While as yet there is no vaccine against HIV/AIDS, the results of the phase III Thai trial (RV144) have been encouraging and suggest that further improvements of the prime/boost vaccine combination of a poxvirus and protein are needed. With this aim, in this investigation we have generated derivatives of the candidate vaccinia virus vaccine vector NYVAC with potentially improved functions. This has been achieved by the re-incorporation into the virus genome of two host range genes, K1L and C7L, in conjunction with the removal of the immunomodulatory viral molecule B19, an antagonist of type I interferon action. These novel virus vectors, referred to as NYVAC-C-KC and NYVAC-C-KC-ΔB19R, have acquired relevant biological characteristics, giving higher levels of antigen expression in infected cells, replication-competency in human keratinocytes and dermal fibroblasts, activation of selective host cell signal transduction pathways, and limited virus spread in tissues. Importantly, these replication-competent viruses have been demonstrated to maintain a highly attenuated phenotype.
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- Improved NYVAC-Based Vaccine Vectors
- Kibler, Karen (Author)
- Gomez, Carmen E. (Author)
- Perdiguero, Beatriz (Author)
- Wong, Shukmei (Author)
- Huynh, Trung (Author)
- Holechek, Susan (Author)
- Arndt, William (Author)
- Jimenez, Victoria (Author)
- Gonzalez-Sanz, Ruben (Author)
- Denzler, Karen (Author)
- Haddad, Elias K. (Author)
- Wagner, Ralf (Author)
- Sekaly, Rafick P. (Author)
- Tartaglia, James (Author)
- Pantaleo, Giuseppe (Author)
- Jacobs, Bertram (Author)
- Esteban, Mariano (Author)
- ASU Biodesign Center Immunotherapy, Vaccines and Virotherapy (Contributor)
- Biodesign Institute (Contributor)
- Digital object identifier: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025674
- Identifier TypeInternational standard serial numberIdentifier Value1045-3830
- Identifier TypeInternational standard serial numberIdentifier Value1939-1560
- The article is published at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0025674
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Kibler, K. V., Gomez, C. E., Perdiguero, B., Wong, S., Huynh, T., Holechek, S., . . . Esteban, M. (2011). Improved NYVAC-Based Vaccine Vectors. PLoS ONE, 6(11). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025674