Adjuvant-enhanced antibody responses to recombinant proteins correlates with protection of mice and monkeys to orthopoxvirus challenges.
recombinant proteins were evaluated as smallpox and monkeypox vaccines because of their perceived safety compared with live vaccinia virus. Previously, we showed that three or more injections of Ribi adjuvant-type with a triple combination of the outer membrane of intracellular proteins (L1 proteins) and extracellular (A33 and B5 protein) form of vaccinia virus protected mice against lethal intranasal challenge with vaccinia virus. Here, we compare some adjuvants and Hapten Conjugates Proteins found that QS-21, and to a lesser extent alum + oligodeoxynucleotides CpG accelerated and improved neutralizing antibody responses against a mixture of L1 and A33 protein, provided the highest ratio of IgG2a response of isotype IgG1, and mice are protected against disease and death after only two immunizations three weeks. In addition, the monkeys were immunized with recombinant vaccinia virus proteins and QS-21 developed neutralizing antibodies against monkeypox virus a...