RESUMO
The respiratory tract is constantly exposed to various airborne pathogens. Most vaccines against respiratory infections are designed for the parenteral routes of administration; consequently, they provide relatively minimal protection in the respiratory tract. A vaccination strategy that aims to induce the protective mucosal immune responses in the airway is urgently needed. The FcRn mediates IgG Ab transport across the epithelial cells lining the respiratory tract. By mimicking this natural IgG transfer, we tested whether FcRn delivers vaccine Ags to induce a protective immunity to respiratory infections. In this study, we designed a monomeric IgG Fc fused to influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) Ag with a trimerization domain. The soluble trimeric HA-Fc were characterized by their binding with conformation-dependent HA Abs or FcRn. In wild-type, but not FcRn knockout, mice, intranasal immunization with HA-Fc plus CpG adjuvant conferred significant protection against lethal intranasal challenge with influenza A/PR/8/34 virus. Further, mice immunized with a mutant HA-Fc lacking FcRn binding sites or HA alone succumbed to lethal infection. Protection was attributed to high levels of neutralizing Abs, robust and long-lasting B and T cell responses, the presence of lung-resident memory T cells and bone marrow plasma cells, and a remarkable reduction of virus-induced lung inflammation. Our results demonstrate for the first time, to our knowledge, that FcRn can effectively deliver a trimeric viral vaccine Ag in the respiratory tract and elicit potent protection against respiratory infection. This study further supports a view that FcRn-mediated mucosal immunization is a platform for vaccine delivery against common respiratory pathogens.
Assuntos
Antígenos de Histocompatibilidade Classe I/metabolismo , Vacinas contra Influenza/imunologia , Influenza Humana/imunologia , Infecções por Orthomyxoviridae/imunologia , Orthomyxoviridae/fisiologia , Receptores Fc/metabolismo , Mucosa Respiratória/metabolismo , Administração Intranasal , Animais , Anticorpos Antivirais/metabolismo , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Resistência à Doença , Feminino , Glicoproteínas de Hemaglutininação de Vírus da Influenza/genética , Antígenos de Histocompatibilidade Classe I/genética , Humanos , Fragmentos Fc das Imunoglobulinas/genética , Imunoglobulina G/metabolismo , Vacinas contra Influenza/genética , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Camundongos Knockout , Receptores Fc/genética , Mucosa Respiratória/imunologia , VacinaçãoRESUMO
Escherichia coli causes diarrhea and extraintestinal infections in humans and animals. Here, we report the draft genome sequences of Escherichia coli strains 360/16 and 646, isolated from neonatal calves.
