title: Immune responses with DNA vaccines encoded different gene fragments of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus in BALB/c mice.
abstract: To analyze the immune responses of DNA vaccine encoded different gene fragments of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-Cov), SARS-Cov gene fragments of membrane (M), nucleocapsid (N), spike a (Sa), and spike b (Sb) proteins were cloned into pcDNA3.1 (Invitrogen) vector to form plasmids pcDNAM, pcDNAN, pcDNASa, and pcDNASb, respectively. After mice were immunized intramuscularly with pcDNAM, pcDNAN or pcDNASa-pcDNASb plasmid, blood was collected and serum was separated. Humoral immune response was detected with the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and cellular immune response of SARS-Cov DNA vaccines was detected with lymphoproliferation assay and cytotoxic T lymphocyte assay. Results show that cellular and humoral immune responses can be detected after immunization with pcDNAM, pcDNAN or pcDNASa-pcDNASb plasmids in BALB/c mice. However, pcDNAM stimulated the highest cellular immune response than other plasmids, and pcDNASa-pcDNASb stimulated the highest humoral immune response in week 12. The present results not only suggest that DNA immunization with pcDNAM, pcDNAN or pcDNASa-pcDNASb could be used as potential DNA vaccination approaches to induce antibody in BALB/c mice, but also to illustrate that gene immunization with these SARS DNA vaccines different immune response characters.
authors.affiliation: Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. zw37@cornell.edu
authors.forename: Zhijun
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zhenghong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: Mitsuharu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: Ulrich R
authors.initials: UR
authors.lastname: Hengge
authors.forename: Yung-Fu
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000917:Antibody Formation / Q000276:immunology; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005260:Female; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D045473:Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology*; D045169:Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / Q000276:immunology* / Q000821:virology; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology; D014611:Vaccination; D019444:Vaccines, DNA / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D019444:Vaccines, DNA