Identification and partial characterization of Trypanosoma cruzi antigens recognized by T cells and immune sera from patients with Chagas' disease.

Infection and Immunity
R T GazzinelliJ Scharfstein

Abstract

Trypanosoma cruzi antigenic specificities involved in human T-cell and antibody responses were compared in chronic chagasic patients affected with cardiomyopathy (C) or with the indeterminate form (I), the asymptomatic form of chronic Chagas' disease. T-cell Western blotting (immunoblotting) was performed to identify the most active antigens in epimastigote extracts (EPI-Ag). The patterns of peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) and T-cell proliferative responses induced by fractions blotted to nitrocellulose were heterogeneous, but the computation of their frequency distribution disclosed some important antigen specificities. Molecules ranging from 100 to 150 kilodaltons (kDa) were frequently stimulatory to PBMC from I patients (5 of 8 cases) and were less so when confronted with C patient (1 of 7 cases) lymphocytes. In contrast, both groups of patients actively responded to fractions ranging from 48 to 57 and 28 to 32 kilodaltons (kDa). The Western immunoblotting patterns of antibody reactivity displayed by 17 C and 15 I patients were also similar, yielding outstanding staining in the molecular mass ranges of 70 to 80 and 43 to 57 kDa. The latter antigen complex was recognized by 100% of the 32 chronic Chagas' disease seru...Continue Reading

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