DNA Vaccines for Viral Diseases of Farmed Fish and Shellfish

Leong, Jo‐Ann C.; Romøren, Kristine; Evensen, Øystein

doi:10.1002/9780470963159.ch10

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“…Despite DNA vaccines used in fish have proven particularly efficacious against some viral diseases [2-7], only one DNA vaccine for aquaculture fish has been licensed for sale [8], and it is not so convincing for a number of other viral infections and bacterial disease. Scientists are now focused on improving and increasing the potency of DNA vaccines, which include the improvements of vectors and the co-vaccination of molecular adjuvants such as cytokines with the antigen to enhance the immune responses [9, 10].…”

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“…Compared with traditional inactivated and attenuated live vaccines, DNA vaccines consisting of naked plasmid DNA that will result in gene expression of immunoprotective antigen in vivo against fish diseases particularly viral pathogens, have made major advances over the last decade and become one of the most promising vaccine preparations in aquaculture [ 1 ]. Despite DNA vaccines used in fish have proven particularly efficacious against some viral diseases [ 2 - 7 ], only one DNA vaccine for aquaculture fish has been licensed for sale [ 8 ], and it is not so convincing for a number of other viral infections and bacterial disease. Scientists are now focused on improving and increasing the potency of DNA vaccines, which include the improvements of vectors and the co-vaccination of molecular adjuvants such as cytokines with the antigen to enhance the immune responses [ 9 , 10 ].…”

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Interleukin-8 holds promise to serve as a molecular adjuvant in DNA vaccination model againstStreptococcus iniaeinfection in fish

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DNA vaccines had been widely used in animal models against various viral infections, while it was not so convincing for many infectious diseases especially bacterial disease in aquaculture. Interleukin-8(IL-8) as one of the CXC chemokines, its immunological role and adjuvant potential which had been proved in mammals were rarely reported in fish species. In this study, recombination plasmid pcDNA3.1/IL-8(pcIL-8) was conducted and the capacity of IL-8 as molecular adjuvant was explored from several aspects by co-injecting with a DNA vaccine encoding a-enolase(pcENO) against Streptococcus iniae infection in channel catfish. The results suggested that co-injection of pcIL-8 with DNA vaccine increased the innate immunity and specific antibody levels, as well as increased the immune-related genes involving in pro-inflammatory response, humoral and cellular immunity. Moreover, pcIL-8 enhanced the immunoprotection of pcENO with the relative percent survival(RPS) of 60% to 80% against S.iniae infection at 4 week post vaccination(p.v.), with the significantly higher RPS of 73.33% in pcENO+pcIL-8 group compared with that of pcENO alone(53.33%) at challenge test of 8 weeks p.v. Taken together, these results indicate pcIL-8 as a molecular adjuvant co-injected with DNA vaccine not only improves the immunoprotection but also maintains long period of immunity for channel catfish against S.iniae infection. Our study signifies that IL-8 holds promise to serve as a potential adjuvant in DNA vaccines against bacterial infections for long time.

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