A synthetic dengue virus antigen elicits enhanced antibody titers when linked to, but not mixed with, Mycobacterium tuberculosis HSP70 domain II

Kolli, Rajesh ; Khanam, Saima ; Jain, Monika ; Ganju, Lilly ; Sai Ram, M. ; Khanna, Navin ; Swaminathan, S. (2006) A synthetic dengue virus antigen elicits enhanced antibody titers when linked to, but not mixed with, Mycobacterium tuberculosis HSP70 domain II Vaccine, 24 (22). pp. 4716-4726. ISSN 0264-410X

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Abstract

Domain II of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) heat shock protein 70 (HSP70), spanning amino acid residues 161–370, was covalently linked to a recently described synthetic dengue virus antigen to study the influence of the former on the immunogenicity of the latter. Using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, dengue antigen-specific antibody titers elicited by the fusion protein in Balb/c mice were an order of magnitude higher than those elicited by either the synthetic dengue antigen alone or a physical mixture of the dengue antigen plus Mtb HSP70 domain II protein. Our data demonstrate that (i) Mtb HSP70 domain II is capable of potentiating B-cell response and (ii) it should be covalently linked to the target antigen to do so.

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Keywords:Mycobacterium Tuberculosis; Dengue Virus; HSP70; Immunodominant Epitopes; Immune Response
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