Laboratory of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medicine and Forensics, Hangzhou Medical College , Hangzhou, China.
School of Basic Medicine and Forensics, Hangzhou Medical College , Hangzhou, China.
Microbiol Spectr. 2024 Jan 11;12(1):e0286623. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.02866-23. Epub 2023 Dec 1.
, an obligate intracellular eukaryotic parasite, can infect about one-third of the world's population. One vaccine, Toxovax, has been developed and licensed commercially; however, it is only used in the sheep industry to reduce the losses caused by congenital toxoplasmosis. Various other vaccine approaches have been explored, including excretory secretion antigen vaccines, subunit vaccines, epitope vaccines, and DNA vaccines. However, current research has not yet developed a safe and effective vaccine for . Here, we generated an mRNA vaccine candidate against . We investigated the efficacy of vaccination with a novel identified candidate, TGGT1_278620, in a mouse infection model. We screened -derived protective antigens at the genome-wide level, combined them with mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccine technology against , and investigated immune-related factors and mechanisms. Our findings might contribute to developing vaccines for immunizing humans and animals against .
刚地弓形虫,一种专性细胞内真核寄生虫,可以感染世界上约三分之一的人口。已经开发出一种名为 Toxovax 的疫苗并进行了商业许可;然而,它仅用于绵羊产业,以减少先天性弓形虫病造成的损失。已经探索了各种其他疫苗方法,包括排泄分泌抗原疫苗、亚单位疫苗、表位疫苗和 DNA 疫苗。然而,目前的研究尚未开发出针对刚地弓形虫的安全有效的疫苗。在这里,我们针对刚地弓形虫生成了一种 mRNA 疫苗候选物。我们在小鼠感染模型中研究了新型鉴定候选物 TGGT1_278620 接种的功效。我们在全基因组水平上筛选了弓形虫衍生的保护性抗原,将其与针对刚地弓形虫的 mRNA-脂质纳米颗粒疫苗技术相结合,并研究了免疫相关因素和机制。我们的发现可能有助于开发针对人类和动物的弓形虫疫苗。