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Protection Against Influenza Virus Infection in Polymeric Ig Receptor Knockout Mice Immunized Intranasally with Adjuvant-Combined Vaccines

Yasuko Asahi^*, Tomoki Yoshikawa^*, Izumi Watanabe^*, Takuya Iwasaki^*, Hideki Hasegawa^*, Yuko Sato^*, Shin-ichiro Shimada, Masanobu Nanno, Yoshiaki Matsuoka, Makoto Ohwaki, Yoichiro Iwakura, Yujiro Suzuki, Chikara Aizawa, Tetutaro Sata^*, Takeshi Kurata^* and Shin-ichi Tamura^1,*

^* Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Yakult Central Institute for Microbiological Research, and Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and Research Center for Biologicals, Kitasato Institute, Saitama, Japan

The role of secretory IgA in conferring cross-protective immunity was examined in polymeric (p)IgR knockout (KO) mice immunized intranasally with different inactivated vaccines prepared from A/PR/8/34 (H1N1), A/Yamagata/120/86 (H1N1), A/Beijing/262/95 (H1N1), and B/Ibaraki/2/85 viruses and infected with the A/PR/8/34 virus in the upper respiratory tract (RT)-restricting volume. In wild-type mice, immunization with A/PR/8/34 or its variant (A/Yamagata/120/86 and A/Beijing/262/95) vaccines conferred complete protection or partial cross-protection against infection, while the B-type virus vaccine failed to provide protection. The protection or cross-protection was accompanied by an increase in the nasal A/PR/8/34 hemagglutinin-reactive IgA concentration, which was estimated to be >30 times the serum IgA concentration and much higher than the nasal IgG concentration. In contrast, the blockade of transepithelial transport of dimeric IgA in pIgR-KO mice reduced the degree of protection or cross-protection, in parallel with the marked increase in serum IgA concentration and the decrease in nasal IgA concentration (20 and 0.3 times those in wild-type mice, respectively). The degree of the reduction of protection or cross-protection was moderately reversed by the low but non-negligible level of nasal IgA, transudates from the accumulated serum IgA. These results, together with the absence of the IgA-dependent cross-protection in the lower RT and the unaltered level of nasal or serum IgG in wild-type and pIgR-KO mice, confirm that the actively secreted IgA plays an important role in cross-protection against variant virus infection in the upper RT, which cannot be substituted by serum IgG.

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