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DNA vaccination with a gene encoding Toxoplasma gondii GRA6 induces partial protection against toxoplasmosis in BALB/c mice
BACKGROUND: Infection with the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii causes serious public health problems and is of great economic importance worldwide. Protection from acute toxoplasmosis is known to be mediated by CD8+ T cells, but the T. gondii antigens and host genes required for eliciting protective imm...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3229464/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22070984 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-4-213 |
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author | Sun, Xi-Meng Zou, Jun AA, Elashram Saeed Yan, Wen-Chao Liu, Xian-Yong Suo, Xun Wang, Heng Chen, Qi-Jun |
author_facet | Sun, Xi-Meng Zou, Jun AA, Elashram Saeed Yan, Wen-Chao Liu, Xian-Yong Suo, Xun Wang, Heng Chen, Qi-Jun |
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description | BACKGROUND: Infection with the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii causes serious public health problems and is of great economic importance worldwide. Protection from acute toxoplasmosis is known to be mediated by CD8+ T cells, but the T. gondii antigens and host genes required for eliciting protective immunity have been poorly defined. The T. gondii dense granule protein 6 (GRA6), recently proved to be highly immunogenic and produces fully immune protection in T. gondii infected BALB/c mice with an H-2L(d )gene. The CD8+ T cell response of H-2L(d )mice infected by the T. gondii strain seemed to target entirely to a single GRA6 peptide HF10-H-2L(d )complex. RESULTS: To determine whether a GRA6-based DNA vaccine can elicit protective immune responses to T. gondii in BALB/c mice, we constructed a eukaryotic expression vector pcDNA3.1-HisGRA6 and tested its immunogenicity in a mouse model. BALB/c mice were vaccinated intramuscularly with three doses of GRA6 DNA and then challenged with a lethal dose of T. gondii RH strain tachyzoites. All immunized mice developed high levels of serum anti-GRA6 IgG antibodies, and in vitro splenocyte proliferation was strongly enhanced in mice adjuvanted with levamisole (LMS). Immunization with pcDNA3.1-HisGRA6 with LMS resulted in 53.3% survival of challenged BALB/c mice as compared to 40% survival of BALB/c without LMS. Additionally, immunized Kunming mice without an allele of H-2L(d )failed to survive. CONCLUSIONS: Our result supports the concept that the acquired immune response is MHC restricted. This study has a major implication for vaccine designs using a single antigen in a population with diverse MHC class I alleles. |
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spelling | pubmed-32294642011-12-03 DNA vaccination with a gene encoding Toxoplasma gondii GRA6 induces partial protection against toxoplasmosis in BALB/c mice Sun, Xi-Meng Zou, Jun AA, Elashram Saeed Yan, Wen-Chao Liu, Xian-Yong Suo, Xun Wang, Heng Chen, Qi-Jun Parasit Vectors Research BACKGROUND: Infection with the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii causes serious public health problems and is of great economic importance worldwide. Protection from acute toxoplasmosis is known to be mediated by CD8+ T cells, but the T. gondii antigens and host genes required for eliciting protective immunity have been poorly defined. The T. gondii dense granule protein 6 (GRA6), recently proved to be highly immunogenic and produces fully immune protection in T. gondii infected BALB/c mice with an H-2L(d )gene. The CD8+ T cell response of H-2L(d )mice infected by the T. gondii strain seemed to target entirely to a single GRA6 peptide HF10-H-2L(d )complex. RESULTS: To determine whether a GRA6-based DNA vaccine can elicit protective immune responses to T. gondii in BALB/c mice, we constructed a eukaryotic expression vector pcDNA3.1-HisGRA6 and tested its immunogenicity in a mouse model. BALB/c mice were vaccinated intramuscularly with three doses of GRA6 DNA and then challenged with a lethal dose of T. gondii RH strain tachyzoites. All immunized mice developed high levels of serum anti-GRA6 IgG antibodies, and in vitro splenocyte proliferation was strongly enhanced in mice adjuvanted with levamisole (LMS). Immunization with pcDNA3.1-HisGRA6 with LMS resulted in 53.3% survival of challenged BALB/c mice as compared to 40% survival of BALB/c without LMS. Additionally, immunized Kunming mice without an allele of H-2L(d )failed to survive. CONCLUSIONS: Our result supports the concept that the acquired immune response is MHC restricted. This study has a major implication for vaccine designs using a single antigen in a population with diverse MHC class I alleles. BioMed Central 2011-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3229464/ /pubmed/22070984 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-4-213 Text en Copyright ©2011 Sun et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Sun, Xi-Meng Zou, Jun AA, Elashram Saeed Yan, Wen-Chao Liu, Xian-Yong Suo, Xun Wang, Heng Chen, Qi-Jun DNA vaccination with a gene encoding Toxoplasma gondii GRA6 induces partial protection against toxoplasmosis in BALB/c mice |
title | DNA vaccination with a gene encoding Toxoplasma gondii GRA6 induces partial protection against toxoplasmosis in BALB/c mice |
title_full | DNA vaccination with a gene encoding Toxoplasma gondii GRA6 induces partial protection against toxoplasmosis in BALB/c mice |
title_fullStr | DNA vaccination with a gene encoding Toxoplasma gondii GRA6 induces partial protection against toxoplasmosis in BALB/c mice |
title_full_unstemmed | DNA vaccination with a gene encoding Toxoplasma gondii GRA6 induces partial protection against toxoplasmosis in BALB/c mice |
title_short | DNA vaccination with a gene encoding Toxoplasma gondii GRA6 induces partial protection against toxoplasmosis in BALB/c mice |
title_sort | dna vaccination with a gene encoding toxoplasma gondii gra6 induces partial protection against toxoplasmosis in balb/c mice |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3229464/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22070984 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-4-213 |
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