---
_id: '558'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Immune specificity is the degree to which a host’s immune system discriminates
among various pathogens or antigenic variants. Vertebrate immune memory is highly
specific due to antibody responses. On the other hand, some invertebrates show
immune priming, i.e. improved survival after secondary exposure to a previously
encountered pathogen. Until now, specificity of priming has only been demonstrated
via the septic infection route or when live pathogens were used for priming. Therefore,
we tested for specificity in the oral priming route in the red flour beetle, Tribolium
castaneum. For priming, we used pathogen-free supernatants derived from three
different strains of the entomopathogen, Bacillus thuringiensis, which express
different Cry toxin variants known for their toxicity against this beetle. Subsequent
exposure to the infective spores showed that oral priming was specific for two
naturally occurring strains, while a third engineered strain did not induce any
priming effect. Our data demonstrate that oral immune priming with a non-infectious
bacterial agent can be specific, but the priming effect is not universal across
all bacterial strains.
article_number: '0632'
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Momir
full_name: Futo, Momir
last_name: Futo
- first_name: Marie
full_name: Sell, Marie
last_name: Sell
- first_name: Megan
full_name: Kutzer, Megan
id: 29D0B332-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Kutzer
orcid: 0000-0002-8696-6978
- first_name: Joachim
full_name: Kurtz, Joachim
last_name: Kurtz
citation:
ama: Futo M, Sell M, Kutzer M, Kurtz J. Specificity of oral immune priming in the
red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Biology Letters. 2017;13(12). doi:10.1098/rsbl.2017.0632
apa: Futo, M., Sell, M., Kutzer, M., & Kurtz, J. (2017). Specificity of oral
immune priming in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Biology Letters.
The Royal Society. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0632
chicago: Futo, Momir, Marie Sell, Megan Kutzer, and Joachim Kurtz. “Specificity
of Oral Immune Priming in the Red Flour Beetle Tribolium Castaneum.” Biology
Letters. The Royal Society, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0632.
ieee: M. Futo, M. Sell, M. Kutzer, and J. Kurtz, “Specificity of oral immune priming
in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum,” Biology Letters, vol. 13,
no. 12. The Royal Society, 2017.
ista: Futo M, Sell M, Kutzer M, Kurtz J. 2017. Specificity of oral immune priming
in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Biology Letters. 13(12), 0632.
mla: Futo, Momir, et al. “Specificity of Oral Immune Priming in the Red Flour Beetle
Tribolium Castaneum.” Biology Letters, vol. 13, no. 12, 0632, The Royal
Society, 2017, doi:10.1098/rsbl.2017.0632.
short: M. Futo, M. Sell, M. Kutzer, J. Kurtz, Biology Letters 13 (2017).
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:47:10Z
date_published: 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-10-18T06:42:25Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: SyCr
doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0632
external_id:
pmid:
- '29237813'
intvolume: ' 13'
issue: '12'
language:
- iso: eng
month: '12'
oa_version: None
pmid: 1
publication: Biology Letters
publication_identifier:
issn:
- 1744-9561
publication_status: published
publisher: The Royal Society
publist_id: '7255'
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: Specificity of oral immune priming in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum
type: journal_article
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 13
year: '2017'
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