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Infection and Immunity, September 2000, p. 4923-4929, Vol. 68, No. 9
The Department of Infectious and Tropical
Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London,
WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom
Received 27 March 2000/Returned for modification 16 May
2000/Accepted 6 June 2000
Toxicity is a major factor limiting the development and use of
potent adjuvants for human mucosally delivered vaccines. Novel adjuvant
formulations have recently become available, and in the present study
two have been used for intranasal immunization with a synthetic peptide
immunogen (MAP-M2). This peptide represents a multiple antigenic
peptide containing multiple copies of a mimotope M2, a peptide mimic of
a conformational epitope of the fusion protein of measles virus. MAP-M2
was administered intranasally to experimental animals together with
synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides containing unmethylated CpG motifs with
or without a mutant of wild-type enterotoxin of Escherichia
coli (LTR72). The combination of the mutant toxin LTR72 and the
CpG repeats, codelivered with a peptide immunogen, induced both local
and systemic peptide- and pathogen-specific humoral and cellular immune
responses comparable to those obtained after intranasal immunization
with the wild-type toxin LT. In addition, this combination of adjuvants
induced a predominantly immunoglobulin G2a antibody response. If both
the LTR72 and CpG adjuvants are shown to be safe for use in humans, this particular combination would appear to have potential as an
adjuvant for mucosally delivered vaccines in humans.
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Antipeptide Antibody Responses following Intranasal
Immunization: Effectiveness of Mucosal Adjuvants
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Immunology Unit,
Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of
Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, United
Kingdom. Phone and Fax: (44) 207-927-2378. E-mail:
michael.steward{at}lshtm.ac.uk.
Present address: UPR 9021, Immunochimie des Peptides et des Virus,
Institut de Biologie Moléculaire & Cellulaire, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France.
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