title: A surface-displayed cholera toxin B peptide improves antibody responses using food-grade staphylococci for mucosal subunit vaccine delivery.
abstract: The possibility of improving the antibody responses to a model streptococcal antigen, administered by intranasal immunization as surface-displayed on the food-grade bacterium Staphylococcus carnosus, by co-exposure of a peptide (CTBp) comprising amino acids 50-75 of the cholera toxin B subunit, was investigated. It was found that the introduction of the CTBp into the chimeric surface proteins, containing a serum albumin binding protein (ABP) from streptococcal protein G as model antigen, significantly increased serum IgG responses upon intranasal immunization. Similarly, elicited local IgA responses were also found to be improved. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that live delivery of the staphylococci was required to obtain this effect, since UV-irradiated or heat-killed bacteria exposing the same chimeric surface proteins did not show increased anti-ABP IgG responses.
authors.affiliation: Centre d'Immunologie Pierre Fabre, Saint-Julien en Genevois, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cano
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liljeqvist
authors.forename: T N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Samuelson
authors.forename: J Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Bonnefoy
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ståhl
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Robert
mesh_terms: D000276:Adjuvants, Immunologic; D000281:Administration, Intranasal; D000284:Administration, Oral; D000818:Animals; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D001428:Bacterial Vaccines / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D002772:Cholera Toxin / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D004337:Drug Carriers; D005260:Female; D007115:Immunization Schedule; D007070:Immunoglobulin A / Q000032:analysis; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000097:blood; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D009297:Nasal Mucosa / Q000276:immunology*; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D013210:Staphylococcus; D013291:Streptococcus / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D014614:Vaccines, Synthetic
chemical_list: D000276:Adjuvants, Immunologic; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D001428:Bacterial Vaccines; D004337:Drug Carriers; C034284:IgG Fc-binding protein, Streptococcus; D007070:Immunoglobulin A; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D014614:Vaccines, Synthetic; D002772:Cholera Toxin