artigo da Monalisa- vacina de subunidade com lipossoma

Trentini MM(1), de Oliveira FM(2), Nogueira Gaeti MP(3), Batista AC(4), Lima EM(3), Kipnis A(2), Junqueira-Kipnis AP(5). Vaccine. 2014 Jul 23;32(34):4324-32. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.06.037.

Author information: (1)Laboratório de Imunopatologia das Doenças Infecciosas, Instituto de Patologia Tropical e Saúde Pública, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil. (2)Laboratório de Bacteriologia Molecular, Instituto de Patologia Tropical e Saúde Pública, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil. (3)Laboratório de Nanotecnologia Farmacêutica - FarmaTec, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil. (4)Laboratório de Patologia, Faculdade de Odontologia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil. (5)Laboratório de Imunopatologia das Doenças Infecciosas, Instituto de Patologia Tropical e Saúde Pública, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil.

Electronic address: apkipnis@gmail.com.

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis is a disease affecting millions of people throughout the world. One of the main problems in controlling the disease is the low efficacy of the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine in protecting young adults. The development of new vaccines that induce a long-lasting immune response or that stimulate the immunity induced by BCG may improve the control of tuberculosis. METHODS: The use of microstructured liposomes containing HspX, with or without MPL or CpG DNA adjuvants, as vaccines for tuberculosis was evaluated. The HspX-specific humoral and cellular immune responses to the different vaccine formulations were compared. RESULTS: All vaccines containing liposome microparticles and HspX were immunogenic. Vaccines formulated with CpG DNA and HspX induced the strongest humoral and cellular immune responses, mainly by inducing interferon-γ and tumor necrosis factor-α expression by both CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells. HspX and MPL mainly induced CD8(+) T-cell activation and specific humoral responses. When evaluated the protective efficacy of the formulations against Mycobacterium tuberculosis challenge, the microstructured liposome containing L-HspX and L-HspX-CPG DNA reduced both lung inflammatory lesions and the bacterial load. CONCLUSION: We have thus demonstrated, for the first time, the use of microstructured liposomes as an adjuvant and delivery system for a vaccine formulation against tuberculosis. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. PMID: 24951861 [PubMed - in process]