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• the present invention relates to compositions in which a biologically active molecule, such as an antigenic peptide, a cytokine, or an oligonucleotide, is contained in an HBsAg particle, and to therapeutic uses of such compositions, particularly for enhancing the immunogenic activities of the components.
• a biologically active molecule such as an antigenic peptide, a cytokine, or an oligonucleotide
• Subunit vaccines which utilize isolated components of a virus particle, are a safer alternative to conventional vaccines.
• the components are typically recombinant proteins or synthetic short peptides.
• most subunit vaccines like most soluble antigens, generally elicit only a humoral immune response, which stimulates B-lymphocytes to produce antibodies.
• Such a response is effective in attacking bacteria and viruses in the extracellular media, but not in the elimination of intracellular bacteria, parasites and virus-infected cells.
• a vaccine should also be able to elicit a CTL (cytotoxic T-lymphocyte) response.
• the CTL response stimulates the production of "killer" T-lymphocytes, which attack cells perceived as abnormal, including virus-infected cells.
• the mode of processing and presentation of an antigen determines which T cell subtype O elper or cytotoxic) is activated during the immune response.
• exogenous antigens enter an antigen presenting cell (APC) via endocytosis or a related mechanism.
• the proteins then undergo proteolysis, yielding peptides having 10-20 amino acids, which bind to MHC-II molecules.
• the resulting complexes stimulate CD4+ (helper) T cells, which regulate humoral immune responses.
• proteins present in the cytoplasm such as viral proteins, are degraded to peptides 8-10 amino acids in length, which bind to MHC-I molecules.
• the resulting complexes interact with CD 8+ (cytotoxic) T- lymphocytes (CTL). As noted above, this response is especially important for protection against virus-infected cells or intracellular microorganisms.
• immunogenic compositions which produce an effective CTL immune response, particularly for use with soluble antigens.
• the present invention includes, in one aspect, a method of stimulating, enhancing or modulating an immune response to an antigen in a mammalian subject, by administration of an effective amount of a composition of the antigen contained in an HBsAg particle.
• the immune response is a CTL response, and is enhanced, preferably by a factor of two or more, relative to that elicited by the molecules when administered without HBsAg.
• the subject compositions are also effective to produce a CTL response when the antigenic molecule, administered without HBsAg, is substantially ineffective in producing such a response.
• the HBsAg particle is preferably a recombinant particle, either yeast-derived or produced in a mammalian cell, such as a CHO (Chinese hamster ovary) cell.
• the encapsulated molecule is preferably an antigenic protein or peptide. Specific embodiments include those in which the molecule is ovalbumin or HIVenv V3 peptide.
• the composition further includes an immunostimulating molecule, such as a cytokine or immunostimulating oligonucleotide, contained in the HBsAg particle.
• the invention provides a method of stimulating, enhancing or modulating an immune response to HBsAg in a mammalian subject, by administration of an effective amount of a composition of an immunostimulating molecule contained in an HBsAg particle.
• the immune response is a CTL response
• the subject is a nonresponder at the CTL level when administered HBsAg particles without the immunostimulating molecule.
• the immunostimulating molecule is a cytokine, such as IL-12, IL-10, or IFN- ⁇ ; IL-12 and IFN- ⁇ are particularly preferred.
• Other immunostimulating molecules include cholera toxin (CT) protein, staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) protein, and immunostimulating oligonucleotides.
• an immunogenic composition comprising an HBsAg particle, and contained therein, a biologically active molecule.
• the composition is preferably prepared by incubating the particles in an aqueous medium in the presence of the molecule.
• the molecule is an antigen, e.g. HIVenv/K d peptide.
• the molecule is an immunostimulating compound, or the particle may contain both an antigen and an immunostimulating molecule.
• Preferred immunostimulants include a cytokines, such as IL-10, IL- 12 or IFN- ⁇ , and immunostimulating oligonucleotides.
• immunostimulating molecules which may be used include cholera toxin (CT) protein and staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) protein.
• CT cholera toxin
• SEB staphylococcal enterotoxin B
• the composition may also include a glycolipid incorporated into the external face of the lipid bilayer of the HBsAg particle, where the glycolipid preferably includes at least one mannose residue.
• the invention also provides, in another aspect, a method of incorporating a biologically active molecule into an HBsAg particle.
• the particles are incubated in an aqueous medium in the presence of the molecule.
• the temperature of incubation is preferably between about 35°C and about 60°C, and more preferably between about 55°C and about 60°C.
• the method may also include incorporating a glycolipid into the exterior surface of the HBsAg particle, preferably co-incubating the glycolipid with the HBsAg particles and biologically active molecule.
• Figure 1 shows a computer generated image of a cryotransmission electron micrograph of an HBsAg particle, showing the structure of the porous lipid vesicle having defined protein pores;
• Figure 2 is a topographical image of an HBsAg obtained from image analysis of a cryotransmission electron micrograph of the particle;
• Figure 3 shows the ratio of total protein area to area of 24kd+27kd proteins, as determined by gel electrophoresis, of HBsAg alone and HBsAg incubated with ovalbumin at a series of increasing temperatures;
• Figure 4A shows the level of anti-HBsAg CTL response induced by cells stimulated with HBsAg alone, with OVA alone, and with OVA encapsulated in HBsAg, against HBsAg-specific cells (P815/S) and nonspecific cells (P815);
• Figure 4B shows the level of anti-OVA CTL response induced by cells stimulated as for Fig. 4A, against OVA-specific cells (EG7) and nonspecific cells (EL4);
• Figure 4C shows the level of anti-HBsAg antibody response induced by HBsAg alone, OVA alone, and OVA encapsulated in HBsAg
• Figure 4D shows the level of anti-OVA antibody response induced by the compositions shown for Fig. 4C;
• Figure 5A shows the level of anti-HBsAg CTL response induced by cells stimulated with HBsAg alone, with HIV envV3-peptide alone, and with HIV envV3-peptide encapsulated in HBsAg, against HBsAg-specific cells (P815/S) and nonspecific cells (P815);
• Figure 5B shows the level of anti-HIV envV3-peptide CTL response induced by cells stimulated as for Fig. 5A, against HIV envV3-peptide-specific cells (P815/HIV envV3-peptide) and nonspecific cells (P815); and
• Figures 6A-H show the level of anti-HBsAg CTL response induced in cells of 'nonresponder' mice (C57BL/6 H2-b) by HBsAg alone (A), HBsAg containing various cytokines (B-F), and IL-12 alone (G), and by HBsAg/IL-12 in a control experiment (H) in which the effector cells were restimulated with non-antigen-bearing cells.
• Hepatitis B virus is a major cause of acute and chronic hepatitis in humans.
• HBV replication a large excess (1000:1) of "empty" surface particles, containing neither capsids nor viral DNA/RNA, are produced.
• HBsAg hepatitis B surface antigen particles are potent immunogens in humans and many animal species.
• First generation HBV subunit vaccines included HBsAg particles purified from the plasma of human chronic carriers. Due to the limited supply of carrier plasma and major safety problems, vaccines based on recombinant HBsAg particles derived from yeast (Sacchromyces cerevisiae) were introduced.
• HBsAg particles are derived from Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells in culture and are referred to herein as CHO-HBsAg particles.
• the composition, structure and immunogenicity of yeast- and CHO-derived HBsAg particles have been described (Diminsky et al).
• the particles are about 20-33 nm in size and are composed of about 60% protein and 40% lipid by weight. Phospholipids are the predominant lipids.
• the CHO-derived particle differs primarily from the yeast-derived particle in that it includes three HBsAg surface proteins (each in two forms of glycosylation), designated large (L), medium (M) and small (S), while the latter includes only the nonglycosylated S peptide.
• Phospholipids cover large areas of the outer and inner protein component of the particle, but some protein domains loop out of the lipid layer and are accessible to antibodies or proteases.
• the particles are hollow, encapsulating a space of about 900 - 8200 cubic nm per particle. Access to the interior of the particles is mediated by the pores, which have an average diameter of about 1-2 nm.
• Figures 2A and 2B show topographical images of HBsAg particles, each about 22 nm in diameter, obtained by image analysis of cryotransmission electron micrographs of the particles. (For a review of TEM methods see Talmon, 1996.) Such image analysis can be carried out using software provided by NIH or Adobe Systems Inc.
• Regions of higher density in the image were assigned higher values along the vertical (out of plane) axis, as shown in Figures 2A-2B.
• the center of each vesicle contains an aqueous phase (lighter regions, having small numeric values). Proteins (darkest regions, having highest numeric values) are embedded in the lipid bilayer (medium tone regions). Pores in the bilayer can be clearly seen, as indicated by arrows in the Figures.
• biologically active molecules such as antigenic proteins and peptides, oligonucleotides, or cytokines
• encapsulated in or “contained in” indicate a physical containment or entrapment of the molecules, rather than a covalent linkage, as is found in fusion proteins, discussed further below.
• This containment refers both to molecule encapsulated within the interior of an HBsAg particle and to entrapped molecule which is exposed or present at the surface of the particle, by virtue of its porous structure.
• the resulting compositions produce enhanced immune responses to the encapsulated antigenic molecules.
• the present compositions can stimulate a CTL response which is enhanced, up to factors of five, ten or more, relative to that elicited by the antigenic molecules when administered without HBsAg.
• Such enhancement can be evaluated, for example, by percent lysis of specific cells relative to nonspecific control cells, using standard assays, as described below.
• the subject compositions can be effective to produce a CTL response even when the molecule, without HBsAg, is substantially ineffective in producing such a response (i.e., little or no CTL response is noted in target cells relative to control cells).
• encapsulation of immunostimulating molecules, such as cytokines greatly enhances the immunogenicity of the HBsAg particles themselves.
• ovalbumin a protein having several hundred amino acids
• HIV/V3 a small antigenic peptide
• cytokines immunostimulants
• the invention includes HBsAg compositions incorporating other biologically active molecules.
• molecules useful in the compositions and methods of the invention include cytokines such as IL-6, IL-7, IL-10, IL-12, IL-15, IL-18, GM-CSF, and IFN- ⁇ , immunostimulating oligonucleotides, genetically modified toxin molecules of tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, and enterobacteria, malaria CS protein, HIV reverse transcriptase, nucleoprotein and matrix proteins of many viruses, and oncogenic viral proteins. It is important to distinguish the present compositions, which comprise molecules encapsulated in HBsAg particles, from HBsAg-antigen fusion peptides described previously (e.g.
• Clarke et al, Francis et al., and Delpeyroux et al Such compositions are prepared by covalently linking the peptides, or, more typically, via chimeric DNA constructs.
• the latter approach requires preparing a chimeric DNA containing genes expressing the antigen and the desired HBV protein(s), introducing the fused construct into an appropriate expression vehicle, expressing the fusion protein, and isolating the protein.
• Delpeyroux et al. reported that titers obtained by immunizing mice with HBsAg-polio fusion protein were "low by poliovirus standards.” A loss of the immune response against native HB was also observed, probably resulting from distortion of the HBsAg epitopes in the fusion protein.
• Clarke et al. reported significant anti-FMDV (foot and mouth disease virus) titers for an FMDV-HBsAg fusion protein but did not report a CTL response.
• compositions in contrast, are prepared by simple incubation of the components, not involving covalent modification. They were found to stimulate significant antibody and CTL responses, as detailed below.
• HBsAg particles were incubated in the presence of OVA protein (100 ⁇ g each in 100 ⁇ l H 2 0) at 4°C (on ice), 37°C and 56°C. At the end of 10 min., samples were cooled to 4°C, and the particles were isolated by ultrafiltration. In control experiments, OVA was incubated under identical conditions in PBS buffer, with no HBsAg particles present, and HBsAg particles were incubated under identical conditions without OVA. The OVA/HBsAg collected after ultrafiltration was analyzed by gel electrophoresis, and the protein in each band was quantified (Diminsky, Lowry).
• the density ratio, and thus the presence of OVA increased with increasing temperature of incubation. This effect could be due to an effective expansion, or increased flexibility, of the pores on the surface of the particles with increasing temperature.
• Quantitative analysis revealed about 6% OVA encapsulation at 56°C. Incubation temperatures much in excess of this, e.g. approaching 80°C, should be avoided, as the compositions are unstable at these temperatures.
• OVA OVA/HBsAg particles prepared as described above, were isolated, washed, and adjusted to the appropriate concentration for immunization.
• the following compositions were injected into FI (H-2d b) mice, each in 50 ⁇ l PBS (phosphate buffered saline): (a) 1 ⁇ g HBsAg particles (without adjuvants); (b) 100 ⁇ g native OVA; and (c) 1 ⁇ g HBsAg/OVA, as described in Section A above.
• PBS phosphate buffered saline
• Figures 4 A and 4B show the humoral (serum antibody) response and CTL response, respectively, elicited by each of these compositions, against HBsAg and against OVA.
• CTL response spleen or lymph nodes cells, obtained from immunized mice seven days to five weeks post-vaccination, were specifically restimulated in vitro for five days with syngeneic, irradiated OVA- or HBsAg-peptide-pulsed tumor cells.
• composition (c) elicited a strong anti-HBsAg humoral and CTL response and a weak anti-OVA humoral response. Most significantly, the composition also elicited a strong anti-OVA CTL response, where none was seen with OVA alone.
• mice were immunized with the following compositions: (a) 1 ⁇ g HBsAg particles (without adjuvants); (b) 100 ⁇ g antigenic HIVenv/V3 peptide; and (c) 1 ⁇ g HBsAg containing antigenic HIVenv/V3 peptide.
• This composition was formed by co- incubation of the components, generally as described for OVA, above. It was estimated that approximately 20 ng peptide was incorporated per ⁇ g of HBsAg particles.
• composition (c) HBsAg CTL response. Furthermore, while HIVenv/V3 peptide alone (composition (b)) elicited no specific CTL response, a strong anti-HIVenv/V3 CTL response was seen for the peptide delivered in HBsAg (composition (c)).
• codelivery of antigen and cytokine in HBsAg can be employed to modulate the type of immune response primed or enhanced by a HBsAg/antigen formulation.
• IL-12 drives CD4+ T-cell response polarization towards the Thl phenotype and suppresses the Th2 phenotype.
• IL-10 suppresses Thl -type response and enhances Th2-type response.
• Such compositions are useful when it is desired to modulate the pathogenic phenotype of an autoimmune or allergic T-cell response. For example, in treatment of autoimmune disease, it is often desirable to shift the phenotype of the immune response, rather than suppressing the response entirely.
• HBsAg particles without adjuvants, induce a CTL response in H-2 d /L d+ (BALB/c, C.B-17) mice.
• Other strains of mice e.g. H-2 d /L d" (dm2) and H-2 b (C57BL/6) mice, however, were found to be nonresponders (Schirmbeck et al). It has been found, in accordance with the present invention, that encapsulation of immunostimulating molecules, e.g. cytokines, in HBsAg particles can induce a CTL response even in these 'nonresponder' strains.
• immunostimulating molecules e.g. cytokines
• HBsAg particles can also be used to deliver immunostimulatory oligonucleotides.
• Such a composition enhances the immunogenicity of the HBsAg for B cells (i.e., the antibody response) as well as T cells (CTL response).
• B cells i.e., the antibody response
• T cells CTL response
• oligonucleotides containing certain palindromic sequences were found to induce IFN and augment NK cell activity of mouse spleen cells (Yamamoto et al, 1992, 1994).
• Other oligonucleotides have been effective as adjuvants in inducing production of cytokines, activating B cells, monocytes, dendritic cells, and NK cells (Weiner; Woolridge).
• B-F 1 ⁇ g HBsAg/cytokine, where the cytokine was:
• splenocytes from the immunized mice were restimulated in vitro for 5 days with HBsAg-pulsed, syngeneic irradiated RBL5 lymphoma cells.
• control experiment H the splenocytes were restimulated with non-pulsed, syngeneic RBL5 cells.
• the splenocytes (effector cells) were then cocultured with 51 Cr-labeled target cells, and the CTL response was measured by a standard 51 Cr release assay.
• the target cells were either non-pulsed EL4 cells (open circles in Figs. 6A-G), or EL4 cells which had been pulsed with HBsAg (solid circles).
• compositions B and C where the cytokines were IL-12 and IFN- ⁇ , respectively.
• This data shows that encapsulation of certain cytokines in HBsAg particles can induce a CTL response even in "nonresponder" strains; i.e., in subjects which do not show a CTL response to HBsAg alone.
• the immunostimulating proteins cholera toxin (CT) and staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB), known as adjuvants for stimulation of CTL and humoral immune responses were each incorporated into HBsAg particles, at a level of about 5-20 ng protein per ⁇ g HBsAg.
• CT cholera toxin
• SEB staphylococcal enterotoxin B
• Glycolipids can be introduced into the HBsAg particle exterior membrane by lipid exchange, using either micelles or liposomes, as described in Feigner.
• Feigner co-incubation of ganglioside micelles (containing predominantly trisialoganglioside GTlb) with fused phosphatidyl choline vesicles, about 70 nm in diameter, or SUV, about 20 nm in diameter, resulted in incorporation of ganglioside on the outer surface of the vesicles.
• the glycolipids can be introduced by the use of a glycolipid exchange protein, as described in Wong et al.
• the particles may be targeted to specific antigen presenting cells, such as dendritic cells or macrophages.
• specific antigen presenting cells such as dendritic cells or macrophages.
• Yachi where modification of the surface of liposomes with fatty acid esters of mannobiose was found useful in targeting the liposomes to Kupffer cells and other macrophages.
• Perin et al. have employed an acylated poly-(l,3)-galactoside for the targeting of macrophages.
• HBsAg having a specific glycolipid incorporated into the lipid monolayer may be administered to induce a CTL response against mycobacteria-infected, syngeneic cells.
• a preferred dose of encapsulated antigen is in the range of 0.01 to 20 ⁇ g, more preferably 0.02 to 2 ⁇ g,' incorporated at about a 1 to 10 weight percent level in HBsAg particles.
• a preferred dose is in the 0.1 to 10 ⁇ g range, with about 1 to 10 weight percent of incorporated immunostimulant (e.g. cytokine).
• Administration may be by injection, e.g., intraperitoneal (ip), subcutaneous (sc), intravenous (iv), or intramuscular (im).

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