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Infection and Immunity, October 2006, p. 5888-5892, Vol. 74, No. 10
0019-9567/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.00553-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Immunization with Polyamine Transport Protein PotD Protects Mice against Systemic Infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae

P. Shah1 and E. Swiatlo1,2*

Department of Microbiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 N. State Street, Jackson, Mississippi 39216,1 Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 1500 Woodrow Wilson Drive, Jackson, Mississippi 392162

Received 4 April 2006/ Returned for modification 24 May 2006/ Accepted 7 July 2006

The human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae contains genes for a putative polyamine ABC transporter which are organized in an operon and designated potABCD. Polyamine transport protein D (PotD) is an extracellular protein which binds polyamines and possibly other structurally related molecules. PotD has been shown to contribute to virulence in both a murine sepsis model and a pneumonia model with capsular type 3 pneumococci. The protective efficacy of recombinant PotD was evaluated by active immunization and intravenous challenge with capsular type 3 pneumococci in CBA/N mice. Immunized mice had 91.7% survival following lethal pneumococcal challenge, compared with 100% mortality in the control group. Immunized animals had high-titer anti-PotD antibodies following three immunizations with alum. Protection in a sepsis model was also seen after passive administration of rabbit antiserum raised against PotD (P < 0.004). These results suggest that antibodies to PotD confer protection against invasive pneumococcal disease and that this protein should be studied further as a potential vaccine candidate for protection against invasive pneumococcal infections.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Research Service (151), Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 1500 Woodrow Wilson Drive, Jackson, MS 39216. Phone: (601) 364-1315. Fax: (601) 364-1390. E-mail: edwin.swiatlo{at}va.gov.

Editor: J. N. Weiser

Infection and Immunity, October 2006, p. 5888-5892, Vol. 74, No. 10
0019-9567/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.00553-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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