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(1) The antigenic peptides are produced by DC themselves, and loaded on to and presented by MHC molecules possibly within multiple MHC alleles. Such gene-modified DC offer several potential advantages over peptide loaded DC in medical therapy. 2 8 9 10 11 12 Alternative approaches use DC that are transduced with antigen encoding cDNA or RNA (see Refs 13–15). Several studies have been initiated mainly employing in vitro generated DC that were loaded with specific tumor antigen peptides.
#OVA 1 PROFESSIONAL#
Given their unique properties as professional APC, DC are currently being assessed for medical therapy, such as immunotherapy of cancer. 5 In addition, exogenous proteins have access to the MHC class I presentation pathway by a so far unknown mechanism. There are also alternative pathways of peptide loading of MHC class II molecules that are Ii independent. In the endocytic compartment proteolytic cleavage of Ii chain occurs and the MHC class II peptide binding groove becomes available for binding of peptides derived from extracellular proteins that are taken up into the cell by endocytosis. 4 Association with Ii blocks the binding of peptides to the MHC class II peptide binding groove and mediates translocation of the MHC class II/Ii complexes to the endocytic compartment.
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In the classical pathway, newly synthesized MHC class II molecules associate with invariant chain (Ii) in the ER. Peptides are loaded on to MHC class II molecules by different pathways. MHC class II presentation induces T cell help required for antibody production and promotes the generation of cytotoxic T cells. 1 2 3 This source of peptides is derived from endocytosed antigens. In complement to MHC class I molecules that bind their peptides in the endoplasmatic reticulum (ER), MHC class II heterodimers acquire their peptides in endocytic vesicles. MHC class I molecules present endogenously produced peptides that include virus peptides and tumor antigens. There are two branches of MHC receptor presentation. Through antigen uptake and upon activation by inflammatory stimuli, DC are triggered to migrate via lymphatic vessels to the draining lymphoid organs where they present the processed antigens in the context of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) encoded peptide receptors.
#OVA 1 SKIN#
1 2 3 DC occur throughout the organism and in particular in tissues such as skin that represent an interface to the environment where they are exposed to and capture antigens. Thus, modification of antigen encoding cDNA represents a convenient and effective means to direct antigens to MHC class II presentation and thus to generate T cell help.ĭendritic cells (DC) are professional antigen presenting cells (APC) and play a key role in initiating primary immune responses.
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Ii-OVA fusions directly target the MHC class II processing pathway.
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TfR-OVA contains the membrane anchoring region of transferrin receptor and represents a membrane-bound form of OVA for access to the MHC class II compartment. We demonstrate here that modification of OVA cDNA as transferrin receptor (TfR) or invariant chain (Ii) fusions effectively generate MHC class II specific immune responses in addition to MHC class I responses. Employing this gene delivery system, DC were generated that express chicken ovalbumin (OVA) cDNA as a model antigen and introduce antigen into the MHC class I presentation pathway. We previously described a gene delivery system for DC based on receptor-mediated endocytosis of ligand/polyethylenimine (PEI) DNA transfer complexes that target cell surface receptors which are abundantly expressed on DC. Gene modified DC expressing antigen encoding cDNA represent a particularly attractive approach for the immunotherapy of disease. Dendritic cells (DC) present immunogenic epitopes of antigens in the context of MHC class I and class II molecules in association with costimulatory molecules, and efficiently activate both cytotoxic T cells and T helper cells.