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Open Access 01-12-2010 | Review

Conserved epitopes of influenza A virus inducing protective immunity and their prospects for universal vaccine development

Authors: Zuzana Staneková, Eva Varečková

Published in: Virology Journal | Issue 1/2010

Abstract

Influenza A viruses belong to the best studied viruses, however no effective prevention against influenza infection has been developed. The emerging of still new escape variants of influenza A viruses causing epidemics and periodic worldwide pandemics represents a threat for human population. Therefore, current, hot task of influenza virus research is to look for a way how to get us closer to a universal vaccine. Combination of chosen conserved antigens inducing cross-protective antibody response with epitopes activating also cross-protective cytotoxic T-cells would offer an attractive strategy for improving protection against drift variants of seasonal influenza viruses and reduces the impact of future pandemic strains. Antigenically conserved fusion-active subunit of hemagglutinin (HA2 gp) and ectodomain of matrix protein 2 (eM2) are promising candidates for preparation of broadly protective HA2- or eM2-based vaccine that may aid in pandemic preparedness. Overall protective effect could be achieved by contribution of epitopes recognized by cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTL) that have been studied extensively to reach much broader control of influenza infection. In this review we present the state-of-art in this field. We describe known adaptive immune mechanisms mediated by influenza specific B- and T-cells involved in the anti-influenza immune defense together with the contribution of innate immunity. We discuss the mechanisms of neutralization of influenza infection mediated by antibodies, the role of CTL in viral elimination and new approaches to develop epitope based vaccine inducing cross-protective influenza virus-specific immune response.

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Title: Conserved epitopes of influenza A virus inducing protective immunity and their prospects for universal vaccine development
Authors: Zuzana Staneková
Eva Varečková
Publication date: 01-12-2010
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Virology Journal / Issue 1/2010
Electronic ISSN: 1743-422X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-7-351

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