Immunogenicity and biophysical properties of a Nocardia brasiliensis protease involved in pathogenesis of mycetoma

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-44

  Licón Trillo, Ángel ^a   Castro Corona, M Ángeles ^a   Salinas Carmona, Mario César ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN   (Mexico)

^b NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Immunogenicity; Mycetoma; Nocardia brasiliensis; Pathogenesis; Protease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; CELL EXTRACT; CYTOKINE; HYPERIMMUNE GLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PROTEINASE;

ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; FEMALE; HOMOGENATE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGENICITY; MALE; MOUSE; MYCETOMA; NOCARDIA BRASILIENSIS; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 17944383711     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(03)00102-0     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Pinoy E. Actinomycoses and mycetoma. Bull. Inst. Pasteur. 11:1913;929-938.
2. López-Martínez R., Méndez-Tovar L.J., Lavalle P., Welsh O., Saúl A., Macotela Ruiz E. Epidemiología del micetoma en México: estudio de 2105 casos. Gac. Med. Mex. 128:1992;477-481.
3. Welsh, O., Salinas, M.C. and Rodríguez, M.A. (1995) Treatment of eumycetoma and actinomycetoma. In: Current Topics in Medical Mycology (Borgers, M., Hay, R. and Rinaldi, M.G., Eds.), pp. 47-71. J.R. Prous Science Publishers, Barcelona.
4. Salinas-Carmona M.C., Vera L., Welsh O., Rodríguez M. Antibody response to Nocardia brasiliensis antigens in man. Zbl. Bakteriol. 276:1992;390-397.
5. Vera-Cabrera L., Salinas-Carmona M.C., Welsh-Lozano O., Rodríguez M.A. Isolation and purification of two immunodominant antigens from Nocardia brasiliensis. J. Clin. Microbiol. 30:1992;1183-1187.
6. Salinas-Carmona M.C., Welsh O., Casillas S.M. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for serological diagnosis of Nocardia brasiliensis and clinical correlation with mycetoma infections. J. Clin. Microbiol. 31:1993;2901-2906.
7. Salinas-Carmona M.C., Torres-López E., Ramos A.I., Licon-Trillo A., González-Spencer D. Immune response to Nocardia brasiliensis antigens in an experimental model of actinomycetoma in BALB/c mice. Infect. Immun. 67:1999;2428-2432.
8. Beaman B.L., Gershwin M.E., Ahmed A., Scates S.M., Deem R. Response of CBA/N × DBA2/F1 mice to Nocardia asteroides. Infect. Immun. 35:1982;111-116.
9. Rico G., Ochoa R., Oliva A. Enhanced resistance to Nocardia brasiliensis infection in mice depleted of antigen-specific B cells. J. Immunol. 129:1982;1688-1693.
10. Salinas-Carmona M.C., Torres-López E. Role of passive humoral immunity in experimental mycetoma by Nocardia brasiliensis. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 797:1996;263-265.
11. Salinas-Carmona M.C., Pérez L.I., Welsh O., Rodríguez M., Rinaldi M.G. Identification of intracellular proteases from Nocardia brasiliensis. J. Mycol. Med. 2:1992;1-6.
12. Bradford M. A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding. Anal. Biochem. 72:1976;248-254.
13. Laemmli V.K. Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. Nature. 227:1970;680-685.
14. McLaughlin J., Faubert G. Partial purification and some properties of a neutral sulphydryl and an acid proteinase from E. histolytic. Can. J. Microbiol. 23:1977;420-425.
15. Loomes L.M., Senior B.W., Kerr M.A. Proteinases of Proteus spp.: purification, properties and detection in urine of infected patients. Infect. Immun. 60:1992;2267-2273.
16. Dunn, B.M. (1993) Determination of protease mechanism. In: Proteolytic Enzymes, a Practical Approach (Beynon, R.J. and Bond, J.S., Eds.), pp. 57-81. IRL Press, Oxford.
17. Gabriel, O. and Gersten, D.M. (1992) Detection of enzymatic activity after polyacrylamide electrophoresis and agarose gel isoelectric focusing. In: Enzyme Assays, a Practical Approach (Eisenthal, R. and Danson, M.J., Eds.), pp. 217-253. Oxford University Press, New York.
18. Engvall E., Perlmann P. Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay, ELISA. J. Immunol. 109:1972;129-135.
19. Zlotnik H., Schramm V.L., Buckley H.R. Purification and partial characterization of a Nocardia brasiliensis extracellular protease. J. Bacteriol. 157:1984;627-631.
20. Tsuboi R., Yamaguchi T., Matsuda K., Ogawa H. Extracellular proteinase production and the pathogenicity of Nocardiae. Arch. Dermatol. Res. 281:1989;78-80.
21. Cross, T. (1994) The actinomycetes, Groups 22-29, Growth and examination of actinomycetes. In: Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology (Holt, J.G., Krieg, N.R., Sneath, P.H.A., Staley, J.T. and Williams, S.T., Eds.), 9th edn., pp. 605-703. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, MD.