Effect of carrier priming on immunogenicity of saccharide-protein conjugate vaccines.
AUTOR(ES)
Peeters, C C
RESUMO
Previous studies with saccharide-protein conjugates have demonstrated that antibody responses to the saccharide can be improved by the preexistence of carrier immunity. Here we report that prior exposure to the carrier protein can either enhance or suppress antibody response to polysaccharides administered in saccharide-protein conjugates. A dose-dependent role for carrier priming in the antisaccharide antibody response to three saccharide-protein conjugate vaccines, i.e., a Streptococcus pneumoniae type 4 polysaccharide-tetanus toxoid (TT) conjugate (PS4TT), a Neisseria meningitidis group C polysaccharide-TT conjugate (MenCTT), and a N. meningitidis group C oligosaccharide-diphtheria mutant toxin conjugate (MenCCRM), was investigated. The results showed that an increase in the antipolysaccharide antibody response could be obtained for both PS4TT and MenCTT but not for MenCCRM with low-dose carrier priming (0.025 to 0.25 microgram). However, suppression of the antipolysaccharide antibody response was observed with the PS4TT and MenCTT vaccines with high-dose (25-micrograms) carrier priming. There was no suppression effect with MenCCRM. The increase in the antipolysaccharide antibody response was shown to be restricted to the immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) subclass, whereas suppression with high-dose carrier priming affected all antipolysaccharide subclass antibodies induced by PS4TT (IgG1, IgG2b, and IgG3) and only two of the four subclass antibodies induced by MenCTT (IgG2a and IgG2b). The increase in the antipolysaccharide antibody response was also present at the antipolysaccharide IgM antibody level but was not observed at the anti-carrier IgG antibody level.
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