Abstract #M54

# M54
Development of an effective oral animal vaccine using M cell targeting strategy.
Sangkee Kang*1,2, Yoonseok Lee2, Jinduck Bok2, Chongsu Cho3, Yunjaie Choi2,3, 1Graduate School of International Agricultural Technology, Seoul National University, Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea, 2Institute of Green-Bio Science & Technology, Seoul National University, Pyeongchan, Republic of Korea, 3Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Development of oral vaccine is necessary in animal husbandry field because of not only its convenience in treatment but also its capability inducing mucosal immune response. M cells are well-known as antigen collecting portals for GALT (gut associated lymphoid tissue) in intestinal tract, thus targeted delivery of vaccine molecules to the M cells could be a promising strategy to improve efficiency of oral vaccine. Previously, our research group have identified an M cell targeting peptide moiety, CKS9, by phage display technique using in vitro M cell model consisting of coculture system with Caco-2 (human colon carcinoma cells) and human Raji B cells. In this study, we constructed a recombinant lactic acid bacteria, Lactobacillus plantarum producing a model antigen, M-BmpB, the BmpB (surface membrane protein originated from Brachyspira hyodysenteriae) conjugated with CKS9, to validate its potency as an efficient animal oral vaccine. We ascertained that the fusion protein, M-BmpB, was expressed as soluble form in the cytoplasm of L. plantarum by SDS PAGE and Western blot and confirmed its M cell targeting property in contrast to original BmpB (without CKS9) and P-BmpB (with unrelated peptide ligand) by in vivo closed ileal loop assay. In in vivo immunization assay (Balb/C, n = 5 in each group), Oral administration of L. plantarum producing M-BmpB (LP25-M-BmpB) to mice revealed significant improvement in induction of both serum IgG (P < 0.05) and fecal IgA (P < 0.01) against BmpB compared with control groups. Our results suggest that the recombinant lactic acid bacteria, such as L. plantarum, producing certain pathogenic antigen with M cell targeting strategy could have a great potential to develop an effective and convenient oral animal vaccine system.

Key Words: oral vaccine, M cell targeting, mucosal immunity