Journal article
Strategies for improving the efficacy of a H6 subtype avian influenza DNA vaccine in chickens
Journal of Virological Methods, Vol.173(2), pp.220-226
2011
Abstract
A low-pathogenicity avian influenza H6N2 virus was used to investigate approaches to improve DNA vaccine efficacy. The viral hemagglutinin (HA) gene or its chicken biased HA gene, incorporating a Kozak sequence, was cloned into a pCAGGS vector to produce the pCAG-HAk and pCAG-optiHAk constructs. Following two intramuscular injections, the seroconversion rate in vaccinated chickens with 10, 100 or 300 μg pCAG-HAk were 87.5%, 75% and 75%, respectively. The profile of H6 hemagglutination inhibition (HI) antibodies induced by different doses of pCAG-HAk during the 8-week study period was similar. The HI titer rose significantly in the three different dose groups following the booster and reached a plateau 2-3. weeks post-booster. In a single dose vaccination group with 100 μg pCAG-HAk, a maximum seroconversion rate reached 53.3% at 5. weeks post-vaccination. The earliest time of seroconversion appeared two weeks after DNA immunization. Following two electroporation (EP) vaccinations with 100 μg pCAG-HAk, all birds seroconverted and the HI antibody titers were significantly higher than those using intramuscular immunization, suggesting that EP was more efficient than intramuscular delivery of the DNA vaccines. In comparison, chickens immunized with 10 or 100 μg pCAG-optiHAk showed 37.5% and 87.5% seroconversion rates, respectively, at 3. weeks following the booster. The pCAG-HAk was not significantly different from the pCAG-optiHAk in either the seroconversion rate or H6 HI titer, suggesting that the codon-optimized HA DNA vaccine did not achieve significantly better immunogenicity than the pCAG-HAk vaccine.
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- Title
- Strategies for improving the efficacy of a H6 subtype avian influenza DNA vaccine in chickens
- Authors/Creators
- S. Shan (Author/Creator)Y. Jiang (Author/Creator)Z. Bu (Author/Creator)T.M. Ellis (Author/Creator)X. Zeng (Author/Creator)J. Edwards (Author/Creator)G. Tian (Author/Creator)Y. Liu (Author/Creator)J. Ge (Author/Creator)H. Chen (Author/Creator)S. Fenwick (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Journal of Virological Methods, Vol.173(2), pp.220-226
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Identifiers
- 991005540445007891
- Copyright
- © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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