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VIROLOGY
Volume 268, Issue 1, Pages 49-55Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1999.0142
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- NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH RESOURCES [U42RR011149] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NCRR NIH HHS [U42-RR-11149] Funding Source: Medline
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Swine are an important amplifier of Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus in the paradomestic environment. In this study, two JE DNA vaccine candidates were evaluated for immunogenicity, in swine. Both vaccine plasmids encode a cassette consisting of the signal of premembrane (prM), prM, and envelope (E) coding regions of JE virus. One plasmid, designated pcJEME, is based on a commercial vector (pcDNA3), whereas the other plasmid, designated pNJEME, is based on a vector (pNGVL4a) designed to address some of the safety concerns of DNA vaccine use. No differences were detected in the immunogenicity of these two plasmids in mice or swine. Swine immunized with the DNA vaccines at a dose of 100 to 450 mu g at an interval of 3 weeks developed neutralizing and hemagglutination-inhibitory (HAI) antibody titers of 1:40 to 1:160 at 1 week after the second immunization. However, swine administered two doses of a commercial JE vaccine (formalin-inactivated virus preparation; JEVAX-A) developed low (1:10) or undetectable antibody responses after their boost. Interestingly, serum antibody titers elicited by DNA vaccines in swine were higher than those detected in mice. Eight days after boosting with viral antigen (JEVAX-A) to detect an anamnestic response, swine immunized two times with the DNA vaccine showed a >100-fold elevation in HAI titer, indicating a strong recall of antibody response. Swine maintained detectable levels of HAI antibody for at least 245 days after two immunizations with a UNA vaccine. These results indicate that these DNA vaccines are able to induce virus-specific memory B cells and long-lasting antibiodies in swine, which were of higher levels than those obtained with a commercial formalin-inactivated JE vaccine. (C) 2000 Academic Press.
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