A Spread-Deficient Cytomegalovirus for Assessment of First-Target Cells in Vaccination
- 1 August 2010
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Virology
- Vol. 84 (15), 7730-7742
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.02696-09
Abstract
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a human pathogen that causes severe disease primarily in the immunocompromised or immunologically immature individual. To date, no vaccine is available. We describe use of a spread-deficient murine CMV (MCMV) as a novel approach for betaherpesvirus vaccination. To generate a spread-deficient MCMV, the conserved, essential gene M94 was deleted. Immunization with MCMV-Δ M94 is apathogenic and protective against wild-type challenge even in highly susceptible IFNαβR −/− mice. MCMV-Δ M94 was able to induce a robust CD4 + and CD8 + T-cell response as well as a neutralizing antibody response comparable to that induced by wild-type infection. Endothelial cells were identified as activators of CD8 + T cells in vivo . Thus, the vaccination with a spread-deficient betaherpesvirus is a safe and protective strategy and allows the linkage between cell tropism and immunogenicity. Furthermore, genomes of MCMV- ΔM94 were present in lungs 12 months after infection, revealing first-target cells as sites of genome maintenance.Keywords
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