Trivalent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) VLP vaccine covering HPV type 58 can elicit high level of humoral immunity but also induce immune interference among component types.
Both Human Papillomavirus (HPV) type 16/18 bivalent vaccine and type 16/18/6/11 quadrivalent vaccine have been proved to be safe and effective, and licensed for public use. However, these two vaccines do not quite match the distribution of HPV types in China, Southeast Asia and Latin America, where HPV 58 is highly prevalent. Here we produced three types of virus-like particles (VLPs) in baculovirus expression system, formulated a trivalent vaccine containing HPV 16, 18, and 58 L1 VLPs and examined its in vitro neutralizing titers. This vaccine could induce high level and long-term humoral immunity against the component types. But immune interference was observed when comparing type specific neutralizing antibody levels induced by trivalent vaccine to those by corresponding monovalent vaccines. This kind of interference would become more obvious when formulating more types of VLPs into multivalent vaccines, but could be greatly overcome by decreasing the antigen dosage and adding a proper adjuvant.
Zhang
Ting
T
Department of Biophysics and Structural Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China.
Xu
Yufei
Y
Qiao
Liang
L
Wang
Youchun
Y
Wu
Xueling
X
Fan
Dongsheng
D
Peng
Qinglin
Q
Xu
Xuemei
X
D000818:Animals; D057134:Antibodies, Neutralizing / Q000097:blood; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood*; D016367:Baculoviridae / Q000235:genetics; D036022:Capsid Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D007156:Immunologic Memory; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009856:Oncogene Proteins, Viral / Q000276:immunology; D027383:Papillomaviridae / Q000276:immunology*; D053918:Papillomavirus Vaccines / Q000276:immunology*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013997:Time Factors; D022721:Vaccines, Virosome / Q000276:immunology
D057134:Antibodies, Neutralizing; D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D036022:Capsid Proteins; D004279:DNA, Viral; D009856:Oncogene Proteins, Viral; D053918:Papillomavirus Vaccines; D022721:Vaccines, Virosome; C538801:long L1 capsid protein, human papillomavirus type 58; C063317:L1 protein, Human papillomavirus type 16; C480565:L1 protein, Human papillomavirus type 18