Autheman, Delphine, Crosnier, Cecile, Clare, Simon, Goulding, David A, Brandt, Cordelia, Harcourt, Katherine, Tolley, Charlotte, Galaway, Francis, Khushu, Malhar, Ong, Han et al (show 4 more authors)
(2021)
An invariant <i>Trypanosoma vivax</i> vaccine antigen induces protective immunity.
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Abstract
Trypanosomes are protozoan parasites that cause infectious diseases, including African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) in humans and nagana in economically important livestock<sup>1,2</sup>. An effective vaccine against trypanosomes would be an important control tool, but the parasite has evolved sophisticated immunoprotective mechanisms-including antigenic variation<sup>3</sup>-that present an apparently insurmountable barrier to vaccination. Here we show, using a systematic genome-led vaccinology approach and a mouse model of Trypanosoma vivax infection<sup>4</sup>, that protective invariant subunit vaccine antigens can be identified. Vaccination with a single recombinant protein comprising the extracellular region of a conserved cell-surface protein that is localized to the flagellum membrane (which we term 'invariant flagellum antigen from T. vivax') induced long-lasting protection. Immunity was passively transferred with immune serum, and recombinant monoclonal antibodies to this protein could induce sterile protection and revealed several mechanisms of antibody-mediated immunity, including a major role for complement. Our discovery identifies a vaccine candidate for an important parasitic disease that has constrained socioeconomic development in countries in sub-Saharan Africa<sup>5</sup>, and provides evidence that highly protective vaccines against trypanosome infections can be achieved.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Flagella, Animals, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Mice, Trypanosoma vivax, Trypanosomiasis, African, Disease Models, Animal, Protozoan Vaccines, Vaccines, Subunit, Antigens, Protozoan, Conserved Sequence, Time Factors, Complement System Proteins, Female |
Divisions: | Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jun 2021 09:48 |
Last Modified: | 18 Oct 2023 05:33 |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41586-021-03597-x |
Open Access URL: | https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.10... |
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URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3125108 |