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The gut microbiota plays an important role in maintaining homeostasis in the human body, and the disruption of these communities can lead to compromised host health and the onset of disease. Current research on probiotics is quite promising and, in particular, these microorganisms have demonstrated their potential for use as adjuvants for the treatment of colorectal cancer. This review addresses the possible applications of probiotics, postbiotics, synbiotics, and next-generation probiotics in colorectal cancer research.
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BACKGROUND: Chronic intestinal inflammation alters host physiology and could lead to colorectal cancer (CRC). We have previously reported beneficial effects of the probiotic strain of Lactobacillus casei BL23 in different murine models of intestinal inflammation. In addition, there is an emerging interest on the potential beneficial effects of probiotics to treat CRC. We thus explored whether L. casei BL23 displays protective effects on CRC. METHODS: Mice were subcutaneously injected with 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (DMH) weekly during 10 weeks and orally administered with L. casei BL23 in the drinking water until the 10th week. Multiple plaque lesions in the large intestine were observed macroscopically and counted and intestinal tissues were also histologically analyzed. Finally, T-cell populations and cytokine production were evaluated after co-incubation of L. casei BL23 with spleen cells from non-treated mice to determine the immuno-modulatory effects of this bacterium. RESULTS: Our results show that oral treatment with this probiotic bacterium modulates host immune responses and significantly protect mice against DMH-induced CRC. This protection may be associated with the modulation of regulatory T-cells towards a Th17-biased immune response accompanied by the expression of regulatory cytokines (IL-6, IL-17, IL-10 and TGF-ß), as demonstrated in L. casei BL23-treated splenocytes, but also with the colonic expression of IL-22 observed in vivo on L. casei BL23-treated mice; suggesting the induction of a fine-tune Th17-biased response. CONCLUSIONS: Altogether our results reveal the high potential of L. casei BL23 to treat CRC and opens new frontiers for the study of immunomodulatory functions of probiotics.
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Neoplasias Colorretais/prevenção & controle , Lacticaseibacillus casei , Probióticos/uso terapêutico , Linfócitos T Reguladores/metabolismo , Células Th17/metabolismo , 1,2-Dimetilidrazina , Animais , Biomarcadores/metabolismo , Neoplasias Colorretais/induzido quimicamente , Neoplasias Colorretais/imunologia , Neoplasias Colorretais/patologia , Citocinas/metabolismo , Feminino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos BALB C , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BLRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Mechanisms underlying the transition from commensalism to virulence in Enterococcus faecalis are not fully understood. We previously identified the enterococcal leucine-rich protein A (ElrA) as a virulence factor of E. faecalis. The elrA gene is part of an operon that comprises four other ORFs encoding putative surface proteins of unknown function. RESULTS: In this work, we compared the susceptibility to phagocytosis of three E. faecalis strains, including a wild-type (WT), a ΔelrA strain, and a strain overexpressing the whole elr operon in order to understand the role of this operon in E. faecalis virulence. While both WT and ΔelrA strains were efficiently phagocytized by RAW 264.7 mouse macrophages, the elr operon-overexpressing strain showed a decreased capability to be internalized by the phagocytic cells. Consistently, the strain overexpressing elr operon was less adherent to macrophages than the WT strain, suggesting that overexpression of the elr operon could confer E. faecalis with additional anti-adhesion properties. In addition, increased virulence of the elr operon-overexpressing strain was shown in a mouse peritonitis model. CONCLUSIONS: Altogether, our results indicate that overexpression of the elr operon facilitates the E. faecalis escape from host immune defenses.
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Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Enterococcus faecalis/fisiologia , Óperon , Peritonite/microbiologia , Fagocitose , Animais , Aderência Bacteriana , Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Linhagem Celular , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Enterococcus faecalis/genética , Enterococcus faecalis/patogenicidade , Regulação Bacteriana da Expressão Gênica , Infecções por Bactérias Gram-Positivas/microbiologia , Infecções por Bactérias Gram-Positivas/veterinária , Macrófagos/metabolismo , Camundongos , VirulênciaRESUMO
Surface proteins of Gram-positive bacteria play crucial roles in bacterial adhesion to host tissues. Regarding commensal or probiotic bacteria, adhesion to intestinal mucosa may promote their persistence in the gastro-intestinal tract and their beneficial effects to the host. In this study, seven Lactococcus lactis strains exhibiting variable surface physico-chemical properties were compared for their adhesion to Caco-2 intestinal epithelial cells. In this test, only one vegetal isolate TIL448 expressed a high-adhesion phenotype. A nonadhesive derivative was obtained by plasmid curing from TIL448, indicating that the adhesion determinants were plasmid-encoded. Surface-exposed proteins in TIL448 were analyzed by a proteomic approach consisting in shaving of the bacterial surface with trypsin and analysis of the released peptides by LC-MS/MS. As the TIL448 complete genome sequence was not available, the tryptic peptides were identified by a mass matching approach against a database including all Lactococcus protein sequences and the sequences deduced from partial DNA sequences of the TIL448 plasmids. Two surface proteins, encoded by plasmids in TIL448, were identified as candidate adhesins, the first one displaying pilin characteristics and the second one containing two mucus-binding domains. Inactivation of the pilin gene abolished adhesion to Caco-2 cells whereas inactivation of the mucus-binding protein gene had no effect on adhesion. The pilin gene is located inside a cluster of four genes encoding two other pilin-like proteins and one class-C sortase. Synthesis of pili was confirmed by immunoblotting detection of high molecular weight forms of pilins associated to the cell wall as well as by electron and atomic force microscopy observations. As a conclusion, surface proteome analysis allowed us to detect pilins at the surface of L. lactis TIL448. Moreover we showed that pili appendages are formed and involved in adhesion to Caco-2 intestinal epithelial cells.
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Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Proteínas de Fímbrias/genética , Fímbrias Bacterianas/genética , Regulação Bacteriana da Expressão Gênica , Lactococcus lactis/genética , Proteoma/genética , Adesinas Bacterianas/genética , Adesinas Bacterianas/metabolismo , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Aminoaciltransferases/genética , Aminoaciltransferases/metabolismo , Aderência Bacteriana , Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Células CACO-2 , Cromatografia Líquida , Cisteína Endopeptidases/genética , Cisteína Endopeptidases/metabolismo , Proteínas de Fímbrias/metabolismo , Fímbrias Bacterianas/metabolismo , Fímbrias Bacterianas/ultraestrutura , Humanos , Intestinos/citologia , Intestinos/microbiologia , Lactococcus lactis/metabolismo , Lactococcus lactis/ultraestrutura , Microscopia Eletrônica , Anotação de Sequência Molecular , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Família Multigênica , Fragmentos de Peptídeos/análise , Plasmídeos , Probióticos/química , Proteólise , Proteoma/metabolismo , Espectrometria de Massas em Tandem , Tripsina/químicaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: The expression of vaccine antigens in lactic acid bacteria (LAB) is a safe and cost-effective alternative to traditional expression systems. In this study, we investigated i) the expression of Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16) L1 major capsid protein in the model LAB Lactococcus lactis and ii) the ability of the resulting recombinant strain to produce either capsomer-or virus-like particles (VLPs). RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: HPV-16 L1 gene was cloned into two vectors, pCYT and pSEC, designed for controlled intra- or extracellular heterologous expression in L. lactis, respectively. The capacity of L. lactis harboring either pCYT:L1 or pSEC:L1 plasmid to accumulate L1 in the cytoplasm and supernatant samples was confirmed by Western blot assays. Electron microscopy analysis suggests that, L1 protein produced by recombinant lactococci can self-assemble into structures morphologically similar to VLPs intracellularly. The presence of conformational epitopes on the L. lactis-derived VLPs was confirmed by ELISA using an anti-HPV16 L1 capsid antigen antibody. Our results support the feasibility of using recombinant food-grade LAB, such as L. lactis, for the production of L1-based VLPs and open the possibility for the development of a new safe mucosal vector for HPV-16 prophylactic vaccination.
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Chemokines have been described as essential mediators in leukocytes migration to inflammatory sites and to secondary lymphoid organs. Mig and IP-10 are two CXC chemokines that recruit mononuclear cells in vivo and inhibit angiogenesis. In addition to their chemotactic roles, Mig and IP-10 have also an important role in the adaptative immune response. In this study, we asked whether a food-grade bacterium, Lactococcus lactis, is able to produce a fusion protein comprising Mig and IP-10 (Mig::IP-10). The activity of the recombinant Mig::IP-10 produced by the genetically engineered L. lactis (LL-Mig::IP-10) was confirmed in a murine spleen cells chemotaxis assay. Moreover, the adjuvant properties of LL-Mig::IP-10 strain were evaluated in mice by the co-expression of a model antigen, the human papillomavirus type 16 E7 protein. Our data show that LL-Mig::IP-10 can produce a genetic fusion of Mig::IP-10 biologically active. This recombinant strain represents a potential candidate for the development of new strategies for mucosal vaccination.
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Adjuvantes Imunológicos , Quimiocinas CXC/biossíntese , Quimiocinas CXC/farmacologia , Imunidade nas Mucosas/imunologia , Lactococcus lactis/metabolismo , Administração Intranasal , Animais , Formação de Anticorpos/imunologia , Quimiotaxia de Leucócito/efeitos dos fármacos , DNA Bacteriano/genética , Escherichia coli/genética , Feminino , Imunoglobulina A/biossíntese , Imunoglobulina G/biossíntese , Lactococcus lactis/genética , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Plasmídeos/genética , Engenharia de ProteínasRESUMO
IFN-gamma is a cytokine produced primarily by both T lymphocytes and natural killer cells and it is considered to be an attractive therapeutic molecule. In the present study, a DNA sequence encoding the mature murine IFN-gamma (muIFN-gamma) protein was cloned and expressed in the food-grade lactic acid bacterium Lactococcus lactis. The activity of recombinant muIFN-gamma produced by genetically engineered L. lactis was confirmed in an antiviral assay using MoV cells infected with Vesicular Stomatitis Virus. The data provide the first demonstration that a Gram-positive bacterium, L. lactis, is able to produce functional muIFN-gamma. This recombinant strain could lead to the development of a new, well-tolerated vector to deliver active muIFN-gamma at the mucosal level.
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Interferon gama/biossíntese , Lactococcus lactis/metabolismo , Animais , Linhagem Celular , Vetores Genéticos/metabolismo , Interferon gama/genética , Interferon gama/farmacologia , Lactococcus lactis/genética , Macrófagos/imunologia , Camundongos , Proteínas Recombinantes/biossíntese , Proteínas Recombinantes/farmacologia , Vírus da Estomatite Vesicular Indiana/efeitos dos fármacosRESUMO
The noninvasive and food-grade Gram-positive bacterium Lactococcus lactis is well adapted to deliver medical proteins to the mucosal immune system. In the last decade, the potential of live recombinant lactococci to deliver such proteins to the mucosal immune system has been investigated. This approach offers several advantages over the traditional systemic injection, such as easy administration and the ability to elicit both systemic and mucosal immune responses. This paper reviews the current research and advances made with recombinant L. lactis as live vector for the in situ delivery of biologically active interleukin-12, a potent pleiotropic cytokine with adjuvant properties when co-delivered with vaccinal antigens, at mucosal surfaces. Three well-illustrated examples demonstrate the high potential of interleukin-12-secreting lactococci strains for future prophylactic and therapeutic uses.
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Asma/terapia , Vetores Genéticos , Hipersensibilidade/terapia , Interleucina-12/imunologia , Lactococcus lactis/genética , Infecções por Papillomavirus/prevenção & controle , Neoplasias do Colo do Útero/prevenção & controle , Vacinas Sintéticas , Administração Intranasal , Animais , Asma/prevenção & controle , Feminino , Papillomavirus Humano 16 , Hipersensibilidade/etiologia , Interleucina-12/genética , Lactoglobulinas/efeitos adversos , Lactoglobulinas/imunologia , Camundongos , Mucosa/microbiologia , Proteínas Oncogênicas Virais/genética , Proteínas E7 de Papillomavirus , Vacinas contra Papillomavirus/administração & dosagem , Vacinas contra Papillomavirus/imunologia , Vacinas Sintéticas/administração & dosagem , Vacinas Sintéticas/genética , Vacinas Sintéticas/imunologia , Vacinas Sintéticas/uso terapêuticoRESUMO
Mucosal immunity plays a major role in the prevention of infectious diseases. Genetically engineered lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have been tested in the last 10 years as safe mucosal delivery vectors. We previously showed that intranasal co-administration of recombinant lactococci displaying human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16) E7 antigen at its surface (LL-E7) and secreting biologically active interleukine-12 (LL-IL-12) has therapeutic effects on HPV-16-induced tumors in mice. In this work, to optimize the immunization protocol, a comparison between intragastric and intranasal routes of administration was performed and two different LAB strains (Lactococcus lactis and Lactobacillus plantarum) were tested as delivery vector. E7-specific systemic and mucosal responses as well as potent anti-tumor effects were higher after intranasal immunization with LL-E7 and LL-IL-12 strains than intragastric administration. Comparisons of the immune responses induced by intranasal administration of either LL-E7 or Lb. plantarum anchoring E7 antigen (LP-E7) revealed highest systemic responses with recombinant Lactobacillus. Furthermore, although only a modest mucosal immune response was observed with LP-E7, this strain was able to induce a significant regression of HPV-induced tumors in contrast to LL-E7. Taken together, our results demonstrate the advantage of intranasal over intragastric route of immunization to induce an antigen-specific immune response and suggest that intrinsic immunomodulatory properties of Lb. plantarum play an important role in the immunogenicity of the expressed antigen.
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Imunidade nas Mucosas/imunologia , Imunização/métodos , Lactobacillus plantarum/genética , Lactococcus lactis/genética , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/imunologia , Administração Intranasal , Animais , Vias de Administração de Medicamentos , Ensaio de Imunoadsorção Enzimática , Feminino , Vetores Genéticos/genética , Immunoblotting , Interleucina-12/genética , Interleucina-12/imunologia , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Microscopia de Fluorescência , Neoplasias/etiologia , Neoplasias/imunologia , Neoplasias/prevenção & controle , Proteínas Oncogênicas Virais/genética , Proteínas Oncogênicas Virais/imunologia , Proteínas E7 de Papillomavirus , Infecções por Papillomavirus/complicações , Infecções por Papillomavirus/imunologia , Infecções por Papillomavirus/prevenção & controle , Vacinas contra Papillomavirus/administração & dosagem , Vacinas contra Papillomavirus/imunologia , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/administração & dosagem , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/genéticaRESUMO
The Th1/Th2 balance deregulation toward a Th2 immune response plays a central role in allergy. We previously demonstrated that administration of recombinant Lactococcus lactis strains expressing bovine beta-lactoglobulin (BLG), a major cow's milk allergen, partially prevents mice from sensitization. In the present study, we aimed to improve this preventive effect by coadministration of L. lactis BLG and a second recombinant L. lactis strain producing biologically active interleukin-12 (IL-12). This L. lactis strain producing IL-12 was previously used to enhance the Th1 immune response in a tumoral murine model (L. G. Bermúdez-Humarán et al., J. Immunol. 175:7297-7302, 2005). A comparison of the administration of either BLG alone or BLG in the presence of IL-12 was conducted. A BLG-specific primary Th1 immune response was observed only after intranasal coadministration of both L. lactis BLG and IL-12-producing L. lactis, as demonstrated by the induction of serum-specific immunoglobulin G2a (IgG2a) concomitant with gamma interferon secretion by splenocytes, confirming the adjuvanticity of IL-12-producing L. lactis. Immunized mice were further sensitized by intraperitoneal administration of purified BLG, and the allergic reaction was elicited by intranasal challenge with purified BLG. Mice pretreated with BLG in either the presence or the absence of IL-12 were rendered completely tolerant to further allergic sensitization and elicitation. Pretreatment with either L. lactis BLG or L. lactis BLG and IL-12-producing L. lactis induces specific anti-BLG IgG2a production in serum and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid. Although specific serum IgE was not affected by these pretreatments, the levels of eosinophilia and IL-5 secretion in BAL fluid were significantly reduced after BLG challenge in the groups pretreated with L. lactis BLG and L. lactis BLG-IL-12-producing L. lactis, demonstrating a decreased allergic reaction. Our data demonstrate for the first time (i) the induction of a protective Th1 response by the association of L. lactis BLG and IL-12-producing L. lactis which inhibits the elicitation of the allergic reaction to BLG in mice and (ii) the efficiency of intranasal administration of BLG for the induction of tolerance.
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Interleucina-12/biossíntese , Lactococcus lactis/imunologia , Lactoglobulinas/imunologia , Hipersensibilidade a Leite/prevenção & controle , Vacinas Sintéticas/imunologia , Administração Intranasal , Animais , Bovinos , Feminino , Imunoglobulina G/biossíntese , Interferon gama/biossíntese , Interleucina-4/biossíntese , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos BALB C , Vacinas Sintéticas/administração & dosagemRESUMO
Current strategies to prevent or treat human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16) infection are promising, but remain costly. More economical but efficient vaccines are thus needed. In this study, we evaluated the protective effects of mucosally coadministered live Lactococcus lactis strains expressing cell wall-anchored E7 Ag and a secreted form of IL-12 to treat HPV-16-induced tumors in a murine model. When challenged with lethal levels of tumor cell line TC-1 expressing E7, immunized mice showed full prevention of TC-1-induced tumors, even after a second challenge, suggesting that this prophylactic immunization can provide long-lasting immunity. Therapeutic immunization with L. lactis recombinant strains, i.e., 7 days after TC-1 injection, induced regression of palpable tumors in treated mice. The antitumor effects of vaccination occurred through a CTL response, which is CD4+ and CD8+ dependent. Furthermore, immunized mice developed an E7-specific mucosal immune response. These preclinical results suggest the feasibility of the low-cost mucosal vaccination and/or immunotherapy strategies against HPV-related cervical cancer in humans.
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Vacinas Anticâncer/administração & dosagem , Interleucina-12/biossíntese , Proteínas Oncogênicas Virais/biossíntese , Infecções por Papillomavirus/prevenção & controle , Vacinas contra Papillomavirus , Infecções Tumorais por Vírus/prevenção & controle , Neoplasias do Colo do Útero/prevenção & controle , Administração Intranasal , Animais , Linfócitos T CD4-Positivos , Linfócitos T CD8-Positivos/imunologia , Linfócitos T CD8-Positivos/virologia , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Transplante de Células , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Feminino , Papillomavirus Humano 16/imunologia , Imunidade nas Mucosas/imunologia , Interleucina-12/imunologia , Lactococcus lactis/genética , Lactococcus lactis/imunologia , Camundongos , Mucosa Nasal/imunologia , Transplante de Neoplasias , Proteínas Oncogênicas Virais/imunologia , Proteínas E7 de Papillomavirus , Infecções por Papillomavirus/terapia , Proteínas Recombinantes/biossíntese , Proteínas Recombinantes/imunologia , Infecções Tumorais por Vírus/imunologia , Infecções Tumorais por Vírus/terapia , Neoplasias do Colo do Útero/imunologia , Neoplasias do Colo do Útero/terapia , Vacinas Virais/administração & dosagemRESUMO
The human papillomavirus type-16 (HPV-16) E7 protein is considered a major viral oncoprotein involved in cervical cancer (CxCa) and a potential candidate for the development of a vaccine against this neoplasia. Here, two lactic acid bacteria (the model one Lactococcus lactis and a probiotic one Lactobacillus plantarum) were engineered to deliver an E7 mutant protein (E7mm), which has a reduced transforming activity and consequently, could fit better to therapeutic use in humans than the native form of E7. An efficient cell-surface display of E7mm was obtained in L. lactis using an expression cassette encoding a precursor composed of (i) the signal peptide and the first 15 amino acids of the mature part of the lactococcal Usp45 protein; (ii) E7mm and (iii) the cell-wall anchor of the Streptococcus pyogenes M6 protein (CWA(M6)). This hybrid precursor was produced but not cell-wall anchored in Lb. plantarum. We thus replaced CWA(M6) by the cell-wall anchor of a Lb. plantarum protein which allows an efficient cell-wall anchoring of E7mm in this bacterium. The E7mm production and cell-surface display in both L. lactis and a probiotic bacterium, Lb. plantarum, represent one more step towards the development of a safe and effective treatment against CxCa.
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Antígenos Virais/metabolismo , Lactobacillus plantarum/metabolismo , Lactococcus lactis/metabolismo , Proteínas Oncogênicas Virais/metabolismo , Papillomaviridae/imunologia , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/metabolismo , Antígenos de Bactérias/genética , Antígenos de Superfície/genética , Antígenos de Superfície/imunologia , Antígenos de Superfície/metabolismo , Antígenos Virais/genética , Antígenos Virais/imunologia , Proteínas da Membrana Bacteriana Externa/genética , Sequência de Bases , Proteínas de Transporte/genética , Parede Celular/metabolismo , Clonagem Molecular , Feminino , Humanos , Lactobacillus plantarum/genética , Lactococcus lactis/genética , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Proteínas Oncogênicas Virais/genética , Proteínas Oncogênicas Virais/imunologia , Papillomaviridae/genética , Proteínas E7 de Papillomavirus , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas , Sinais Direcionadores de Proteínas , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/genética , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/imunologia , Streptococcus pyogenes/metabolismo , Neoplasias do Colo do Útero/imunologia , Neoplasias do Colo do Útero/prevenção & controleRESUMO
Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16) is the major causative agent of cervical cancer. To date, vaccine strategies against HPV-16 are based on the ability of the E7 oncoprotein to elicit an immune response against this virus. In this study, the use of an inducible or a constitutive system to produce the HPV-16 E7 protein in Lactococcus lactis, a non-pathogenic and non-invasive Gram-positive bacterium, was compared. The highest E7 production was obtained with the inducible system. When mice were immunized intranasally with recombinant lactococci expressing either inducible or constitutive E7, an antigen-specific cellular response (i.e. secretion of IL2 and IFN-gamma cytokines) was evoked and was substantially higher in mice receiving L. lactis expressing E7 with the inducible system. As bacterial antigen location may influence the immune response, recombinant L. lactis strains that produced E7 in three cellular locations, intracellular, secreted or cell-wall-anchored were evaluated. The highest immune response was elicited by administration of L. lactis producing an inducible cell-wall-anchored form of E7 protein. These promising results represent a step towards the development of a new, safe mucosal vector to treat HPV-related cervical cancer.
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Vacinas Anticâncer/imunologia , Imunidade Celular , Lactococcus lactis/imunologia , Proteínas Oncogênicas Virais/imunologia , Papillomaviridae/imunologia , Administração Intranasal , Animais , Vacinas Anticâncer/administração & dosagem , Vacinas Anticâncer/genética , Parede Celular/metabolismo , Feminino , Humanos , Imunização , Interferon gama/metabolismo , Interleucina-2/metabolismo , Lactococcus lactis/genética , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Proteínas Oncogênicas Virais/genética , Proteínas E7 de Papillomavirus , Infecções por Papillomavirus/imunologia , Infecções por Papillomavirus/prevenção & controle , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas , Proteínas Recombinantes/administração & dosagem , Proteínas Recombinantes/genética , Proteínas Recombinantes/imunologia , Neoplasias do Colo do Útero/imunologia , Neoplasias do Colo do Útero/prevenção & controle , Vacinas Sintéticas/administração & dosagem , Vacinas Sintéticas/genética , Vacinas Sintéticas/imunologiaRESUMO
E7 oncoprotein of human papillomavirus-16 (HPV-16) is constitutively produced in cervical cancer (CxCa) and is a good candidate for the design of therapeutic vaccines. In this work, the nisin-controlled expression system was used to display the E7 protein at the cell surface of the food-grade Gram-positive bacterium Lactococcus lactis. An efficient cell wall anchoring of E7 was obtained. Intranasal administration of these recombinant lactococci in mice induced an HPV-16 E7-specific immune response. This is the first report of E7 cell wall anchoring in L. lactis and represents one more step towards the use of live food-grade bacteria to fight against CxCa.
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Imunização/métodos , Lactococcus/imunologia , Proteínas Oncogênicas Virais/imunologia , Neoplasias do Colo do Útero/prevenção & controle , Animais , Antígenos de Superfície/imunologia , Parede Celular/imunologia , Feminino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Proteínas E7 de Papillomavirus , Neoplasias do Colo do Útero/imunologiaRESUMO
An inducible system to improve and stabilize the production of an extremely labile protein (E7 antigen of human papillomavirus type 16) was developed in the food-grade bacterium Lactococcus lactis. A protein carrier, the staphylococcal nuclease Nuc, was fused either to N- or C-termini of E7 protein, and the resulting hybrid proteins were rescued from intracellular proteolysis but poorly secreted by L. lactis. A synthetic propeptide (LEISSTCDA) was then fused and significantly improved the secretion efficiency of the hybrid protein Nuc-E7 by L. lactis.
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Proteínas de Transporte/genética , Proteínas de Transporte/metabolismo , Lactococcus lactis/genética , Lactococcus lactis/metabolismo , Proteínas Oncogênicas Virais/biossíntese , Proteínas Oncogênicas Virais/genética , Engenharia de Proteínas/métodos , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/metabolismo , Regulação Bacteriana da Expressão Gênica/genética , Proteínas E7 de Papillomavirus , Precursores de Proteínas/genética , Precursores de Proteínas/metabolismo , Controle de Qualidade , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/genéticaRESUMO
Interleukin-12 (IL-12), a heterodimeric cytokine, plays an important role in cellular immunity to several bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections and has adjuvant activity when it is codelivered with DNA vaccines. IL-12 has also been used with success in cancer immunotherapy treatments. However, systemic IL-12 therapy has been limited by high levels of toxicity. We describe here inducible expression and secretion of IL-12 in the food-grade lactic acid bacterium Lactococcus lactis. IL-12 was expressed as two separate polypeptides (p35-p40) or as a single recombinant polypeptide (scIL-12). The biological activity of IL-12 produced by the recombinant L. lactis strain was confirmed in vitro by its ability to induce gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) production by mouse splenocytes. Local administration of IL-12-producing strains at the intranasal mucosal surface resulted in IFN-gamma production in mice. The activity was greater with the single polypeptide scIL-12. An antigen-specific cellular response (i.e., secretion of Th1 cytokines, IL-2, and IFN-gamma) elicited by a recombinant L. lactis strain displaying a cell wall-anchored human papillomavirus type 16 E7 antigen was dramatically increased by coadministration with an L. lactis strain secreting IL-12 protein. Our data show that IL-12 is produced and secreted in an active form by L. lactis and that the strategy which we describe can be used to enhance an antigen-specific immune response and to stimulate local mucosal immunity.