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Afchangi A, Arashkia A, Shahosseini Z, Jalilvand S, Marashi SM, Roohvand F, Mohajel N, Shoja Z. Immunization of Mice by Rotavirus NSP4-VP6 Fusion Protein Elicited Stronger Responses Compared to VP6 Alone. Viral Immunol 2017; 31:233-241. [PMID: 29185875 DOI: 10.1089/vim.2017.0075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Due to the limitations and safety issues of the two currently approved live attenuated rotavirus (RV) vaccines "RotaTeq and Rotarix," studies on nonreplicating sources of RV vaccines and search for proper RV antigens are actively carried out. The adjuvant activity of NSP4 and highly immunogenic properties of RV VP6 protein prompted us to consider the construction of a NSP4112-175-VP6 fusion protein and to assess the anti-VP6 IgG, IgA, and IgG subclass responses induced by Escherichia coli-derived NSP4-VP6 fusion protein compared to that of VP6 protein with/without formulation in Montanide ISA 50V2 (M50) in BALB/c mice. Results indicated to the proper expression of the fused NSP4-VP6 and VP6 proteins in E. coli. Intraperitoneal immunization by M50 formulated NSP4-VP6 fusion protein (M5+NSP4-VP6) induced the highest titration of VP6-specific IgG and IgA responses compared to the other groups. Indeed, the presence of NSP4 resulted to the induction of stronger humoral immune responses against the fused protein compared to that elicited by administration of VP6 protein alone (with/without M50 formulation), implying the adjuvant properties of NSP4 for the fused protein. Moreover, the "M50+NSP4-VP6" formulation induced higher serum IgG2a titers than IgG1 and increased Interferon-γ levels, despite unchanged interleukin-4 amounts compared to other groups, indicating Th1-oriented responses with a possible role of NSP4. In conclusion, this study further highlights the potentiality of NSP4-VP6 fusion protein as an efficient and cost-effective immunogen in the field of RV vaccine development.
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- Atefeh Afchangi
- 1 Virology Department, School of Public Health (SPH), Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) , Tehran, Iran .,2 Virology Department, Pasteur Institute of Iran , Tehran, Iran
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- 2 Virology Department, Pasteur Institute of Iran , Tehran, Iran
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- 1 Virology Department, School of Public Health (SPH), Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) , Tehran, Iran
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- 1 Virology Department, School of Public Health (SPH), Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) , Tehran, Iran
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- 2 Virology Department, Pasteur Institute of Iran , Tehran, Iran
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- 2 Virology Department, Pasteur Institute of Iran , Tehran, Iran
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Meier AF, Suter M, Schraner EM, Humbel BM, Tobler K, Ackermann M, Laimbacher AS. Transfer of Anti-Rotavirus Antibodies during Pregnancy and in Milk Following Maternal Vaccination with a Herpes Simplex Virus Type-1 Amplicon Vector. Int J Mol Sci 2017; 18:E431. [PMID: 28212334 PMCID: PMC5343965 DOI: 10.3390/ijms18020431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2016] [Revised: 02/01/2017] [Accepted: 02/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Rotaviruses (RVs) are important enteric pathogens of newborn humans and animals, causing diarrhea and in rare cases death, especially in very young individuals. Rotavirus vaccines presently used are modified live vaccines that lack complete biological safety. Previous work from our laboratory suggested that vaccines based on in situ produced, non-infectious rotavirus-like particles (RVLPs) are efficient while being entirely safe. However, using either vaccine, active mucosal immunization cannot induce protective immunity in newborns due to their immature immune system. We therefore hypothesized that offspring from vaccinated dams are passively immunized either by transfer of maternal antibodies during pregnancy or by taking up antibodies from milk. Using a codon optimized polycistronic gene expression cassette packaged into herpesvirus particles, the simultaneous expression of the RV capsid genes led to the intracellular formation of RVLPs in various cell lines. Vaccinated dams developed a strong RV specific IgG antibody response determined in sera and milk of both mother and pups. Moreover, sera of naïve pups nursed by vaccinated dams also had RV specific antibodies suggesting a lactogenic transfer of antibodies. Although full protection of pups was not achieved in this mouse model, our observations are important for the development of improved vaccines against RV in humans as well as in various animal species.
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- Anita F Meier
- Institute of Virology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Immunology Division, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Institutes of Veterinary Anatomy and Virology, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Electron Microscopy Facility, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- Institute of Virology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Institute of Virology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Institute of Virology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
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Bredell H, Smith JJ, Prins WA, Görgens JF, van Zyl WH. Expression of rotavirus VP6 protein: a comparison amongst Escherichia coli, Pichia pastoris and Hansenula polymorpha. FEMS Yeast Res 2016; 16:fow001. [PMID: 26772798 DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/fow001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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During this study. we successfully expressed a codon-optimized gene for rotavirus VP6 protein intracellularly in two methylotrophic yeasts, Pichia pastoris and Hansenula polymorpha, during methanol induction. Expressions were performed in shake flasks and subsequently scaled-up to 1.3 L bioreactors. The yields obtained in the yeasts were compared with that observed in Escherichia coli. Despite producing the lowest biomass levels of all the expression systems in shake flasks, the highest VP6 concentration was obtained with E. coli. In shake flasks, P. pastoris yielded higher volumetric levels of VP6 than H. polymorpha, but specific production of VP6 was approximately similar in both yeasts. In the controlled environment of bioreactors, yeast strains attained typical high cell densities, but also increased VP6 production compared to all shake flask cultures. Unlike in shake flask expressions, H. polymorpha outperformed both P. pastoris as well as E. coli during bioreactor cultivation. VP6 production was in all three expression systems growth-associated. In contrast to yeast expressions, bacterial expressed VP6 protein was found to be insoluble upon analysis. This is the first report of VP6 expressed in methylotrophic yeast and holds the promise for the inexpensive production of VP6 as a possible vaccine candidate or drug delivery mechanism.
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- Helba Bredell
- Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa Department of Process Engineering, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa Department of Process Engineering, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa Department of Process Engineering, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Process Engineering, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Vega CG, Bok M, Vlasova AN, Chattha KS, Gómez-Sebastián S, Nuñez C, Alvarado C, Lasa R, Escribano JM, Garaicoechea LL, Fernandez F, Bok K, Wigdorovitz A, Saif LJ, Parreño V. Recombinant monovalent llama-derived antibody fragments (VHH) to rotavirus VP6 protect neonatal gnotobiotic piglets against human rotavirus-induced diarrhea. PLoS Pathog 2013; 9:e1003334. [PMID: 23658521 PMCID: PMC3642062 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2012] [Accepted: 03/18/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Group A Rotavirus (RVA) is the leading cause of severe diarrhea in children. The aims of the present study were to determine the neutralizing activity of VP6-specific llama-derived single domain nanoantibodies (VHH nanoAbs) against different RVA strains in vitro and to evaluate the ability of G6P[1] VP6-specific llama-derived single domain nanoantibodies (VHH) to protect against human rotavirus in gnotobiotic (Gn) piglets experimentally inoculated with virulent Wa G1P[8] rotavirus. Supplementation of the daily milk diet with 3B2 VHH clone produced using a baculovirus vector expression system (final ELISA antibody -Ab- titer of 4096; virus neutralization -VN- titer of 256) for 9 days conferred full protection against rotavirus associated diarrhea and significantly reduced virus shedding. The administration of comparable levels of porcine IgG Abs only protected 4 out of 6 of the animals from human RVA diarrhea but significantly reduced virus shedding. In contrast, G6P[1]-VP6 rotavirus-specific IgY Abs purified from eggs of hyperimmunized hens failed to protect piglets against human RVA-induced diarrhea or virus shedding when administering similar quantities of Abs. The oral administration of VHH nanoAb neither interfered with the host's isotype profiles of the Ab secreting cell responses to rotavirus, nor induced detectable host Ab responses to the treatment in serum or intestinal contents. This study shows that the oral administration of rotavirus VP6-VHH nanoAb is a broadly reactive and effective treatment against rotavirus-induced diarrhea in neonatal pigs. Our findings highlight the potential value of a broad neutralizing VP6-specific VHH nanoAb as a treatment that can complement or be used as an alternative to the current strain-specific RVA vaccines. Nanobodies could also be scaled-up to develop pediatric medication or functional food like infant milk formulas that might help treat RVA diarrhea. Group A rotavirus (RVA) is the most common cause of severe diarrhea in human infants worldwide. Live-attenuated rotavirus vaccines are available to prevent rotavirus diarrhea in children, although their efficacy in impoverished areas has been questioned, in addition to not being suitable for children suffering from immune deficiencies. Since no rotavirus-specific treatments are available as an alternative, we investigated llama-derived single-chain antibody fragments (VHH) as preventive therapy and a potential treatment option. Gnotobiotic piglets were chosen as an animal model because their gastrointestinal physiology and mucosal immune system resemble that of human infants. We evaluated the broad neutralizing activity of a VHH clone (3B2) to different genotypes of RVA circulating in humans, and tested the efficacy of oral administration of 3B2 VHH as a functional milk to prevent the diarrhea induced by one of the most prevalent human RVA strains (G1P[8]). Supplementation of the milk diet with 3B2 twice a day for 9 days conferred full protection against rotavirus-associated diarrhea and significantly reduced virus shedding in gnotobiotic piglets experimentally inoculated with a human RVA. This study demonstrates the potential application of VHH to prevent rotavirus-induced diarrhea, and suggests that VHHs should be further investigated as a suitable treatment for gastroenteritis.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/genetics
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/pharmacology
- Antibodies, Neutralizing/genetics
- Antibodies, Neutralizing/immunology
- Antibodies, Neutralizing/pharmacology
- Antibodies, Viral/genetics
- Antibodies, Viral/immunology
- Antibodies, Viral/pharmacology
- Antigens, Viral/genetics
- Antigens, Viral/immunology
- Camelids, New World
- Capsid Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors
- Capsid Proteins/genetics
- Capsid Proteins/immunology
- Diarrhea/drug therapy
- Diarrhea/genetics
- Diarrhea/immunology
- Diarrhea/virology
- Humans
- Recombinant Proteins/genetics
- Recombinant Proteins/immunology
- Recombinant Proteins/pharmacology
- Rotavirus/genetics
- Rotavirus/immunology
- Rotavirus Infections/drug therapy
- Rotavirus Infections/genetics
- Rotavirus Infections/immunology
- Rotavirus Infections/virology
- Swine
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Affiliation(s)
- Celina G. Vega
- Instituto de Virología, Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Veterinarias y Agronómicas, INTA Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Instituto de Virología, Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Veterinarias y Agronómicas, INTA Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Food Animal Health Research Program, The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Veterinary Preventive Medicine Department, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
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- Food Animal Health Research Program, The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Veterinary Preventive Medicine Department, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
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- Alternative Gene Expression S.L. (ALGENEX), Centro Empresarial, Parque Científico y Tecnológico de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain
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- Alternative Gene Expression S.L. (ALGENEX), Centro Empresarial, Parque Científico y Tecnológico de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain
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- Alternative Gene Expression S.L. (ALGENEX), Centro Empresarial, Parque Científico y Tecnológico de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain
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- Alternative Gene Expression S.L. (ALGENEX), Centro Empresarial, Parque Científico y Tecnológico de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Biotecnología. Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Virología, Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Veterinarias y Agronómicas, INTA Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Instituto de Virología, Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Veterinarias y Agronómicas, INTA Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Caliciviruses Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Instituto de Virología, Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Veterinarias y Agronómicas, INTA Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Food Animal Health Research Program, The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Veterinary Preventive Medicine Department, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
- * E-mail: (LJS); (VP)
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- Instituto de Virología, Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Veterinarias y Agronómicas, INTA Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- * E-mail: (LJS); (VP)
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Development of a stable insect cell line constitutively expressing rotavirus VP2. Virus Res 2013; 172:66-74. [PMID: 23287060 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2012.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2012] [Revised: 11/22/2012] [Accepted: 12/21/2012] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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IgY antibodies protect against human Rotavirus induced diarrhea in the neonatal gnotobiotic piglet disease model. PLoS One 2012. [PMID: 22880110 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042788.] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Group A Rotaviruses are the most common cause of severe, dehydrating diarrhea in children worldwide. The aim of the present work was to evaluate protection against rotavirus (RV) diarrhea conferred by the prophylactic administration of specific IgY antibodies (Ab) to gnotobiotic piglets experimentally inoculated with virulent Wa G1P[8] human rotavirus (HRV). Chicken egg yolk IgY Ab generated from Wa HRV hyperimmunized hens specifically recognized (ELISA) and neutralized Wa HRV in vitro. Supplementation of the RV Ab free cow milk diet with Wa HRV-specific egg yolk IgY Ab at a final ELISA Ab titer of 4096 (virus neutralization -VN- titer = 256) for 9 days conferred full protection against Wa HRV associated diarrhea and significantly reduced virus shedding. This protection was dose-dependent. The oral administration of semi-purified passive IgY Abs from chickens did not affect the isotype profile of the pig Ab secreting cell (ASC) responses to Wa HRV infection, but it was associated with significantly fewer numbers of HRV-specific IgA ASC in the duodenum. We further analyzed the pigś immune responses to the passive IgY treatment. The oral administration of IgY Abs induced IgG Ab responses to chicken IgY in serum and local IgA and IgG Ab responses to IgY in the intestinal contents of neonatal piglets in a dose dependent manner. To our knowledge, this is the first study to show that IgY Abs administered orally as a milk supplement passively protect neonatal pigs against an enteric viral pathogen (HRV). Piglets are an animal model with a gastrointestinal physiology and an immune system that closely mimic human infants. This strategy can be scaled-up to inexpensively produce large amounts of polyclonal IgY Abs from egg yolks to be applied as a preventive and therapeutic passive Ab treatment to control RV diarrhea.
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Vega CG, Bok M, Vlasova AN, Chattha KS, Fernández FM, Wigdorovitz A, Parreño VG, Saif LJ. IgY antibodies protect against human Rotavirus induced diarrhea in the neonatal gnotobiotic piglet disease model. PLoS One 2012; 7:e42788. [PMID: 22880110 PMCID: PMC3411843 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2012] [Accepted: 07/11/2012] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Group A Rotaviruses are the most common cause of severe, dehydrating diarrhea in children worldwide. The aim of the present work was to evaluate protection against rotavirus (RV) diarrhea conferred by the prophylactic administration of specific IgY antibodies (Ab) to gnotobiotic piglets experimentally inoculated with virulent Wa G1P[8] human rotavirus (HRV). Chicken egg yolk IgY Ab generated from Wa HRV hyperimmunized hens specifically recognized (ELISA) and neutralized Wa HRV in vitro. Supplementation of the RV Ab free cow milk diet with Wa HRV-specific egg yolk IgY Ab at a final ELISA Ab titer of 4096 (virus neutralization –VN- titer = 256) for 9 days conferred full protection against Wa HRV associated diarrhea and significantly reduced virus shedding. This protection was dose-dependent. The oral administration of semi-purified passive IgY Abs from chickens did not affect the isotype profile of the pig Ab secreting cell (ASC) responses to Wa HRV infection, but it was associated with significantly fewer numbers of HRV–specific IgA ASC in the duodenum. We further analyzed the pigś immune responses to the passive IgY treatment. The oral administration of IgY Abs induced IgG Ab responses to chicken IgY in serum and local IgA and IgG Ab responses to IgY in the intestinal contents of neonatal piglets in a dose dependent manner. To our knowledge, this is the first study to show that IgY Abs administered orally as a milk supplement passively protect neonatal pigs against an enteric viral pathogen (HRV). Piglets are an animal model with a gastrointestinal physiology and an immune system that closely mimic human infants. This strategy can be scaled-up to inexpensively produce large amounts of polyclonal IgY Abs from egg yolks to be applied as a preventive and therapeutic passive Ab treatment to control RV diarrhea.
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- Celina G. Vega
- Instituto de Virología, CICV y A - INTA Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Instituto de Virología, CICV y A - INTA Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Food Animal Health Research Program (FAHRP), Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Veterinary Preventive Medicine Department, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
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- Food Animal Health Research Program (FAHRP), Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Veterinary Preventive Medicine Department, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
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- Instituto de Virología, CICV y A - INTA Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Instituto de Virología, CICV y A - INTA Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- * E-mail: (VP); (LJS)
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- Food Animal Health Research Program (FAHRP), Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Veterinary Preventive Medicine Department, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
- * E-mail: (VP); (LJS)
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Llama-derived single-chain antibody fragments directed to rotavirus VP6 protein possess broad neutralizing activity in vitro and confer protection against diarrhea in mice. J Virol 2008; 82:9753-64. [PMID: 18632867 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00436-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Group A rotavirus is one of the most common causes of severe diarrhea in human infants and newborn animals. Rotavirus virions are triple-layered particles. The outer capsid proteins VP4 and VP7 are highly variable and represent the major neutralizing antigens. The inner capsid protein VP6 is conserved among group A rotaviruses, is highly immunogenic, and is the target antigen of most immunodiagnosis tests. Llama-derived single-chain antibody fragments (VHH) are the smallest molecules with antigen-binding capacity and can therefore be expected to have properties different from conventional antibodies. In this study a library containing the VHH genes of a llama immunized with recombinant inner capsid protein VP6 was generated. Binders directed to VP6, in its native conformation within the viral particle, were selected and characterized. Four selected VHH directed to conformational epitopes of VP6 recognized all human and animal rotavirus strains tested and could be engineered for their use in immunodiagnostic tests for group A rotavirus detection. Three of the four VHH neutralized rotavirus in vivo independently of the strain serotype. Furthermore, this result was confirmed by in vivo partial protection against rotavirus challenge in a neonatal mouse model. The present study demonstrates for the first time a broad neutralization activity of VP6 specific VHH in vitro and in vivo. Neutralizing VHH directed to VP6 promise to become an essential tool for the prevention and treatment of rotavirus diarrhea.
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Nguyen TV, Iosef C, Jeong K, Kim Y, Chang KO, Lovgren-Bengtsson K, Morein B, Azevedo MSP, Lewis P, Nielsen P, Yuan L, Saif LJ. Protection and antibody responses to oral priming by attenuated human rotavirus followed by oral boosting with 2/6-rotavirus-like particles with immunostimulating complexes in gnotobiotic pigs. Vaccine 2003; 21:4059-70. [PMID: 12922143 DOI: 10.1016/s0264-410x(03)00267-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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We evaluated antibody responses and protection induced by attenuated Wa human rotavirus (AttHRV) and VP2/6-rotavirus-like particles (VLP), 100 or 250 microg/dose, with immunostimulating complexes (ISCOM) (VLP/ISCOM) each given orally, alone or sequentially to gnotobiotic pigs. The AttHRV-VLP 250 microg/ISCOM and three-dose-AttHRV (AttHRV3x) groups had significantly higher serum IgA, IgG and intestinal IgA antibody titers to HRV pre-challenge than the three-dose-VLP 100 microg/ISCOM group (VLP/ISCOM3x) and controls (diluent/ISCOMmatrix). Protection rates against viral shedding and diarrhea were highest in the AttHRV-VLP250 microg/ISCOM and AttHRV3x groups, lower in the AttHRV-VLP 100 microg/ISCOM group, with no protection in the VLP/ISCOM3x group and controls. Thus, VLP/ISCOM boosted antibody titers and protection after priming with AttHRV.
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- T V Nguyen
- Food Animal Health Research Program, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University, 1680 Madison Avenue, Wooster, OH 44691-4096, USA
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