Adjuvant activity of a nontoxic mutant of Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin on systemic and mucosal immune responses elicited against a heterologous antigen carried by a live Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium vaccine strain

Infect Immun. 2000 Jul;68(7):4349-53. doi: 10.1128/IAI.68.7.4349-4353.2000.

Abstract

Systemic and mucosal antibody responses against both the major subunit of colonization factor antigen I (CFA/I) of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) and the somatic lipopolysaccharide expressed by recombinant bivalent Salmonella vaccine strains were significantly enhanced by coadministration of a detoxified derivative with preserved adjuvant effects of the ETEC heat-labile toxin, LT((R192G)). The results further support the adjuvant effects of LT((R192G)) and represent a simple alternative to improve responses against passenger antigens expressed by orally delivered Salmonella vaccine strains.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adjuvants, Immunologic / pharmacology*
  • Animals
  • Antibodies, Bacterial / biosynthesis*
  • Antigens, Bacterial / administration & dosage
  • Antigens, Bacterial / genetics
  • Bacterial Proteins / administration & dosage
  • Bacterial Proteins / genetics
  • Bacterial Toxins / genetics
  • Bacterial Toxins / pharmacology*
  • Bacterial Vaccines / administration & dosage
  • Bacterial Vaccines / genetics
  • Enterotoxins / genetics
  • Enterotoxins / pharmacology*
  • Escherichia coli / genetics
  • Escherichia coli / immunology*
  • Escherichia coli Proteins*
  • Fimbriae Proteins*
  • Immunity, Mucosal*
  • Lipopolysaccharides / administration & dosage
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred BALB C
  • Mutation
  • Salmonella typhimurium / genetics
  • Salmonella typhimurium / immunology
  • Vaccines, Synthetic / administration & dosage
  • Vaccines, Synthetic / genetics

Substances

  • Adjuvants, Immunologic
  • Antibodies, Bacterial
  • Antigens, Bacterial
  • Bacterial Proteins
  • Bacterial Toxins
  • Bacterial Vaccines
  • Enterotoxins
  • Escherichia coli Proteins
  • Lipopolysaccharides
  • Vaccines, Synthetic
  • colonization factor antigens
  • Fimbriae Proteins
  • heat-labile enterotoxin, E coli