TY - JOUR
T1 - Long-peptide therapeutic vaccination against CRPV-induced papillomas in HLA-A2.1 transgenic rabbits
AU - Hu, Jiafen
AU - Budgeon, Lynn R.
AU - Balogh, Karla K.
AU - Peng, Xuwen
AU - Cladel, Nancy M.
AU - Christensen, Neil D.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Cancer Institute Grant R01 CA47622 from the National Institutes of Health and the Jake Gittlen Memorial Golf Tournament .
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Long peptide immunization is a promising strategy to clear established tumors. In the current study, we investigated the therapeutic effect of a naturally existing long peptide that contained two HLA-A2.1 restricted epitopes (CRPVE1/149-157 and CRPVE1/161-169) from cottontail rabbit papillomavirus (CRPV) E1 using our CRPV/HLA-A2.1 transgenic rabbit model. A universal Tetanus Toxin helper motif (TT helper) was tagged at either the N-terminus or the carboxyl-terminus of this long peptide and designated as TT-E1 peptide and E1 peptide-TT, respectively. Four groups of HLA-A2.1 transgenic rabbits were infected with wild type CRPV DNA. Three weeks post-infection, the rabbits were immunized four times with TT-E1 peptide, E1 peptide only, E1 peptide-TT or TT-control peptide with two-week intervals between immunizations. Tumor outgrowth was monitored and recorded weekly. After the third booster immunization, tumors on two of the four E1 peptide-TT immunized rabbits began to shrink. One animal from this group was free of tumors at the termination of the study. The mean papilloma size of E1 peptide-TT immunized rabbits was significantly smaller when compared with that of the three other groups (P < 0.05, one way ANOVA analysis). It is interesting that E1 peptide-TT vaccination not only stimulated stronger T cell mediated immune responses but also stronger antibody generations. We conclude that the location of a TT helper motif tagged at the long peptide vaccine is critical for the outcome of therapeutic responses to persistent tumors in our HLA-A2.1 transgenic rabbit model.
AB - Long peptide immunization is a promising strategy to clear established tumors. In the current study, we investigated the therapeutic effect of a naturally existing long peptide that contained two HLA-A2.1 restricted epitopes (CRPVE1/149-157 and CRPVE1/161-169) from cottontail rabbit papillomavirus (CRPV) E1 using our CRPV/HLA-A2.1 transgenic rabbit model. A universal Tetanus Toxin helper motif (TT helper) was tagged at either the N-terminus or the carboxyl-terminus of this long peptide and designated as TT-E1 peptide and E1 peptide-TT, respectively. Four groups of HLA-A2.1 transgenic rabbits were infected with wild type CRPV DNA. Three weeks post-infection, the rabbits were immunized four times with TT-E1 peptide, E1 peptide only, E1 peptide-TT or TT-control peptide with two-week intervals between immunizations. Tumor outgrowth was monitored and recorded weekly. After the third booster immunization, tumors on two of the four E1 peptide-TT immunized rabbits began to shrink. One animal from this group was free of tumors at the termination of the study. The mean papilloma size of E1 peptide-TT immunized rabbits was significantly smaller when compared with that of the three other groups (P < 0.05, one way ANOVA analysis). It is interesting that E1 peptide-TT vaccination not only stimulated stronger T cell mediated immune responses but also stronger antibody generations. We conclude that the location of a TT helper motif tagged at the long peptide vaccine is critical for the outcome of therapeutic responses to persistent tumors in our HLA-A2.1 transgenic rabbit model.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.trivac.2014.06.002
DO - 10.1016/j.trivac.2014.06.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84910104872
SN - 1879-4378
VL - 3
SP - 134
EP - 142
JO - Trials in Vaccinology
JF - Trials in Vaccinology
IS - 1
ER -
