Regulated expression of antigen and/or regulated attenuation to enhance vaccine immunogenicity and/or safety

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10774334-B2
Application number	US-201916704032-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 5, 2019
Priority date	May 10, 2007
Publication date	Sep 15, 2020
Grant date	Sep 15, 2020

Abstract

The invention relates to compositions and methods for making and using recombinant bacteria that are capable of regulated attenuation and/or regulated expression of one or more antigens of interest.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A recombinant bacterium capable of regulated expression of at least one nucleic acid sequence encoding an antigen of interest, wherein the bacterium comprises:
a. at least one chromosomally integrated nucleic acid sequence encoding a repressor operably linked to a regulatable promoter, wherein the nucleic acid sequence encoding the repressor and/or promoter have been modified from the wild-type nucleic acid sequence so as to optimize the expression level of the nucleic acid sequence encoding the repressor;
b. a vector comprising at least one nucleic acid sequence encoding an antigen of interest operably linked to a promoter regulated by the repressor, such that the expression of the nucleic acid sequence encoding the antigen is repressed during in vitro growth of the bacterium, but the bacterium is capable of high level expression of the nucleic acid sequence encoding the antigen in a host; and
c. the mutation ΔrelA197::araC P BAD lacl TT.

2. The recombinant bacterium of claim 1 , wherein the bacterium further comprises a deletion in asd.

3. The recombinant bacterium of claim 1 , wherein the bacterium further comprises the mutation ΔasdA::TT araC P BAD c2.

4. The recombinant bacterium of claim 1 , wherein the repressor is selected from the group consisting of Lacl, C2, and C1.

5. The recombinant bacterium of claim 1 , wherein the nucleic acid sequence encoding the repressor comprises a modified Shine-Dalgarno sequence and optimized codons so as to optimize the expression level of the nucleic acid sequence encoding the repressor.

6. The recombinant bacterium of claim 1 , wherein the vector is a plasmid.

7. The recombinant bacterium of claim 1 , wherein the nucleic acid encoding the antigen of interest is operably linked to a P trc promoter.

8. The recombinant bacterium of claim 1 , wherein the antigen of interest is toxic.

9. The recombinant bacterium of claim 1 , wherein the vector further comprises a nucleic acid sequence encoding a secretion signal for the antigen of interest.

10. The recombinant bacterium of claim 1 , wherein the bacterium is capable of eliciting a protective immune response in the host.

11. The recombinant bacterium of claim 1 , wherein the bacterium comprises more than one means of attenuation.

12. The recombinant bacterium of claim 1 , wherein
the repressor is Lacl;
the regulatable promoter is selected from the group consisting of P rhaBAD , P xyIAB , and P xyIFGH ;
the vector is a plasmid; and
the nucleic acid sequence encoding the antigen of interest is operably linked to the P trc promoter.

13. A vaccine composition comprising the recombinant bacterium of claim 1 .

14. A method for eliciting an immune response in a host, the method comprising administering to the host an effective amount of a vaccine composition comprising a recombinant bacterium of claim 1 .

Assignees

• The Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State Univ
• Univ Washington
• Arizona Broad Of Regents On Behalf Of Arizona State Univ

Inventors

• Curtiss Iii Roy
• Wang Shifeng
• Wanda Soo-Young
• Kong Wei

Classifications

• A61K39/00

  Medicinal preparations containing antigens or antibodies (materials for immunoassay G01N33/53) · CPC title

• C12N1/36

  Adaptation or attenuation of cells · CPC title

• A61K2035/11

  Medicinal preparations comprising living procariotic cells · CPC title

• A61K2039/522

  avirulent or attenuated · CPC title

• A61K35/74

  Bacteria (therapeutic use of a bacterial protein A61K38/00) · CPC title