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- Title
Robust immune responses elicited by a fully synthetic three-component vaccine.
- Authors
Ingale, Sampat; Wolfert, Margreet A.; Gaekwad, Jidnyasa; Buskas, Therese; Boons, Geert-Jan
- Abstract
The overexpression of saccharides such as Globo-H, LewisY and Tn antigen is a common feature of oncogenic transformed cells. Endeavors to exploit this aberrant glycosylation for cancer vaccine development have been complicated by difficulties in eliciting high titers of IgG antibodies against classical conjugates of tumor-associated carbohydrates to carrier proteins. We have designed, chemically synthesized and immunologically evaluated a number of fully synthetic vaccine candidates to establish strategies to overcome the poor immunogenicity of tumor-associated carbohydrates and glycopeptides. We have found that a three-component vaccine composed of a TLR2 agonist, a promiscuous peptide T-helper epitope and a tumor-associated glycopeptide can elicit in mice exceptionally high titers of IgG antibodies that can recognize cancer cells expressing the tumor-associated carbohydrate. The superior properties of the vaccine candidate are attributed to the local production of cytokines, upregulation of co-stimulatory proteins, enhanced uptake by macrophages and dendritic cells and avoidance of epitope suppression.
- Subjects
SACCHARIDES; ANTIGENS; ONCOGENES; CANCER prevention; CARRIER proteins; IMMUNOGENETICS; CYTOKINES
- Publication
Nature Chemical Biology, 2007, Vol 3, Issue 10, p663
- ISSN
1552-4450
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nchembio.2007.25