Transcutaneous immunization with a Vibrio cholerae O1 Ogawa synthetic hexasaccharide conjugate following oral whole-cell cholera vaccination boosts vibriocidal responses and induces protective immunity in mice

Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2012 Apr;19(4):594-602. doi: 10.1128/CVI.05689-11. Epub 2012 Feb 22.

Abstract

A shortcoming of currently available oral cholera vaccines is their induction of relatively short-term protection against cholera compared to that afforded by wild-type disease. We were interested in whether transcutaneous or subcutaneous boosting using a neoglycoconjugate vaccine made from a synthetic terminal hexasaccharide of the O-specific polysaccharide of Vibrio cholerae O1 (Ogawa) coupled to bovine serum albumin as a carrier (CHO-BSA) could boost lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-specific and vibriocidal antibody responses and result in protective immunity following oral priming immunization with whole-cell cholera vaccine. We found that boosting with CHO-BSA with immunoadjuvantative cholera toxin (CT) or Escherichia coli heat-labile toxin (LT) following oral priming with attenuated V. cholerae O1 vaccine strain O395-NT resulted in significant increases in serum anti-V. cholerae LPS IgG, IgM, and IgA (P < 0.01) responses as well as in anti-Ogawa (P < 0.01) and anti-Inaba (P < 0.05) vibriocidal titers in mice. The LPS-specific IgA responses in stool were induced by transcutaneous (P < 0.01) but not subcutaneous immunization. Immune responses following use of CT or LT as an adjuvant were comparable. In a neonatal mouse challenge assay, immune serum from boosted mice was associated with 79% protective efficacy against death. Our results suggest that transcutaneous and subcutaneous boosting with a neoglycoconjugate following oral cholera vaccination may be an effective strategy to prolong protective immune responses against V. cholerae.

Publication types

  • Research Support, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adjuvants, Immunologic / administration & dosage
  • Administration, Cutaneous
  • Administration, Oral
  • Animals
  • Antibodies, Bacterial / blood
  • Antigens, Bacterial / administration & dosage
  • Antigens, Bacterial / immunology*
  • Bacterial Toxins / administration & dosage
  • Blood Bactericidal Activity
  • Cholera / immunology
  • Cholera / prevention & control*
  • Cholera Toxin / administration & dosage
  • Cholera Vaccines / administration & dosage
  • Cholera Vaccines / immunology*
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Enterotoxins / administration & dosage
  • Escherichia coli Proteins / administration & dosage
  • Feces / chemistry
  • Female
  • Immunization, Secondary / methods
  • Immunoglobulin A / analysis
  • Immunoglobulin A / blood
  • Immunoglobulin G / blood
  • Immunoglobulin M / blood
  • Injections, Subcutaneous
  • Mice
  • Oligosaccharides / administration & dosage
  • Oligosaccharides / immunology*
  • Survival Analysis
  • Vaccines, Attenuated / administration & dosage
  • Vaccines, Attenuated / immunology
  • Vaccines, Conjugate / administration & dosage
  • Vaccines, Conjugate / immunology
  • Vibrio cholerae O1 / immunology*

Substances

  • Adjuvants, Immunologic
  • Antibodies, Bacterial
  • Antigens, Bacterial
  • Bacterial Toxins
  • Cholera Vaccines
  • Enterotoxins
  • Escherichia coli Proteins
  • Immunoglobulin A
  • Immunoglobulin G
  • Immunoglobulin M
  • Oligosaccharides
  • Vaccines, Attenuated
  • Vaccines, Conjugate
  • Cholera Toxin
  • heat-labile enterotoxin, E coli