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Epidemic Preparedness—Leishmania tarentolae as an Easy-to-Handle Tool to Produce Antigens for Viral Diagnosis: Application to COVID-19
To detect and prevent emerging epidemics, discovery platforms are urgently needed, for the rapid development of diagnostic assays. Molecular diagnostic tests for COVID-19 were developed shortly after the isolation of SARS-CoV-2. However, serological tests based on antiviral antibody detection, revea...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8710741/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34966362 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.736530 |
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author | Varotto-Boccazzi, Ilaria Manenti, Alessandro Dapporto, Francesca Gourlay, Louise J. Bisaglia, Beatrice Gabrieli, Paolo Forneris, Federico Faravelli, Silvia Bollati, Valentina Rubolini, Diego Zuccotti, Gianvincenzo Montomoli, Emanuele Epis, Sara Bandi, Claudio |
author_facet | Varotto-Boccazzi, Ilaria Manenti, Alessandro Dapporto, Francesca Gourlay, Louise J. Bisaglia, Beatrice Gabrieli, Paolo Forneris, Federico Faravelli, Silvia Bollati, Valentina Rubolini, Diego Zuccotti, Gianvincenzo Montomoli, Emanuele Epis, Sara Bandi, Claudio |
author_sort | Varotto-Boccazzi, Ilaria |
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description | To detect and prevent emerging epidemics, discovery platforms are urgently needed, for the rapid development of diagnostic assays. Molecular diagnostic tests for COVID-19 were developed shortly after the isolation of SARS-CoV-2. However, serological tests based on antiviral antibody detection, revealing previous exposure to the virus, required longer testing phases, due to the need to obtain correctly folded and glycosylated antigens. The delay between the identification of a new virus and the development of reliable serodiagnostic tools limits our readiness to tackle future epidemics. We suggest that the protozoan Leishmania tarentolae can be used as an easy-to-handle microfactory for the rapid production of viral antigens to face emerging epidemics. We engineered L. tarentolae to express the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain (RBD) and we recorded the ability of the purified RBD antigen to detect SARS-CoV-2 infection in human sera, with a sensitivity and reproducibility comparable to that of a reference antigen produced in human cells. This is the first application of an antigen produced in L. tarentolae for the serodiagnosis of a Coronaviridae infection. On the basis of our results, we propose L. tarentolae as an effective system for viral antigen production, even in countries that lack high-technology cell factories. |
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spelling | pubmed-87107412021-12-28 Epidemic Preparedness—Leishmania tarentolae as an Easy-to-Handle Tool to Produce Antigens for Viral Diagnosis: Application to COVID-19 Varotto-Boccazzi, Ilaria Manenti, Alessandro Dapporto, Francesca Gourlay, Louise J. Bisaglia, Beatrice Gabrieli, Paolo Forneris, Federico Faravelli, Silvia Bollati, Valentina Rubolini, Diego Zuccotti, Gianvincenzo Montomoli, Emanuele Epis, Sara Bandi, Claudio Front Microbiol Microbiology To detect and prevent emerging epidemics, discovery platforms are urgently needed, for the rapid development of diagnostic assays. Molecular diagnostic tests for COVID-19 were developed shortly after the isolation of SARS-CoV-2. However, serological tests based on antiviral antibody detection, revealing previous exposure to the virus, required longer testing phases, due to the need to obtain correctly folded and glycosylated antigens. The delay between the identification of a new virus and the development of reliable serodiagnostic tools limits our readiness to tackle future epidemics. We suggest that the protozoan Leishmania tarentolae can be used as an easy-to-handle microfactory for the rapid production of viral antigens to face emerging epidemics. We engineered L. tarentolae to express the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain (RBD) and we recorded the ability of the purified RBD antigen to detect SARS-CoV-2 infection in human sera, with a sensitivity and reproducibility comparable to that of a reference antigen produced in human cells. This is the first application of an antigen produced in L. tarentolae for the serodiagnosis of a Coronaviridae infection. On the basis of our results, we propose L. tarentolae as an effective system for viral antigen production, even in countries that lack high-technology cell factories. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-12-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8710741/ /pubmed/34966362 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.736530 Text en Copyright © 2021 Varotto-Boccazzi, Manenti, Dapporto, Gourlay, Bisaglia, Gabrieli, Forneris, Faravelli, Bollati, Rubolini, Zuccotti, Montomoli, Epis and Bandi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Microbiology Varotto-Boccazzi, Ilaria Manenti, Alessandro Dapporto, Francesca Gourlay, Louise J. Bisaglia, Beatrice Gabrieli, Paolo Forneris, Federico Faravelli, Silvia Bollati, Valentina Rubolini, Diego Zuccotti, Gianvincenzo Montomoli, Emanuele Epis, Sara Bandi, Claudio Epidemic Preparedness—Leishmania tarentolae as an Easy-to-Handle Tool to Produce Antigens for Viral Diagnosis: Application to COVID-19 |
title | Epidemic Preparedness—Leishmania tarentolae as an Easy-to-Handle Tool to Produce Antigens for Viral Diagnosis: Application to COVID-19 |
title_full | Epidemic Preparedness—Leishmania tarentolae as an Easy-to-Handle Tool to Produce Antigens for Viral Diagnosis: Application to COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Epidemic Preparedness—Leishmania tarentolae as an Easy-to-Handle Tool to Produce Antigens for Viral Diagnosis: Application to COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Epidemic Preparedness—Leishmania tarentolae as an Easy-to-Handle Tool to Produce Antigens for Viral Diagnosis: Application to COVID-19 |
title_short | Epidemic Preparedness—Leishmania tarentolae as an Easy-to-Handle Tool to Produce Antigens for Viral Diagnosis: Application to COVID-19 |
title_sort | epidemic preparedness—leishmania tarentolae as an easy-to-handle tool to produce antigens for viral diagnosis: application to covid-19 |
topic | Microbiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8710741/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34966362 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.736530 |
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