Immunodominance in virus-induced CD8(+) T-cell responses is dramatically modified by DNA immunization and is regulated by gamma interferon

Journal of Virology
Fernando RodriguezJ Lindsay Whitton

Abstract

The phenomenon whereby the host immune system responds to only a few of the many possible epitopes in a foreign protein is termed immunodominance. Immunodominance occurs not only during microbial infection but also following vaccination, and clarification of the underlying mechanism may permit the rational design of vaccines which can circumvent immunodominance, thereby inducing responses to all epitopes, dominant and subdominant. Here, we show that immunodominance affects DNA vaccines and that the effects can be avoided by the simple expedient of epitope separation. DNA vaccines encoding isolated dominant and subdominant epitopes induce equivalent responses, confirming a previous demonstration that coexpression of dominant and subdominant epitopes on the same antigen-presenting cell (APC) is central to immunodominance. We conclude that multiepitope DNA vaccines should comprise a cocktail of plasmids, each with its own epitope, to allow maximal epitope dispersal among APCs. In addition, we demonstrate that subdominant responses are actively suppressed by dominant CD8(+) T-cell responses and that gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) is required for this suppression. Furthermore, priming of CD8(+) T cells to a single dominant epitope res...Continue Reading

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