In Vivo Treatment with Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 Reduces CCR5 Expression on Vaccine-Induced Activated CD4+ T-Cells

Abstract

At the heart of the DNA/ALVAC/gp120/alum vaccine’s efficacy in the absence of neutralizing antibodies is a delicate balance of pro- and anti-inflammatory immune responses that effectively decreases the risk of SIVmac251 acquisition in macaques. Vaccine efficacy is linked to antibodies recognizing the V2 helical conformation, DC-10 tolerogenic dendritic cells eliciting the clearance of apoptotic cells via efferocytosis, and CCR5 downregulation on vaccine-induced gut homing CD4+ cells. RAS activation is also linked to vaccine efficacy, which prompted the testing of IGF-1, a potent inducer of RAS activation with vaccination. We found that IGF-1 changed the hierarchy of V1/V2 epitope recognition and decreased both ADCC specific for helical V2 and efferocytosis. Remarkably, IGF-1 also reduced the expression of CCR5 on vaccine-induced CD4+ gut-homing T-cells, compensating for its negative effect on ADCC and efferocytosis and resulting in equivalent vaccine efficacy (71% with IGF-1 and 69% without).

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Oct 30, 2023
Source ID
10.3390/vaccines11111662

Entities

People

  • Anna Gutowska
  • David C. Montefiori
  • David J Venzon
  • Dominic Paquin Proulx
  • Genoveffa Franchini
  • Georgia D. Tomaras
  • Giacomo Gorini
  • Guido Ferrari
  • Hyoyoung Choo-wosoba
  • Isabela Silva De Castro
  • Joshua Kramer
  • Kombo F. N’guessan
  • Luca Schifanella
  • Massimiliano Bissa
  • Matthew W. Breed
  • Melvin N. Doster
  • Mohammad Arif Rahman
  • Monica Vaccari
  • Nicolò Binello
  • Pamela A Kozlowski
  • Ramona Moles
  • Sarkis Sarkis
  • Veronica Galli
  • Xiaoying Shen

Organizations

  • Duke University
  • Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
  • LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans
  • National Cancer Institute
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
  • Office of AIDS Research
  • Tulane University of Louisiana
  • United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
  • United States Army Medical Research and Development Command
  • United States Military HIV Research Program

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Fields of Study

  • Biology

Readers

  • Cellular and Molecular Pathways of Apoptosis.
  • Immunology

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology
  • Biotechnology - Cancer Biotech