Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE

  • 제10권1호
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  • Pages.29-33
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  • 2005
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  • 1226-8372(pISSN)
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  • 1976-3816(eISSN)
한국생물공학회 (The Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering)
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Construction of CpG Motif-enriched DNA Vaccine Plasmids for Enhanced Early Immune Response

  • Park Young Seoub (Interdisciplinary Program for Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Seoul National University) ;
  • Hwang Seung Ha (School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Choi Cha-Yong (Interdisciplinary Program for Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Seoul National University, School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University)
  • 발행 : 2005.02.01
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A DNA vaccine methodology using eukaryote expression vectors to produce immunizing proteins in the vaccinated hosts is a novel approach to the development of vaccine and immuno-therapeutics, and it has achieved considerable success over several infectious diseases and various cancers. To further enhance its efficiency, attempts were made to develop novel plasmid vectors containing multiple immunostimulatory CpG motifs, for rapid and strong immune response. First, a 2.9 kb compact plasmid vector (pVAC), containing CMV promoter, polycloning site, BGH poly(A) terminator, ampicillin resistance gene and pBR322 origin was constructed. A pVAC-hEPO was also constructed, which contained a human erythropoietin gene, for evaluating the transfection efficiency of naked plasmid DNA both in vitro and in vivo. To examine the adjuvant effect of multi-CpG motifs on naked plasmid DNA, 22 and 44 enriched and unmethylated CpG motifs were introduced into pVAC to generate pVAC-ISS1 and pVAC-ISS2, respectively. $100{\mu}g$ of pSecTagB, pVAC, pVAC-ISS1 or pVAC-ISS2 were each injected intramuscularly into the tibilias anterior muscle of Balb/c mice. The level of interleukin-6 induced in the mice injected with pVAC-ISS1 and pVAC-ISS2 were significantly elevated after 12 hours, which were almost 2 and 2.5 times higher than that in the mice injected with pSecTagB, respectively. These results suggest that DNA vaccine plasmids with enriched CpG motifs can induce rapid secretion of interleukin-6 by lymphocytes. In conclusion, these vectors can contribute to the development of adjuvant-free DNA vaccinations against infectious diseases and various cancers.

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