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Infection and Immunity, November 1998, p. 5379-5387, Vol. 66, No. 11
0019-9567/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

DbpA, but Not OspA, Is Expressed by Borrelia burgdorferi during Spirochetemia and Is a Target for Protective Antibodies

David R. Cassatt,* Nita K. Patel, Nancy D. Ulbrandt, and Mark S. Hanson

MedImmune, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878

Received 29 June 1998/Returned for modification 11 August 1998/Accepted 28 August 1998

DbpA is a target for antibodies that protect mice against infection by cultured Borrelia burgdorferi. Infected mice exhibit early and sustained humoral responses to DbpA and DbpB, suggesting that these proteins are expressed in vivo. Many antigens expressed in mammals by B. burgdorferi are repressed in vitro at lower growth temperatures, and we have now extended these observations to include DbpA and DbpB. To confirm that the protective antigen DbpA is expressed in vivo and to address the question of its accessibility to antibodies during infection, we examined B. burgdorferi in blood samples from mice following cutaneous inoculation. B. burgdorferi was visualized by dark-field microscopy in plasma samples from spirochetemic mice, and an indirect immunofluorescence assay showed that these spirochetes were DbpA positive and OspA negative. We developed an ex vivo borreliacidal assay to show that hyperimmune antiserum against DbpA, but not OspA, killed these plasma-derived spirochetes, demonstrating that DbpA is accessible to antibodies during this phase of infection. Blood transferred from spirochetemic donor mice readily established B. burgdorferi infection in naive recipient mice or mice hyperimmunized with OspA, while mice hyperimmunized with DbpA showed significant protection against challenge with host-adapted spirochetes. Antiserum from persistently infected mice had borreliacidal activity against both cultured and plasma-derived spirochetes, and adsorption of this serum with DbpA substantially depleted this killing activity. Our observations show that immunization with DbpA blocks B. burgdorferi dissemination from the site of cutaneous inoculation and suggest that DbpA antibodies may contribute to control of persistent infection.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: MedImmune, Inc., 35 West Watkins Mill Rd., Gaithersburg, MD 20878. Phone: (301) 527-4308. Fax: (301) 527-4200. E-mail: cassattd{at}medimmune.com.

Infection and Immunity, November 1998, p. 5379-5387, Vol. 66, No. 11
0019-9567/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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