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. 2014 Dec 26;9(12):e115944. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115944

Figure 9. ELISA-based assessment of the immune response of H1-HFBI-immunized mice.

Figure 9

(a) Ten mice were immunized with H1-HFBI as indicated in the Experimental procedures. Anti-HA antibodies were assayed by ELISA in the pre-immune sera (open circle) and the sera collected after the 4th (blue triangle) and 6th (red square) boost. Plates were coated with 5 µg/ml of recombinant Influenza A/Texas/05/2009(H1N1) ectodomain expressed in mammalian cells (Sino Biologicals, 11085-V08H). HRP-conjugated anti-mouse secondary antibody was used for detection. HA titer was calculated as the highest dilution giving a signal higher than three times the signal coming from the negative control. (b) Box and whisker analysis of antibody titers obtained after endpoint ELISA titer analysis of the test groups. Each dot represents the antibody titer from an individual mouse. (p-values  = 0.18 (boost 4/boost 6), 1.8.10−4 (boost 4/pre-immune), 3.8.10−4 (boost 6/pre-immune))