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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
52
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-12-1
pubmed:abstractText
Echinococcus multilocularis causes an important zoonotic cestode disease. The metacestode stage proliferates in the liver of intermediate hosts including human and rodents and forms multiple cysts. Recently, members of a transmembrane protein tetraspanin (TSP) family have been used as vaccines against schistosomosis, or as diagnostic antigens for cysticercosis. In this study, seven tetraspanins of E. multilocularis, designated as TSP1 to TSP7, were evaluated for their protective potential against primary alveolar echinococcosis. The large extracellular loop (LEL) region of these tetraspanins was cloned from a full-length enriched cDNA library of E. multilocularis metacestodes and expressed in Escherichia coli as a fusion protein with thioredoxin. Recombinant TSPs were applied as vaccines against an E. multilocularis primary experimental infection in BALB/c mice. Cyst lesions in the livers of vaccinated and non-vaccinated mice were counted. The cyst lesion reduction rates induced by the seven tetraspanins in vaccinated vis-à-vis non-vaccinated mice were: 87.9%, 65.8%, 85.1%, 66.9%, 73.7%, 72.9% and 37.6%. Vaccination conferred protective rates to mice ranging from 0% (TSP5, 6, 7) to maximally 33% (TSP1, 3). The results indicated that recombinant tetraspanins have varying protective effects against primary alveolar echinococcosis and could be used in vaccine development.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1873-2518
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
9
pubmed:volume
27
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
7339-45
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Antibodies, Helminth, pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Antigens, Helminth, pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Echinococcosis, Pulmonary, pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Echinococcus multilocularis, pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Gene Library, pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Mice, Inbred BALB C, pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Rabbits, pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:19782112-Vaccines
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Evaluation of Echinococcus multilocularis tetraspanins as vaccine candidates against primary alveolar echinococcosis.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Collaboration and Education, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0020, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't