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The objective of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of a J-5 Escherichia coli vaccine in a mild to moderate inflammatory challenge model using primiparous dairy cows for inoculation only. We hypothesized a clinical difference between placebo and J-5 E. coli vaccinated animals with the mild to moderate inflammatory challenge model. In case the null hypothesis could not be confirmed, the alternate hypothesis was no clinical difference between both treatment groups. Therefore, 23 primiparous cows in mo 7 of pregnancy were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 treatment groups J-5 E. coli vaccine (n = 12) or placebo (n = 11). Animals were vaccinated 3 times at 56 (±7) and 28 (±7) d before expected calving date and within 14 d postcalving (DIM 5 ± 3). All cows were challenged by infusion with E. coli P4O32 into 2 left mammary quarters between 14 and 28 d postparturition, at least 10 d after the 3rd vaccination, immediately after the morning milking. Clinical observations and blood and milk samples were collected at several time points from 7 d pre-challenge until 13 d post-challenge. Primiparous cows responded mild to moderately to intramammary E. coli challenge with little clinical difference between treatment groups. Rectal temperature increased earlier in the vaccinated animals, which also eliminated bacteria faster during the early hours after intramammary E. coli challenge. At post-infusion hour 9, the bacterial population was significantly lower in the infected quarters of the vaccinated animals. Blood leukocyte number was only numerically higher in the vaccinated animals, in combination with a numerically higher percentage of late immature polymorphonuclear leukocytes (band cells) in circulation. Even in the nonvaccinated animals, the E. coli challenge in the primiparous cows elicited only a mild to moderate response. The absence of a pronounced clinical difference between vaccinated and nonvaccinated animals was therefore not surprising. C646 The rate at which new traits are being developed is increasing, leading to an expanding number of evaluations provided to dairy producers, especially for functional traits. This review will discuss the development and implementation of genetic evaluations for direct health traits in the United States, as well as potential future developments. Beginning in April 2018, routine official genomic evaluations for 6 direct health traits in Holsteins were made available to US producers from the Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding (Bowie, MD). Traits include resistance to milk fever, displaced abomasum, ketosis, clinical mastitis, metritis, and retained placenta. These health traits were included in net merit indices beginning in August 2018, with a total weight of approximately 2%. Previously, improvement of cow health was primarily made through changes to management practices or genetic selection on indicator traits, such as somatic cell score, productive life, or livability. Widespread genomic testing now allows for ao make better selection decisions; however, this also makes it increasingly important to provide accurate and unbiased information. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the barrier characteristics of 3 external teat sealants for dry cows in preventing bacterial penetration by 3 common major mastitis pathogens (Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus uberis) via a novel in vitro simulation model using rubber calf-feeding nipples. All feeding nipples were filled with a sterile cotton plug soaked in sterile broth heart infusion medium and were treated as follows rubber teats 1 and 5 were sealed with Ubera Dry (Inovet, Arendonk, Belgium); rubber teats 2 and 6 were sealed with T-Hexx Dry (Huvepharma Livestock, St. Louis, MO); rubber teats 3 and 7 were sealed with Uddergold Dry (Ecolab Food and Beverage Division, St. Paul, MN); and rubber teats 4 and 8 remained unsealed and served as positive and negative controls, respectively. After the dips had dried, rubber teats 1 to 4 were immersed in a suspension of E. coli (experiment 1), Staph. aureus (experiment 2), or Strep. uberis (experiment 3; ≥1.5 × 108 cfu/mL) for superior barrier performance against penetration of E. coli, Staph. aureus, and Strep. uberis compared with T-Hexx Dry and Uddergold Dry, respectively, under in vitro conditions using a novel in vitro simulation model. Although one should be aware that the method has not yet been validated to predict risk of intramammary infections, the proposed technique can be a meaningful starting point to evaluate and compare the barrier characteristics of external teat sealants in preventing bacterial penetration. A large-scale clinical trial is needed before any definite conclusions can be drawn as to the adherence, duration of adherence, barrier performance, and efficacy in protection against intramammary infections of the 3 external teat sealants under field conditions. Bovine peptide transporter 2 (bPepT2), which mediates the absorption of di- and tripeptides in the bovine mammary gland, was predicted to contain multiple putative N-glycosylation sites of asparagine residues. N-Linked glycosylation is proven to be essential for the folding, stability, localization, and substrate binding of nutrient transporters and could therefore potentially have an essential role in the function of bPepT2. This study investigated the effect of mutagenesis of N-glycosylation sites on the transport function of bPepT2 in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. The bPepT2 cDNA was cloned and sequenced. BioXM (http//202.195.246.60/BioXM/) and TMHMM (http//www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/TMHMM-2.0/) software were used to predict the AA composition and transmembrane domain of bPepT2, respectively. The AA sequence of bPepT2 was predicted to have 12 transmembrane domains, with a large extracellular loop between the ninth and tenth transmembrane domains. All 5 putative N-glycosylation sites in this loop were altered by site-directed mutagenesis, and the mutant construct was transfected into CHO cells for transport activity assay. Compared with the wild type, the bPepT2 mutant had significantly lower uptake activity of β-alanyl-l-lysyl-Nε-7-amino-4-methyl-coumarin-3-acetic acid (β-Ala-Lys-AMCA), a model dipeptide. Treatment with tunicamycin, an inhibitor of N-linked glycosylation, reduced the uptake of β-Ala-Lys-AMCA in CHO cells relative to the control group. Kinetic studies indicated that the Michaelis constant of bPepT2 was not affected by the mutation (98.03 ± 8.30 and 88.33 ± 4.23 µM for the wild type and the mutant, respectively), but the maximum transport activity was significantly reduced (40.29 ± 8.30 and 13.02 ± 2.95 pmol/min per milligram of protein for the wild type and the mutant, respectively). In summary, this study demonstrated that N-glycosylation is critical for the function of bPepT2.