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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
26
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-7-9
pubmed:abstractText
One half of a group of 20 patients with human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16)-induced vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3 displayed a complete regression (CR) after therapeutic vaccination with HPV16 E6/E7 synthetic long peptides. Patients with relatively larger lesions generally did not display a CR. To investigate immune correlates of treatment failure, patients were grouped according to median lesion size at study entry, and HPV16-specific immunity was analyzed at different time points by complementary immunological assays. The group of patients with smaller lesions displayed stronger and broader vaccine-prompted HPV16-specific proliferative responses with higher IFNgamma (P = 0.0003) and IL-5 (P < 0.0001) levels than patients with large lesions. Characteristically, this response was accompanied by a distinct peak in cytokine levels after the first vaccination. In contrast, the patient group with larger lesions mounted higher frequencies of HPV16-specific CD4(+)CD25(+)Foxp3(+) T cells (P = 0.005) and displayed a lower HPV16-specific IFNgamma/IL-10 ratio after vaccination (P < 0.01). No disparity in T memory immunity to control antigens was found, indicating that the differences in HPV-specific immunity did not reflect general immune failure. We observed a strong correlation between a defined set of vaccine-prompted specific immune responses and the clinical efficacy of therapeutic vaccination. Notably, a high ratio of HPV16-specific vaccine-prompted effector T cells to HPV16-specific CD4(+)CD25(+)Foxp3(+) T cells was predictive of clinical success. Foxp3(+) T cells have been associated previously with impaired immunity in malignancies. Here we demonstrate that the vaccine-prompted level of this population is associated with early treatment failure.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1091-6490
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
29
pubmed:volume
107
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
11895-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-12-30
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20547850-CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:20547850-Cancer Vaccines, pubmed-meshheading:20547850-Carcinoma in Situ, pubmed-meshheading:20547850-Cytokines, pubmed-meshheading:20547850-Female, pubmed-meshheading:20547850-Forkhead Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:20547850-Human papillomavirus 16, pubmed-meshheading:20547850-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:20547850-Interleukin-2 Receptor alpha Subunit, pubmed-meshheading:20547850-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:20547850-Lymphocyte Activation, pubmed-meshheading:20547850-Papillomavirus Infections, pubmed-meshheading:20547850-Papillomavirus Vaccines, pubmed-meshheading:20547850-Remission Induction, pubmed-meshheading:20547850-T-Lymphocyte Subsets, pubmed-meshheading:20547850-T-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:20547850-T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory, pubmed-meshheading:20547850-Treatment Failure, pubmed-meshheading:20547850-Vulvar Neoplasms
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Success or failure of vaccination for HPV16-positive vulvar lesions correlates with kinetics and phenotype of induced T-cell responses.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZA Leiden, The Netherlands.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, In Vitro, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Clinical Trial, Phase II