Neutralizing immune responses induced by oligomeric H5N1-hemagglutinins from plants.
Vet Res
; 48(1): 53, 2017 09 20.
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ABSTRACT
Plant-based transient expression is an alternative platform to produce hemagglutinin-based subunit vaccines. This production system provides not only fast and effective response in the context of a pandemic but also enables the supply of big volume vaccines at low cost. Crude plant extracts containing influenza hemagglutinin are considered to use as vaccine sources because of avoidance of related purification steps resulting in low cost production allowing veterinary applications. Highly immunogenic influenza hemagglutinins are urgently required to meet these pre-conditions. Here, we present a new and innovative way to generate functional H5 oligomers from avian flu hemagglutinin in planta by the specific interaction of S·Tag and S·Protein. A S·Tag was fused to H5 trimers and this construct was transiently co-expressed in planta with S·Protein-TPs which was multimerized by disulfide bonds via cysteine residues in tailpiece sequences (TP) of IgM antibody. Multimerized S·Protein-TPs serve as bridges/molecular docks to combine S·Tag-fused hemagglutinin trimers to form very large hemagglutinin H5 oligomers. H5 oligomers in the plant crude extract were highly active in hemagglutination resulting in high titers. Immunization of mice with two doses of plant crude extracts containing H5 oligomers after storage for 1 week at 4 °C caused strong immune responses and induced neutralizing specific humoral immune responses in mice. These results allow for the development of cheap influenza vaccines for veterinary application in future.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Vacunas contra la Influenza
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Plantas Modificadas Genéticamente
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Infecciones por Orthomyxoviridae
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Subtipo H5N1 del Virus de la Influenza A
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Hemaglutininas
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Inmunidad
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Animals
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En
Revista:
Vet Res
Asunto de la revista:
MEDICINA VETERINARIA
Año:
2017
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Alemania