Serological response of patients with leprosy to a 28- to 30-kilodalton protein doublet from early cultures of Mycobacterium bovis BCG.
AUTOR(ES)
Pessolani, M C
RESUMO
Analysis by Western immunoblotting of Mycobacterium bovis BCG short-term culture filtrates with a pool of serum samples from lepromatous leprosy patients revealed an immunodominant protein doublet with apparent molecular masses of 28 and 30 kilodaltons (kDa). The humoral response to these antigens was also investigated by using individual serum samples from patients representative of the whole spectrum of leprosy and from tuberculosis patients, as well as from contacts of leprosy patients and control groups. The protein doublet was recognized by 92% of the sera from patients with lepromatous leprosy (51 of 56), whereas essentially negative results were obtained with sera from the other groups. Similar immunodominant bands were also detected by Western blotting analysis of sonic extracts of seven other slow- and fast-growing mycobacterial species, suggesting a broad distribution of these antigens within the genus. Analysis of the purified doublet by Western blotting after two-dimensional gel electrophoresis fractionation showed that the 28- and 30-kDa doublet consisted of at least five different components with pls from 5.2 to 5.7 and molecular masses from 28 to 31 kDa. These results indicate that the protein doublet could be used as a potential marker in the diagnosis of lepromatous leprosy.
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