Naiane Lima Godoy, Jonathan Ballico de Moraes, Cynthia Aparecida de Castro, Jhonne Pedro Pedott Santana, Teresa Cristina Zangirolami, Adilson José da Silva, Maria Teresa Marques Novo-Mansur, Fernanda de Freitas Anibal
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Abstract
Background/aims: Swine erysipelas is a disease caused by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, a Gram-positive bacillus, which has great economic importance because it leads to the loss of the swine herd. To control this disease, animals are immunized with a cellular vaccine of killed or attenuated E. rhusiopathiae, but even with herd vaccination, cases of swine erysipelas outbreaks have been reported in the United States, China and Japan, leading to the search for other antigenic components of the bacteria that may promote greater protection against E. rhusiopathiae. The surface protein SpaA from E. rhusiopathiae has been shown to be a candidate to constitute a subunit vaccine, since it has already been reported to induce a host immune response against the bacterium. DnaK, a hsp70 molecular chaperone, also seems to be a good candidate in the composition of a vaccine, as it has been demonstrated to be an antigenic protein of the bacteria.
Methods: This work evaluated the immunogenicity and protection induced by the E. rhusiopathiaee SpaA and DnaK recombinant proteins in a murine model, by intramuscular administration to mice with two doses of 100 µg at 21-day interval between them. The candidate proteins were tested either separately and together, compared with the commercial vaccine and the non-vaccination condition, and mice were challenged with a virulent strain of E. rhusiopathiae. Serum was collected to assess the produced antibodies and peripheral blood cells, whereas spleen and kidney tissues were assayed for E. rhusiopathiae presence by colony counting.
Results: A survival curve of the animals was performed, which confirmed the protection induced by the proteins. IgG antibodies increased in the animal serum inoculated with the proteins when compared to the control, and a significant delay in disease symptoms was observed.
Conclusion: These results suggest that E. rhusiopathiae DnaK and SpaA are immunogenic in mice and interfere with the disease development.
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Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry is a multidisciplinary scientific forum dedicated to advancing the frontiers of basic cellular research. It addresses scientists from both the physiological and biochemical disciplines as well as related fields such as genetics, molecular biology, pathophysiology, pathobiochemistry and cellular toxicology & pharmacology. Original papers and reviews on the mechanisms of intracellular transmission, cellular metabolism, cell growth, differentiation and death, ion channels and carriers, and the maintenance, regulation and disturbances of cell volume are presented. Appearing monthly under peer review, Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry takes an active role in the concerted international effort to unravel the mechanisms of cellular function.
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