Amplification of T‐Cell and Antibody Responses in DNA‐Based Immunization with HIV‐1 Nef by Co‐Injection with a GM‐CSF Expression Vector

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Intradermal inoculation of mice with naked plasmid DNA encoding the regulatory HIV-1 Nef protein was shown to induce Nef-specific T and B cell responses. Co-inoculation with an expression vector encoding murine granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), a cytokine known to facilitate the induction of primary immune responses, resulted in a markedly enhanced response to Nef. This was manifested both as an increase in Nef-specific T cell responses and antibody levels. DNA immunization with the Nef and GM-CSF vectors induced primarily a Th1 response as judged by the raised levels of both IFN-γ and IL-2 from re-stimulated T cells. The immunostimulatory activity of GM-CSF DNA was locally restricted and was observed only if both plasmid vectors were injected at the same site.

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