Patent Application: US-31885694-A

Abstract:
a method of identifying peptides of an antigen of interest which are capable of recognition by or induction of cytotoxic t lymphocytes , comprises the steps of : ascertaining a &# 34 ; motif &# 34 ; of peptides which bind to a chosen hla class i allele ; providing peptides having this motif which are present in the known sequence of the antigen of interest ; screening the peptides using an hla assembly assay ; and screening the resulting peptides for recognition by or induction of cytotoxic t lymphocytes . the above peptides have been identified by this method , and the peptides and vaccines containing them are also claimed .

Description:
much progress has been made in the past decade in understanding the immunology of hiv - 1 , although far less is known about hiv - 2 . the latter was first described in 1986 in west africa , and is related to hiv - 1 , the prototype human immunodeficiency virus . similarities between the two viruses include tropism for cells bearing the cd4 marker , although hiv - 2 has a lower binding affinity for the cd4 receptor than hiv - 1 , major antigenic cross reactivity and similar genome structure with nucleotype homology . in order that the important differences between hiv - 1 and hiv - 2 might be more completely understood , and that vaccines which stimulate both cellular and humoral immune reactions may be developed for both retroviruses , we have carried out a study of ctl activity in patients infected with hiv - 2 in the gambia . as described below , we have used the method of this invention as a strategy for providing peptide epitopes in an hiv - 2 gag protein . firstly , we report the application of this strategy to identifying epitopes in pre - erythrocytic stage antigens of plasmodium falciparum , the causative agent of the most severe malaria of humans . we have found that in african children , the hla class i antigen . hla - b53 , is associated with protection from severe malaria , and have proposed that this results form the ability of this antigen to elicit a protective cytotoxic lymphocyte response targetted at the liver - stage of the parasite &# 39 ; s life cycle 7 . the antigen and epitope against which such a ctl response may be directed was previously unknown . by eluting self - peptides from hla - b53 we identified a sequence motif for bound peptides and have synthesized sixty octamer , nonamer or decamer peptides bearing this motif from the four pre - erythrocytic stage p . falciparum antigens that have been cloned and sequenced 8 - 13 : each of these antigens has been used in or is currently awaiting human vaccine trials . one or more peptides from each antigen bound to hla - b53 in the hla assembly ( binding ) assay 6 and these were tested further using lymphocytes from africans naturally exposed to malaria . none of the peptides from the three sporozoite antigens , which have been the focus of most previous work 8 - 11 , 14 - 21 , elicited ctl responses . however , a nonamer peptide from liver - stage specific antigen - 1 ( lsa - 1 ) 12 . 13 elicited secondary ctl responses in hla - b53 positive individuals and sequence analysis showed this to be a conserved epitope in the local parasite population . in contrast , a similar approach for the hla - b35 molecule identified responses mainly to polymorphic epitopes , variants of which escape ctl recognition . these results suggest a possible molecular basis for the association of hla - b53 with resistance to severe malaria , and identify lsa - 1 as an important antigen for attempts to induce ctl - mediated immunity to this infectious disease . self peptides were acid eluted 3 from hla - b53 ( hla - b * 5301 ), separated by hplc and sequenced . the pool sequence ( table 1 ) showed a predominant signal for proline at position 2 indicating that most peptides bound to hla - b53 have this &# 34 ; anchor &# 34 ; residue at position 2 . a similar approach was taken for hla - b35 ( hla - b * 3501 ), which was not significantly associated with altered resistance to severe malaria in the gambian case - control study of malaria susceptibility 7 . hla - b35 also showed a strong preference for proline at position 2 of bound peptides ( table 1 ), probably because of its sequence identity to hla - b53 in the region of the b pocket 22 of the molecule . however , hla - b35 showed a predominant tyrosine residue at position 9 of bound peptides : no anchor residue was identified at this position for hla - b53 . these peptide motifs allowed us to search the sequences of known p . falciparum antigens for potential epitopes for hla - b53 and - b35 . we reasoned that a malaria antigen ( or antigens ) which could interact with hla - b53 and account for the disease association should be expressed early in the liver - stage of the parasite &# 39 ; s life cycle : human erythrocytes do not express class i molecules 23 , and enhanced ctl lysis of macrophages which have engulfed blood stage parasites is unlikely to benefit the host . furthermore , comparison of radiation doses required to induce protection in the irradiated sporozoite model of pre - erythrocytic immunity has indicated that antigens expressed early in development in the liver are of most importance for protection 24 - 26 . so , peptides conforming to these motifs were identified in the three sequenced sporozoite antigens ( csp , trap and pfs16 ) and the only sequenced liver - stage specific antigen ( lsa - 1 ) from p . falciparum . a total of 60 peptides with proline at position 2 were synthesized ( table 2 ), to determine whether these were hla - b53 restricted ctl epitopes in malaria - immune africans . however , this large number of peptides would have prevented comparison of responses to all peptides in the same individual , unless very large blood volumes were donated . so , we first used an hla assembly assay 6 to identify a subgroup of these peptides which bound with high affinity to hla - b53 . only eight peptides from the four malaria antigens bound in this assay , all of which had hydrophobic or aromatic residues at position 9 ( table 2 , fig1 ). for hla - b35 peptides , the additional requirement for a terminal tyrosine limited the number of potential epitopes to be tested to ten ( table 2 ). most adults in areas of hyperendemic malaria have immunity to malaria which , although not completely effective in preventing parasitaemia and occasional symptomatic episodes , is strongly protective against life - threatening malaria 27 . we studied healthy adult gambian villagers with the hla - b53 antigen . ctl were detected to none of the peptides from the three sporozoite antigens , but three out of six individuals tested responded to the ls6 peptide from lsa - 1 ( fig2 ). this ctl lysis was hla - b53 restricted , peptide - specific and inhibitable by anti - cd8 antibodies . we then sequenced parasite dna from nine gambian isolates ( fig2 legend ): in each , the ls6 epitope was identical to the published sequence 13 , indicating that it is largely or completely conserved in this population . eight gambians with the hla - b35 antigen were tested using the peptides synthesised to match the hla - b35 motif ( table 2 ), and in two individuals ctl were identified . one recognised an epitope from csp , cp26 ( fig3 ), that represents the 8 amino - terminal residues of the 23 - mer peptide previously shown to elicit ctl in 3 volunteers immunised with irradiated sporozoites 17 . in the two volunteers reported to have hla - b35 this octamer is likely to have been the minimal epitope . importantly , however , ctl from the gambian that recognised cp26 , did not recognise two other naturally occurring variants of this epitope , cp28 and cp29 , and showed only limited recognition of another variant cp27 . conversely , the second gambian responder recognised the uncommon variant , cp29 , but did not recognise cp26 , cp27 nor cp28 ( fig3 ). this individual also had ctl specific for an octamer peptide , ls8 , from lsa - 1 . although high numbers of hiv 1 specific ctl have been demonstrated in infected asymptomatic individuals ( e . g . ref . 28 ) the ctl response to hiv2 has not been studies in humans . hiv - 2 positive adult gambians were identified and their peripheral blood lymphocytes restimulated as described in fig4 . a clear ctl response was observed in three out of three individuals tested using a hla - b53 matched target b cell line infected with a vaccinia virus recombinant containing the gag gene of hiv2 . inspection of the amino acid sequence of this protein 29 revealed two sequences conforming to the hla - b53 peptide binding motif , as now defined by the sequencing of eluted peptides and the malaria peptide assembly assay data : i . e . proline at position two and a hydrophobic amino acid at position nine . synthetic peptides of 20 amino acids in length containing these two potential epitopes alsegctpydinqmlnncvgd ( seq id no : 9 ) designated p1 and hlplsprtlnawvklieekk ( seq id no : 10 ), designated p2 ) were tested in the hla - b53 assembly assay . p1 and the nonamer peptide tpydinqml ( seq id no : 8 ), designated p1a , gave a positive result in the assemble assay but p2 did not . all three of these peptides were tested for recognition with hiv 2 - gag restimulated ctl from one gambian individual , and these ctl recognised targets pulsed with p1 . p1a but not the p2 peptide . when the p1a peptide was tested at various concentrations in a ctl assay ( fig4 ) it could sensitise target b cells for lysis at a concentration as low as 10 - 8 m . using a novel combination of sequencing of peptides eluted from an hla class i allele and screening of peptides consistent with this &# 34 ; motif &# 34 ; ( here a proline at position 2 of the peptide ) in an hla assembly assay we have been able to identify peptides which are strong candidates for eliciting protective ctl responses in humans , and have gone on to show that one of these , ls6 , is recognised by cytotoxic t lymphocytes of gambians naturally exposed to p . falciparum malaria . to identify hla - b35 - restricted ctl we have modified this approach to omit the hla assembly assay step and screened all peptides conforming to the hla - b35 motif for ctl responses , identifying further epitopes . the identification of ctl to several epitopes in p . falciparum antigens indicates that natural exposure to malaria leads to processing of pre - erythrocytic antigens for hla class i presentation . ctl recognising the conserved ls6 epitope of lsa - 1 are restricted through hla - b53 and , although further work is required to demonstrate ctl in young children and to show that , as in rodent models 16 . 20 . 21 , human ctl can kill intra - hepatic parasites , the findings support our proposal 5 that the association of this hla class i antigen with resistance to severe malaria may be mediated by ctl . our association of hla - b53 with malaria resistance and the observation that hla - b53 restricted ctl recognize only lsa - 1 of several major pre - erythrocytic antigens from p . falciparum , constitute a genetic approach to implicating this antigen ( lsa - 1 ) in providing protective immunity to malaria . lsa - 1 is here shown to be a target of natural , and by implication from the case - control study protective , ctl responses , and this indicates that ctl - inducing vaccines using part , parts or all of this antigen should be useful in prophylaxis against p . falciparum malaria . we propose that a straightforward extension of this approach should allow rapid detection of potential class i restricted peptides from other microorganisms , and have demonstrated this by identification of a ctl epitope restricted by hla - b53 in the gag protein of hiv - 2 . a natural and straightforward extension of this &# 34 ; reverse immunogenetic &# 34 ; approach would be to search for self - peptides which may be targets of autoreactive immune responses in various autoimmune disease . this new approach should considerably facilitate the search for hla class i restricted epitopes by reduce the amount of time required to analyze a smaller number of peptides as well allowing substantial cost savings by reducing the number and size of peptides that need to be synthesized . 1 . bodmer h and townsend arm annual review of immunology 7 : 601 - 24 ( 1989 ). 3 . falk , k ., rotzscke , o ., stevanovic , s ., jung , g . & amp ; rammensee , h . nature 351 , 290 - 296 ( 1991 ). 4 . jardetsky , t . s ., lane , w . s ., robinson , r . a ., madden , d . r . & amp ; wiley , d . c . nature 353 , 326 - 329 ( 1991 ). 5 . pamer , e . g ., harty , j . t . & amp ; bevan m . j . nature 353 , 852 - 855 ( 1991 ). 6 . elvin , j ., cerundolo , v ., elliot , t . & amp ; townsend , a . eur . j . immunol , 12025 - 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b53 pool sequence 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9______________________________________ anchor p - strong e i - weak s f i l y y k l f n q m q______________________________________hla - b35 pool sequence 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9______________________________________ anchor p y - strong f - weak f e e y i k l n m q y______________________________________ pool sequences of eluted peptides from hla - b53 ( above ) and hla - b35 ( below ). the sequences of these hla molecules differ from each other at only five amino acids , all in the α1 domain at the end of the cleft which binds the carboxy - terminus of the peptide 30 . 31 . anchor , strong and weak signals are classified as described by falk et al . 3 . peptides from both molecules have proline as an anchor residue at position 2 , but only hla - b35 has a clear anchor , tyrosine , at position 9 . partial sequences of several individual peptide peaks eluted from hla - b53 ( not shown ) and a single complete sequence from the largest individual peak , ypaeitlyw ( seq id no : 11 ), all showed proline at position 2 . the latter sequence was identified as part of the α3 domain sequence of hla - b53 , as well as some other class i molecules . in contrast , peptides eluted by the same method from a hla - b8 transfectant showed anchor residues at positions 3 and 5 32 . to determine whether particular sequences features were found in peptides presented by hla - b53 ( hla - b * 5301 ), as has been described for other class i molecules 3 . 4 , we used the cell line hmy - b53 33 : this was derived by transfection of the cell line cir , which lacks hla - a and - b molecules , with a genomic clone of hla - b53 . 1 . 5 × 10 10 hmy - b53 or hmy - b35 cells 33 were pelleted and lysed and hla class i molecules purified with the monoclonal antibody w6 / 32 34 on an immunoaffinity column as described 3 . following acid elutions in 0 . 1 % tfa , the supernatants were dried by vacuum centrifugation and separated by reversed - phase hplc using a brownlee aquapore rp300 column ( c8 , 100 × 2 mm ) and severn analytical equipment . peptide peaks 3 were pooled and sequenced using an applied biosystems 473a protein sequencer and applied biosystems model 610 data analysis software . __________________________________________________________________________hla - b53 peptides 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 pos . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 pos . __________________________________________________________________________ cp1 n p n a n p n a 150 ls1 i p a i e l p s e 1658 - cp2 n p n a n p n a n 150 ls2 l p s e n e r g y 1663 - cp3 k p k h k k l k q 107 ls3 i p h q s s l p q 1673 - cp4 n p g d g n p d p g 115 ls4 l p q d n r g n s 1679 - cp5 n p d p n a n p n 120 ls5 k p e q k e d k s 1728 - cp6 ( 7 ) m p n d p n r n v 300 ls6 ( 1 ) k p i v q y d n f 1786 - cp7 d p n r n v d g n 303 ls7 k p n d k s l y d 1850 - cp8 s p c s v t c g n 347 ls9 k p i v q y d n 1786 - cp9 k p g s a n k p k 362 - cp10 k p k d e l d y e 368 - cp11 e p s d k h i e q 325 - cp12 e p s d q h i e k 325 tr1 s p c s v t c g k 251 - cp13 e p s d k h i k e 325 tr2 k p n i p e d s e k 361 - cp14 e p s d k h i e k 325 tr3 i p y s p l p p k 413 - cp15 k p g s a d k p k 362 tr4 e p s p n p e e g k 327 - cp16 k p k d q l d y a 368 tr5 h p e r e e h e k 473 - cp17 k p k d e l d y a 368 tr6 n p e n p p n p d i 348 - cp18 k p k d q l d y e 368 tr7 v p k n p e d d r 376 - cp19 k p k d q l d y 368 tr8 p p k v l d n e r 419 - cp20 e p s d q h i e 325 tr9 v p n s e d r e t r 443 - cp21 n p d p n a n p n v 120 tr10 r p h g r n n e n r 452 - cp22 n p n v d p n a n 126 tr11 e p e d d q p r p r 297 - cp23 d p n a n p n v d 130 tr12 l p p k v l d n e r 418 - cp6 . 1 m p n y p n r n v 300 tr13 i p d s i q d s l 164 - cp6 . 2 m p n n p n r n v 300 tr14 i p e d s e k e v 364 - tr15 e p a p f d e t l 529 - sh1 ( 5 ) i p s l a l m l i 7 tr16 v p d e p e d d q 295 - sh2 k p a g k g s p s 33 tr18 i p k k p e n k h 390 - sh3 s p s t l q t p g 39 tr19 t p k h p e r e e 470 - sh4 t p g s s s g a s 45 tr20 h p s d g k c n l 206 - sh5 g p n q g g l s q 58 tr21 g p f m k a v c v 228 - sh6 ( 6 ) m p l e t q l a i 77 tr22 p p k w e p l d v 287__________________________________________________________________________ - hla - b35 peptides 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 pos . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 pos . __________________________________________________________________________ cp26 k p k d e l d y 368 ls2 l p s e n e r g y 1663 - cp27 k p k d q l d y 368 ls8 ( 2 ) k p n d k s l y 1850 - cp28 k p k d q l n y 368 - cp29 k s k d e l d y 368 tr24 h p s d g k c n l y 206 - cp30 e p s d k h i e q y 325 tr25 v p g a a t p y 519 - cp31 e p s d q h i e k y 325__________________________________________________________________________ note numbers in brackets adjacent to the amino acid sequences represent seq id no &# 39 ; s for those amino acid sequences listed in the attached sequenc listing . p . falciparum peptides . antigens studied peptides were identified in the four sequenced pre - erythrocytic antigens of p . falciparum : ( i ) circumsporozoite protein 8 ( csp ), a 412 amino acid sporozoite protein ; ( ii ) thrombospondin - related anonymous protein 9 ( trap ), 559 amino acids and expressed by sporozoites 10 and blood - stage parasites ; ( iii ) liver - stage specific antigen - 1 12 . 13 , 1909 amino acids and expressed only by the liver - stage parasite ; and ( iv ) sporozoite hepatocyte binding antigen 11 ( sheba or pfs16 ), 157 amino acids and found in both sporozoites and gametocytes . antigens expressed by sporozoites will also be present during the early phase of hepatocyte development . csp and lsa - 1 have large central repeats spanning 164 and 1475 amino acids , respectively 8 . 13 . above peptides synthesized and tested in the hla assembly assay for binding to hla - b53 . peptides shown to bind to hla - b53 are highlighted in bold type . the amino acid sequence , using the single letter amino acid code , and the number of the amino - terminal residue in the published sequence 8 . 9 . 11 . 13 is shown . the csp , lsa - 1 , trap and sheba antigens are indicated by the prefixes cp , ls , tr and sh , respectively . all possible nonamer peptides with proline at position 2 were synthesized for csp , lsa - 1 and sheba ; where a sequence had been shown to be polymorphic variant peptides , e . g . cp10 , cp16 - 18 , were also synthesized . the peptides from csp which bound to hla - b53 , i . e . cp6 , cp6 . 1 , and cp6 . 2 are allelic variants 35 . additionally , some octamer and decamer peptides were analyzed but none of these bound . the decamer , cp4 , was made with an added terminal glycine to facilitate synthesis . inspection of the sequences of peptides binding to hla - b53 indicated that several branched aliphatic or aromatic residues , but not polar or hydrophilic residues , can be accommodated at the carboxy - terminus . so , for trap , which has a total of 48 prolines a subset of 21 of these , including all possible peptides with proline at position 2 and carboxy - termini of residues , v , a , l , i , f or w were synthesized . the cell line t2 - b53 has endogenous hla - a2 and hla - b51 genes as well as the transfected hla - b53 gene . hla - b51 , as well as hla - b53 , is immunoprecipitated by the antibodies used , so data on peptide binding to this hla type was obtained in the same experiments : only peptides sh1 , sh6 and cp6 , but not cp6 . 1 nor cp6 . 2 , bound to hla - b51 . all the highlighted peptides as well as the eluted self peptide ypaeitltw ( seq id no : 74 ), and the hiv - 2 hla - b53 epitope , tpydinqml ( seq id no : 8 ) were found to show 50 % maximum binding to hla - b53 in the micromolar range ( 2 - 6 μm ) ( fig1 ). below peptides synthesized to match the hla - b35 motif . only a single nonamer peptide in the four pre - erythrocytic antigens , ls2 , has proline at position 2 and tyrosine at position 9 . so , all possible peptides with proline at 2 and tyrosine at 8 or 10 , as well as their allelic variants , were also tested . in addition to the 10 peptides shown two longer peptides , cp24 and cp 25 , endiekkickmekcs ( seq id no : 75 ) and eldyandiekkickm ( seq id no : 76 ), were also included in ctl assays : these , with cp26 , overlap the 23 - mer sequence previously shown to contain a ctl epitope 14 . peptides shown to be epitopes ( fig3 ) are highlighted in bold type . fig1 hla assembly assay . stable assembly of hla class i molecules in the mutant cell line t2 has been found to be dependent on binding by peptides 36 - 38 and this phenomenon can be used as a peptide binding assay 6 . we have found , using this assay , that all optimised ctl epitopes for other class i molecules ( hla - a2 , d b and k b ) have bound with high affinity , and the assay has recently been used to identify a hiv - gag ctl epitope in mice by screening of potential epitopes fitting the d b motif 39 . above autoradiograph of a one - dimensional isoelectric focusing gel analysis showing binding or stabilization of hla - b53 and - b51 by peptides cp6 , sh1 and sh6 , and of hla - b53 by the ls6 peptide . peptide binding is associated with stabilisation of assembled class i molecules which appear as strong bands in the autoradiograph . in the absence of peptide ( lane 2 ) class i molecules lose conformation , dissociate and are not precipitated by specific monoclonal antibodies . the peptides tested were , from left : cp6 , saline negative control , sh6 , ls7 , ls6 , sh5 , cp22 , sh1 . cp6 bound more strongly to hla - b51 than to hla - b53 but the allelic variants of this peptide with single amino acid substitutions at position 4 , cp6 . 1 and cp6 . 2 ; bound more strongly to hla - b53 and very poorly to hla - b51 ( data not shown ). below titration curve of the assembly of hla - b53 with varying concentrations of the peptides ls6 , cp6 , sh6 and α3 , ypaeitlyw ( seq id no : 11 ), which was the major self - peptide eluted from hla - b53 . the y axis represents the quantity of assembled class i heavy chain precipitated after addition of peptide , the x axis the concentration of peptide added . the ls6 and sh6 peptides and the cp6 and α3 peptides were titrated in separate experiments . all four show 50 % of maximum assembly of hla - b53 in the micromolar concentration range ( 10 - 5 - 10 - 6 m ), as does the hiv - 2 nonamer epitope for hla - b53 . this is a higher concentration range than for hla - a2 - binding epitopes and some hla - b51 - binding peptides , but comparable to an epitope 40 for the mouse k b molecule ( ref 39 and unpublished data ). the assembly assay was performed as described elsewhere 6 . 36 . 38 . 39 . briefly , the mutant cell line t2 - b53 was derived from t2 cells of hla type , hla - a2 , - b51 , by transfection with a genomic clone of hla - b53 using hygromycin selection . peptides were synthesized by cambridge research biochemicals , cheshire , uk using their multiple peptide synthesis service or , subsequently , in oxford using the same procedure and apparatus . peptide concentrations were determined with a micro bca colourimetric assay ( pierce ). peptides were added to lysates of 35 s - methionine - labelled cells and incubated overnight at 4 ° c . 36 . stable assembled class i molecules were then precipitated with monoclonal antibodies w6 / 32 34 ( reactive with all assembled class i molecules ) or mhm5 41 ( reactive with assembled hla - b but not hla - a molecules ). the precipitated class i molecules were separated by one dimensional iso - electric focusing , visualised by autoradiography and quantified as described 6 . 39 . all peptides were initially tested at 4 μm concentration , and those found to bind titrated to estimate binding affinities . fig2 hla - b53 restricted ctl . ctl assays using cells from two adult gambian volunteers with the hla - b53 antigen , z 16 above and z 1 below . both showed cytolytic activity towards b lymphoblastoid cell lines ( bcl ) with hla - b53 when incubated with the ls6 peptide , but not when incubated with the peptides that bound to hla - b53 from the other three pre - erythrocytic antigens . the cytolytic activity was hla - b53 - restricted and peptide specific . ls9 , the octamer peptide derived from ls6 by removing the carboxy - terminal residue was not recognised : ls9 did not bind to hla - b53 in the assembly assay ( table 2 ). the b53 matched cell lines were matched to the donors only for hla - b53 ; the b53 mismatched line was matched to z 16 ( hla type a3 , a19 , b35 , b53 , cw3 , cw6 ) only for hla - cw3 . the hmy - b53 line expresses , in significant amounts , only hla - b53 and - cw4 . ctl activity was inhibitable by an anti - cd8 monoclonal antibody , m236 , a gift from rw knowles ( sloane - kettering , new york ) and ctl lines could be maintained by weekly restimulation with peptide - pulsed irradiated autologous b cell lines . one further volunteer from brefet , out of six hla - b53 positive individuals tested , showed hla - b53 restricted ctl responses to the ls6 peptide but none recognised any peptide from the other three antigens . further samples of blood were obtained after 2 - 3 weeks from donors z 16 and z 1 . on this occasion , ctl to ls6 were again grown from z 1 but not from z 16 . two caucasian oxford residents with hla - b53 but not exposed to malaria were tested as controls and neither responded to any peptide . hla - b53 positive individuals from the conurbation around the capital banjul , where malaria transmission is 10 - 100 times less intense , were also tested . in only one of nine such volunteers could ctl be grown , again only to the ls6 peptide , suggesting that ctl may be more readily detectable in areas of higher malaria transmission . to determine whether the ls6 epitope is conserved or significantly variable amongst p . falciparum isolates in the gambia , dna extracted from samples collected from nine children with acute malaria 5 was examined . a segment of the lsa - 1 gene containing the dna encoding this epitope was amplified by pcr and sequenced directly . in all nine samples the previously reported 13 27 bp sequence was found . volunteers from the gambian village , brefet , which has hyperendemic malaria , were studied at the time of year with lowest malaria transmission : none had had a recent febrile illness . peripheral blood lymphocytes were separated from whole blood and incubated at 3 × 10 6 cells per well of a 24 well costar plate . the cells were stimulated with peptides that had bound to hla - b53 in the hla assembly assay , each at 25 μm , pooled as follows : cp6 , cp6 . 1 , cp6 . 2 , sh1 , sh6 ; and ls6 , tr15 , tr16 and tr20 . the tr16 peptide was included as a non - binding control . at 72 hours 10 u ml - 1 il - 2 ( cetus ) was added and ctl assays were performed on day 8 . 51 cr labelled bcl were preincubated for 1 hr with 25 μm of one or more peptides , and without peptide , and a 4 hr assay performed as described 42 . assays ( shown here and in fig3 ) were performed at effector to target cell ratios of 50 : 1 and 8 : 1 but only the results of the former are shown : lysis at the lower ratio was invariably much lower . ctl lysis of target cells was also detectable without peptide preincubation , by adding the ls6 peptide into the ctl assay at 10 - 7 m ( not shown ). background chromium release was from 15 - 20 %. non - specific lysis , possibly due to nk - like cells , was higher in gambians than in europeans , typically 15 - 25 %. specific lysis was calculated by the standard formula 42 and values in the absence of peptide subtracted to yield the values shown . ctl could also be generated by restimulation with the ls6 peptide without tr15 , tr16 and tr20 in the medium ( not shown ). ctl lines were maintained by weekly restimulation with equal numbers of irradiated autologous peptide - pulsed bcl . hla typing was performed by both serological and pcr - based methods as described . the lsa - 1 gene was amplified for 35 cycles from nt 5372 to nt 5701 13 using the primers gtgctgaatatgacgattca ( seq id no : 77 ) and ccttttccttattaacctgc ( seq id no : 78 ), in a buffer with 1 mm mgcl and 10 % dmso , with annealing at 55 ° c . the purified amplification products were directly sequenced using a δtaq cycle - sequencing kit ( us biochemical ) and the manufacturers &# 39 ; protocol . briefly , the reverse strand primer ttccttcatctaaatcatct ( seq id no : 79 ) ( 0 . 5 pmol ) was labelled with 35 s atp and the supplied ttp cycle mix and reaction buffer for 80 pcr cycles with annealing at 55 ° c . for 45 seconds , and subsequent termination reactions performed for 50 cycles with annealing at 60 ° c . for 45 seconds . fig3 hla - b35 restricted ctl . ctl assay results from donor z 22 above and donor z 87 below , both residents of the same village in the gambia as donors z 16 and z 1 ( fig2 ). cells from donor z 22 were initially tested ( assay 1 ) on 5 different sets of ( 1 - 4 ) peptides as shown , using as targets a bcl hla - matched to the donor only for hla - b35 . cells preincubated with the peptides cp26 , cp27 and cp28 were lysed . in assay 2 these peptides and cp29 , which are 4 allelic variants ( table 2 ), were tested individually , again at an effector to target cell ratio of 50 : 1 . cp26 was recognised , 24 . 4 % specific lysis , and cp28 and 29 were not : cp27 showed 13 . 7 % specific lysis , just below the level we regard as positive , 15 %. cells from donor z 87 were tested initially on hla - b35 matched bcl preincubated with seven different peptides , as shown . significant lysis was found for the cp28 , cp29 mixture ( 54 %) and for ls8 ( 15 %); the weak response to cp30 and cp31 was not repeatable . a further assay , using a different bcl again matched only for hla - b35 , confirmed the ls8 result and showed that cp29 but not cp28 was the csp peptide recognised . ctl from z 87 also lysed autologous bcl targets preincubated with cp29 and ls8 ( not shown ). ctl lysis of cp29 - pulsed bcl was blocked by the anti - cd8 monoclonal antibody , m236 . using a further sample from donor z 87 , fresh ( unrestimulated ) pbl were used in a ctl assay on cp29 - pulsed targets but no lysis was observed . in all , eight donors with hla - b35 were tested , all from the village of brefet , and only these two responded to any of the peptides tested . pbl from two oxford residents with hla - b35 were restimulated with all 12 peptides and grew no ctl . all three hla - b35 epitopes identified here are octamers , with several shared residues , even though most eluted self peptides were nonamers ( table 1 ). the available data suggest that responses to ls8 in hla - b35 individuals may be less frequent than ls6 responses in hla - b53 individuals but larger numbers are required to substantiate this . to estimate the relative frequencies of the four allelic variants cp26 - cp29 in p . falciparum in the gambia . dna was analyzed from samples collected from 156 children with acute malaria 5 . a segment of the csp gene containing the dna encoding this epitope was amplified by pcr and the allelic variants detected by specific oligonucleotide probes . more than one parasite variant ( mean 2 . 0 ) can frequently be detected in these children with acute malaria 43 . the frequencies of the four variants were :- cp26 , 45 %; cp27 , 78 %; cp28 , 26 %; cp29 , 11 %. the single amino acid chances between some of these peptides is sufficient to abolish ctl recognition , as shown in other systems . the poor or absent recognition of cp27 and cp28 appears to result from the charge change at position 5 of the peptide preventing binding to hla - b35 ( not shown ). peptide stimulations and ctl assays were performed essentially as described in , the legend to fig2 . pbl were incubated with peptides each at 25 μm , pooled as follows : pool 1 : the eight csp peptides cp24 - cp31 : pool 2 : ls2 , ls8 , tr24 and tr25 . all hla - b35 individuals were typed by the previously described pcr method to confirm that they had the b * 3501 rather than the b * 3502 or b * 3503 subtypes : these latter subtypes are not amplified by the primers used . to identify alleles of the csp gene by pcr , primers aatgctaatgccaacaatgctg ( seq id no : 80 ) and cgacattaaacacactggaac ( seq id no : 81 ) ( cf ref . 46 ) were used ( in 1 . 5 mm mgcl 2 ) with annealing at 58 ° c . amplification products were fixed to nitrocellulose filters and alleles 35 . 46 detected using the following probes with washing in 6xssc at the stated temperature : cp26 , acgaattagattatgcaa ( seq id no : 82 ) and acgaattagattatgaaa , ( seq id no : 83 ) 46 ° c . and 44 ° c . ; cp27 , accaattagattatgcaa , ( seq id no : 84 ) 46 ° c . ; cp28 , accaattaaattatgaaa , ( seq id no : 85 ) 42 ° c . ; cp29 , taaatctaaagacga , 38 ° c . fig4 . peptide concentration titration for ctl specific for the hiv - 2 gag peptide , p1 restimulated ctl were tested on b53 matched target cells at an effector to target ration of 10 : 1 . peripheral blood lymphocytes from hla - b53 postive , hiv - 2 infected adult gambians were seperated into two populations of 1 / 8th and 7 / 8ths and the former fraction was stimulated for 24 hours with phytohaemagglutinin ( pha , wellcome u . k .) to activate hiv expression and then washed twice before being added back to the unstimulated 7 / 8th of the cells . this mixed population was cultured for seven days after which lympocult t at 10 u / ml ( biotest u . k .) was added every three days . target cells were either pulsed with peptide as described above ( fig2 ) or infected with recombinant vaccinia virus at a multiplicity of infection of 3 : 1 . washed twice and resuspended in rpmi 1640 plus 20 % foetal calf serum overnight , and assays performed as described ( ref 47 and fig2 ). __________________________________________________________________________ # sequence listing - 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