The development of vaccines that protect against more than one strain is paramount to the defense against biowarfare agents and emerging infectious diseases as infection with several different strains may override the immunity elicited by a single vaccine, and pathogenic strains can develop in vaccinated individuals that make our current vaccines ineffective. The long-range objective of this proposal is to develop vaccines that are safe, and confer a potent state of cross-protective immunity against a variety of infectious agents. It has recently been established by us and others that S. typhimurium lacking a functional DNA adenine methylase (Dam) are significantly attenuated for virulence and elicit a potent state of protective immunity against challenge with the parental dam+ strain.
(AIM 1) We plan to evaluate how attenuated strains of S. typhimurium influence innate defenses of naive hosts, and how they influence professional antigen-presenting cells to present antigens to naive CD4+ and CD8+ T cells. We will also analyze whether oral vaccination with aroA, dam, aroA dam, Dam overproducing (DamOP), or aroA DamOP mutants of S. typhimurium will induce in naive hosts the presence of long lasting cell-mediated and humoral immune responses, both systemically and at the mucosal surfaces.
(AIM 2) The therapeutic index, or the ratio of the efficacy of the therapy over the toxicity, determines the success of Salmonella based vaccines. Currently, the most promising candidates include strains harboring mutations in genes whose products are involved in key biosynthetic pathways (aroA aroD), regulatory genes (cya crp and phoP phoQ), and genes encoding stress proteins (htrA) and combinations of these mutations. Here we propose to evaluate the safety and efficacy of dam mutant strains in combination with one or more of these attenuating mutations.
(AIM 3) Our data show that a single oral immunization of dam- or DamOP S. typhimurium elicits significant but incomplete cross-protective immunity to more than one Salmonella strain in murine and avian models of typhoid fever. We propose to determine if multiple immunizations of dam- or DamOP mutants, alone and in combination, can confer strong cross-protective immune responses against multiple Salmonella clinical isolates.
(AIM 4) The heightened immunity elicited by Salmonella dam mutant strains raises the possibility that passenger antigens from microbial infectious agents, when expressed by dam mutant vaccines, will elicit a protective immune response against the cognate pathogens. We will focus on the LcrV passenger antigen from Yersinia pseudotuberculosis since it is a known immunogen, and a virulence factor required for secretion of effector proteins into target cells and elicitation of pro-inhibitory responses. We propose to express Y. pseudotuberculosis LcrV in Salmonella dam mutant vaccines, and test whether vaccinated animals are protected against Y. pseudotuberculosis infection in a mouse model for Yersinia bacteremia.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01AI059242-03
Application #
7148093
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1-VMD (01))
Program Officer
Alexander, William A
Project Start
2004-12-01
Project End
2009-11-30
Budget Start
2006-12-01
Budget End
2009-11-30
Support Year
3
Fiscal Year
2007
Total Cost
$442,739
Indirect Cost
Name
University of California Santa Barbara
Department
Biochemistry
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
094878394
City
Santa Barbara
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
93106
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