title: Protection of cattle and swine against foot-and-mouth disease, using biosynthetic peptide vaccines.
abstract: A single dose of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus protein 1 (VP1) peptide, expressed in Escherichia coli as a fusion protein with 190 amino acids (AA) of the LE' protein of the tryptophan operon of E coli, elicited an immune response in steers sufficient to withstand the challenge of exposure to animals with acute FMD. The 58-micrograms dose of viral peptide, composed of a segment of the VP1 from the A12 strain (A12) of FMD virus (FMDV; A12-32dimer) in a tandem repeat configuration of AA137 through 168 and emulsified with oil adjuvant, elicited a serologic response in cattle equivalent to that obtained using conventional whole virus vaccines. Two groups of swine were vaccinated, 1 with the A12-32dimer as used in cattle and 1 with AA131 through 157 from VP1 of the A24 strain (A24) of FMDV (A24-peptide), expressed in the same system as A12-32dimer, but as a single copy per molecule. In swine, the 58-micrograms dose of the A12-32dimer repeated at 28 days was an effective immunogen; all swine were protected against A12 and, in addition, the vaccine protected 50% of the swine against A24. The 29-micrograms dose of A24-peptide, administered according to the same schedule, elicited protection against A24 in 50% of the vaccinates and, in addition, protected 25% of those vaccinates against A12. The serologic response elicited by A12-32dimer against A24 virus was considerably greater than the response elicited by A24-peptide against A12 virus. The evidence of multiple immunogenic epitopes between AA131 and AA168 was evaluated.
authors.affiliation: USDA, Agricultural Research Services, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Greenport, NY 11944.
authors.forename: D O
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: Morgan
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Moore
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D005537:Aphthovirus / Q000276:immunology; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D005536:Foot-and-Mouth Disease / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005818:Genetic Engineering / Q000662:veterinary; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D013552:Swine; D013553:Swine Diseases / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014611:Vaccination / Q000662:veterinary; D014612:Vaccines / Q000276:immunology*; D014614:Vaccines, Synthetic / Q000032:analysis / Q000276:immunology*; D014765:Viral Vaccines / Q000032:analysis / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D014612:Vaccines; D014614:Vaccines, Synthetic; D014765:Viral Vaccines