Epidemiological survey of serum titers from adults against various Gram-negative bacterial V-antigens

PloS One
Mao KinoshitaTeiji Sawa

Abstract

The V-antigen, a virulence-associated protein, was first identified in Yersinia pestis more than half a century ago. Since then, other V-antigen homologs and orthologs have been discovered and are now considered as critical molecules for the toxic effects mediated by the type III secretion system during infections caused by various pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria. After purifying recombinant V-antigen proteins, including PcrV from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, LcrV from Yersinia, LssV from Photorhabdus luminescens, AcrV from Aeromonas salmonicida, and VcrV from Vibrio parahaemolyticus, we developed an enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay to measure titers against each V-antigen in sera collected from 186 adult volunteers. Different titer-specific correlation levels were determined for the five V-antigens. The anti-LcrV and anti-AcrV titers shared the highest correlation with each other with a correlation coefficient of 0.84. The next highest correlation coefficient was between anti-AcrV and anti-VcrV titers at 0.79, while the lowest correlation was found between anti-LcrV and anti-VcrV titers, which were still higher than 0.7. Sera from mice immunized with one of the five recombinant V-antigens displayed cross-antigenicity with some...Continue Reading

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