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Phase I clinical trial of O-acetylated pectin conjugate,a plant polysaccharide based typhoid vaccine
Authors:Shousun C. Szu  Kimi F.-Y. Lin  Steven Hunt  Chiayung Chu  Nguyen Duc Thinh
Affiliation:1. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, National Institutes of Health, USA;2. Division of Food Safety, Department of Agriculture, Ho Chi Ming City, Viet Nam
Abstract:

Background

Typhoid fever remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the developing countries. Vi capsular polysaccharide conjugate vaccine demonstrated safety and efficacy in young children in high endemic regions. A novel typhoid conjugate vaccine based on plant polysaccharide pectin was studied in a phase I trial.

Methods

Fruit pectin, having the same carbohydrate backbone structure as Vi, was purified from citrus peel and used as the polysaccharide source to prepare a semi-synthetic typhoid conjugate vaccine. Pectin was chemically O-acetylated (OAcPec) to antigenically resemble Vi and conjugated to carrier protein rEPA, a recombinant exoprotein A from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. 25 healthy volunteers, 18–45 years old, were injected once with OAcPec-rEPA. Safety and IgG antibodies reactive with Vi and pectin were analyzed.

Results

No vaccine associated serious adverse reaction was reported. Six weeks after the injection of OAcPec-rEPA, 64% of the volunteers elicited >4-fold rise of anti-Vi IgG. At 26 weeks the level declined, but the difference between the levels at 6 and 26 weeks are not statistically significant. There is a direct correlation between the level of anti-Vi IgG before and after the injection (R2 = 0.96). The anti-Vi IgG can be absorbed by Vi, but not by pectin. There was no corresponding increase of anti-pectin after the injection, indicating the antibody response to OAcPec-rEPA was specific to Vi. There is no Vi-rEPA data in US adults for comparison of immune responses. The OAcPec-rEPA elicited significantly less IgG anti-Vi in US adults than those by Vi-rEPA in Vietnamese adults.

Conclusion

The O-acetylated pectin conjugate, a plant based typhoid vaccine, is safe and immunogenic in adult volunteers.ClinicalTrial.gov identifier: NCT00277147, NIH Protocol ID number: OH06-CH-0070, FDA BB Investigation New Drug (IND) number 6989.
Keywords:Phase I pectin-based   Typhoid conjugate vaccine   Safety immunogenicity   Plant polysaccharide   Semi-synthetic
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