Changes in the repertoire of natural antibodies caused by immunization with bacterial antigens

Biochemistry (Mosc). 2011 Jul;76(7):862-6. doi: 10.1134/S0006297911070170.

Abstract

The repertoire of natural anti-glycan antibodies in naïve chickens and in chickens immunized with bacteria Burkholderia mallei, Burkholderia pseudomallei, and Francisella tularensis as well as with peptides from an outer membrane protein of B. pseudomallei was studied. A relatively restricted pattern of natural antibodies (first of all IgY against bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan fragments, L-Rha, and core N-acetyllactosamine) shrank and, moreover, the level of detectable antibodies decreased as a result of immunization.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antigens, Bacterial / immunology*
  • Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / immunology
  • Burkholderia mallei / immunology*
  • Burkholderia pseudomallei / immunology*
  • Carbohydrate Sequence
  • Chickens / immunology*
  • Francisella tularensis / immunology*
  • Immunity, Innate / immunology*
  • Immunization / veterinary*
  • Immunoglobulins / analysis
  • Molecular Sequence Data

Substances

  • Antigens, Bacterial
  • Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
  • IgY
  • Immunoglobulins