title: Susceptibility to Simian immunodeficiency virus ex vivo predicts outcome of a prime-boost vaccine after SIVmac239 challenge.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Efficacy assessment of AIDS vaccines relies both on preclinically challenging immunized monkeys with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) or monitoring infection rates in large human trials. Although conventional parameters of vaccine-induced immune responses do not completely predict outcome, existing methods for testing cellular immunity are sophisticated and difficult to establish in resource-limited settings.
  
  
  METHODS
  We have used virus replication kinetics (VVR) on ConA-stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells from rhesus monkeys immunized with DNA replication-defective adenovirus vector expressing various SIV genes, as an ex vivo model, to mimic the effects of different immune effector functions on viral infection.
  
  
  RESULTS
  VVR was attenuated by the immunization and correlated 2 weeks after first boost, with the number of interferon gamma-secreting cells and T-cell noncytotoxic antiviral responses. Importantly, VVR on the day of challenge but not interferon gamma responses correlated with viremia and with memory CD4+ T-cell measurements after SIVmac239 challenge. Similarly, T-cell noncytotoxic antiviral responses on the day of challenge correlated directly with memory CD4 T cell and inversely with plasma viremia after challenge.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  VVR thus served as a better predictor of protective capacity of the vaccine regimen in these monkeys. We suggest that VVR be considered in the evaluation of candidate AIDS vaccines in humans.
authors: Department of Virology and Immunology, German Primate Centre, Kellnerweg, Goettingen, Germany.
authors: Washingtone
authors: W
authors: Ochieng
authors: Ulrike
authors: U
authors: Sauermann
authors: Reiner
authors: R
authors: Schulte
authors: You-Suk
authors: YS
authors: Suh
authors: Kwang Soon
authors: KS
authors: Kim
authors: Young C
authors: YC
authors: Sung
authors: Gerhard
authors: G
authors: Hunsmann
authors: Christiane
authors: C
authors: Stahl-Hennig
authors: Sieghart
authors: S
authors: Sopper
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D004341:Drug Evaluation / Q000379:methods; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical / Q000379:methods*; D007963:Leukocytes, Mononuclear / Q000821:virology; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D018449:SAIDS Vaccines / Q000276:immunology*; D016097:Simian Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015302:Simian Immunodeficiency Virus / Q000254:growth & development*
chemical_list: D018449:SAIDS Vaccines