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Li J, Li X, Ma H, Ren X, Hao G, Zhang H, Zhao Z, Fang K, Li X, Rong Z, Sun S, Chen H, Qian P. Efficient mucosal vaccination of a novel classical swine fever virus E2-Fc fusion protein mediated by neonatal Fc receptor. Vaccine 2020; 38:4574-4583. [PMID: 32417139 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2020] [Revised: 05/04/2020] [Accepted: 05/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Classical swine fever (CSF) remains one of the most important highly contagious and fatal viral disease of swine with high morbidity and mortality. CSF is caused by classical swine fever virus (CSFV), a small, enveloped RNA virus of the genus Pestivirus. The aim of this study was to construct the a novel CSFV Fc-fusion recombinant protein and evaluate the efficacy as a vaccine against CSFV. Here, we obtained a novel subunit vaccine expressing CSFV E2 recombinant fusion protein in CHO-S cells. Functional analysis revealed that CSFV Fc-fusion recombinant protein (CSFV-E2-Fc) could bind to FcγRI on antigen-presenting cells (APCs) and significantly increase IgA levels in serum and feces, inducing stronger mucosal immune response in swine. Additionally, CSFV-E2-Fc immunization enhanced CSFV-specific T cell immune response with a Th1-like pattern of cytokine secretion, remarkably stimulated the Th1-biased cellular immune response and humoral immune response. Further, the protective effects of CSFV-E2-Fc subunit vaccines were confirmed. The data suggest that CSFV E2-Fc recombinant fusion protein may be a promising candidate subunit vaccine to elicit immune response and protect against CSFV.
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- Jianglong Li
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China.
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Li J, Li X, Hao G, Zhang H, Yang H, Chen H, Qian P. Fusion of pseudorabies virus glycoproteins to IgG Fc enhances protective immunity against pseudorabies virus. Virology 2019; 536:49-57. [PMID: 31400549 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2019.07.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2019] [Revised: 07/21/2019] [Accepted: 07/29/2019] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Molecular adjuvants are vaccine delivery vehicle to increase specific antigens effectiveness. Herein, we concentrated on IgG Fc, an effective molecular adjuvant, to develop novel pseudorabies virus (PRV) subunit vaccines. Two major protective antigen genes of PRV were constructed and linked into the mouse IgG Fc fragment. The gD, gD-IgG2aFc, gB and gB-IgG2aFc proteins were expressed using a baculovirus system. Mice intranasally immunized with gD-IgG2aFc or gB-IgG2aFc subunit vaccine exhibited significantly higher PRV-specific antibodies, neutralizing antibodies and intracellular cytokines than the mice intranasally immunized with gD or gB subunit vaccine. Moreover, no histopathological lesions were observed in mice immunized with gB-IgG2aFc subunit vaccine via histopathology examination. Further, the gB-IgG2aFc subunit vaccine was efficient for PRV infection compared with live attenuated vaccine. Overall, these results suggest that IgG2a Fc fragment, as a potential molecular adjuvant, fused with PRV antigen might be a promising and efficient PRV vaccine candidate.
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- Jianglong Li
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China; Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China; Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China; Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China; Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China; Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China; Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China; Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China; Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China; Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China; Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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Tang J, Bi Z, Ding M, Yin D, Zhu J, Zhang L, Miao Q, Zhu Y, Wang G, Liu G. Immunization with a suicidal DNA vaccine expressing the E glycoprotein protects ducklings against duck Tembusu virus. Virol J 2018; 15:140. [PMID: 30217161 PMCID: PMC6137926 DOI: 10.1186/s12985-018-1053-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2018] [Accepted: 09/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUD Duck Tembusu virus (DTMUV), a pathogenic flavivirus, emerged in China since 2010 and causing huge economic loss in the Chinese poultry industry. Although several vaccines have been reported to control DTMUV disease, few effective vaccines are available and new outbreaks were continuously reported. Thus, it is urgently to develop a new effective vaccine for prevention of this disease. METHODS In this study, a suicidal DNA vaccine based on a Semliki Forest virus (SFV) replicon and DTMUV E glycoprotein gene was constructed and the efficacy of this new vaccine was assessed according to humoral and cell-mediated immune responses as well as protection against the DTMUV challenge in ducklings. RESULTS Our results showed that the recombinant SFV replicon highly expressed E glycoprotein in DEF cells. After intramuscular injection of this new DNA vaccine in ducklings, robust humoral and cellular immune responses were observed in all immunized ducklings. Moreover, all ducklings were protected against challenge with the virulent DTMUV AH-F10 strain. CONCLUSIONS In conclusion, we demonstrate that this suicidal DNA vaccine is a promising candidate facilitating the prevention of DTMUV infection.
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- Jingyu Tang
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China.,Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 518 Ziyue Rd, Shanghai, 200241, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China.,Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 518 Ziyue Rd, Shanghai, 200241, China
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 518 Ziyue Rd, Shanghai, 200241, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Veterinary Pathobiology and Disease Control, Hefei, 230036, China
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 518 Ziyue Rd, Shanghai, 200241, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China.,Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 518 Ziyue Rd, Shanghai, 200241, China
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 518 Ziyue Rd, Shanghai, 200241, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China.,Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 518 Ziyue Rd, Shanghai, 200241, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China. .,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Veterinary Pathobiology and Disease Control, Hefei, 230036, China.
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 518 Ziyue Rd, Shanghai, 200241, China.
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Zhu Y, Li C, Bi Z, Chen Z, Meng C, Wang GJ, Ding C, Liu G. Protective immune responses in ducklings induced by a suicidal DNA vaccine of the sigma C gene of novel duck reovirus. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 2015; 165:88-92. [DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2015.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2014] [Revised: 02/22/2015] [Accepted: 03/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Glycoprotein E2 of classical swine fever virus expressed by baculovirus induces the protective immune responses in rabbits. Vaccine 2014; 32:6607-13. [DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2014] [Revised: 09/30/2014] [Accepted: 10/06/2014] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Cheng Y, Chen Z, Li C, Meng C, Wu R, Liu G. Protective immune responses in rabbits induced by a suicidal DNA vaccine of the VP60 gene of rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus. Antiviral Res 2013; 97:227-31. [DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2012.12.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2012] [Revised: 12/14/2012] [Accepted: 12/15/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Fu Y, Chen Z, Li C, Liu G. Protective immune responses in ducklings induced by a suicidal DNA vaccine of the VP1 gene of duck hepatitis virus type 1. Vet Microbiol 2012; 160:314-8. [PMID: 22819169 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2012.06.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2012] [Revised: 05/10/2012] [Accepted: 06/19/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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A suicidal DNA vaccine based on a Semliki Forest virus (SFV) replicon was evaluated for the development of a vaccine against duck hepatitis virus type 1 (DHV-1). The VP1 gene of DHV-1 was cloned and inserted into pSCA1, an SFV DNA-based replicon vector. The resultant plasmid, pSCA/VP1, was transfected into BHK-21 cells and the antigenicity of the expressed protein was confirmed using an indirect immunofluorescence and western blot assay. Immunogenicity was studied in ducklings. Ducklings were injected intramuscularly two times with pSCA/VP1 at 14 days intervals. Anti-DHV-1 antibodies were detected by ELISA, the lymphocyte proliferation response was also tested by the 3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyl-2H-tetrazolium bromide method and neutralizing antibodies were measured by microneutralization tests. Our results showed that DHV-1-specific antibodies, neutralizing antibodies and lymphocyte proliferation were well induced in ducklings. Furthermore, all the ducklings were protected against challenge with wild DHV-1. In conclusion, we demonstrate that the suicidal DNA vaccine is a promising vaccine candidate facilitating the prevention of duck hepatitis caused by DHV-1.
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- Yuzhi Fu
- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai 200241, China
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The alphavirus replicon technology has been utilized for many years to develop vaccines for both veterinary and human applications. Many developments have been made to the replicon platform recently, resulting in improved safety and efficacy of replicon particle (RP) vaccines. This review provides a broad overview of the replicon technology and safety features of the system and discusses the current literature on RP and replicon-based vaccines.
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Brun A, Bárcena J, Blanco E, Borrego B, Dory D, Escribano JM, Le Gall-Reculé G, Ortego J, Dixon LK. Current strategies for subunit and genetic viral veterinary vaccine development. Virus Res 2011; 157:1-12. [PMID: 21316403 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2011.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2010] [Revised: 02/03/2011] [Accepted: 02/04/2011] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Developing vaccines for livestock provides researchers with the opportunity to perform efficacy testing in the natural hosts. This enables the evaluation of different strategies, including definition of effective antigens or antigen combinations, and improvement in delivery systems for target antigens so that protective immune responses can be modulated or potentiated. An impressive amount of knowledge has been generated in recent years on vaccine strategies and consequently a wide variety of antigen delivery systems is now available for vaccine research. This paper reviews several antigen production and delivery strategies other than those based on the use of live viral vectors. Genetic and protein subunit vaccines as well as alternative production systems are considered in this review.
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- Alejandro Brun
- Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (CISA-INIA), Valdeolmos, 28130 Madrid, Spain.
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Expression and immunological analysis of capsid protein precursor of swine vesicular disease virus HK/70. Virol Sin 2010; 25:206-12. [PMID: 20960295 DOI: 10.1007/s12250-010-3100-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2009] [Accepted: 03/04/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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VP1, a capsid protein of swine vesicular disease virus, was cloned from the SVDV HK/70 strain and inserted into retroviral vector pBABE puro, and expressed in PK15 cells by an retroviral expression system. The ability of the VP1 protein to induce an immune response was then evaluated in guinea pigs. Western blot and ELISA results indicated that the VP1 protein can be recognized by SVDV positive serum, Furthermore, anti-SVDV specific antibodies and lymphocyte proliferation were elicited and increased by VP1 protein after vaccination. These results encourage further work towards the development of a vaccine against SVDV infection.
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Fang R, Nie H, Wang Z, Tu P, Zhou D, Wang L, He L, Zhou Y, Zhao J. Protective immune response in BALB/c mice induced by a suicidal DNA vaccine of the MIC3 gene of Toxoplasma gondii. Vet Parasitol 2009; 164:134-40. [PMID: 19592172 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2009.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2009] [Revised: 06/03/2009] [Accepted: 06/11/2009] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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To evaluate the protective efficiency of a suicidal DNA vaccine against protozoal parasite Toxoplasma gondii, the microneme protein 3 (MIC3) gene was cloned into suicidal vector pSCA1 and conventional DNA vaccine vector pcDNA3.1+ respectively, their protection against T. gondii challenge were assessed in this study. The recombinant plasmids named pSCA/MIC3 and pcDNA/MIC3 were transfected into BHK-21 cells. The expression of MIC3 in BHK-21 cells was confirmed by RT-PCR and indirect immunofluorescence test. Then BALB/c mice were immunized with pSCA/MIC3 or pcDNA/MIC3. Anti-Tg-MIC3 antibodies were detected by indirect ELISA and the cell immune response were examined by lymphocyte proliferation assay and real time RT-PCR. The results showed that the titre of anti-Tg-MIC3 antibodies, stimulation index (SI) of lymphocyte proliferation response and IFN-gamma expression level induced by pSCA/MIC3 and pcDNA/MIC3 were significantly higher than controls (P<0.05), whereas IL-4 expression level in BALB/c mice immunized with either pSCA/MIC3 or pcDNA/MIC3 was lower than that in control group. After a lethal challenge against T. gondii, survival time of the mice immunized with this suicidal DNA vaccine pSCA/MIC3 and conventional DNA vaccine pcDNA/MIC3 were significantly prolonged in comparison with the control groups (P<0.05), but the difference of protective immune response in BALB/c mice between pSCA/MIC3 and pcDNA/MIC3 was not statistically significant (P>0.05). The findings demonstrated that like conventional DNA vaccine pcDNA/MIC3, suicidal DNA vaccine pSCA/MIC3 also provided favourable efficacy, but it could improve the biosafety of conventional vaccines. This result suggested that suicidal DNA vaccine pSCA/MIC3 is a potential candidate vaccine against toxoplasmosis.
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- Rui Fang
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, PR China
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