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SUBMITTER: Kosinska AD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6658704 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kosinska Anna D AD Moeed Abdul A Kallin Nina N Festag Julia J Su Jinpeng J Steiger Katja K Michel Marie-Louise ML Protzer Ulrike U Knolle Percy A PA
Scientific reports 20190725 1
Therapeutic vaccination against chronic hepatitis B must overcome high viral antigen load and local regulatory mechanisms that promote immune-tolerance in the liver and curtail hepatitis B virus (HBV)-specific CD8 T cell immunity. Here, we report that therapeutic heterologous HBcore-protein-prime/Modified-Vaccinia-Virus-Ankara (MVA-HBcore) boost vaccination followed by CpG-application augmented vaccine-induced HBcAg-specific CD8 T cell-function in the liver. In HBV-transgenic as well as AAV-HBV- ...[more]