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PLoS One ; 13(8): e0200298, 2018.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30092023

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Mycolic acids (MA) are major, species-specific lipid components of Mycobacteria and related genera. In Mycobacterium tuberculosis, it is made up of alpha-, methoxy- and keto-MA, each with specific biological functions and conformational characteristics. Antibodies in tuberculosis (TB) patient sera respond differently towards the three MA classes and were reported to cross-react with cholesterol. To understand the antigenicity and cholesterol cross-reactivity of MA, we generated three different chicken -derived phage-displayed single-chain variable fragments (scFv) that reacted similarly towards the natural mixture of MA, but the first recognized all three classes of chemically synthetic MAs, the second only the two oxygenated types of MAs and the third only methoxy MA. The cholesterol cross-reactivity was investigated after grafting each of the three scFv types onto two configurations of constant chain domains-CH1-4 and CH2-4. Weak but significant cross-reactivity with cholesterol was found only with CH2-4 versions, notably those two that were also able to recognize the trans-keto MA. The cholesteroid nature of mycobacterial mycolic acids therefore seems to be determined by the trans-keto MA subclass. The significantly weaker binding to cholesterol in comparison to MA confirms the potential TB diagnostic application of these antibodies.


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Colesterol/imunologia , Mycobacterium tuberculosis/imunologia , Ácidos Micólicos/imunologia , Anticorpos de Cadeia Única/imunologia , Animais , Proteínas Aviárias/imunologia , Galinhas , Colesterol/química , Reações Cruzadas , Ensaio de Imunoadsorção Enzimática , Células HEK293 , Humanos , Estrutura Molecular , Ácidos Micólicos/síntese química , Ácidos Micólicos/química , Ligação Proteica , Engenharia de Proteínas , Proteínas Recombinantes , Sensibilidade e Especificidade
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