Surface-Engineered Gold Nanorods: Promising DNA Vaccine Adjuvant for HIV-1 Treatment Jihui Lee OCT 25, 2016
Statistics: AIDS More than 60 million people Nearly half of them died 6500 new infections daily HIV-1 Vaccine: safety and efficacy issues
DNA Vaccines Advantages: Disadvantages: Long-lived cellular immunity + humoral immunity Protective immunity Safer, inexpensive for manufacture and storage Potential for multiple antigens/pathogens Disadvantages: Immunogenecity Poor uptake DNA degradation by nuclease
Adjuvant Aluminum compounds and MF 59: Nanomaterials: AuNRs: Not active enough cellular immune response Nanomaterials: Non viral vehicles Smaller size Large surface area-to-volume ratio Ease of preparation AuNRs: Bioimaging, immunoassays, thermal therapy for tumors, drug delivery
Internalization Proton Sponge effect Cell transfection capability by CTAB- (H), PDDAC- (I), and PEI-Au NR (J) Proton Sponge effect
Internalization pEGFP: Cy3-dCTP (nick translation method) Lysosomes: LysoTrackerGreen DND-26 Mitochondria: MitoTrackerGreen FM
Internalization
Immunogenicity
Immunogenicity :
ELISPOT/ELISA
Conclusion Immunogenicity: Limitation: Enhance the uptake of DNA Activate T cell directly Limitation: Only intradermal injection PEI: Cytotoxicity, poor reproducibility