Chakhaiyar, P. and Nagalakshmi, Y. and Aruna, B. and Murthy, K.J.R. and Katoch, V.M. and Hasnain, S.E. (2004) Regions of High Antigenicity within the Hypothetical PPE Major Polymorphic Tandem Repeat Open‐Reading Frame, Rv2608, Show a Differential Humoral Response and a Low T Cell Response in Various Categories of Patients with Tuberculosis. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 190 (7). pp. 1237-1244. ISSN 0022-1899

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Abstract

The function of the PE/PPE families of proteins, which represent approximately 10% of the coding capacity of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome, has remained relatively unknown. We earlier described a PPE family member, Rv2430c, as an immunodominant antigen. We now report another PPE family gene, Rv2608, a member of the major polymorphic tandem repeat subfamily, for its ability to elicit a high humoral and a low T cell response. Rv2608 was also found to be polymorphic in different clinical isolates of M. tuberculosis, as determined by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment-length polymorphism analysis. A total of 51 clinically confirmed patients with tuberculosis (TB), belonging to 3 different categories--fresh infection (n=22), relapsed infection (n=21), and extrapulmonary infection (n=8)--and 10 healthy control subjects were included in the study. Recombinant Rv2608 protein showed positive reactivity to patients' serum samples. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and T cell-proliferation assays with synthetic peptides corresponding to predicted regions of high antigenicity showed a predominantly humoral response in patients with relapsed TB. We additionally identified the Gly-X-Gly-Asn-X-Gly repeat motifs as being primarily responsible for eliciting a humoral immune response.

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