Recombinant BCG coexpressing Ag85B, ESAT-6 and Rv3620c elicits specific Th1 immune responses in C57BL/6 mice.
Microbial Pathogenesis(2014)
Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) remains to be an enormous global health problem. The inconsistent protection efficacy of Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) calls for new vaccines for TB. One choice to improve the efficacy of BCG vaccine is recombinant BCG (rBCG). Experimental evidences have revealed that Ag85B, ESAT-6 and Rv3620c are important immunodominant antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In this study, we have constructed a novel rBCG expressing fusion protein Ag85B-ESAT6-Rv3620c and evaluated the immunogenicity of this rBCG in C57BL/6 mice. Results show that there is a strong TB-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocytes proliferation in mice immunized with this rBCG vaccine. A single dose immunization of rBCG could induce a significantly strong Th1 immune response characterized by an increasing ratio of antigen-specific IgG2b/IgG1 as well as a high expression level of Th1 cytokines such as IFN-γ, TNF-α and IL-2. This conclusion was confirmed by a decreased secretion of Th2 cytokine IL-10. Moreover, this rBCG induced a strong humoral response in mice with an increasing antigen-specific IgG titer. Therefore, we concluded that this rBCG could significantly increase both Th1 type cellular immune response and antigen-specific humoral response compared with BCG. The above observations demonstrated that rBCG::Ag85B-ESAT6-Rv3620c is a potential candidate vaccine against M. tuberculosis for further study.
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Key words
Mycobacterium tuberculosis,rBCG,Th1,Cytokines,Vaccine
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