Mycobacterium tuberculosis HBHA Protein Reacts Strongly with the Serum Immunoglobulin M of Tuberculosis Patients
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- 1 August 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Clinical and Vaccine Immunology
- Vol. 13 (8), 869-875
- https://doi.org/10.1128/cvi.00103-06
Abstract
Identification and characterization of serologically active mycobacterial antigens are prerequisites for the development of diagnostic reagents. We examined the humoral immune responses of active tuberculosis (TB) patients against Triton-soluble proteins extracted from Mycobacterium tuberculosis by immunoblotting. A 29-kDa protein reacted with immunoglobulin M (IgM) in the pooled sera of the patients, and its N-terminal amino acid sequence matched that of the heparin-binding hemagglutinin (HBHA). Recombinant full-length HBHA was expressed in Escherichia coli (rEC-HBHA) and M. smegmatis (rMS-HBHA). In immunoblot analysis, the IgM antibodies of the TB patients reacted strongly with rMS-HBHA but not with rEC-HBHA, whereas the IgG antibodies of these patients reacted weakly with both recombinant HBHA proteins. In enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay analysis using rMS-HBHA and 85B as antigens, the mean levels and sensitivities of the anti-HBHA IgM antibodies of the TB patients were significantly higher than those of the anti-antigen 85B IgM antibodies, while the IgG antibodies showed the opposite results. Of interest in this respect, the pooled sera from the TB patients that contained anti-HBHA IgM antibodies neutralized the entry of M. tuberculosis into epithelial cells. These findings suggest that IgM antibody to HBHA may play a role in protection against extrapulmonary dissemination.Keywords
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