Refocusing of B-cell responses following a single amino acid substitution in an antigen.
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Dalla Chiesa, M., Martensen, P., Simmons, C., Porakishvili, N., Justesen, J., Dougan, G., Roitt, I., Delves, P. and Lund, T. 2001. Refocusing of B-cell responses following a single amino acid substitution in an antigen. Immunology. 103 (2), pp. 172-178. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2567.2001.01242.x
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Title | Refocusing of B-cell responses following a single amino acid substitution in an antigen. |
Authors | Dalla Chiesa, M., Martensen, P., Simmons, C., Porakishvili, N., Justesen, J., Dougan, G., Roitt, I., Delves, P. and Lund, T. |
Abstract | Intranasal immunization of BALB/c strain mice was carried out using baculovirus-derived human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) β-chain, together with Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin. Gonadotrophin-reactive immunoglobulin A (IgA) was induced in a remote mucosal site, the lung, in addition to a systemic IgG response. The extensive sequence homology with luteinizing hormone (LH) results in the production of LH cross-reactive antibodies when holo-hCG is used as an immunogen. In contrast to wild-type hCGβ, a mutated hCGβ-chain containing an arginine to glutamic acid substitution at position 68 did not induce the production of antibodies which cross-react with LH. Furthermore, the epitopes utilized in the B-cell response to the mutated hCGβ shifted away from the immunodominant region of the parent wild-type molecule towards epitopes within the normally weakly immunogenic C terminus. This shift in epitope usage was also seen following intramuscular immunization of rabbits. Thus, a single amino acid change, which does not disrupt the overall structure of the molecule, refocuses the immune response away from a disadvantageous cross-reactive epitope region and towards a normally weakly immunogenic but antigen-unique area. Similar mutational strategies for epitope-refocusing may be applicable to other vaccine candidate molecules. |
Research Group | Biomarkers for Cancer group |
Publisher | WileyBlackwell |
Journal | Immunology |
ISSN | 1365-2567 |
Publication dates | |
Jun 2001 | |
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Deposited | 12 Feb 2010 |
Output status | Published |
Web address (URL) | http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118970302/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2567.2001.01242.x |
Language | English |
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