Sustained Liver HBsAg Loss and Clonal T- and B-Cell Expansion upon Therapeutic DNA Vaccination Require Low HBsAg Levels.
Nádia Conceição-NetoWim PiersonMaurizio VaccaMatthias BeyensBen De ClerckLiese AertsBirgit VoetenDorien De PooterLore VerschuerenKoen DockxMathias VandenberkEwoud De TroyerKato VerwiltCarl Van HoveMieke VerslegersLeslie BosselerMarjolein CrabbeVinod KrishnaIsabel NájeraEllen Van GulckPublished in: Vaccines (2023)
This study provides novel insights into liver immune changes at the single-cell level, highlighting the correlation between induced reduction of HBsAg levels and clonal expansion of CD4, CD8 T cells and plasma cells in the liver upon HBV siRNA and subsequent therapeutic vaccination.