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Article
Date of Original Version
2011
Abstract
Helicobacter pylori is the leading cause of gastritis, peptic ulcer disease and gastric adenocarcinoma and lymphoma in humans. Due to the decreasing efficacy of anti-H. pylori antibiotic therapy in clinical practice, there is renewed interest in the development of anti-H. pylori vaccines. In this study an in silico-based approach was utilized to develop a multi-epitope DNA-prime/peptide-boost immunization strategy using informatics tools. The efficacy of this construct was then assessed as a therapeutic vaccine in a mouse model of gastric cancer induced by chronic H. pylori infection. The multi-epitope vaccine administered intranasally induced a broad immune response as determined by interferon-gamma production in ELISpot assays. This was associated with a significant reduction in H. pylori colonization compared with mice immunized with the same vaccine intramuscularly, given an empty plasmid, or given a whole H. pylori lysate intranasally as the immunogen. Total scores of gastric histological changes were not significantly different among the 4 experimental groups. These results suggest that further development of an epitope-based mucosal vaccine may be beneficial in eradicating H. pylori and reducing the burden of the associated gastric diseases in humans.
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Moss, S. F., Moise, L., Lee, D. S., Kim, W., Zhang, S., Lee, J., Rogers, A. B.,...De Groot, A. S. (2011). HelicoVax: Epitope-based therapeutic Helicobacter pylori vaccination in a mouse model. Vaccine, 29(11), 2085-2091. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.12.130
Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.12.130
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