1. Physical mixture of a cyclic lipopeptide vaccine induced high titres of opsonic IgG antibodies against group A streptococcus
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Harrison Y. R. Madge, Istvan Toth, Robert J. Capon, Zeinab G. Khalil, Rachel J. Stephenson, Wenbin Huang, Viviene S. Santiago, Prashamsa Koirala, Waleed M. Hussein, Berta Rigau-Planella, and Lachlan Gilmartin
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Synthetic vaccine ,Streptococcus pyogenes ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Biomedical Engineering ,Peptides, Cyclic ,Microbiology ,Lipopeptides ,Immune system ,Adjuvants, Immunologic ,Antigen ,Streptococcal Infections ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,General Materials Science ,Opsonin ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,Vaccines ,Toll-like receptor ,biology ,Antibodies, Bacterial ,Cyclic peptide ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,HEK293 Cells ,chemistry ,Immunoglobulin G ,biology.protein ,Female ,Antibody ,Adjuvant - Abstract
Untreated or reoccurring group A Streptococcus (GAS) infection can lead to a number of post-infection complications, including rheumatic heart disease. There is no licenced vaccine for the treatment or prevention of GAS infection. We identified that a cyclic decapeptide plays a significant positive influence on the adjuvant activity of several lipid-antigen mixtures. Here, three synthetic vaccine components were synthesised: (1) J8-PADRE represents the GAS B cell antigen (J8) conjugated to the universal T helper epitope (PADRE); (2) a synthetic toll like receptor 2 (TLR2) ligand based on a C16 alkyl chain lipid moiety; and (3) a cyclic carrier deca-peptide. Previously, through structure-immune activity investigations, it was observed that a physical mixture of these three components had significantly higher IgG immune responses when compared to a fully conjugated vaccine construct. Expanding the scope of this structure-activity investigation, we show that the presence of the cyclic peptide is required for the induction of a strong, balanced Th1/Th2 immune response when compared with lipid and antigen only, and cyclic lipopeptide plus B/T cell antigen physical mixtures.
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- 2022