Expression of Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1 O-antigenic polysaccharide by Shigella flexneri aroD vaccine candidates and different S. flexneri serotypes

The potential utility of Shigella flexneri aroD vaccine candidates for the development of bi- or multivalent vaccines has been explored by the introduction of the genetic determinants rfp and rfb for heterologous O antigen polysaccharide from Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1. The serotype Y vaccine strain SFL124 expressed the heterologous antigen qualitatively and quantitatively well, qualitatively in the sense of the O antigen polysaccharide being correctly linked to the S. flexneri lipopolysaccharide R3 core oligosaccharide and quantitatively in the sense that typical yields were obtained, with ratios of homologous to heterologous O antigen being 4:1 for one construct and 1:1 for another. Moreover, both polysaccharide chains were shown to be linked to position O-4 of the subterminal D-glucose residue of the R3 core. In contrast to the hybrid serotype Y SFL124 derivatives, analogous derivatives of serotype 2a vaccine strain SFL1070 did not elaborate a complete heterologous O antigen. Such derivatives, and analogous derivatives of rough, O antigen-negative mutants of SFL1070, formed instead a hybrid lipopolysaccharide molecule consisting of the S. flexneri lipid A R3 core with a single repeat unit of the S. dysenteriae type 1 O antigen. Introduction of the determinants for the S. dysenteriae type 1 O antigen into a second serotype 2a strain and into strains representing other serotypes of S. flexneri, revealed the following for the expression of the heterologous O antigen: serotypes 1a, 1b, 2a, and 5a did not produce the heterologous O antigen, whereas serotypes 2b, 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 5b, and X did.

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