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Journal of Virology, October 2004, p. 11434-11438, Vol. 78, No. 20
0022-538X/04/$08.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.20.11434-11438.2004
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Heterologous Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Priming-Boosting Immunization Strategies Involving Replication-Defective Adenovirus and Poxvirus Vaccine Vectors
Danilo R. Casimiro,1* Andrew J. Bett,1 Tong-ming Fu,1 Mary-Ellen Davies,1 Aimin Tang,1 Keith A. Wilson,1 Minchun Chen,1 Romnie Long,1 Troy McKelvey,1 Michael Chastain,1 Sanjay Gurunathan,2 Jim Tartaglia,3 Emilio A. Emini,1,
and John Shiver1
Department of Viral Vaccine Research, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co., West Point,1
Aventis-Pasteur, Inc., Swiftwater, Pennsylvania,2
Aventis-Pasteur, Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada3
Received 16 February 2004/
Accepted 5 June 2004

ABSTRACT
We compared the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-specific
cellular immune responses elicited in nonhuman primates by HIV-1
gag-expressing replication-defective adenovirus serotype 5 (Ad5)
or poxvirus vectors, used either alone or in combination with
each other. The responses arising from a heterologous Ad5 priming-poxvirus
boosting regimen were significantly greater than those elicited
by homologous regimens with the individual vectors or by a heterologous
poxvirus priming-Ad5 boosting regimen. The heterologous Ad5
priming-poxvirus boosting approach may have potential utility
in humans as a means of inducing high levels of cellular immunity.

TEXT
There is increasing evidence that human immunodeficiency virus
type 1 (HIV-1)-specific cellular immune responses, particularly
those associated with CD8
+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), play
an important role in controlling persistent viral replication.
A decline in acute HIV-1 viremia was found to be coincident
with the appearance of virus-specific CTL (
11). Various rates
of disease progression in infected humans have been associated
with specific major histocompatibility complex class I alleles,
suggesting control mediated by defined CTL epitopes (
7,
10,
13). In addition, immunization of macaques with vectors expressing
internal viral gene products (e.g., Gag and Pol) yields a reduction
of viremia and slower disease progression upon subsequent challenge
with the simian-human immunodeficiency virus 89.6P (
2,
18),
while experimental depletion of CD8
+ cells in simian immunodeficiency
virus-infected macaques results in increases in steady-state
viremia (
9,
17). Finally, there is evidence that enhancement
of host cellular immunity, through either vaccination or therapy
interruption, could lead to enhanced immunodeficiency virus
control (
12,
14,
16,
20).
Recently, we evaluated the ability of several vaccine vectors, DNA, replication-defective adenovirus type 5 (Ad5), and modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) to induce specific cellular immune responses against the HIV-1 Gag protein (5, 6). The Ad5-based vaccine proved to be very potent in eliciting such immune responses in nonhuman primates. However, the potency of the Ad5 vector in humans is likely to be compromised by preexisting vector-specific neutralizing antibodies, as was noted in earlier animal model studies (5, 21). The antivector immunity will also likely attenuate booster immunization responses when the same vector is used for both immune priming and boosting. Accordingly, in the present study, we assessed the ability of poxvirus vectors (3, 8, 15) to boost Ad5-primed responses as a means of enhancing the levels of vaccine-elicited responses.
Construction of an optimized E1 E3+ replication-defective Ad5 vector expressing a codon-biased HIV-1 (strain CAM1) gag gene has been described previously (22). An Ad6 vector was also constructed by use of a homologous bacterial recombination strategy similar to that described for the Ad5 construct; the gag gene was placed under the control of the same human cytomegalovirus early promoter and bovine growth hormone polyadenylation signal as in the Ad5-gag construct. Ad6 and Ad5 represent closely related human Ad group C serotypes. The construction and generation of the MVA vector expressing the codon-optimized HIV-1 CAM1 gag were also described previously (5). In addition to evaluating MVA, we evaluated the canarypox virus ALVAC vector, as well as the replication-defective NYVAC poxvirus vectors (4, 8, 19). Both vectors were constructed by following established protocols (4, 19) to express the same codon-optimized CAM1 gag gene.
Indian rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) were given intramuscular injections of the test vaccines under the following regimens: (i) 109 vector particles (vp) of Ad5-gag at months 0, 1, and 6; (ii) 109 PFU of MVA-gag at months 0, 1, and 6; or (iii) 109 vp of Ad5-gag at months 0 and 1, followed by 109 PFU of MVA-gag at month 6. In all cases, the total vaccine dose was suspended in 1.0 ml of phosphate-buffered saline. The macaques were anesthetized (ketamine-xylazine), and the vaccines were delivered intramuscularly in 0.5-ml aliquots into both deltoid muscles by use of tuberculin syringes (Becton-Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, N.J.). Animal studies were performed in accordance with the principles set forth in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (13a) and with the approval of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees of the New Iberia Research Center and Merck Research Laboratories.
Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) collected during the course of immunization were analyzed for levels of Gag-specific T-cells by using the gamma interferon (IFN-
) enzyme-linked immunospot assay (1). Antigen stimulation of cytokine production was achieved by adding to the PBMC a pool of 20-amino-acid (aa) peptides that encompassed the entire HIV-1 CAM1 Gag sequence with 10-aa-length overlaps (Synpep Corp., Dublin, Calif.). Figure 1 shows the number of IFN-
spot-forming cells (SFC) per 106 PBMC for each animal following the priming and booster doses. For comparative analyses of enzyme-linked immunospot assay data, the 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) of the cohort geometric means (GM) were calculated. The difference between two data sets was statistically significant if the 95% CI of the GM of the mock-subtracted SFC/106 PBMC values were nonoverlapping or, alternatively, if the 95% CI of the ratio of the GM was above 1.0. Homologous priming-boosting immunization with Ad5-gag elicited relatively high levels of detectable Gag-specific T lymphocytes (cohort GM, 241 SFC/106 PBMC [95% CI, 129 to 449 SFC/106 PBMC] at 4 weeks postbooster), whereas the homologous priming-boosting vaccination with MVA-gag produced responses close to background (<40 SFC/106 PBMC). Importantly, the response levels elicited by the homologous Ad5 booster were not better than the respective peak priming responses. Heterologous boosting with 109 PFU of MVA-gag resulted in a mean level (GM, 1,186 SFC/106 PBMC [95% CI, 901 to 1,562 SFC/106 PBMC]) which was 10.5-fold higher (95% CI, 5.5- to 20-fold) than that of homologous Ad priming-Ad boosting cohort at 8 weeks postbooster. Moreover, these levels were 2.4-fold higher (95% CI, 1.6- to 3.8-fold) than the peak priming responses.
To address whether other poxvirus vectors can similarly serve
as boosters for Ad-primed responses, monkeys which were previously
immunized with three doses of either Ad5- or Ad6-
gag (at either
10
7 or 10
9 vp) at weeks 0, 4, and 26 were inoculated with 10
8 PFU of either ALVAC-
gag or MVA-
gag at weeks 56 and 119. Results
(Fig.
2) showed that ALVAC is also notably effective in boosting
Ad-primed responses. At the time of administration of the first
booster, the levels of Gag-specific T-cells were very low (<114
SFC/10
6 PBMC); the levels rose, on average, 16-fold (95% CI,
6.2- to 37-fold) at 4 weeks following administration of the
poxvirus booster (GM, 1,191 SFC/10
6 PBMC [95% CI, 760 to 1,867
SFC/10
6 PBMC] for the ALVAC-boosted cohort; GM, 378 SFC/10
6 PBMC [95% CI, 149 to 957 SFC/10
6 PBMC] for the MVA-boosted cohort).
While the responses declined afterwards, the levels at week
118 remained 4-fold higher (95% CI, 1.6- to 10.5-fold) than
those levels observed just prior to the boosting (week 53),
indicating an immunological benefit of the booster.
A second poxvirus booster was administered over a year (week
119) after the first poxvirus immunization in order to explore
the utility of these vaccine vectors for maintenance boosters.
At the time of the booster administration, no serum-neutralizing
activity against either the ALVAC or the MVA vectors could be
detected in in vitro assays (data not shown). At 4 weeks after
the second booster, the Gag-specific immune responses were comparable
if not slightly improved (though not statistically significant)
relative to the responses present 4 weeks after the first booster
was administered (Fig.
2). This suggests that poxvirus vectors
can be used as boosters for maintaining cellular immunity, although
more administrations will be necessary to fully evaluate this
utility.
The sequence in which the vaccines are used also determines the effectiveness of the heterologous priming-boosting approach. Cohorts of three monkeys were immunized with two priming doses of either ALVAC-gag (at 109 PFU/dose) or NYVAC-gag (at 109 PFU/dose), followed by a booster at week 27 with 107 vp of Ad5-gag. This low dose of Ad5-gag is used to mimic the effect of preexisting Ad5 immunity in the general population; this dose has been previously shown to boost responses in animals primed with a DNA vector vaccine (5). Animals that had received three doses of MVA-gag from the experiment described in Fig. 1 were also given a booster of 107 vp of Ad5-gag. The levels of Gag-specific T-cells induced by priming with the various poxvirus vectors were consistently weak, never exceeding 100 SFC/106 PBMC at any given sampling time (Fig. 3). Boosting with a dose of 107 vp of Ad5-gag yielded only a slight elevation in responses, with only two to nine animals having Gag-specific T-cell levels between 100 and 200 SFC/106 PBMC. A separate cohort of three monkeys was primed with the same low dose of Ad5-gag (107 vp/dose) at weeks 0 and 4 and given a booster of 109 vp of MVA-gag at week 27. Priming responses resulting from this small Ad5 dose were relatively low, never exceeding 190 SFC/106 PBMC at any time prior to the MVA booster, and ranged from 10 to 110 SFC/106 PBMC at the time of the booster (Fig. 3). However, unlike the poxvirus priming-Ad5 boosting cohorts, the postboosting Gag-specific T-lymphocyte levels rose to above 500 SFC/106 PBMC (GM, 1,023 SFC/106 PBMC [95% CI, 293 to 3,563 SFC/106 PBMC] at 8 weeks postboosting).
The CD4
+ CD8
+ distribution of the Gag-specific T-cell population
was determined by flow cytometric intracellular IFN-

cytokine
staining by using the 20-mer peptide pool (
5). Analyses of PBMC
collected after the poxvirus booster for all animals described
Fig.
1 through
3 revealed that the percentage of Gag-specific
T-cells that were CD3
+ CD8
+ ranged from 20 to 90%, with a mean
of 70% (Fig.
4). In contrast, for the animals that received
multiple doses of Ad5-
gag only, which include those described
in Fig.
1, as well as animals from a previous report (
5), these
values were more tightly confined to >70%. The distribution
did not change notably with time after the booster inoculation
(data not shown). It would appear that compared to the Ad booster,
the poxvirus booster produced more detectable helper responses
when the 20-aa peptide pool was used as the stimulus. This relative
difference in CD4
+ CD8
+ T-cell distribution is consistent with
a trend previously observed when poxvirus and Ad5 boosters were
compared to DNA vector-primed responses (
6).
In conclusion, we have presented data demonstrating the potential
utility of poxvirus vectors as booster immunogens to enhance
responses initially elicited by Ad vector-based vaccines. ALVAC
and MVA, two of the most extensively studied vectors in HIV-1
vaccine human trials, were shown here to be effective boosters
of Ad-primed T-cell responses. The immunogenicity of Ad5 vector
priming followed by ALVAC poxvirus vector boosting is currently
undergoing evaluation in a human phase I trial.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We gratefully acknowledge Robert Druilhet and Jane Fontenot
of the New Iberia Research Center for their contributions to
this research.

FOOTNOTES
* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Viral Vaccine Research, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co., 770 Sumneytown Pike, West Point, PA 19486. Phone: (215) 652-3129. Fax: (215) 652-7320. E-mail:
danilo_casimiro{at}merck.com.

Present address: International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, New York, NY 10038. 

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