Anti-major histocompatibility complex antibody responses to simian B cells do not protect macaques against SIVmac infection
- PMID: 9223408
- DOI: 10.1089/aid.1997.13.923
Anti-major histocompatibility complex antibody responses to simian B cells do not protect macaques against SIVmac infection
Abstract
Macaques have been protected against infection with human cell-grown SIVmac by immunization with antigens encoded by the human major histocompatibility complex (MHC). Here, we investigated the efficacy of alloimmunization with simian B cells expressing high levels of MHC class I and class II molecules to confer protection against systemic challenge with simian-grown SIVmac. Eight rhesus macaques were vaccinated with glutaraldehyde-fixed and beta-propiolactone-inactivated herpesvirus papio-transformed B cells. Four of the macaques received 5 doses, the others 10. Animals were challenged with rhesus macaque spleen-derived cell-free SIVmac. Allogeneic B cells elicited antibody responses to rhesus MHC class I and II but failed to protect animals against infection. Anti-MHC class I antibodies were restricted in specificity and failed to recognize MHC class I from some B lymphoblastoid cell lines (B-LCLs) including a B-LCL from the animal in whose cells the challenge virus was grown. Vaccinated animals responded to self-MHC class I antigens but not to self-MHC class II antigens from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). Animals that underwent the shorter immunization regimen had transiently enhanced PBMC-associated virus loads after challenge, whereas the average virus-infected cell load was reduced in animals that underwent the more extensive immunization. These results suggest that antibody responses to allogeneic MHC molecules do not protect against infection with immunodeficiency lentiviruses.
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Concerning the anti-major histocompatibility complex approach to HIV type 1 vaccine design.AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 1998 May 1;14(7):541-4. doi: 10.1089/aid.1998.14.541. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 1998. PMID: 9591707 No abstract available.
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