title: HBV genes induce cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response upon adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector delivery into dendritic cells.
abstract: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been an increasing problem throughout the world and remains difficult to treat. But immunotherapeutic approaches offer new, effective treatments. Three recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) type 2 vectors, carrying one of the HBV S, C or X gene, were used to load (transduce) professional antigen-presenting dendritic cells (DC) for the purpose of stimulating cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) in vitro. It was found that all three recombinant AAV/HBV antigen virus loaded DC at approximately 90% transduction efficiency. Most importantly, all three AAV-loaded DC stimulated rapid, antigen-specific and major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-restricted CTL. In vitro, these CTL killed (30-50%) synthetic antigen-positive autologous targets as well as HepG2 liver cell targets. In comparing the three antigens, it was found that AAV/HBV-C-derived CTL consistently had the highest killing efficiency. CTL derived from AAV/HBV-C-loaded DC also showed significantly higher killing of targets than that from bacterially generated C-protein-loaded DC. Further studies showed that AAV/HBV-C-derived CTL had higher interferon (IFN)-gamma. These data suggest that AAV/HBV antigen gene-loading of DC may be useful for immunotherapeutic protocols against HBV infection and that the HBV C antigen may be the most useful for this purpose.
authors.affiliation: Liver Research Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital University of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: You
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cong
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ping
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: You
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Mehta
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Hermonat
mesh_terms: D015703:Antigens, CD / Q000032:analysis; D002460:Cell Line; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003601:Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic; D003713:Dendritic Cells / Q000276:immunology*; D000229:Dependovirus / Q000235:genetics*; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D005814:Genes, Viral; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D006515:Hepatitis B virus / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology*; D014161:Transduction, Genetic
chemical_list: D015703:Antigens, CD