Prior Immunity to Homologous and Heterologous Salmonella Serotypes Suppresses Local and Systemic Anti-Fragment C Antibody Responses and Protection from Tetanus Toxin in Mice Immunized with Salmonella Strains Expressing Fragment C

AUTOR(ES)

Roberts, Mark

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

We have investigated the effect of preexisting immunity to homologous (Salmonella typhimurium) or heterologous (S. dublin) serotypes of Salmonella on the ability of an attenuated S. typhimurium aroA aroD vector (BRD509) to immunize mice against the heterologous antigen fragment C (FrgC). We studied two strains, BRD847 and BRD937, expressing FrgC carried on plasmids that differ only with respect to the promoter controlling FrgC expression, the nirB promoter in the case of BRD847 and the htrA promoter in the case of BRD937. Mice were preimmunized orally with S. typhimurium BRD509, S. dublin aroA aroD (BRD620), or saline. Forty-four days later, they were immunized orally with BRD847 or BRD937. Prior immunity to S. typhimurium severely depressed the serum immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgA anti-FrgC response in both BRD847- and BRD937-immunized mice. Mice with existing immunity to S. dublin also had lower IgG anti-FrgC geometric mean titers (GMTs) than did mice preimmunized with saline, but this difference was significant only in the case of mice immunized with BRD937. However, in nonimmune mice or in mice preimmunized with S. typhimurium or S. dublin, the anti-FrgC IgG GMTs were always higher in mice in the BRD937 groups than in the equivalent BRD847 groups. This is reflected in the effect of prior immunity on the ability of oral immunization with BRD847 or BRD937 to protect mice from challenge with a lethal dose of tetanus toxin. All of the mice preimmunized with saline and then immunized with BRD847 or BRD937 survived challenge. Only 20% of the animals immunized with BRD847 and 60% of the mice in the BRD937 group survived tetanus toxin challenge if they were preimmunized with BRD509. Preexisting immunity to S. dublin did not affect the ability of BRD937 to immunize mice against tetanus, but it did reduce the efficiency of BRD847: only 60% percent of the mice survived challenge. The intestinal secretory IgA responses to FrgC were very similar in the BRD847 and BRD937 groups. Prior immunity did depress the IgA anti-FrgC titers but only significantly so in the mice preimmunized with BRD509. These results show that preexisting Salmonella immunity, particularly to homologous serotypes, can severely compromise the ability of live Salmonella vectors to deliver heterologous antigens to the mammalian immune system. However, the results also indicate that this may be overcome by the design of more powerful in vivo expression systems.

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