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Antigen Epitope Developed Based on Acinetobacter baumannii MacB Protein Can Provide Partial Immune Protection in Mice
Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is an important opportunistic pathogen widely present in medical environment. Given its complex drug resistance, A. baumannii poses a serious threat to the safety of critically ill patients. Given the limited alternative antibiotics, nonantibiotic-based functio...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7593726/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33134372 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/1975875 |
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author | Song, Xiaojie Zhao, Guanghui Ding, Meiling |
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description | Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is an important opportunistic pathogen widely present in medical environment. Given its complex drug resistance, A. baumannii poses a serious threat to the safety of critically ill patients. Given the limited alternative antibiotics, nonantibiotic-based functional anti-A. baumannii infection proteins must be developed. In this study, we firstly used a series of biological software to predict potential epitopes in the MacB protein sequence and verified them by antibody recognition and lymphocyte proliferation tests. We finally screened out B cell epitope 2, CD8(+) T cell epitope 7, and CD4(+) T cell epitope 11 and connected them to construct a recombinant antigen epitope (RAE). The determination of IgG in the serum of immunised mice and cytokines in the supernatant of lymphocytes showed that the constructed epitope induced an immune response mediated by Th-1 cells. Finally, the challenge experiment of A. baumannii infection in mice confirmed that the epitope developed based on MacB, especially RAE, provided incomplete immune protection for mice. |
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spelling | pubmed-75937262020-10-30 Antigen Epitope Developed Based on Acinetobacter baumannii MacB Protein Can Provide Partial Immune Protection in Mice Song, Xiaojie Zhao, Guanghui Ding, Meiling Biomed Res Int Research Article Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is an important opportunistic pathogen widely present in medical environment. Given its complex drug resistance, A. baumannii poses a serious threat to the safety of critically ill patients. Given the limited alternative antibiotics, nonantibiotic-based functional anti-A. baumannii infection proteins must be developed. In this study, we firstly used a series of biological software to predict potential epitopes in the MacB protein sequence and verified them by antibody recognition and lymphocyte proliferation tests. We finally screened out B cell epitope 2, CD8(+) T cell epitope 7, and CD4(+) T cell epitope 11 and connected them to construct a recombinant antigen epitope (RAE). The determination of IgG in the serum of immunised mice and cytokines in the supernatant of lymphocytes showed that the constructed epitope induced an immune response mediated by Th-1 cells. Finally, the challenge experiment of A. baumannii infection in mice confirmed that the epitope developed based on MacB, especially RAE, provided incomplete immune protection for mice. Hindawi 2020-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7593726/ /pubmed/33134372 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/1975875 Text en Copyright © 2020 Xiaojie Song et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Song, Xiaojie Zhao, Guanghui Ding, Meiling Antigen Epitope Developed Based on Acinetobacter baumannii MacB Protein Can Provide Partial Immune Protection in Mice |
title | Antigen Epitope Developed Based on Acinetobacter baumannii MacB Protein Can Provide Partial Immune Protection in Mice |
title_full | Antigen Epitope Developed Based on Acinetobacter baumannii MacB Protein Can Provide Partial Immune Protection in Mice |
title_fullStr | Antigen Epitope Developed Based on Acinetobacter baumannii MacB Protein Can Provide Partial Immune Protection in Mice |
title_full_unstemmed | Antigen Epitope Developed Based on Acinetobacter baumannii MacB Protein Can Provide Partial Immune Protection in Mice |
title_short | Antigen Epitope Developed Based on Acinetobacter baumannii MacB Protein Can Provide Partial Immune Protection in Mice |
title_sort | antigen epitope developed based on acinetobacter baumannii macb protein can provide partial immune protection in mice |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7593726/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33134372 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/1975875 |
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