Exosomes as potent cell-free peptide-based vaccine. II. Exosomes in CpG adjuvants efficiently prime naive Tc1 lymphocytes leading to tumor rejection

N Chaput, NEC Schartz, F André, J Taïeb… - The Journal of …, 2004 - journals.aai.org
N Chaput, NEC Schartz, F André, J Taïeb, S Novault, P Bonnaventure, N Aubert, J Bernard…
The Journal of Immunology, 2004journals.aai.org
Ideal vaccines should be stable, safe, molecularly defined, and out-of-shelf reagents efficient
at triggering effector and memory Ag-specific T cell-based immune responses. Dendritic cell-
derived exosomes could be considered as novel peptide-based vaccines because
exosomes harbor a discrete set of proteins, bear functional MHC class I and II molecules that
can be loaded with synthetic peptides of choice, and are stable reagents that were safely
used in pioneering phase I studies. However, we showed in part I that exosomes are …
Abstract
Ideal vaccines should be stable, safe, molecularly defined, and out-of-shelf reagents efficient at triggering effector and memory Ag-specific T cell-based immune responses. Dendritic cell-derived exosomes could be considered as novel peptide-based vaccines because exosomes harbor a discrete set of proteins, bear functional MHC class I and II molecules that can be loaded with synthetic peptides of choice, and are stable reagents that were safely used in pioneering phase I studies. However, we showed in part I that exosomes are efficient to promote primary MHC class I-restricted effector CD8+ T cell responses only when transferred onto mature DC in vivo. In this work, we bring evidence that among the clinically available reagents, Toll-like receptor 3 and 9 ligands are elective adjuvants capable of triggering efficient MHC-restricted CD8+ T cell responses when combined to exosomes. Exosome immunogenicity across species allowed to verify the efficacy of good manufactory procedures-manufactured human exosomes admixed with CpG oligonucleotides in prophylactic and therapeutic settings of melanoma in HLA-A2 transgenic mice. CpG adjuvants appear to be ideal adjuvants for exosome-based cancer vaccines.
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