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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2-3
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-10-15
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
We have previously identified a Brucella melitensis 28 kDa cytosoluble protein (CP28) which was highly immunogenic in infected sheep and which in addition made possible the serological differentiation between infected and B. melitensis Rev. 1 vaccinated sheep. Monoclonal antibodies against CP28 were used to screen a B. melitensis 16M genomic library and to clone the corresponding gene. DNA sequencing of the gene encoding CP28 of B. melitensis 16M revealed that it was nearly identical to that of the recently published bp26 gene of Brucella abortus vaccine strain S19 coding for a periplasmic protein. The differences between the B. melitensis 16M gene and that of B. abortus S19 consisted of single nucleotide substitutions, one or two codon deletions, one codon addition, and most importantly a 21-bp deletion. The corresponding region of B. abortus S19 contains two 10-bp direct repeats which could have been involved in the genesis of the deletion. Expression of the B. melitensis 16M bp26 gene in Escherichia coli studied by the use of the monoclonal antibodies showed the same characteristics as reported for the B. abortus S19 bp26 gene, i.e. the presence of a higher molecular mass preprotein and a lower molecular mass band which probably corresponds to the mature protein exported to the periplasm. Immunoblotting performed with sera from either naturally infected or B. melitensis H38 experimentally infected sheep confirmed the importance of the B. melitensis CP28/BP26 protein as diagnostic antigen.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0378-1097
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
140
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
139-44
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8764475-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:8764475-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:8764475-Antibodies, Monoclonal, pubmed-meshheading:8764475-Antigens, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:8764475-Bacterial Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:8764475-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:8764475-Brucella abortus, pubmed-meshheading:8764475-Brucella melitensis, pubmed-meshheading:8764475-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:8764475-DNA, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:8764475-Escherichia coli, pubmed-meshheading:8764475-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:8764475-Genes, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:8764475-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:8764475-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:8764475-Molecular Weight, pubmed-meshheading:8764475-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:8764475-Sheep, pubmed-meshheading:8764475-Species Specificity
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Cloning, nucleotide sequence, and expression of the Brucella melitensis bp26 gene coding for a protein immunogenic in infected sheep.
pubmed:affiliation
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Laboratoire de Pathologie Infectieuse et Immunologie, Nouzilly, France. axel.cloeckaert@tours.inra.fr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study