A Novel Contraceptive Vaccine： Design and Synthesis of the Chimeric Peptide Containing Multivalent Sperm-Specific Epitopes

A Novel Contraceptive Vaccine: Design and Synthesis of the Chimeric Peptide Containing Multivalent Sperm-Specific Epitopes

Objective To develop a novel multivalent chimeric peptide vaccine for bisexual fertility regulation Materials & Methods On the basis of the amino acid sequence of the two peptides respectively selected from the mouse sperm/testis-specific proteins SP17 and Cyritestin, and one T cell epitope in bovine ribonuclease (RNase), a novel chimeric peptide consisting of 35 amino acid was designed and subsequently synthesized on the 430A peptide synthesizer. After being emulified with the equivalence Freund's adjuvant, the peptide with 35 amino acid residues was used to immunogenity the female BALB/c mice to investigate its immunity.Results The peptide was successfully synthesized, after being purified in high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), its purity reached 95%. The specific antisera collected from the immunogenity mice could identify the corresponding proteins of testis tissues of mice, rats and human. The highest specific IgG titer in serum was 1:6 000, while the IgA titer in the washing of vaginal mucous membrane was 1:300.Conclusion The antibodies from the peptide with specific amino acid sequence can identify the original antigens, and stimulate powerful specific humoral immunity in mice. It provides a experimental bases for polyvalent contraceptive vaccine study.