Research Center of Avian Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChengdu, China.
Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan ProvinceChengdu, China.
Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2017 Sep 4;7:391. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2017.00391. eCollection 2017.
Non-typhoidal includes thousands of serovars that are leading causes of foodborne diarrheal illness worldwide. In this study, we constructed three bivalent vaccines for preventing both Typhimurium and Newport infections by using the aspartate semialdehyde dehydrogenase (Asd)-based balanced-lethal vector-host system. The constructed Asd plasmid pCZ11 carrying a subset of the Newport O-antigen gene cluster including the genes was introduced into three Typhimurium mutants: SLT19 (Δ) with a smooth LPS phenotype, SLT20 (Δ Δ) with a rough LPS phenotype, and SLT22 (Δ Δ Δ P) with a smooth LPS phenotype when grown with arabinose. Immunoblotting demonstrated that SLT19 harboring pCZ11 [termed SLT19 (pCZ11)] co-expressed the homologous and heterologous O-antigens; SLT20 (pCZ11) exclusively expressed the heterologous O-antigen; and when arabinose was available, SLT22 (pCZ11) expressed both types of O-antigens, while in the absence of arabinose, SLT22 (pCZ11) expressed only the heterologous O-antigen. Exclusive expression of the heterologous O-antigen in Typhimurium decreased the swimming ability of the bacterium and its susceptibility to polymyxin B. Next, the gene was deleted from the three recombinant strains for attenuation purposes, generating the three bivalent vaccine strains SLT25 (pCZ11), SLT26 (pCZ11), and SLT27 (pCZ11), respectively. Groups of BALB/c mice (12 mice/group) were orally immunized with 10 CFU of each vaccine strain twice at an interval of 4 weeks. Compared with a mock immunization, immunization with all three vaccine strains induced significant serum IgG responses against both Typhimurium and Newport LPS. The bacterial loads in the mouse tissues were significantly lower in the three vaccine-strain-immunized groups than in the mock group after either Typhimurium or Newport lethal challenge. All of the mice in the three vaccine-immunized groups survived the lethal Typhimurium challenge. In contrast, SLT26 (pCZ11) and SLT27 (pCZ11) conferred full protection against lethal Newport challenge, but SLT25 (pCZ11) provided only 50% heterologous protection. Thus, we developed two novel bivalent vaccines, SLT26 (pCZ11) and SLT27 (pCZ11), suggesting that the delivery of a heterologous O-antigen in attenuated strains is a prospective approach for developing vaccines with broad serovar coverage.
非伤寒包括数千种血清型,是导致全球食源性腹泻病的主要原因。在这项研究中,我们使用天冬氨酸半醛脱氢酶(Asd)为基础的平衡致死载体-宿主系统构建了三种二价疫苗,以预防鼠伤寒和纽波特感染。构建的携带部分纽波特 O 抗原基因簇的 Asd 质粒 pCZ11 包括 基因,被引入三种鼠伤寒突变体:SLT19(Δ)具有光滑 LPS 表型、SLT20(ΔΔ)具有粗糙 LPS 表型和 SLT22(ΔΔΔP)在阿拉伯糖存在下具有光滑 LPS 表型时生长。免疫印迹表明,携带 pCZ11 的 SLT19[称为 SLT19(pCZ11)]共同表达同源和异源 O 抗原;SLT20(pCZ11)仅表达异源 O 抗原;当阿拉伯糖存在时,SLT22(pCZ11)表达两种类型的 O 抗原,而在没有阿拉伯糖的情况下,SLT22(pCZ11)仅表达异源 O 抗原。鼠伤寒中异源 O 抗原的专性表达降低了细菌的游泳能力及其对多粘菌素 B 的敏感性。接下来,为了减毒目的,从三种重组菌株中删除了 基因,分别生成三种二价疫苗菌株 SLT25(pCZ11)、SLT26(pCZ11)和 SLT27(pCZ11)。用每组 12 只 BALB/c 小鼠的 10 CFU 各疫苗株口服免疫两次,间隔 4 周。与模拟免疫相比,用三种疫苗株免疫均诱导了针对鼠伤寒和纽波特 LPS 的显著血清 IgG 反应。在鼠伤寒或纽波特致死性攻击后,三种疫苗株免疫组的小鼠组织中的细菌载量明显低于模拟组。所有三种疫苗免疫组的小鼠均在致死性鼠伤寒攻击中存活。相比之下,SLT26(pCZ11)和 SLT27(pCZ11)完全提供了对致死性纽波特挑战的保护,但 SLT25(pCZ11)仅提供了 50%的异源保护。因此,我们开发了两种新型的 二价疫苗,SLT26(pCZ11)和 SLT27(pCZ11),这表明在减毒菌株中传递异源 O 抗原是开发具有广泛血清型覆盖范围的 疫苗的一种有前景的方法。