Objective
Vaccines against tuberculosis are urgently needed (Jordan Report, 2000). CD4 T cell responses play a major role in the generation of acquired immunity against M.tubercolosis. However, it is increasingly recognised that CD8 cytotoxic T cells (CTL) also con tribute to optimal host defence against mycobacteria. Of the various CTL subsets, it is commonly accepted that the conventional MHC-Ia restricted CD8 T cell subset play a major role. Unfortunately, relatively few CTL responses against TB have been identif ied. The object of this proposal is to perform a complete antigen-and epitope- discovery of relevance for human immune CTL responses against M.tuberculosis. Focusing on HLA class I restricted CTL constitutes the major risk involved in this project. To mee t our global objectives within the limited time and resources available for this project, we will combine several recently established innovative high-throughput methods from immunology and bioinformatics. Two different screening approaches will be used; o ne of "Forward Antigen Discovery", where expression libaries representing the whole M.tuberculosis genome is screened for proteins that are target for CTL repsonses in TB patients, and one of "Reverse Antigen Discovery", where proteins, which are likely to contain CTL epitopes, are predicted using computational methods, pre- validated by binding to relevant HLA molecules, and finally validated using CTL response from TB patients. The strategy will be initially to perform a genome-wide identification of nove l target proteins. Within these proteins we will subsequently perform HLA-wide epitope discovery where epitopes restricted by one of the major HLA supertypes are predicted, pre- validated for HLA binding and tested for CTL responses in TB patients.Our gene ral goal is to generate a European genomics/proteomics based platform for antigen and epitope discovery, and specifically to test it in the development of vaccines and immunotherapy.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- medical and health sciences basic medicine immunology immunisation
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine pneumology tuberculosis
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy pharmaceutical drugs vaccines
- medical and health sciences basic medicine immunology immunotherapy
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics genomes
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FP6-2003-LIFESCIHEALTH-3
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Coordinator
KGS. LYNGBY
Denmark
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