IFN-γ is also produced by antigen-presenting cells (APCs), especially interleukin-12 (IL-12)-stimulated macrophages and dendritic cells (DC) ( 19, 26).
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Later, during the antigen-specific phase of the immune response, IFN-γ produced by T lymphocytes regulates antigen presentation and both the proliferation and differentiation of lymphocyte populations ( 10, 19). During the early phase of the immune response, IFN-γ produced by natural killer (NK) cells acts to initiate acute inflammation. Gamma interferon (IFN-γ) plays a central role in modulating immune responses.
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Since vaccine antigen (Ag) clearance can limit the magnitudes of adaptive immune responses, and these responses are associated with the magnitudes of the elicited memory cellular responses, we are evaluating changing the kinetics of rAd-delivered antigen clearance as a strategy for enhancing rAd vaccine-elicited memory responses. In fact, a relationship between the rate of clearance of transgene expression and the generation of long-term memory cellular immune responses was noted ( 20). In these studies, differences between the clearance of transgene expression in wild-type and athymic mice after rAd-Luc administration suggested that the kinetics of this clearance might be associated with the generation of cellular immune responses. Previous studies from our laboratory have shown that rAd expressing a luciferase transgene (rAd-Luc) generates high-level transgene expression for approximately 1 week in wild-type mice ( 20). We are therefore interested in exploring strategies to enhance rAd5 immunogenicity.
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In fact, the results of a recent clinical trial of a T-cell-based AIDS vaccine delivered by rAd vectors suggest that preexisting immunity to Ad5 may affect both immunogenicity and vaccine efficacy ( 14). However, the usefulness of rAd vectors in human populations may be limited by preexisting anti-Ad5 immunity, which is common in humans ( 14, 16, 39, 55). Replication-incompetent recombinant adenovirus serotype 5 (rAd5) vectors have been studied extensively as vaccine candidates for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) ( 11, 49, 54) and have been evaluated in gene therapy and T-cell-based vaccine clinical trials ( 14). These observations illustrate the utility of an anti-IFN-γ Ab for potentiating rAd immunizations to effect quantitative and qualitative changes in the effector and memory CTL populations. In fact, blockage of IFN-γ activity by monoclonal Ab administration was associated with elevated levels of interleukin 7 receptor alpha chain-positive (IL-7Rα +) Env-specific CTL populations postboost. Since these observations suggested that IFN-γ might suppress rAd-induced CTL development, we assessed the ability of anti-IFN-γ Ab administration to augment rAd-elicited CTL in vivo.
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Consistent with these in vitro findings, we found that HIV-1 envelope (Env)-specific CTL responses were higher in IFN-γ-knockout (GKO) mice than in wild-type mice following immunization with rAd. We first showed that recombinant IFN-γ suppressed antigen expression in vitro from a recombinant adenovirus (rAd) vector in a dose-dependent manner and that addition of an anti-IFN-γ antibody (Ab) eliminated this suppression. We assessed strategies for modulating the contribution of IFN-γ during the development of antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) populations. Vaccination for eliciting antigen-specific memory CD8 + T cells may be facilitated by manipulating the pleiotropic effects of gamma interferon (IFN-γ).