• Molecules and Cells
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.313-320
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• 2019

Intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) develop through the continuous interaction with intestinal antigens such as commensal microbiome and diet. However, their respective roles and mutual interactions in the development of IELs are largely unknown. Here, we showed that dietary antigens regulate the development of the majority of $CD8{\alpha}{\beta}$ IELs in the small intestine and the absence of commensal microbiota particularly during the weaning period, delay the development of IELs. When we tested specific dietary components, such as wheat or combined corn, soybean and yeast, they were dependent on commensal bacteria for the timely development of diet-induced $CD8{\alpha}{\beta}$ IELs. In addition, supplementation of intestinal antigens later in life was inefficient for the full induction of $CD8{\alpha}{\beta}$ IELs. Overall, our findings suggest that early exposure to commensal bacteria is important for the proper development of dietary antigen-dependent immune repertoire in the gut.

• IMMUNE NETWORK
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.219-232
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• 2016

Production of high affinity antibodies for antigens is a critical component for the immune system to fight off infectious pathogens. However, it could be detrimental to our body when the antigens that B cells recognize are of self-origin. Follicular helper T, or Tfh, cells are required for the generation of germinal center reactions, where high affinity antibody-producing B cells and memory B cells predominantly develop. As such, Tfh cells are considered as targets to prevent B cells from producing high affinity antibodies against self-antigens, when high affinity autoantibodies are responsible for immunopathologies in autoimmune disorders. This review article provides an overview of current understanding of Tfh cells and discusses it in the context of animal models of autoimmune diseases and allograft rejections for generation of novel therapeutic interventions.

• IMMUNE NETWORK
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.33-43
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• 2016

Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) are short amino acids that have been widely used to deliver macromolecules such as proteins, peptides, DNA, or RNA, to control cellular behavior for therapeutic purposes. CPPs have been used to treat immunological diseases through the delivery of immune modulatory molecules in vivo. Their intracellular delivery efficiency is highly synergistic with the cellular characteristics of the dendritic cells (DCs), which actively uptake foreign antigens. DC-based vaccines are primarily generated by pulsing DCs ex vivo with various immunomodulatory antigens. CPP conjugation to antigens would increase DC uptake as well as antigen processing and presentation on both MHC class II and MHC class I molecules, leading to antigen specific CD4⁺ and CD8⁺ T cell responses. CPP-antigen based DC vaccination is considered a promising tool for cancer immunotherapy due to the enhanced CTL response. In this review, we discuss the various applications of CPPs in immune modulation and DC vaccination, and highlight the advantages and limitations of the current CPP-based DC vaccination.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제17권8호통권88호
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• pp.1082-1089
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• 2007

혈청학적 유전자 검색 방법(SEREX)은 암 환자의 면역계를 인식하는 종양 면역유전체(Cancer Immunome)를 형성하는 수많은 종양항원의 발견을 이끌어왔다. 본 연구는 정상인의 고환 조직으로 만들어진 cDNA liabary을 사용하여 폐암환자의 혈청으로부터 40개의 종양항원을 동정하여 그 항원들을 KP-LuT-1부터 KP-LuT-40까지 명명하였다. 이들 항원 중에서 20개는 기존의 다른 종류의 암에서 분리된 것이며 20개는 본 실험에서 새롭게 동정 된 항원들이었다. 유전자 분석을 통하여 분리된 26개의 항원들은 그 단백질의 기능이 알려진 것이었고 14개의 항원들은 기능이 분석되지 않은 유전체의 산물이었다. 이들 항원 중에서 hypothetic단백질 KP-LuT-6는 정상조직에서 제한적으로 발현되었다. RT-PCR에 의한 발현분석 결과에서 16개의 정상조직 중 고환에서만 강력하게 발현 하였고 다른 조직에서는 발현되지 않으나 폐암(3/10), 위암 (3/10) 과 유방암(1/5)들에서 발현 하였다. 이 결과는 KP-LuT-6의 항원이 암 면역치료를 위한 잠재적 유전자로 사용될 수 있는 Cancer/Testis(CT) 항원과 비슷한 유전 자로 사료된다.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 1989

폐흡충증의 진단은 객담검사법이 가장 확실한 진단 방법이기는 하지만 폐흡충이 폐에 기 생한 경우에도 충란 검출이 어려울 때가 있으므로 혈청학적 진단법이 이용되고 있다. 혈청학적 진단법에 사용되는 항원인 기생충 추출물, 즉 조항원은 분류학적으로 유사한 기생충과 서로 공유하고 있는 공통 항원 때문에 교차 반응을 일으키는 경우가 있다. 이 연구는 발육단계 별 폐흡충에서 만든 조항원을 SDS-PAGE(sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis)로 전기영동한 다음 EITB(enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot)를 이용하여 항원대별 항원성 및 특이성을 관찰하여 시기별로 채취한 고양이 혈청에 대한 특이 반응대를 관찰해 보고자 시행하였다. 실험에 사용한 항원은 실험적으로 고양이에 감염시켜 3, 5, 8및 12주 만에 얻은 폐흡충의 식염수 추출액 (SEPn; n=감염된 시기)이며 3∼20% linear gradient gel에서 SDS-PAGE하였다. Silver stain결과 폐흡충 조항원은 최소한 30개 이상의 band들로 구성되어 있었는데 각 발육단계 에 공통된 항원대로 203, 63, 35, 21, 19, 13 kDa band들이 관찰되었고, 단계별로 차이점도 관찰 되었다. SEPl2에서는 새로운 229 kDa band가 관찰되었다. 주요 항원대에 대하여 EITB를 한 결과 각 항원과 감염 후 5주 이상 된 혈청과 공통적으로 반응한 항원대는 203, 115, 91, 85, 67, 63, 48, 39, 35 및 25 kDa band들이었고, 8주 이상 된 혈청과의 반응에서는 19, 13및 10 kDa 항원대와 공통적으로 일관성 있게 반응하였다. SEP12는 12주 된 혈청과 229 kDa에서 특이하게 반응하였다.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제47권6호
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• pp.757-767
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• 1999

Background: Diagnosis by smear and/or cultures of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis from body fluid or biopsy specimen is "Gold standard". However the sensitivity of the direct microscopy is relatively low and culture of mycobacteria is time consuming. Despite an explosion in the techniques of rapid identification of mycobacteria by molecular genetic means, it is laborious and expensive and then rapid, inexpensive serodiagnosis is interested in diagnosis of tuberculosis. But sensitivity and specificity of known serologic antigen is not full sufficient level and then new antigen develop and combination cocktails of new developed antigens by ELISA are needed. Method: To compare the efficacy of different mycobacterial specific antigen and to assess the applicability of the combination of several different antigens in the diagnosis of tuberculosis, five ELISA tests derived 14KDa, 16KDa, 19KDa, 23KDa, 38KDa were evaluated in 57 active pulmonary patient and 24 inactive post-therapy follow up patient and 48 normal control. Results: The optical densities of ELISA test with 14KDa, 16KDa, 19KDa, 23KDa, 38KDa were significantly higher in active tuberculosis cases than in normal control(P<0.001, P<0.001, P<0.027, P<0.001, P<0.001) and those with 16KDa, 38KDa were significant higher in active tuberculosis cases than in inactive post-therapy follow up cases(P<0.01. P<0.001) and those of 14KDa, 16KDa, 23KDa, 38KDa were significant higher in inactive post-therapy follow up cases than in normal control(P<0.008. P<0.01. P<0.006. P<0.001). The sensitivity of 14KDa, 16KDa, 19KDa, 23KDa, 38KDa in active pulmonary patient cases was 42.1%, 43.9%, 15.8%, 28.0%, 70.2%, respectively and the specificity of 14KDa, 16KDa, 19KDa, 23KDa, 38KDa in active pulmonary patient cases was 95.8%, 95.8%, 91.7%, 89.6%, 93.8%, respectively. The sensitivity and specificity of combination 38KDa with 16KDa was 87% and 93.7%. Conclusion: The sensitivity and specificity of new antigens for serodiagnosis of the tuberculosis still remains limited at around 70%, which makes its a poor diagnostic tool for disease confirmation. A combination of cocktail antigens provided by cut-off value adjustment for serodiagnosis of tuberculosis some improved diagnostic yield than single antigen serologic test.

• 한국생물정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물정보시스템생물학회 2000년도 International Symposium on Bioinformatics
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• pp.39-40
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• 2000

Knowledge discovery has attracted increased attention in the biomedical industry in recent years is due to the increased availability of huge amount of biomedical data and the imminent need to turn such data into useful information and knowledge. In this talk, we discuss knowledge discovery techniques for gene expression analysis and MHC-peptide binding prediction in the context of discovering protein antigens and hot spots in these antigens.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.97-102
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• 1986

The prevalence of diarrhea caused by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli was surveyed on 445 calves in 6 farms which were located in the central part of Korea. The incidence of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in calves with diarrhea was investigated by detecting the K99 and F41 antigens from the isolated strains of Escherichia coli The incidence of colibacillosis in calves was 23.3%. Of 238 strains of Escherichia coli isolated from calves with diarrhea, 73 strains(30.6%) were proved possessing the K99 antigen by mannose-resistant hemagglutination(MRHA) using horse red blood cells and 79(33.1%) possessing F41 antigens by MRHA using guinea-pig red blood cells. The minca medium, nutrient broth, tryptic soy broth and brain heart infusion were tested for yield of K99 and F41 pili. The production of pili was greatest in minea medium. The best detachment method of the K99 and F41 pili from the cells was heat treatment for 20 minutes at $60^{\circ}C$ and concentration by precipitation with ammonium sulfate. The purified antigens of K99 and F41 were polypeptides with molecular weights of 18,500 and 29,500, respectively by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.275-282
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• 1996

저자들은 마우스를 실험모델로 하여 간흡충의 항원을 투여 했을 때 비장조직에 대한 CD3, CD4 및 CD8 모노클로날 항체의 반응 여부를 알아보고자 하였다. 즉, 간흡충에 대한 세포면역학적인 특성을 규명고자 하였으며 특히 비장 조직에 대한 phenotype을 관찰한 결과 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 간흡충의 조항원을 면역증강제와 함께 복강 투여한 다음 일정 기간 후에 비장조직을 Avidin-biotin complex 면역조직염색을 실시한 결과 CD3에서 강한 양성 반응을 나타냈고 CD4와 CD8에서는 약한 반응을 나타냈다. 조직부위를 보면 피막, 혈관, 임파관, 백수부위와 림프구 및 대식 세포의 세포막에서 양성반응을 보였다.

• BMB Reports
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• 제45권7호
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• pp.408-413
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• 2012

Almost all melanoma cells express at least one member of the MAGE-A antigen family, making the cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) epitopes with cross-immunizing potential in this family attractive candidates for the broad spectrum of anti-melanoma immunotherapy. In this study, four highly homologous peptides (P264: FLWGPRALA, P264I9: FLWGPRALI, P264V9: FLWGPRALV, and P264H8: FLWGPRAHA) from the MAGE-A antigens were selected by homologous alignment. All four peptides showed high binding affinity and stability to HLA-A$^*02:01$ molecules, and could prime CTL immune responses in human PBMCs and in HLA-A$^*02:01/K^b$ transgenic mice. CTLs elicited by the four epitope peptides could cross-lyse tumor cells expressing the mutual target antigens, except MAGE-A11 which was not tested. However, CTLs induced by P264V9 and P264I9 showed the strongest target cell lysis capabilities, suggesting both peptides may represent the common CTL epitopes shared by the eight MAGE-A antigens, which could induce more potent and broad-spectrum antitumor responses in immunotherapy.