Protective immunity induced by recombinant outer membrane protein H of pasteurella multocida (A:3) of fowl cholera in mice |
Younghwan Kim, Joo-Sung Yang, Moosik Kwon |
Department of Genetic Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University |
파스튜렐라(A : 3) 균주의 재조합 외막단백질 H에 의한 가금 콜레라 감염 생쥐의 면역성 검정 |
김영환, 양주성, 권무식 |
성균관대학교 유전공학과 |
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Abstract |
Pasteurella multocida is a terrible veterinary pathogen that causes widespread infections in husbandry. To induce homologous and/or heterologous immunity against the infections, outer membrane protein Hs (OmpH) in the envelope of different strains of P. multocida are thought to be attractive vaccine candidates. Previously we cloned and characterized a gene for OmpH from pathogenic P. multocida (A : 3) (In Press, Korean J. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 2005, 33, December). The gene is composed of 1,047 nucleotides (nt) coding 348 amino acids (aa) with signal peptide of 20 aa. The truncated ompH, a gene without nt coding for the signal peptide, was generated using pRSET A to name "pRSET A/OmpH-F2". This truncated ompH was well expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3). Truncated OmpH was purified for induction of immunity against live pathogen of fowl cholera (P. multocida A : 3) in mice. Some $50{mu}g$ of the purified polypeptide was intraperitoneally injected into mice two times with 10 day interval. Lethal dose ($25{mu}l$) of live P. multocida A : 3 was determined by directly injecting the pathogen into wild mice (n = 25). To demonstrate the vaccine candidate of the truncated OmpH, the live pathogen ($25{mu}l$) was challenged with the OmpH-immunized mouse group as well as positive & negative controls (n = 80). The results show that the truncated OmpH can be used for an effective vaccine production to prevent fowl cholera caused by pathogenic P. multocida (A : 3). |
Key Words:
challenge, fowl cholera, OmpH, pasteurella multocida (A:3), protective immunity, vaccination |
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