結核・ハンセン病に対するワクチンの開発研究の最前線
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The role of vaccines to tuberculosis and leprosy is to induce a cellular immunity, and as a result to induce the differentiation of memory CD8+ cytotoxic T cells. Help from CD4+ T cells is important for the differentiation of naive CD8+ T cells to effector and memory CD8+ cytotoxic T cells. However, how CD4+ T cell help is involved in the steps instructing T helper (Th) polarization is not yet clear. Peptide-25, a major Th epitope of Ag85B from Mycobacterium tuberculosis , preferentially induced development of Th1 cells. In contrast, altered peptide ligands (APL) that have a substitution of glycine for alanine at position 248 of Peptide-25 induced solely Th2 development. To elucidate the role of Th polarization on the Help function of CD4+ T cells, we established an in vitro culture system using OVA specific CD8+ T cells, Peptide-25 specific CD4+ T cells and splenic dendritic cells (DCs). The DCs that were pre-cultured with Peptide-25 specific CD4+ T cells together with OVA and Peptide-25 induced the proliferation and granzyme B production of OVA specific CD8+ T cells. On the other hand, the DCs that were pre-cultured with Peptide-25 specific CD4+ T cells together with OVA and APL induced only proliferation of OVA specific CD8+ T cells. These results suggest that Th1 immune response induced by Peptide-25 plays an important role in the induction of functional activation of CD8+ cytotoxic T cells.
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