The vaccine adjuvant extra domain A from fibronectin retains its proinflammatory properties when expressed in tobacco chloroplasts |
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Authors: | Inmaculada Farran Iva McCarthy-Suárez Francisco Río-Manterola Cristina Mansilla Juan José Lasarte Ángel M Mingo-Castel |
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Institution: | 1. Instituto de Agrobiotecnología, Universidad Pública de Navarra-CSIC-Gobierno de Navarra, Campus Arrosadía, 31006, Pamplona, Spain 2. área de Terapia Génica y Hepatología, CIMA, Universidad de Navarra, Avda. Pío XII no. 55, 31008, Pamplona, Spain
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Abstract: | We previously showed that recombinant extra domain A from fibronectin (EDA) purified from Escherichia coli was able to bind to toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) and stimulate production of proinflammatory cytokines by dendritic cells.
Because EDA could be used as an adjuvant for vaccine development, we aimed to express it from the tobacco plastome, a promising
strategy in molecular farming. To optimize the amount of recombinant EDA (rEDA) in tobacco leaves, different downstream sequences
were evaluated as potential fusion tags. Plants generated by tobacco plastid transformation accumulated rEDA at levels up
to 2% of the total cellular protein (equivalent to approximately 0.3 mg/g fresh weight) when translationally fused to the
first 15 amino acids of green fluorescence protein (GFP). The recombinant adjuvant could be purified from tobacco leaves using
a simple procedure, involving ammonium sulfate precipitation and anion exchange chromatography. Purified protein was able
to induce production of tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) either by bone marrow-derived dendritic cells or THP-1 monocytes.
The rEDA produced in tobacco leaves was also able to induce upregulation of CD54 and CD86 maturation markers on dendritic
cells, suggesting that the rEDA retains the proinflammatory properties of the EDA produced in E. coli and thus could be used as an adjuvant in vaccination against infectious agents and cancer. Taken together, these results
demonstrate that chloroplasts are an attractive production vehicle for the expression of this protein vaccine adjuvant. |
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