Evaluation of protective efficacy conferred by a recombinant Mycobacterium bovis BCG expressing a fusion protein of Ag85A-ESAT-6
Evaluation of protective efficacy conferred by a recombinant Mycobacterium bovis BCG expressing a fusion protein of Ag85A-ESAT-6
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jmii.2012.11.005
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发表时间：
2014-02-01
影响因子：
7.4
通讯作者：
Zhang, Ben-Si
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作者：
Deng, Yi-Hao;He, Hong-Yun;Zhang, Ben-Si
Background: We previously constructed a recombinant bacille Calmette-Guerin (rBCG-AE) strain that could express a fused Ag85A-ESAT-6 protein. That study suggested that the rBCG-AE strain was able to induce a higher titer of antibody and elicit a more long-lived and stronger Th1-type cellular immune responses than the parental BCG strain, the rBCG-A strain (i.e., expressing Ag85A), or the rBCG-E strain (i.e., expressing ESAT-6).Methods: In the current study, we further investigated the strain's protective efficacy against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv infection in BALB/c mice through evaluating organ bacterial loads, lung histopathology, lung immunohistochemistry, and net weight gain or loss by using conventional BCG, rBCG-A, and rBCG-E as the controls.Results: From the 3rd to 9th weeks after the challenge infection, the bacterial counts were significantly lower in tissues (e.g., spleen and lung tissues) in the mice immunized with rBCG-AE than in the control group, but were higher than the counts in the BCG group. The pathological damage in the lung tissues of the rBCG-AE group gradually improved from the 6th to 9th weeks after being infected with M. tuberculosis H37Rv, but the score of pathological changes in the rBCG-AE group was obviously higher than the score in the BCG group. There was no difference in the percentage of IFN-gamma and iNOS positive cells in the lung tissues of the rBCG-AE and BCG groups.Conclusion: The results suggest that rBCG-AE can not promote protective efficacy against M. tuberculosis H37Rv infection, compared to the BCG vaccine. Copyright (C) 2012, Taiwan Society of Microbiology. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. All rights reserved.
