Subunit composition and specificity of the major cyst fluid antigens of Echinococcus granulosus.

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology
Marshall W LightowlersM D Rickard

Abstract

The subunit composition and specificity of the major Echinococcus granulosus cyst fluid antigens were determined by immunochemical analysis using murine monoclonal antibodies against Antigen 5 and Antigen B and human sera. Immune complexes cut out from immunoelectrophoresis gels and murine hybridomas were used as a source of specific anti-Antigen 5 and anti-Antigen B antibodies. Immunoprecipitation and Western blot analyses in sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gels using these reagents identified Antigen 5 to be a heterodimer composed of 24-kDa and 38-kDa subunits linked by disulphide bonding. Antigen B comprised a regularly spaced group of molecules with the smallest subunit estimated to be 8 kDa and the other components each differing in size by approximately 8 kDa, i.e., 16 kDa, 24 kDa, 32 kDa etc.; all possibly derived from the 8-kDa monomer. The relative abundance of the Antigen B subunits decreased asymptotically with increasing molecular weight. Neither the Antigen 5 nor the Antigen B subunit was specific for E. granulosus. Both antigens generated readily detectable levels of specific antibody in the sera of patients with Echinococcus multilocularis, Echinococcus vogeli or E. granulosus infection. Relatively high le...Continue Reading

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