Cloning and B-cell-epitope mapping of MPT64 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv.

Infection and Immunity
T Oettinger, A B Andersen

Abstract

The gene of the immunogenic protein MPT64 found in culture filtrates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv was cloned and sequenced. A comparison showed mpt64 and the gene encoding MPB64 from Mycobacterium bovis BCG Tokyo to be identical except for one silent mutation. The regions encoding the promoter and the signal peptide were also well conserved for the two sequences. Southern blot experiments on genomic mycobacterial DNA showed the presence of mpt64 in the M. tuberculosis substrains H37Rv, H37Ra, and Erdman and in the M. bovis BCG substrains Tokyo, Moreau, and Russian, whereas the M. bovis BCG substrains Glaxo, Pasteur, Canadian, Tice, and Danish 1331 and Mycobacterium leprae lack the gene. Southern blot analyses revealed differences in the restriction enzyme patterns within the M. tuberculosis substrains as well as within the M. bovis BCG substrains, indicating either different chromosomal localization of mpt64 or that mutations have occurred at different locations on the chromosomes. N-terminal and C-terminal deletion mutants were constructed for the mapping of B-cell epitopes on MPT64 with five monoclonal antibodies, C24b1, C24b2, C24b3, L24b4, and L24b5. Western blot (immunoblot) analysis revealed that the murine antibod...Continue Reading

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