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ArticleClinical and vaccine immunology : CVI2010

Vaccination of rabbits with an alkylated toxoid rapidly elicits potent neutralizing antibodies against botulinum neurotoxin serotype B.

Daniel M Held, Amy C Shurtleff, Scott Fields, Christopher Green, Julie Fong, Russell G A Jones, Dorothea Sesardic, Roland Buelow, Rae Lyn Burke

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Article in Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Daniel M HeldBiosciences Division, SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.
Amy C Shurtleff
Scott Fields
Christopher Green
Julie Fong
Russell G A Jones
Dorothea Sesardic
Roland Buelow
Rae Lyn Burke
SRI International · USNational Institute for Biological Standards and Control · GB

Funding

Neutralizing Botulinum Neurotoxin with Human AntibodiesU01AI061442 · NIAID · SRI INTERNATIONAL · PI FIELDS, SCOTT · 2005 to 2009
$5.7M
NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI061442
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

New Zealand White (NZW) rabbits were immunized with several different nontoxic botulinum neurotoxin serotype B (BoNT/B) preparations in an effort to optimize the production of a rapid and highly potent, effective neutralizing antibody response. The immunogens included a recombinant heavy chain (rHc) protein produced in Escherichia coli, a commercially available formaldehyde-inactivated toxoid, and an alkylated toxoid produced by urea-iodoacetamide inactivation of the purified active toxin. All three immunogens elicited an antibody response to BoNT/B, detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and by toxin neutralization assay, by the use of two distinct mouse toxin challenge models. The induction period and the ultimate potency of the observed immune response varied for each immunogen, and the ELISA titer was not reliably predictive of the potency of toxin neutralization. The kinetics of the BoNT/B-specific binding immune response were nearly identical for the formaldehyde toxoid and alkylated toxoid immunogens, but immunization with the alkylated toxoid generated an approximately 10-fold higher neutralization potency that endured throughout the study, and after just 49 days, each milliliter of serum was capable of neutralizing 10(7) 50% lethal doses of the toxin. Overall, the immunization of rabbits with alkylated BoNT/B toxoid appears to have induced a neutralizing immune response more rapid and more potent than the responses generated by vaccination with formaldehyde toxoid or rHc preparations.

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Alkylating AgentsAnimalsAntibodies, BacterialAntibodies, NeutralizingBotulinum ToxinsBotulinum Toxins, Type AEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayFemaleIodoacetamideMiceNeutralization TestsRabbitsTime FactorsToxoidsAlkylating AgentsAntibodies, BacterialAntibodies, NeutralizingBotulinum ToxinsBotulinum Toxins, Type AIodoacetamiderimabotulinumtoxinBToxoids

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PMID20410329
PMCPMC2884417
OpenAlexW2100530117

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