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Protective efficacy of vaccination with NcMIC3 and NcMIC8 against

Taotao ZHANG, Xiao ZHANG, Qun LIU, Jianhai XU, Jing LIU

《农业科学与工程前沿（英文）》 2019年第6卷第2期页码 188-196 doi: 10.15302/J-FASE-2019253

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Microneme proteins (MICs) are important for Apicomplexan parasite invasion due to their adhesion to host cells. Several studies have indicated that MIC3 and MIC8 are important adhesion factors and potential vaccine candidates against neosporosis. In this study, we evaluated the protective efficacy of recombinant proteins and DNA vaccines of NcMIC3 and NcMIC8. BALB/c mice were immunized with rNcMIC3, rNcMIC8, pcDNA3.1-NcMIC3 and pcDNA3.1-NcMIC8 respectively, and challenged with tachyzoites. The immune responses were evaluated through cytokine, antibody measurements and the parasite burden in the mice brain tissues. Serological analysis showed that recombinant protein vaccines induced higher levels of immunoglobulin G (IgG) than other groups. The percentage of IgG1 and IgG2a in the recombinant protein groups was higher than the other groups, and with a predominance of IgG1 over IgG2a, suggesting that recombinant protein vaccines elicited a Th2-type immune response, while DNA vaccines mainly produce a Th1-type immune response. In addition, mice immunized with rNcMIC3 and rNcMIC8 a had lower parasite burden in brain tissue compared with the other groups. These results demonstrate that rNcMIC3 and rNcMIC8 could induce humoral and Th2-type immune response, leading to a considerable level of resistance against neosporosis.

关键词： NcMIC3 NcMIC8 Neospora caninum vaccination

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immune mapped protein 1 (NcIMP1) is a novel vaccine candidate against neosporosis

Xia CUI,Daoyu YANG,Tao LEI,Hui WANG,Pan HAO,Qun LIU

《农业科学与工程前沿（英文）》 2015年第2卷第1期页码 66-72 doi: 10.15302/J-FASE-2015047

摘要： The immune mapped protein 1 (NcIMP1) was identified as a membrane protein, and a previous study indicated that NcIMP1 could be a promising vaccine candidate against neosporosis. In this study, the immune response and protection efficacy of NcIMP1 were evaluated. The coding sequence of NcIMP1 was inserted into the eukaryotic expression vector pcDNA 3.1(+), resulting in the recombination plasmid pcDNA-IMP1, which was used for the intramuscular immunization of BALB/c mice. After immunization, the immune response was evaluated using a lymphoproliferative assay and cytokine and antibody measurements. Quantification of the cerebral parasite burden of mice challenged with 2 × 10 was performed 14 days after the last immunization. The results showed that the mice immunized with pcDNA-IMP1 developed a high level of specific antibody responses against recombinant NcIMP1, with a mixed IgG1/IgG2a response and a predominance of IgG2a production. The cellular immune response was associated with the production of IFN-γ, IL-2, IL-4 and IL-10 cytokines. The experiment was terminated 30 days p.i., and the cerebral parasite burden in each mouse was assessed by quantitative PCR. The parasite burden was significantly reduced in the pcDNA-IMP1-vaccinated mice. These data suggest that IMP1 is a promising vaccine candidate against neosporosis.

关键词： Neospora caninum immune mapped protein 1 (IMP1) vaccine candidate BALB/c mice