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Blood, 15 August 2008, Vol. 112, No. 4, pp. 1231-1239. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on June 2, 2008; DOI 10.1182/blood-2008-03-148072.
IMMUNOBIOLOGY Targeting the nuclear antigen 1 of Epstein-Barr virus to the human endocytic receptor DEC-205 stimulates protective T-cell responses1 Laboratory of Viral Immunobiology, 2 Christopher H. Browne Center for Immunology and Immune Diseases, and 3 Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Dendritic cells (DCs) express many endocytic receptors that deliver antigens for major histocompatibility class (MHC) I and II presentation to CD8+ and CD4+ T cells, respectively. Here, we show that targeting Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA1) to one of them, the human multilectin DEC-205 receptor, in the presence of the DC maturation stimulus poly(I:C), expanded EBNA1-specific CD4+ and CD8+ memory T cells, and these lymphocytes could control the outgrowth of autologous EBV-infected B cells in vitro. In addition, using a novel mouse model with reconstituted human immune system components, we demonstrated that vaccination with
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