| Literature DB >> 20600475 |
Ascención Torres-Escobar1, María Dolores Juárez-Rodríguez, Christine G Branger, Roy Curtiss.
Abstract
Yersinia pestis PsaA is an adhesin that is synthesized inside macrophages. Here, we evaluated the immune profile of codon-optimized Y. pestis PsaA synthesized in a live recombinant attenuated Salmonella vaccine (RASV) strain chi9558. Oral immunization of BALB/c mice with chi9558(pYA3705) delivering a secreted form of PsaA, elicited a systemic PsaA-specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) response but offered limited protection against lethal challenge with the intranasally introduced Y. pestis CO92 strain. Our results suggest that appropriate fine-tuning of Y. pestis PsaA delivery by RASV could improve its protective role in curtailing plague colonization and infection.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20600475 PMCID: PMC2921469 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.06.070
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Vaccine ISSN: 0264-410X Impact factor: 3.641