title: Use of low toxicity adjuvants and killed virus to induce protective immunity against the Friend murine leukaemia retrovirus-induced disease.
abstract: Low toxic and synthetic adjuvants were investigated in the induction of protective immunity against Friend murine retrovirus-induced erythroleukaemia by immunization with inactivated Friend murine leukaemia helper virus (F-MuLV). 6-O-(2-tetradecyl-hexadecanoyl)-N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanyl-D-isoglutamine (B30-MDP) showed a significant enhancement of the protective immunity against Friend virus-induced erythroleukaemia not only in H-2a/b mice known to make good immune responses to F-MuLV envelope, but also in H-2a/a mice which are usually unable to respond to F-MuLV envelope protein. Another analogue of N-acetylmuramyl-D-isoglutamine (MDP), N alpha-acetylmuramyl-L-alanyl-D-isoglutaminyl-N epsilon-stearoyl-L-lysine [MDP-Lys(L18)], which has been shown to enhance non-specific protective activity against bacterial and viral infections, however, showed no adjuvant activity in the present system. A combined adjuvant of the synthesized mycobacterial cord factor, trehalose dimycolate (TDM) and detoxified bacterial endotoxin, monophosphoryl lipid A from Salmonella minnesota, gave good protection which was comparable to complete Freund's adjuvant in both H-2a/b and H-2a/a mice.
authors.affiliation: US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Hamilton, Montana 59840.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ishihara
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Miyazawa
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nishio
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Azuma
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chesebro
mesh_terms: D000276:Adjuvants, Immunologic / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D005622:Friend murine leukemia virus / Q000276:immunology*; D007114:Immunization; D007942:Leukemia, Experimental / Q000517:prevention & control*; D051379:Mice; D015164:Vaccines, Inactivated / Q000276:immunology; D014765:Viral Vaccines / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D000276:Adjuvants, Immunologic; D015164:Vaccines, Inactivated; D014765:Viral Vaccines