The Echinococcus granulosus antigen EgA31: Localization during development and immunogenic properties

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 489-501

  Saboulard, Didier ^a   Lahmar, Samia ^c   Petavy, Anne Françoise ^b   Bosquet, Georges ^a  

^a CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c Ecole Nationale de Medecine Veterinaire   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PARASITE ANTIGEN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; PROTEIN EGA31; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GUINEA PIG; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CAVIA PORCELLUS; CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 1542407033     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3024.2003.00663.x     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Thompson RCA. In Echinococcus and Hydatid Disease, ed. Thompson, RCA. Wallingford: Thompson-Lymbery; 1995: 1.
2. Kittelberger R, Reichel MP, Jenner J et al. Evaluation of three enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) for the detection of serum antibodies in sheep infected with Echinococcus granulosus. Vet Parasitol 2002; 110: 57-76.
3. Ortona E, Rigano R, Buttari B et al. An update on immuno-diagnosis of cystic echinococcosis. Acta Trop 2003; 85: 165-171.
4. Sbihi Y, Rmiqui A, Rodriguez-Cabezas MN et al. Comparative sensitivity of six serological tests and diagnostic value of ELISA using purified antigen in hydatidosis. J Clin Lab Anal 2001; 15: 14-18.
5. Gonzalez-Sapienza G, Lorenzo C & Nieto A. Improved immuno-diagnosis of cystic hydatid disease by using a synthetic peptide with higher diagnostic value than that of its parent protein, Echinococcus granulosus antigen. J Clin Microbiol 2000; 38: 3979-3983.
6. Virginio VG, Hernandez A, Rott MB et al. A set of recombinant antigens from Echinococcus granulosus with potential for use in the immunodiagnosis of human cystic hydatid disease. Clin Exp Immunol 2003; 132: 309-315.
7. Lightowlers MW & Gauci CG. Vaccines against cysticercosis and hydatidosis. Vet Parasitol 2001; 101: 337-352.
8. Heath DD, Jensen O & Lightowlers MW. Progress in control of hydatidosis using vaccination: a review of formulation and delivery of the vaccine and recommendations for practical use in control programmes. Acta Trop 2003; 85: 133-143.
9. Mastroeni P, Chabalgoity JA, Dunstan SJ et al. Salmonella: immune responses and vaccines. Vet J 2001; 161: 104-106.
10. Dalton JP & Mulcahy G. Parasite vaccines: a reality? Vet Parasitol 2001; 98: 149-167.
11. Dalton JP, Brindley PJ, Knox DP et al. Helminth vaccines: from mining genomic information for vaccine targets to systems used for protein expression. Int J Parasitol 2003; 33: 621-640.
12. Chow C, Gauci CG, Cowman AF & Lightowlers MW. A gene family expressing a host-protective antigen of Echinococcus granulosus. Mol Biochem Parasitol 2001; 118: 83-88.
13. Woollard DJ, Gauci CG, Heath DD & Lightowlers MW. Protection against hydatid disease induced with the EG95 vaccine is associated with conformational epitopes. Vaccine 2000; 19: 498-507.
14. Cortez-Herrera E, Yamamoto RR, Rodrigues JJ et al. Echinococcus granulosus: Cloning and functional in vitro characterization of an actin filament fragmenting protein. Exp Parasitol 2001; 97: 215-225.
15. Siles-Lucas M, Nunes CP, Zaha A & Breijo M. The 14-3-3 protein is secreted by the adult worm of Echinococcus granulosus. Parasite Immunol 2000; 22: 521-528.
16. Gonzalez G, Spinelli P, Lorenzo C et al. Molecular characterization of P-29, a metacestode-specific component of Echinococcus granulosus which is immunologically related to, but distinct from, antigen 5. Mol Biochem Parasitol 2000; 105: 177-184.
17. Lorenzo C, Salinas G, Brugnini A et al. Echinococcus granulosus antigen 5 is closely related to proteases of the trypsin family. Biochem J 2003; 369: 191-198.
18. Chabalgoity JA, Harrison JA, Esteves A et al. Expression and immunogenicity of an Echinococcus granulosus fatty acid-binding protein in live attenuated Salmonella vaccine strains. Infect Immun 1997; 65: 2402-2412.
19. Chabalgoity JA, Moreno M, Carol H et al. Salmonella typhimurium as a basis for a live oral Echinococcus granulosus vaccine. Vaccine 2000; 19: 460-469.
20. Fu Y, Martinez C, Chalar C et al. A new potent antigen from Echinococcus granulosus associated with muscles and tegument. Mol Biochem Parasitol 1999; 102: 43-52.
21. Laemmli UK. Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. Nature 1970; 227: 680-685.
22. Towbin H, Staehelin T & Gordon J. Electrophoretic transfer of proteins from polyacrylamide gels to nitrocellulose sheets: procedure and some applications. Biotechnology 1992; 24: 145-149.
23. Fu Y, Saint-Andre Marchai I, Marchai T et al. Cellular immune response of lymph nodes from dogs following the intradermal injection of a recombinant antigen corresponding to a 66 kDa protein of Echinococcus granulosus. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 2000; 74: 195-208.
24. Thompson RCA, Houghton A & Zaman V. A study of the microtriches of adult Echinococcus granulosus by scanning electron microscopy. Int J Parasitol 1982; 12: 579-583.
25. Bui LT, Stenzel DJ & Jones MK. Reappraisal of vesicular types in the syncytial tegument of the Echinococcus granulosus protoscolex. Parasitol Res 1999; 85: 35-40.
26. Holcman B & Heath DD. The early stages of Echinococcus granulosus development. Acta Trop 1997; 64: 5-17.
27. Pawlowski ID, Yap KW & Thompson RC. Observations on the possible origin, formation and structure of calcareous corpuscles in taeniid cestodes. Parasitol Res 1988; 74: 293-296.
28. Vargas-Parada L & Laclette JP. Role of the calcareous corpuscles in cestode physiology: a review. Rev Latinoam Microbiol 1999; 41: 303-307.
29. Yang HJ. Separation of calcareous corpuscles from plerocercoids of Spirometra mansoni and their binding proteins. Parasitol Res 2000; 86: 781-782.
30. Chung YB, Kong Y, Cho SY & Yang HJ. Purification and localization of a 10 kDa calcareous corpuscle binding protein of Spirometra mansoni plerocercoid. Parasitol Res 2003; 89: 235-237.
31. Lahmar S, Kilani M & Torgerson PR. Frequency distributions of Echinococcus granulosus and other helminths in stray dogs in Tunisia. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 2001; 95: 69-76.
32. Gemmell MA & Lawson JR. Epidemiology and control of hydatid disease. In The Biology of Echinococcus and Hydatid Disease, ed. Thompson RCA. London: Allen & Unwin; 1986: 189-216.
33. Deplazes P, Thompson RC, Constantine CC & Penhale WJ. Primary infection of dogs with Echinococcus granulosus: systemic and local (Peyer's patches) immune responses. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 1994; 40: 171-184.
34. Herd RP. Resistance of dogs to Echinococcus granulosus. Int J Parasitol 1977; 7: 135-138.
35. Vuitton DA. The ambiguous role of immunity in echinococcosis: protection of the host or of the parasite? Acta Trop 2003; 85: 119-132.