title: Evaluation of the humoral immune response in mice orally vaccinated with live recombinant attenuated Salmonella enterica delivering a secreted form of Yersinia pestis PsaA.
abstract: Yersinia pestis PsaA is an adhesin that is synthesized inside macrophages. Here, we evaluated the immune profile of codon-optimized Y. pestis PsaA synthesized in a live recombinant attenuated Salmonella vaccine (RASV) strain chi9558. Oral immunization of BALB/c mice with chi9558(pYA3705) delivering a secreted form of PsaA, elicited a systemic PsaA-specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) response but offered limited protection against lethal challenge with the intranasally introduced Y. pestis CO92 strain. Our results suggest that appropriate fine-tuning of Y. pestis PsaA delivery by RASV could improve its protective role in curtailing plague colonization and infection.
authors.affiliation: Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccinology at the Biodesign Institute and School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-5401, USA.
authors.forename: Ascención
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Torres-Escobar
authors.forename: María Dolores
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Juárez-Rodríguez
authors.forename: Christine G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Branger
authors.forename: Roy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Curtiss
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000097:blood; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000276:immunology*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000276:immunology*; D005260:Female; D056724:Immunity, Humoral; D018928:Immunity, Mucosal; D007070:Immunoglobulin A / Q000276:immunology; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000097:blood; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D010930:Plague / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010931:Plague Vaccine / Q000276:immunology*; D019779:Salmonella enterica / Q000276:immunology; D014613:Vaccines, Attenuated / Q000276:immunology; D015010:Yersinia pestis / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D007070:Immunoglobulin A; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D010931:Plague Vaccine; D014613:Vaccines, Attenuated; C081814:pH 6 antigen, Yersinia