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OBJECTIVES:Developing an effective HIV vaccine that stimulates the humoral and cellular immune responses is still challenging because of the diversity of HIV-1 virus, polymorphism of human HLA and lack of a suitable delivery system. RESULTS:Using bioinformatics tools, we designed a DNA construct encoding multiple epitopes. These epitopes were highly conserved within prevalent HIV-1 subtypes and interacted with prevalent class I and II HLAs in Iran and the world. The designed DNA construct included Nef60-84, Nef126-144, Vpr34-47, Vpr60-75, Gp16030-53, Gp160308-323 and P248-151 epitopes (i.e., nef-vpr-gp160-p24 DNA) which was cloned into pET-24a(+) and pEGFP-N1 vectors. The recombinant polyepitope peptide (rNef-Vpr-Gp160-P24; ~ 32 kDa) was successfully generated in E. coli expression system. The pEGFP-nef-vpr-gp160-p24 and rNef-Vpr-Gp160-P24 polyepitope peptide were delivered into HEK-293 T cells using cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs). The MPG and HR9 CPPs, as well as the novel LDP-NLS and CyLoP-1 CPPs, were utilized for DNA and peptide delivery into the cells, respectively. SEM results confirmed the formation of stable MPG/pEGFP-N1-nef-vpr-gp160-p24, HR9/pEGFP-N1-nef-vpr-gp160-p24, LDP-NLS/rNef-Vpr-Gp160-P24 and CyLoP-1/rNef-Vpr-Gp160-P24 nanoparticles with a diameter of < 200 nm through non-covalent bonds. MTT assay results indicated that these nanoparticles did not have any major toxicity in vitro. Fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry and western blot data demonstrated that these CPPs could significantly deliver the DNA and peptide constructs into HEK-293 T cells. CONCLUSION:The use of these CPPs can be considered as an approach in HIV vaccine development for in vitro and in vivo delivery of DNA and peptide constructs into mammalian cells.
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Biotechnol Lettjournal_title
Biotechnology lettersauthors
Davoodi S,Bolhassani A,Sadat SM,Irani Sdoi
10.1007/s10529-019-02734-xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-11-01 00:00:00pages
1283-1298issue
11eissn
0141-5492issn
1573-6776pii
10.1007/s10529-019-02734-xjournal_volume
41pub_type
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