Resolution of experimental and tick-borne Borrelia burgdorferi infection in mice by passive, but not active immunization using recombinant OspC / Weimin Zhong, LiseGern, Thomas Stehle, Crisan Museteanu, Michael Kramer, Reinhard Wallich, and Markus M. Simon

Vaccination with outer surface protein A (OspA) of Borrelia burgdorferi prevents subsequent infection and disease in both laboratory animals and humans with high efficacy. OspA-based immunity, however, does not affect established infection due to the loss of OspA expression in the vertebrate host. We show here that repeated passive transfer of mouse and/or rabbit immune sera to recombinant GST-OspC fusion protein resulted in a dose-dependent resolution (1) of fully established arthritis and carditis as well as infection in needle-challenged C.B-17 SCID and (2) of infection in both experimentally and tick-infected BALB/c mice. Unexpectedly, active immunization of disease-susceptible AKR/N mice with GST-OspC only led to prevention but not resolution of disease and infection, in spite of high serum titers of OspC-specific Ab and the expression of ospC in tissue-derived spirochetes. The data suggest that the efficacy of OspC antibody-mediated immunity depends on the immunological history of the recipient and/or environment-dependent regulation of OspC surface expression by spirochetes in vivo. The results encourage further attempts to develop therapeutic vaccination protocols against Lyme disease..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

1999

Erschienen:

1999

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:29

Enthalten in:

European journal of immunology - 29(1999), 3, Seite 946-957

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhong, Weimin [VerfasserIn]
Gern, Lisa [VerfasserIn]
Stehle, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Museteanu, Crisan [VerfasserIn]
Kramer, Michael D., 1958- [VerfasserIn]
Wallich, Reinhard [VerfasserIn]
Simon, Markus M. [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Animals
Antibodies, Bacterial
Antigens, Bacterial
Antigens, Surface
Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
Bacterial Vaccines
Borrelia burgdorferi Group
Disease Models, Animal
Female
Gene Expression
Glutathione Transferase
Immunization, Passive
Kinetics
Lipoproteins
Lyme Disease
Mice
Mice, Inbred AKR
Mice, Inbred BALB C
Mice, SCID
Rabbits
Recombinant Fusion Proteins
Ticks
Vaccination
Vaccines, Synthetic

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First published: 28 March 2006

Gesehen am 17.02.2021

Umfang:

12

doi:

AID-IMMU946>3.0.CO;2-P

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

1748527584