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J Gen Virol 84 (2003), 139-146; DOI 10.1099/vir.0.18678-0

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Priming of cytotoxic T cell responses to exogenous hepatitis B virus core antigen is B cell dependent

Una Lazdina1, Mats Alheim1, Jessica Nyström1, Catharina Hultgren1, Gallina Borisova2, Irina Sominskaya2, Paul Pumpens2, Darrell L. Peterson3, David R. Milich4 and Matti Sällberg1

1 Division of Clinical Virology, F68, Karolinska Institutet at Huddinge University Hospital, S 141 86 Stockholm, Sweden
2 Biomedical Research and Study Center, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
3 Department of Biochemistry, Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
4 Vaccine Research Institute of San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

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Matti Sällberg
Matti.Sallberg{at}impi.ki.se

The hepatitis B virus (HBV) core antigen (HBcAg) has a unique ability to bind a high frequency of naive human and murine B cells. The role of HBcAg-binding naive B cells in the immunogenicity of HBcAg is not clear. The HBcAg-binding properties of naive B cells were characterized using HBcAg particles with mutated spike region (residues 76–85) sequences. Deletion of residues 76–85 (HBc{Delta}76–85) destroyed naive B cell binding, whereas deletion of residues 79–85 did not. HBcAg particles with an Ile instead of the natural Ala at position 80 did not bind naive B cells, whereas reversion of Ile80->Ala restored B cell binding. Destroying the B cell-binding ability of HBcAg had a marginal effect on the overall B cell immunogenicity of the different particles, suggesting that they were equally efficient in priming T helper cells. Therefore, the importance of HBcAg-binding B cells is studied with relation to the priming of HBcAg-specific cytotoxic T cells (CTLs). The role of HBcAg-binding B cells in the priming of HBcAg-specific CTLs was evaluated by immunization with endogenous HBcAg (DNA immunization) and exogenous recombinant HBcAg particles. Endogenous HBcAg primed HBcAg-specific CTLs in wild-type and B cell-deficient mice, whereas exogenous HBcAg primed HBcAg-specific CTLs only in wild-type mice. Importantly, HBc{Delta}76–85 did not prime CTLs despite the presence of B cells. Thus, the ability of exogenous HBcAg particles to prime specific CTLs is B cell dependent, suggesting a possible role for HBcAg-binding B cells in HBV infections.




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