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Experimental vaccine induces Th1-driven immune responses and resistance to Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection in a murine model.


ABSTRACT: Female mice were immunized intravaginally with gonococcal outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) plus microencapsulated interleukin-12 (IL-12), and challenged using an established model of genital infection with Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Whereas sham-immunized and control animals cleared the infection in 10-13 days, those immunized with OMV plus IL-12 cleared infection with homologous gonococcal strains in 6-9 days. Significant protection was also seen after challenge with antigenically distinct strains of N. gonorrhoeae, and protective anamnestic immunity persisted for at least 6 months after immunization. Serum and vaginal immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgA antibodies were generated against antigens expressed by homologous and heterologous strains. Iliac lymph node CD4+ T cells secreted interferon-? (IFN?), but not IL-4, in response to immunization, and produced IL-17 in response to challenge regardless of immunization. Antigens recognized by immunized mouse serum included several shared between gonococcal strains, including two identified by immunoproteomics approaches as elongation factor-Tu (EF-Tu) and PotF3. Experiments with immunodeficient mice showed that protective immunity depended upon IFN? and B cells, presumably to generate antibodies. The results demonstrated that immunity to gonococcal infection can be induced by immunization with a nonliving gonococcal antigen, and suggest that efforts to develop a human vaccine should focus on strategies to generate type 1 T helper cell (Th1)-driven immune responses in the genital tract.

SUBMITTER: Liu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5591041 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Experimental vaccine induces Th1-driven immune responses and resistance to Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection in a murine model.

Liu Y Y   Hammer L A LA   Liu W W   Hobbs M M MM   Zielke R A RA   Sikora A E AE   Jerse A E AE   Egilmez N K NK   Russell M W MW  

Mucosal immunology 20170301 6


Female mice were immunized intravaginally with gonococcal outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) plus microencapsulated interleukin-12 (IL-12), and challenged using an established model of genital infection with Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Whereas sham-immunized and control animals cleared the infection in 10-13 days, those immunized with OMV plus IL-12 cleared infection with homologous gonococcal strains in 6-9 days. Significant protection was also seen after challenge with antigenically distinct strains of  ...[more]

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