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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The carbomer-lecithin adjuvant Adjuplex has potent immunoactivating properties and elicits protective adaptive immunity against influenza virus challenge in mice |
| Creators Name: | Wegmann, F., Moghaddam, A.E., Schiffner, T., Gartlan, K.H., Powell, T.J., Russell, R.A., Baart, M., Carrow, E.W. and Sattentau, Q.J. |
| Abstract: | The continued discovery and development of adjuvants for vaccine formulation are important to safely increase potency and/or reduce the antigen doses of existing vaccines and tailor the adaptive immune response to newly developed vaccines. Adjuplex is a novel adjuvant platform based on a purified lecithin and carbomer homopolymer. Here, we analyzed the adjuvant activity of Adjuplex in mice for the soluble hemagglutinin (HA) glycoprotein of influenza A virus. The titration of Adjuplex revealed an optimal dose of 1% for immunogenicity, eliciting high titers of HA-specific IgG but inducing no significant weight loss. At this dose, Adjuplex completely protected mice from an otherwise lethal influenza virus challenge and was at least as effective as the adjuvants monophosphoryl lipid A (MPL) and alum in preventing disease. Adjuplex elicited balanced Th1-/Th2-type immune responses with accompanying cytokines and triggered antigen-specific CD8+ T-cell proliferation. The use of the peritoneal inflammation model revealed that Adjuplex recruited dendritic cells (DCs), monocytes, and neutrophils in the context of innate cytokine and chemokine secretion. Adjuplex neither triggered classical maturation of DCs nor activated a pathogen recognition receptor (PRR)-expressing NF-κB reporter cell line, suggesting a mechanism of action different from that reported for classical pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP)-activated innate immunity. Taken together, these data reveal Adjuplex to be a potent and well-tolerated adjuvant with application for subunit vaccines. |
| Keywords: | Acrylic Resins, Adaptive Immunity, B-Lymphocytes, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes, Cytokines, Dendritic Cells, H1N1 Subtype Influenza A Virus, Immunologic Adjuvants, Inbred BALB C Mice, Influenza Vaccines, Influenza Virus Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Lecithins, Orthomyxoviridae Infections, Pathogen-Associated Molecular Pattern Molecules, Th1-Th2 Balance, Vaccination, Viral Antibodies, Animals, Mice |
| Source: | Clinical and Vaccine Immunology |
| ISSN: | 1556-6811 |
| Publisher: | American Society for Microbiology |
| Volume: | 22 |
| Number: | 9 |
| Page Range: | 1004-1012 |
| Date: | 9 September 2015 |
| Official Publication: | https://doi.org/10.1128/cvi.00736-14 |
| PubMed: | View item in PubMed |
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