J Vet Sci.  2005 Dec;6(4):305-309.

A predictive model for the level of sIgA based on IgG levels following the oral administration of antigens expressed in Sacchromyces cerevisiae

• Shin SJ
• Shin SW
• Choi EJ
• Lee DY
• Ahn JM
• Yang MS
• Jang YS
• Yoo HS

Abstract

Oral vaccination may be the most efficient way of inducing an immune response at the remote mucosal site through the common mucosal immune network. Antigenspecific secretory IgA (sIgA) is the major immunoglobulin type generally detected in the secretions of experimental animals following an effective oral immunization. Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae causing disease in the lung of pig initially interacts, colonizes, and infects the host tissues at the mucosal surface of the respiratory tract. Also, importantly for A. pleuropneumoniae protection, the quantity of sIgA in the lung had merits associated with the mucosal immunity. However, there is no simple method to monitor the level of sIgA as an indicator for the induction of local immune responses by an oral vaccination in the target tissue. Therefore, the relationship between sIgA and IgG was analyzed to evaluate the induction of local immune responses by an oral immunization with Saccharomyces cerevisiae expressing the apxIA and apxIIA genes of A. pleuropneumoniae in this study. The correlation coefficient of determination (r2 x 100) for paired samples in both vaccinated and control groups showed a significant positive-relationship between IgG in sera and sIgA in the lung or intestine. These results indicated that IgG antibody titers in sera could be useful to indirectly predict local immune response, and sIgA, in the lung or intestine to evaluate the efficacy of an oral vaccination.

Keyword

correlation coefficient; IgG; oral vaccine; sIgA

MeSH Terms

Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae
Administration, Oral
Animals
Antigens, Fungal/*immunology
Bacterial Proteins/genetics/immunology
Bacterial Vaccines/*immunology
Disease Models, Animal
Female
Hemolysin Proteins
Immunity, Mucosal/*immunology
Immunoglobulin A, Secretory/*analysis
Immunoglobulin G/*blood
Intestine, Small/immunology
Lung/immunology
Mice
Mice, Inbred BALB C
Saccharomyces cerevisiae/*immunology