Preliminary studies on development of a novel subunit vaccine targeting Clostridium perfringens mucolytic enzymes for the control of necrotic enteritis in broilers.

Autor:	Duff AF; Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210., Vuong CN; Department of Poultry Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701., Searer KL; Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210., Briggs WN; Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210., Wilson KM; Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210., Hargis BM; Department of Poultry Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701., Berghman LR; Department of Veterinary Pathology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840.; Department of Poultry Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840., Bielke LR; Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Poultry science [Poult Sci] 2019 Dec 01; Vol. 98 (12), pp. 6319-6325.
DOI:	10.3382/ps/pez448
Abstrakt:	Necrotic enteritis (NE) is a pervasive enteric disease responsible for large scale economic losses within the global poultry industry. The etiologic agent of NE is Clostridium perfringens (CP), an opportunistic pathogen that utilizes numerous extracellular toxins and glycoside hydrolases (GH) as key virulence and nutrient acquisition factors. Notably, some GH, mucinases, degrade components of mucin in the gastrointestinal tract as an energy source. Targeting this mechanism may serve to reduce the incidence of disease associated with CP. Two experiments were completed that evaluated mucinase vaccine targets sourced from conserved peptide sequences of carbohydrate binding module 32 of CP mucinases. In experiment 1, 37 antigen peptides were synthetically generated and used to produce hyper-immune sera, which was then evaluated for ability to obstruct CP growth in vitro. Total CFU of CP were measured at 4, 6, and 8 h incubation to determine growth rate. Peptides 4, 5, 22, 24, and 30 were selected for further in vivo testing based on conservation or the ability to inhibit CP growth by over 50% at 6 and 8 h. In experiment 2, the aforementioned peptides were conjugated to an agonistic, CD40-targetting antibody and evaluated in vivo. Broilers were given an Eimeria maxima and CP in order to induce NE and assess vaccine efficacy. Treatments included a non-vaccinated non-inoculated control, non-vaccinated inoculated control (NVIC), vaccination with peptide 4, 5, 22, 24, or 30 (VP4-VP30), or a combination of all 5 peptides (MC). There was a significant increase (P < 0.05) in the percent change in BWG relative to NVIC for vaccination with peptide 22 and MC of 18.54 and 17.43%, respectively. MC vaccinated group had the lowest lesions with a mean score of 0.63 ± 0.18. These results suggest the MC combination was the most successful in alleviating overall performance losses associated with NE-infected broilers and encourage future testing of MC in the development of an NE vaccine. (© 2019 Poultry Science Association Inc.)
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