Title
New serological tools for improved diagnosis of human tegumentary leishmaniasis
Date Issued
01 July 2016
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Costa L.E.
Salles B.C.S.
Alves P.T.
Dias A.C.S.
Vaz E.R.
Ramos F.F.
Menezes-Souza D.
Duarte M.C.
Roatt B.M.
Tavares C.A.P.
Gonçalves D.U.
Rocha M.O.C.
Goulart L.R.
Coelho E.A.F.
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Human tegumentary leishmaniasis (HTL), characterized by skin ulcers that may spread and cause dreadful and massive tissue destruction of the nose and mouth, is considered a neglected tropical disease, and it is a serious threat to global health due to its continuous expansion, favored by the lifecycle of its causative organism that is maintained in domestic animal reservoirs and anthropophilic sand fly species. Serodiagnosis of HTL is a great challenge due to many biological factors, including hampered specificity and/or sensitivity. This investigation addresses the unmet need for new diagnostic markers of HTL, and describes a simple platform to improve the serodiagnosis. A constrained conformational phage display random peptide library combined with a magnetic microsphere-based subtraction strategy was used to identify ligands with potential diagnostic applications. Six clones were selected against IgG antibodies from HTL patients, characterized by sequencing and confirmed by a phage-ELISA using sera from patients developing visceral leishmaniasis (n = 20), Chagas disease (n = 10), mucosal (n = 30) and cutaneous (n = 20) leishmaniasis; as well as from healthy subjects living in endemic (n = 20) and non-endemic (n = 30) areas of leishmaniasis. A wild-type M13-phage clone and a soluble Leishmania antigenic extract were used as negative and positive controls, respectively. Three clones reached 100% sensitivity and specificity, without any cross-reactivity with sera from patients with leishmaniasis-related diseases. Briefly, we describe for the first time a set of serological markers based on three immunodominant mimotopes that showed 100% accuracy, and that could be used in a phage-ELISA assay for the HTL serodiagnosis.
Start page
39
End page
45
Volume
434
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Inmunología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84963891338
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Immunological Methods
ISSN of the container
00221759
Sponsor(s)
The authors would like to thank to Dr. Manuel Soto (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, CSIC-UAM, Departamento de Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain) for his technical and scientific assistance. This work was supported by grants from Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Nano-Biofarmacêutica (INCT Nano-Biofar) , Rede Nanobiotec/Brasil-UFU ( CAPES ), PRONEX- FAPEMIG ( APQ-01019-09 ), FAPEMIG ( CBB-APQ-00819-12 and CBB-APQ-01778-2014 ), and CNPq ( APQ-482976/2012-8 , APQ-488237/2013-0 , and APQ-467640/2014-9 ). EAFC, MOCR and LRG are scientist fellows of CNPq. MACF is a grant recipient of FAPEMIG/CAPES.
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