• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.408-419
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• 2016

Background: In recent years, adjuvants have received increasing attention owing to the development of purified subunit and synthetic vaccines which are poor immunogens and require additional adjuvants to evoke an immune response. Therefore, immunologic adjuvants have been developed and tested. Plant polysaccharides have been recognized as effective biological response modifiers with low toxicity. Methods and Results: In this study, the polysaccharide from the aboveground part of Astragalus membranaceus Bunge containing immunomodulating arabino-3,6-galactan was evaluated for its hemolytic activity and adjuvant potential in the specific cellular and humoral immune responses to ovalbumin. The polysaccharide from the aboveground part of Astragalus membranaceus Bunge was co-immunized with the purified Vi capsular polysaccharide of Salmonella typhi vaccine in mice. The polysaccharide from the aboveground part of Astragalus membranaceus Bunge did not induce any hemolytic activity or side effects at doses up to $500{\mu}g/m{\ell}$. The concanavalin A-, lipopolysaccharide-, and ovalbumin-induced splenocyte proliferation and serum ovalbumin-specific IgG, IgG1 and IgG2b antibody titers in immunized mice were significantly enhanced by AMA. Pharmacological data revealed that the polysaccharide from the aboveground part of Astragalus membranaceus Bunge increased antigen-specific antibody levels in immunized mice. The polysaccharide from the aboveground part of Astragalus membranaceus Bunge-adjuvanted purified Vi capsular polysaccharide of Salmonella typhi vaccine improved the proliferation of splenocytes and macrophages as well as stimulated cytokine production. Conclusions: These results suggest that the polysaccharide from the aboveground part of Astragalus membranaceus Bunge-adjuvanted vaccines enhanced humoral and cellular immunity and that the polysaccharide from the aboveground part of Astragalus membranaceus Bunge is a safe and efficacious adjuvant candidate suitable for use in prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines.

• IMMUNE NETWORK
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2003

Type II collagen (CII), major component of hyaline cartilage, has been considered as an auto-antigen in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, the clinical and biological significances with regard to the CII autoimmunity need to be clarified in human RA. The presence of antibodies to CII has been identified in sera, synovial fluid, and cartilage of patients with RA. In our study, the increased titer of IgG anti-CII in sera was well correlated with C-reactive protein, suggesting that this antibody may reflect the inflammatory status of RA. The titer of anti-CII antibodies (anti-CII Abs) tended to be higher in early stages of diseases. In our extending study, among 997 patients with RA, 269 (27.0%) were positive for circulatory IgG antibody to CII, those levels were fluctuated over time. It is hard to assess the significant amount of T cell responses to CII and CII (255~274) in RA. By using a sensitive method of antigen specific mixed lymphocyte culture, we can detect the presence of CII-reactive T cells in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of RA patients. Sixty seven (46.9%) of 143 patients showed positive CII reactive T cell responses to CII or CII (255~274). The frequencies of CII reactive T cells were more prominent in inflamed synovial fluid (SF) than in peripheral blood. These T cells could be clonally expanded after consecutive stimulation of CII with feeding of autologous irradiated antigen presenting cells (APC). Moreover, the production of Th1-related cytokine, such as IFN-${\gamma}$, was strongly up-regulated by CII reactive T cells. These data suggest that T cells responding to CII, which are probably presenting the IFN-${\gamma}$ producing cells, may play an important role in the perpetuation of inflammatory process in RA. To evaluate the effector function of CII reactive T cells, we investigated the effect of CII reactive T cells and fibroblasts-like synoviocytes (FLS) interaction on the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines. When the CII reactive T cells were co-cultured with FLS, the production of IL-15 and TNF-${\alpha}$ from FLS were significantly increased (2 to 3 fold increase) and this increase was clearly presented in accord to the expansion of CII reactive T cells. In addition, the production of IFN-${\gamma}$ and IL-17, T cell derived cytokines, were also increased by the co-incubation of CII reactive T cells with FLS. We also examined the impact of CII reactive T cells on chemokines production. When FLS were co-cultured with CII stimulated T cells, the production of IL-8, MCP-1, and MIP-1${\alpha}$ were significantly enhanced. The increased production of these chemokines was strongly correlated with increase the frequency of CII reactive T cells. Conclusively, immune response to CII was frequently found in RA. Activated T cells in response to CII contributed to increase the production of proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines, which were critical for inflammatory responses in RA. The interaction of CII-reactive T cells with FLS further augmented this phenomenon. Taken together, our recent studies have suggested that autoimmunity to CII could play a crucial role not only in the initiation but amplification/perpetuation of inflammatory process in human RA.

• BMB Reports
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.556-561
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• 1995

The purpose of this study was to establish an in vitro culture method of tumor-specific T cells, and determine the efficacy of the cultured tumor-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTL) as an agent of anti-tumor immunotherapy against a murine lymphoma, TIMI.4. Tumor-specific T-lymphocytes derived from C57BL/6 mice (thy-1.2) immune to TIMI.4 were activated by in vitro stimulation with the irradiated TIMI.4 cells, and expanded by restimulation with TIMI.4 in the presence of the concanavalin A-stimulated rat spleen culture supernatant, and splenic antigen-presenting cells. In vitro restimulation enhanced markedly the proportion of $CD8^+$, a predominant surface marker of CTL and the cytotoxic activity in the cultured immune T cell population. The resulting TIMI.4-specific T cells were adoptively transferred into nude mice. The tumor cells residing in the host after 7 days of adoptive transfer to B6.PL (thy-1.1) mice were quantified by use of an antibody directed to the thy-1.2 allele. The TIMI.4 cells in the recipient nude mice were decreased in a dose-dependent manner. Anti-tumor activity of the TIMI.4-specific T cells was also demonstrated by a survival test, where the tumor-bearing nu/nu mice which received the activated T-cells survived about 30% longer than the control mice which received the tumor cells alone. These suggest that adoptive transfer of TIMI.4-specific T cells could be a candidate for effective therapy of the murine lymphoma.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.1813-1817
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• 2013

Background: Multiple etiologic factors are suspected to cause gastric cancer, the most important of which is infection with virulent types of Helicobacter pylori. Materials and Methods: We have compared 102 gastric cancer patients with 122 non-ulcer, non-cancer dyspeptic patients. Gastric specimens were evaluated for H. pylori infection by tissue-based detection methods. Patient sera underwent antigen-specific ELISA and western blotting using a Helicoblot 2.1 kit and antibody responses to various H. pylori antigens were assessed. Results: The absolute majority (97-100%) of both groups were H. pylori seropositive. Multivariate regression analysis demonstrated serum antibodies to the low molecular weight 35kDa protein to be protective and reduce the risk of gastric cancer by 60% (OR:0.4; 95%CI:0.1-0.9). Conversely, seroreactivity to the 89kDa (VacA) protein was significantly higher in gastric cancer patients (OR:2.7; 95%CI:1.0-7.1). There was a highly significant association (p<0.001) between seroreactivity to the 116kDa (CagA) and 89kDa (VacA) proteins, and double positive subjects were found at nearly five fold (OR:4.9; 95%CI:1.0-24.4) enhanced risk of gastric cancer as compared to double negative subjects. Conclusions: Seroreactivity to H. pylori low (35kDa) and high (116kDa/89kDa) molecular weight antigens were respectively revealed as protective and risk indicators for gastric cancer.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.856-865
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• 2012

We describe the construction and immunobiological properties of a novel whooping cough vaccine candidate, in which the aroQ gene, encoding 3-dehydroquinase, was deleted by insertional inactivation using the kanamycin resistance gene cassette and allelic exchange using a Bordetella suicide vector. The aroQ B. pertussis mutant required supplementation of media to grow but failed to grow on an unsupplemented medium. The aroQ B. pertussis mutant was undetectable in the trachea and lungs of mice at days 6 and 12 post-infection, respectively. Antigen-specific antibody isotypes IgG1 and IgG2a, were produced, and cell-mediated immunity [CMI], using interleukin-2 and interferon-gamma as indirect indicators, was induced in mice vaccinated with the aroQ B. pertussis vaccine candidate, which were substantially enhanced upon second exposure to virulent B. pertussis. Interleukin-12 was also produced in the aroQ B. pertussis-vaccinated mice. On the other hand, neither IgG2a nor CMI-indicator cytokines were produced in DTaP-vaccinated mice, although the CMI-indicator cytokines became detectable post-challenge with virulent B. pertussis. Intranasal immunization with one dose of the aroQ B. pertussis mutant protected vaccinated mice against an intranasal challenge infection, with no pathogen being detected in the lungs of immunized mice by day 7 post-challenge. B. pertussis aroQ thus constitutes a safe, non-reverting, metabolite-deficient vaccine candidate that induces both humoral and cell-mediated immune responses with potential for use as a single-dose vaccine in adolescents and adults, in the first instance, with a view to disrupting the transmission cycle of whooping cough to infants and the community.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.1022-1029
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• 2018

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a serious health issue around the word. Adenovirus (Ad)-based vaccine and modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA)-based vaccine have emerged as two of the most promising immunization candidates over the past few years. However, the performance of the homologous and heterologous prime-boost immunization regimens of these two viral vector-based vaccines remains unclear. In the present study, we constructed recombinant Ad and MVA expressing an Ag85B-TB10.4 fusion protein (AdH4 and MVAH4) and evaluated the impact of their different immunization regimens on the humoral and cellular immune responses. We found that the viral vector-based vaccines could generate significantly higher levels of antigen-specific antibodies, $IFN-{\gamma}$-producing splenocytes, $CD69^+CD8^+$ T cells, and $IFN-{\gamma}$ secretion when compared with bacillus Calmette-$Gu{\acute{e}}rin$ (BCG) in a mouse model. AdH4-containing immunization regimens (AdH4-AdH4, AdH4-MVAH4, and MVAH4-AdH4) induced significantly stronger antibody responses, much more $IFN-{\gamma}$-producing splenocytes and $CD69^+CD8^+$ T cells, and higher levels of $IFN-{\gamma}$ secretion when compared with the MVAH4-MVAH4 immunization regimen. The number of $IFN-{\gamma}$-producing splenocytes sensitive to $CD8^+$ T-cell restricted peptides of Ag85B (9-1p and 9-2p) and Th1-related cytokines ($IFN-{\gamma}$ and $TNF-{\alpha}$) in the AdH4-MVAH4 heterologous prime-boost regimen immunization group was significantly higher than that in the other viral vector-based vaccine- and BCG-immunized groups, respectively. These results indicate that an immunization regimen involving AdH4 may have a higher capacity to induce humoral and cellular immune responses against TB in mice than that by regimens containing BCG or MVAH4 alone, and the AdH4-MVAH4 prime-boost regimen may generate an ideal protective effect.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.201-210
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• 1995

톡소포자충(Tomplosmasonnii)은 1개의 종(species)만이 있으나 숙주에서 발현되는 독력의 정도차 질병 양상에 따라 많은 충주(strain)로 분류되며. 따라서 감염 후 이들 사이의 면역학적 특성에 차이가 있을 것으로 예상된다. 본 연구는 톡소포자충의 강독주인 RH주 감염 마우스 (마우스당 $1{\;}{\times}{\;}10^5$개의 tachyzoite를 복강내로 감염) 및 약독주인 Beverley주 감염 마우스(마우스 당 10개의 씨스트를 복강내로 감염)의 혈액 및 조직(간. 뇌. 비장)을 일정 간격으로 채취하여 ELISA, Western blot, PCR등을 이용하여 톡소포자충의 충주에 따른 항원 항체의 검출 시기 및 양상을 알아보았다. 강독주를 감염시킨 마우스의 혈청내 순환항원 및 혈액내 충체(parasitemia)는 감염 2일부터 검출되었으며. 혈액. 간, 뇌 및 비장에서는 감염 3일부터 톡소포자충 특이 DNA band를 볼 수 있었다 그러나 강독주 감염 마우스는 생존기간중 IgM 및 IgG 항체를 검출할 수 없었으며 감염 혈청은 Westernblot상 톡소포자충 항원대와 반응하는 공통 band도 없었다 약독주 감염 마우스의 혈청내 순환 항원은 감염 10일부터 출현하기 시작하여 감염 35일까지 검출되었다 톡소포자충피 특이 DNA는 혈액에서는 감염 15일~60일에, 비장은 감염 10일~30일에 검출되었으며, 간 및 뇌에서는 각각 감염 15일 및 20일부터 검출할 수 있었다. IgM 항체는 감염 10일부터 검출되기 시작하여 감염 60일까지 계속적으로 검출되었으며 감염 15~25일 사이에 비교적 높은 항체가를 유지하였다. IgG 항체는 감염 15일부터 유의한 증가를 나타내기 시작하여 실험 기간동안 계속 적으로 증가하였다. 또한 약독주 감염 마우스의 혈청은 감염 기간에 따라 특징적인 공통 항원 band를 볼 수 있었으며, 대부분의 감염 혈청은 27 5-kDa 및 32.5-kDa의 톡소포자충 항원대와 반응하였다. 이상의 성적으로 보아 톡소포자충의 강독주 감염 마우스는 생존기간중 항체는 검출할 수 없었으나 항원은 감염 2~3일부터 혈액 및 조직에서 검출되었으며, 약독주 감염 마우스는 감염 기간 및 조직에 따라 감염 10일부터 특이 항원 및 항체 반응을 나타내 이들 두 충주는 감염후 숙주에서 뚜렷한 면역학적 반응이 서로 차이가 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.7-17
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• 1985

Many investigators have been pursuing various attempts so far to produce hepatitis B surface antigen(HBsAg) vaccines using the techniques such as isolation from plasma of chronic HBsAg carrier, recombinant DNA technique or preparation of synthetic peptides specific for immunogenic determinants. Hepatitis B virus can not grow on any cell lines by the tissue culture technique at the present time. The plasma of chronic HBsAg carrier is expensive and its source is limited. The HBsAg from the recombinant DNA technique gave still very low yield. Another approach, therefore, has been initiated to develop a synthetic hepatitis B virus vaccine. The possible use of several distinct synthetic vaccines in prophylaxis can be facilitated by availability of full synthetic immunogens. Peptides synthesized for potential application as antiviral vaccines have been mostly tested in the form of conjugates with carrier proteins, although the free synthetic peptide can be immunogenic. To understand basic knowledges on the antigenicity and immunogenicity of a synthetic peptide specific for major immunogenic determinant of HBsAg, a nonapeptide, $H_2N^{139}Cys-Thr-Lys-Pro-Thr-Asp-Gly-^{146}Asn-Aba$ COOH, which corresponds to HBsAg amino acid residues 139 to 147, was synthesized by the Merrifield's solid-phase method with a slight modification. The antigenicity and immunogenicity of this specific synthetic peptide were examined comparing with purified plasma-derived natural HBsAg. The results obtained are as follows; 1. The peptide synthesized showed the identical amino acid composition to the theoretical value. The degree of purification and molecular weight were acertained by methods of high performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. 2. Using m-maleimidobenzoyl-N-hydroxysuccinimide ester as a conjugating agent, the synthetic peptide was conjugated to rabbit albumin and ${\gamma}$-globulin, tetanus and diphtheria toxoids, and keyhole limpet hemocyanin. Their conjugation yields were 8.3, 9.5, 15.8, 13.5, and 11.2%, respectively. 3. The natural HBsAg was purified from plasma of chronic HBsAg carrier. By the electron microscopic observation of the purified natural HBsAg preparation, no Dane particles were observed and the preparation showed negative DNA polymerase activity. 4. Antigenicity of the synthetic peptide and the plasma-derived natural HBsAg was determined by competition radioimmunoassay using $^{125}I$-natural HBsAg. Their 50% inhibitions appeared as $90{\mu}g/ml$ and $0.12{\mu}g/ml$ for the synthetic peptide and the natural HBsAg, respectively. This indicates that the former was about 750-fold less antigenic than the latter. 5. Immunogenicity of the synthetic peptide was determined by administering the peptide-carrier conjugates into rabbits with and without Freund's complete adjuvant. Regardless the carrier proteins and adjuvant, positive immune responses to the synthetic peptide were observed. The higher antibody titers, however, were shown in the groups administered with Freund's complete adjuvant. 6. Immunizing dose 50% in mice of the various peptide-carrier conjugates was 5.47, 6.00, 65.16, 31.25 and $13.03{\mu}g/dose$ for rabbit albumin and ${\gamma}$-globulin, tetanus and diphtheria toxoids, and keyhole limpet hemocyanin, respectively, while the natural HBsAg showed $0.65{\mu}g/dose$. 7. It was postulated that homologous proteins prefer to heterologous ones as the carriers.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제46권4호
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• pp.473-480
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• 1999

배 경: 우리 나라는 결핵의 유병률이 높기 때문에 간편하고 민감도가 높은 결핵 진단 방법이 필요하나, 결핵균의 특정한 균체 항원에 대한 항체 생성의 정도가 지역마다 다르고, 국가별로 BCG 예방 접종에 대한 정책이나 결핵의 유병률이 다르므로 우리 나라의 경우에도 외국에서 개발된 혈청 항체 검사 kit를 결핵 환자의 진단에 이용할 수 있을지 알 수 없다. 그래서 38-kDa 단백을 포함한 5가지 항원을 nitrocellulose 막에 고착시킨 항체 검사 kit인 ICT가 최근 소개되었기에 이를 이용한 항체 검사가 결핵의 진단에 유용하게 이용될 수 있는지를 알아보고자 하였다. 방 법: 결핵 환자군으로 진단 당시 과거력상 결핵 병력이 없는 초발 결핵 환자 37명, 과거의 결핵 병력이 있고 초치료에 실패했거나 완치 후 재발한 환자 31명과, 건강 대조군으로 건강 성인 25명, 병원의 결핵균 노출 지역 근무자 35명, 비결핵 호흡기 질환 환자 17명의 혈청으로 ICT 검사를 실시하여 결핵 진단의 민감도와 특이도를 확인하였다. 결 과: 결핵 초발 환자 (37명), 재발 환자 (31명)는 각각 73, 87%의 민감도를 보였다. 진단 당시의 항산균 염색 음성인 환자 (15명) 중 73%, 염색 양성인 환자 (53명) 중 81%에서 ICT 항체 양성을 보였다. 결핵성 뇌막염, 결핵성 림프절염 등 폐외결핵 환자 2명은 모두 ICT 항체검사에서 양성이었다. 건강 성인 (25명), 결핵균 노출 지역 근무자 (35명), 비결핵 호흡기질환 환자 (17명)는 각각 88%, 94%, 94%의 특이도를 보여 전체적으로 특이도 92%였다. 결 론: ICT 항체 검사는 38-kDa 항원을 포함한 5가지 항원을 막에 부착시켜 항체를 검사함으로써 결핵을 진단하는 kit로, 별도의 장비가 필요없이 간편하고 쉽게 수행할 수 있으며, 결핵의 진단에 73%의 민감도, 92%의 특이도를 보여서 전통적으로 결핵을 진단하는데 사용하던 X-선, 항산균 염색, 배양과 함께 보조적인 도구로 사용하면 폐결핵의 진단에 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.239-244
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• 2001

육계를 13주간 사육하면서 5주령부터 시험사료를 급여한 후 세포표면항원의 발현과 탐식세포에서 생성되는 $O_{2}$ -와 $H_{2}$ $O_{2}$ 에 미치는 영향 그리고 항원 특이적인 항체 생성에 미치는 영향을 측정하기 위하여 아마종실과 항산화제 무첨가구 ($T_{1}$), 아마종실만을 혼합한 사료 ($T_{2}$), 아마종실에 ;$\alpha$ -tocopherol 첨가구 ($T_{3}$ )와 아마종실에 $\alpha$ -tocopherol과 셀레늄 첨가구 ($T_{4}$ )를 육계에 급여한 바, 시험사료를 2주간 급여시 호중구 및 macrophages와 같은 탐식 세포의 $O_{2}$ -와 $H_{2}$ $O_{2}$ 생성 능력은 시험구 ($T_{2}$ , $T_{3}$ ,$T_{4}$ )들이 $T_{1}$ 구보다 증가하였으나 유의차는 없었다. 시험사료를 4주간 급여시 $O_{2}$ -와 $H_{2}$ $O_{2}$ 생성 능력은 $T_{2}$ 구와 $T_{1}$ 구간 큰 차이는 없었으나 $T_{3}$ 구와 $T_{4}$ 구의 $O_{2}$ -생성능력은 $T_{1}$ 구보다 각각 6%와 18%가 증가하였고, $H_{2}$ $O_{2}$ 생성 능력은 각각 9.5%와 10.9%가 증가하였다. 시험사료를 8주간 급여한 후 $T_{3}$ 와 $T_{4}$ 구의 $O_{2}$ -생성능력은 $T_{1}$ 구에 비하여 50%가 넘은 유의성 (P<0.01) 있는 강력한 증가가 있었고, $H_{2}$ $O_{2}$ 생성능력은 각각 6.6%와 9.3%가 증가하였다.