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H Bukawa1, K Sekigawa, K Hamajima
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan.
Abstract:
Control of pandemic infection of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) requires some means of developing mucosal immunity against HIV-1 because sexual transmission of the virus occurs mainly through the mucosal tissues. However, there is no evidence as yet that the secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibody induced by immunization with antigens in experimental animals can neutralize HIV-1. We demonstrate here that oral immunization with a new macromolecular peptide antigen and cholera toxin (CT) induces a high titre (1:2") of gut-associated and secretory IgA antibody to HIV-1. Using three different neutralizing assays, we clearly demonstrate that this secretory IgA antibody is able to neutralize HIV-1IIIB, HIV-1SF2 and HIV-1MN. Our new approach may prove to be important in the development of a mucosal vaccine that will provide protection of mucosal surfaces against HIV-1.
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