Affiliation:
1. Département de Microbiologie-Immunologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
Abstract
The role of secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) in the control of the indigenous microbiota is not well understood. In this study, we compared the oral and intestinal microbiota of transgenic B-cell-deficient (microMT) mice with their heterozygous (microMT/+) normal littermates. The levels of salivary IgA and serum IgA and IgG were normal in microMT/+ mice, while no immunoglobulins were detected in microMT/microMT mice. The acquisition and proportions of the different species of the oral and intestinal indigenous bacterial populations were not significantly different between the two groups of mice. Our results thus suggest that secretory IgA does not play a major role in the regulation of the indigenous microbiota of mice.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology
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