Cell Sarcoma / Q000276:immunology; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008811:Mice, Inbred DBA; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology*; D014185:Transplantation, Isogeneic; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D019444:Vaccines, DNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D000952:Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming; D000939:Epitopes; D006183:H-2 Antigens; D015395:Histocompatibility Antigens Class I; D019444:Vaccines, DNA