Adjuvant effect of the Propionibacterium acnes and its purified soluble polysaccharide on the immunization with plasmidial DNA containing a Trypanosoma cruzi gene |
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Authors: | Mussalem Juliana Sekeres Vasconcelos José Ronnie C Squaiella Carla Cristina Ananias Renata Zeigler Braga Eleni Gonçalves Rodrigues Maurício M Longo-Maugéri Ieda Maria |
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Affiliation: | Disciplina de Imunologia, Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de S?o Paulo -Escola Paulista de Medicina, S?o Paulo, Brasil. |
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Abstract: | In the present work we investigated the role of killed Propionibacterium acnes or a soluble polysaccharide extracted from bacterium cell wall in modulated experimental immunization with plasmidial DNA. We used a plasmid, p154/13, containing a gene-encoding catalytic domain of Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) trans-sialidase. As previously described, immunization of BALB/c mice with p154/13 elicited humoral, cell-mediated and protective immune responses against T. cruzi infection. In this study we describe that both P. acnes and its soluble polysaccharide fraction have the ability to modulate the immune response elicited by p154/13. Treatment with these adjuvants enhanced specific trans-sialidase Th1 immune response, as revealed by a lower IgG1/IgG2a ratio and stronger in vitro IFN-gamma synthesis by CD4+ T cells. The most important fact was that treatment with P. acnes or its soluble polysaccharide fraction in the presence of p154/13 significantly reduced the peak of parasitemia observed 7 to 8 days after T. cruzi challenge. These data suggest that P. acnes or its soluble polysaccharide fraction may improve the protective potential of a DNA vaccine against experimental T. cruzi infection. |
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Keywords: | propionibacterium acnes immunomodulation DNA immunization trypanosoma cruzi |
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