修改线性DNA疫苗的非编码区域,以探索表达和炎症在免疫性中的相互作用
David C Stirling1, Maria de Miguel Ferrer1,2, Sungwon Kim2
1Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics
|January 20, 2025
概括
优化DNA疫苗设计对于提高免疫性至关重要. 封闭的线性DNA平台中的增强剂和DNA向序列可以促进小鼠的抗原表达和免疫反应,为未来的疫苗开发提供了一个有希望的途径.
科学领域:
- 疫苗学 疫苗学 疫苗学
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 免疫学 免疫学 免疫学
背景情况:
- 随着COVID-19的流行,人们越来越需要适应性疫苗技术,RNA疫苗越来越受欢迎.
- 与RNA疫苗相比,DNA疫苗在制造,储存和潜在的减少反应性方面具有优势.
- 从历史上看,DNA疫苗在大型动物和人体试验中显示出有限的免疫性,需要优化策略.
研究的目的:
- 调查修改非编码5'区域对非细胞生产的封闭线性DNA平台 (DoggyboneTM DNA) 免疫性的影响.
- 评估增强剂序列,DNA向序列 (DTS) 和CpG基因在调节免疫反应中的作用.
- 为了区分DNA构造免疫传感与抗原表达对疫苗疗效的影响.
主要方法:
- 使用小鼠模型评估DNA疫苗结构与修改的非编码5'区域.
- 构造的狗骨TMDNA (dbDNATM) 编码流感病毒血质素 (HA),SARS-CoV-2尖峰和eGFP.
- 评估抗原表达水平和免疫反应,包括同时服用CpG寡氧核酸 (ODN) 的影响.
主要成果:
- 增强序列和DNA向序列 (DTS) 显著增加了流感HA表达和增强了免疫反应.
- 添加额外的CpG基因并没有给免疫系统带来任何额外的益处.
- 非编码序列的影响是抗原特异性的,在流感HA,SARS-CoV-2 Spike和eGFP构造中显示出各种效应.
- 分离免疫传感和抗原表达表明,在使用CpG ODNs时,减少表达与较高的炎症导致相当的免疫性.
结论:
- 修改非编码的5'区域,特别是结合增强剂和DTS,可以提高DNA疫苗的免疫性.
- CpG图案并不普遍增强DNA疫苗的免疫性.
- 了解DNA结构特征,抗原表达和先天免疫感应之间的复杂相互作用对于开发保护性DNA疫苗至关重要.
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