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JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
卷 190, 期 7, 页码 1237-1244出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1086/423938
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The function of the PE/PPE families of proteins, which represent similar to10% of the coding capacity of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome, has remained relatively unknown. We earlier described a PPE family member, Rv2430c, as an immunodominant antigen. We now report another PPE family gene, Rv2608, a member of the major polymorphic tandem repeat subfamily, for its ability to elicit a high humoral and a low T cell response. Rv2608 was also found to be polymorphic in different clinical isolates of M. tuberculosis, as determined by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment-length polymorphism analysis. A total of 51 clinically confirmed patients with tuberculosis (TB), belonging to 3 different categories-fresh infection (n=22), relapsed infection (n=21), and extrapulmonary infection (n=8)-and 10 healthy control subjects were included in the study. Recombinant Rv2608 protein showed positive reactivity to patients' serum samples. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and T cell-proliferation assays with synthetic peptides corresponding to predicted regions of high antigenicity showed a predominantly humoral response in patients with relapsed TB. We additionally identified the Gly-X-Gly-Asn-X-Gly repeat motifs as being primarily responsible for eliciting a humoral immune response.
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