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The promising clinical results with the human monoclonal antibodies aducanumab and solanezumab targeting β-amyloidin Alzheimer’s disease treatment, confirm both the amyloid cascade hypothesis and protective natural immunity, while strengthening the immunotherapeutic approach. That aducanumab recognizes a conformational epitope formed by oligomers emphasizes the need for whole β-amyloid, not just its B-cell epitopes as have been the norm to avoid pro-inflammatory Th1-reactions. That truncated β-amyloid having N-terminal pyroglutamate is present only in diseased brain simplies a new useful vaccine antigen. Another relevant antigen is the tau protein, which shows a close association and cooperativity with β-amyloid in exacerbating this disease. Hence, effective vaccines may be polyvalent, presenting to the immune system a number of antigens relevant to induce an immune response to prevent or slowdown the onset of this disease. The presence of both B and T cell epitopes in the antigens, require a sole Th2 immunity to avert brain inflammation; a task that cannot be attain with adjuvants that under any conditions induce Th1and/or Th17immunities.Hence, new vaccine adjuvants are need to safely induce Th2 while inhibiting Th1 immunity, an objective that can be achieved with certain fucosylated glycans or triterpene glycosides, which apparently bind to the DC-SIGN lectin on dendritic cells polarizing the immune response toward Th2 immunity. Because the triterpene glycosides have the pharmacophore needed to co-stimulate T cells, they may ameliorate the T-cell anergy associated with immunosenescence and responsible for poor vaccine efficacy in the elderly population, a critical issue for an Alzheimer’s vaccine.

Alzheimer’s disease: Toward the rational design of an effective vaccine.