Abstract
Although the BCG vaccine offers partial protection, tuberculosis remains a leading cause of infectious disease death, killing ∼1.5 million people annually. We developed mucosal vaccines expressing the autophagy-inducing peptide C5 and mycobacterial Ag85B-p25 epitope using replication-defective human adenovirus (HAdv85C5) and bovine adenovirus (BAdv85C5) vectors. BAdv85C5-infected dendritic cells (DCs) expressed a robust transcriptome of genes regulating antigen processing compared to HAdv85C5-infected DCs. BAdv85C5-infected DCs showed enhanced galectin-3/8 and autophagy-dependent in vitro Ag85B-p25 epitope presentation to CD4 T cells. BCG-vaccinated mice were intranasally boosted using HAdv85C5 or BAdv85C5 followed by infection using aerosolized Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). BAdv85C5 protected mice against tuberculosis both as a booster after BCG vaccine (>1.4-log10 reduction in Mtb lung burden) and as a single intranasal dose (>0.5-log10 reduction). Protection was associated with robust CD4 and CD8 effector (TEM), central memory (TCM), and CD103+/CD69+ lung-resident memory (TRM) T cell expansion, revealing BAdv85C5 as a promising mucosal vaccine for tuberculosis.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 100372 |
Pages (from-to) | 100372 |
Journal | Cell Reports Medicine |
Volume | 2 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 17 2021 |
Keywords
- BAdv
- BCG vaccine
- C57BL/6 mice
- HAdv
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- antigen presentation
- autophagy
- bovine adenovirus
- dendritic cells
- galectin-3/8
- human adenovirus
- mucosal vaccine
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)