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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6326
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-7-12
pubmed:abstractText
Several viral and bacterial live recombinant vaccine vehicles are being developed to produce a new generation of vaccines against a broad spectrum of infectious diseases. The human tuberculosis vaccine Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) has features that make it a particularly attractive live recombinant vaccine vehicle. BCG and other mycobacteria are highly effective adjuvants, and the immune response to mycobacteria has been studied extensively. With nearly two billion immunizations, BCG has a long record of safe use in man. It is one of the few vaccines that can be given at birth, it engenders long-lived immune responses with only a single dose, and there is a worldwide distribution network with experience in BCG vaccination. Recently developed molecular genetic tools and methods for mycobacteria have provided the means to introduce foreign genes into BCG. Here we report that a variety of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 polypeptides can be expressed in BCG recombinants under the control of the mycobacterial hsp70 promoter and that the foreign polypeptides produced in BCG can induce antibody and T-cell responses. These results demonstrate that BCG can be used as a live recombinant vaccine vehicle to induce immune responses to pathogen proteins produced by the bacillus.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
6
pubmed:volume
351
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
479-82
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:2046750-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-Antibody Formation, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-Antigens, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-BCG Vaccine, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-DNA, Recombinant, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-DNA, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-Gene Products, env, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-Gene Products, gag, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-Gene Products, pol, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-HIV-1, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-Heat-Shock Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-Immunity, Cellular, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-Immunization, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-Mice, Inbred BALB C, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-Mycobacterium bovis, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-Spleen, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-T-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-Vaccines, Synthetic, pubmed-meshheading:2046750-Viral Vaccines
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Humoral and cell-mediated immune responses to live recombinant BCG-HIV vaccines.
pubmed:affiliation
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't