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Research Journal of Microbiology

Year: 2007 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 8 | Page No.: 650-653
DOI: 10.17311/jm.2007.650.653
The Effect of Total Bacterial DNA as Co-adjuvant for in vivo Antibody Production
Bahram Kazemi, Sanaz Khalili-Tehrani, Mojgan Bandehpour, Negar Seyed and Nariman Mosaffa

Abstract: In the present research, bacterial DNA of pathogenic Escherichia coli was used as co-adjuvant; sheep blood total immunoglobulin G (IgG) was used as the antigen and complete Freund’s adjuvant (CFA) was the adjuvant. Rabbits were injected subcutaneously in the muscle with sheep blood total IgG ± adjuvant in a volume of 2 mL. Forty microgram IgG was suspended in saline with 20 μg soluble bacterial DNA or mixed with CFA with or without bacterial DNA. The study also included two control groups: One group was injected with 1 mL CFA plus 1 mL distilled water, the other group received no injections. Measurement of the proliferative responses by gel diffusion showed that priming with IgG plus bacterial DNA suspended in CFA leads to strong secondary responses to sheep IgG, indicating a strong synergistic interaction between the bacterial DNA and CFA.

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Bahram Kazemi, Sanaz Khalili-Tehrani, Mojgan Bandehpour, Negar Seyed and Nariman Mosaffa, 2007. The Effect of Total Bacterial DNA as Co-adjuvant for in vivo Antibody Production. Research Journal of Microbiology, 2: 650-653.

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