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Human whipworm ( Trichuris trichiura ) infects approximately 1 in 15 people worldwide, representing the leading infectious cause of colitis and subsequent, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Current control measures focused on mass deworming have had limited success due to low drug efficacies. Vaccination would be an ideal, cost-effective strategy to induce protective immunity, leading to control of infection and transmission. Here we report the identification of whey acidic protein, a whipworm secretory protein, as a strong immunogen for inducing protective efficacy in a surrogate mouse  T .  muris  infection model. The recombinant WAP protein (r Tm -WAP49), as well as a single, highly conserved repeat within WAP (fragment 8) expressed as an  Na- GST-1 fusion protein (r Tm -WAP-F8+ Na -GST-1), generate a strong T helper type 2 (Th2) immune response when delivered as subcutaneous vaccines formulated with Montanide ISA 720. Oral challenge with  T .  muris  infective eggs following vaccination led to a significant reduction in worm burden of 48% by r Tm -WAP49 and 33% by r Tm -WAP-F8+ Na -GST-1. The cellular immune correlates of protection included significant antigen-specific production of Th2 cytokines IL-4, IL-9, and IL-13 by cells isolated from the vaccine-draining inguinal lymph nodes, parasite-draining mesenteric lymph nodes, and spleen in mice vaccinated with either r Tm -WAP49 or r Tm -WAP-F8+ Na -GST-1. The humoral immune correlates included a high antigen-specific ratio of IgG1 to IgG2a, without eliciting an IgE-mediated allergic response. Immunofluorescent staining of adult  T .  muris  with WAP antisera identified the worm’s pathogenic stichosome organ as the site of secretion of native  Tm -WAP protein into the colonic mucosa. Given the high sequence conservation for the WAP proteins from  T .  muris  and  T .  trichiura , the results presented here support the WAP protein to be further evaluated as a potential human whipworm vaccine candidate.

Trichuris muris whey acidic protein induces type 2 protective immunity against whipworm