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Infection and Immunity, September 2000, p. 4986-4991, Vol. 68, No. 9
0019-9567/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

DNA-Based Immunization with Trypanosoma cruzi Complement Regulatory Protein Elicits Complement Lytic Antibodies and Confers Protection against Trypanosoma cruzi Infection

Pilar Sepulveda,1 Mireille Hontebeyrie,1 Pascal Liegeard,1 Alexia Mascilli,2 and Karen A. Norris2,*

Department of Immunology, Pasteur Institute, Paris 15, France,1 and Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 152612

Received 24 February 2000/Returned for modification 11 April 2000/Accepted 13 June 2000

A complement regulatory protein (CRP) of Trypanosoma cruzi was evaluated as a vaccine candidate in a murine model of experimental T. cruzi infection. Recombinant CRP derived from an Escherichia coli expression system and a plasmid encoding the full-length crp structural gene under the control of a eukaryotic promoter were used to immunize BALB/c mice. Immunization with both protein and DNA vaccines resulted in a Th1-type T-cell response, comparable antibody titers, and similar immunoglobulin G isotype profiles. Only mice immunized with the crp DNA plasmid produced antibodies capable of lysing the parasites in the presence of complement and were protected against a lethal challenge with T. cruzi trypomastigotes. These results demonstrate the superiority of DNA immunization over protein immunization with the recombinant CRP. The work also supports the further investigation of CRP as a component of a multigene, anti-T. cruzi DNA vaccine.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, E1240 Biomedical Science Tower, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261. Phone: (412) 648-8848. Fax: (412) 624-1401. E-mail: kan1{at}pitt.edu.

Infection and Immunity, September 2000, p. 4986-4991, Vol. 68, No. 9
0019-9567/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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