衣原体主要外膜蛋白的研究现状

衣原体主要外膜蛋白作为外膜复合物中的主要成分,与衣原体致病密切相关。该蛋白是一种跨膜蛋白,为衣原体引起机体免疫应答的重要免疫原,并为衣原体菌株进化及分类提供相关依据。因此,探讨衣原体主要外膜蛋白的结构与功能将有助于对衣原体致病机制及其诊断和预防等方面的研究。     

衣原体主要外膜蛋白的研究进展

衣原体感染与多种慢性疾病密切相关,其主要外膜蛋白(MOMP)是一种多功能蛋白,分别与外膜结构的稳定性、生长代谢调节、抗原性和毒力密切相关。随着沙眼衣原体和肺炎衣原体基因组测序的完成,人们得以揭示其重要的生物合成、代谢途径,确定调控机制及其与致病的相关性。利用分子生物学技术在分子水平分析衣原体主要外膜蛋白的结构、抗原表位,对于免疫防御、免疫病理和免疫诊断均有重要意义。本文综述了衣原体主要外膜蛋白的分子结构、基因特性、抗原表位与应用前景。     

肺炎衣原体研究进展

肺炎衣原体为１９８９年命名的衣原体属内的一个新种。近年来,有关肺炎衣原体的分子生物学研究取得了许多进展,特别是它的脂多糖（ＬＰＳ）和外膜蛋白、热休克蛋白的组成及其抗原性,基因的克隆与表达及其序列分析等研究已逐步深入;多聚酶链反应（ＰＣＲ）技术的应用也为肺炎衣原体实验室诊断开辟了快速而准确的途径。     

鹦鹉热衣原体主要外膜蛋白基因序列的扩增、克隆和原核表达

主要外膜蛋白在鹦鹉热衣原体感染过程中起主要作用。扩增了主要外膜蛋白基因,克隆入pGEM-T和pET32a( ),经PCR筛选和酶切鉴定,进行诱导表达和重组蛋白的纯化与复性研究,为进一步进行鹦鹉热衣原体的诊断试剂和疫苗研究创造了条件。     

肺炎衣原体毒力相关基因结构与功能的研究进展

肺炎衣原体是引起人类呼吸道和心血管疾病的重要病原体.目前血清分类法只有1个血清型,近年来对它的基因分析提示可能存在不同的基因型.由属特异抗原基因编码的主要外膜蛋白、热休克蛋白、脂多糖作为毒力因子,在肺炎衣原体致病过程中起主要作用,另外还有一些种特异抗原基因编码的毒力因子和由肺炎衣原体介导宿主产生的毒力因子.     

西伯利亚鲟致病性嗜水气单胞菌外膜蛋白及其抗原性分析

采用十二烷基肌氨酸钠(Sarkosyl)法提取西伯利亚鲟嗜水气单胞菌(Aeromonas hydrophila)外膜蛋白,电泳显示所提取的主要外膜蛋白分子量为26～120 kDa;为比较该菌株与气单胞菌菌属其他细菌外膜蛋白组分及抗原性异同,以致病性豚鼠气单胞菌(A.caviae)、温和气单胞菌(A.sobria)和无致病力的嗜水气单胞菌为对照,电泳图谱显示4种气单胞菌外膜蛋白的分子量主要集中在26～120 kDa之间;利用抗西伯利亚鲟嗜水气单胞菌血清的免疫印迹试验表明该菌株外膜蛋白中分子量为75 kDa、52 kDa、43 kDa、40 kDa、34 kDa、28 kDa的蛋白条带呈现阳性反应,其他3种气单胞菌外膜蛋白中均有与该抗血清反应的条带,且分子量为28 kDa、34 kDa的反应条带为4株菌共有;43 kDa与75 kDa反应条带为部分菌株共有.为进一步筛选和研究致病性气单胞菌的共同保护抗原提供参考.     

疫苗

941 060砂眼衣原体主要外膜蛋白在大肠杆菌中的表达〔英〕/Manoiog,D.S。…尹Infeet。Imm住n。-1993,61(10)。一4093~4095〔译自DBA,1993,12(22),93一12728〕 利用含主要外膜蛋白(MOMP)基因。mpl的质粒pTTQ一MOMP,在大肠杆菌DHS一a中表达砂眼衣原体MOMp。将DHS一a/pTTQ一MOMP培     

肺炎衣原体抗原研究进展

本文综述了肺炎衣原体抗原研究进展.肺炎衣原体抗原可分为3类属特异性抗原,包括脂多糖(LPS)、热休克蛋白(hsp)和主要外膜蛋白(MOMP);种特异性抗原,包括98×103、76×103、53×103、46×103蛋白和43×103蛋白以及型特异性抗原.     

嗜水气单胞菌外膜蛋白W 基因的表达及其免疫原性分析

从患暴发性败血病的草鱼病灶处分离鉴定了嗜水气单胞菌(Aeromonas hydrophila)Wp3菌株。以其基因组DNA为模板扩增外膜蛋白W基因(OmpW),该基因全长为865 bp,开放式阅读框(ORF)为615 bp,与标准株ATCC7966的OmpW基因的同源性为99.8%。根据ORF序列设计引物扩增OmpW成熟肽编码序列并将其插入到表达载体pQE30中,转化大肠杆菌,经诱导可表达分子量为24.7 kD的带His标签的融合外膜蛋白His-W。用此融合蛋白免疫草鱼,所得草鱼血清经ELISA分析显示呈现阳性反应,说明重组蛋白能诱导产生抗体。采用实时荧光定量PCR分析草鱼头肾组织IgM基因表达水平的变化,结果显示免疫组IgM的表达量均明显高于空白组,其中低浓度免疫组(2μg/g)与空白对照组的差异显著(P<0.05),说明融合蛋白可使草鱼产生良好的免疫应答并上调抗体基因表达、产生高效抗体。保护性实验显示,不同免疫剂量均可使免疫组获得较高保护率(57%?86%)。结果显示,重组嗜水气单胞菌外膜蛋白W可作为草鱼嗜水气单胞菌基因工程亚单位疫苗。     

衣原体分泌性蛋白研究进展

衣原体分泌性蛋白是由衣原体基因编码并分泌到宿主细胞胞浆中的具有酶活性蛋白,研究最多的是蛋白酶体样活性因子即CPAF。CPAF能抑制IFN-γ诱导的MHC分子的表达、裂解角蛋白-8并通过裂解宿主细胞唯BH3域蛋白参与抗凋亡作用。2005年又发现两种肺炎嗜衣原体的分泌性蛋白CPn0796和CPn0797,但对其研究不多。     

High-level expression and epitope localization of the major outer membrane protein of Chlamydia trachomatis serovar L1

Fragments of the gene encoding the major outer membrane porin protein (MOMP) of Chlamydia trachomatis serovar L1 were ligated into the pUC plasmid vectors to give a series of overlapping recombinants expressing MOMP from the lac promoter. Induction of this promoter with IPTG leads to high-level expression of the recombinant porin protein. Electron microscopy shows the presence of insoluble inclusions within the Escherichia coli host cells. Probing the expressed MOMP fragments with a set of monoclonal antibodies permitted localization of the four binding sites (epitopes) of primary-sequence-dependent monoclonal antibodies that exhibit genus-, species-, subspecies- and type (serovar)-specific reactivities.     

肺炎衣原体ompA基因VD2-VD3区重组蛋白在血清学诊断中的初步应用

应用聚合酶联反应(PCR)技术,从肺炎衣原体Chlamydia pneumoniae的主要外膜蛋白(Major Outer Membrane Protein,MOMP)编码基因(ompA)上扩增出抗原优势表位VD2-VD3区基因,构建原核表达系统并诱导表达重组蛋白,经Ni-NTA亲和层析法纯化表达产物。间接酶联免疫吸附试验(Enzyme link immunosorbent assay,ELISA)检测人血清中特异性IgG抗体。试验表明,转化入BL21大肠杆菌的重组质粒,能表达并纯化出相对分子质量(Mr)为24KD的重组蛋白。Western blot证实重组蛋白只与Cpn MOMP mAb发生特异性反应;重组蛋白用作ELISA包被抗原检测Cpn阴阳性参比血清,特异性和灵敏度均为100%;对126位冠心病患者血清进行的检测中,该间接ELISA法与晶美公司Cpn IgG ELISA诊断试剂盒的检测结果相比,符合率达到96.3%。结果证实,制备的重组蛋白MOMPVD2-VD3具有良好的免疫活性,在Cpn血清学诊断的应用中具有较大的利用价值。     

Overexpression and surface localization of the Chlamydia trachomatis major outer membrane protein in Escherichia coli

The Chlamydia trachomatis major outer membrane protein (MOMP) is the quantitatively predominant surface protein which has important functional, structural and antigenic properties. We have cloned and overexpressed the MOMP in Escherichia coli. The MOMP is surface exposed in C. trachomatis and capable of eliciting protective antibodies in infected hosts, and therefore has potential as a candidate vaccine to prevent infection with this significant human pathogen. The recombinant MOMP clone, L2rMOMP, contained the entire MOMP gene including the encoded leader sequence. Large quantities of chlamydial MOMP were expressed, some of which was processed and translocated to the E. coli surface. Surface localization of the MOMP was demonstrated by the binding of anti-MOMP monoclonal antibodies to the surface of the induced clone, and was visualized by fluorescence and electron microscopy. The induction of MOMP expression had a rapidly lethal effect on the L2rMOMP E. coli clone. Although no genetic system exists for Chlamydia, development of a stable, inducible E. coli clone which overexpresses the chlamydial MOMP permits a study of the biological properties of the MOMP, including the contribution of the MOMP variable segments to the topographical interactions which determine the antigenic structure responsible for human immune response.     

Characterization of the disulfide bonds and free cysteine residues of the Chlamydia trachomatis mouse pneumonitis major outer membrane protein

Members of the genus Chlamydia lack a peptidoglycan layer. As a substitute for peptidoglycan, it has been proposed that several cysteine rich proteins, including the major outer membrane protein (MOMP), form disulfide bonds to provide rigidity to the cell wall. Alignment of the amino acids sequences of the MOMP from various serovars of Chlamydia showed that they have from 7 to 10 cysteine residues and seven of them are highly conserved. Which of these are free cysteine residues and which are involved in disulfide bonds is unknown. The complexity of the outer membrane of Chlamydia precludes at this point the characterization of the structure of the cysteines directly in the bacteria. Therefore, mass spectrometric analysis of a purified and refolded MOMP was used in this study. Characterization of the structure of this preparation of the MOMP is critical because it has been shown, in an animal model, to be a very effective vaccine against respiratory and genital infections. Here, we demonstrated that in this MOMP preparation four cysteines are involved in disulfide bonds, with intramolecular pairs formed between Cys(48) and Cys(55) and between Cys(201) and Cys(203). A stepwise alkylation, reduction, alkylation process using two different alkylating reagents was required to establish the Cys(48)-Cys(55) disulfide pair. The other residues in MOMP, Cys(51), Cys(136), Cys(226), and Cys(351), are free cysteines and could potentially form disulfide-linked complexes with other MOMP or other membrane proteins.     

The major outer membrane protein of Haemophilus ducreyi consists of two OmpA homologs.

The major outer membrane protein (MOMP) of Haemophilus ducreyi is an OmpA homolog that migrates on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) gels as three species with apparent molecular weights ranging from 37,000 to 43,000. Monoclonal antibodies directed against this macromolecule were used to identify recombinant clones containing fragments of the gene encoding this protein. Nucleotide sequence analysis of these fragments confirmed that the MOMP encoded by the intact gene (momp) was a member of the OmpA family of outer membrane proteins. Construction of an isogenic H. ducreyi mutant unable to express the MOMP led to the discovery of a second outer membrane protein which migrated at the same rate on SDS-PAGE gels as the MOMP. N-terminal amino acid sequence analysis of this second protein revealed that its N terminus was nearly identical to that of the MOMP and also had homology with members of the OmpA family. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the region downstream from the momp gene revealed the presence of a partial open reading frame encoding a predicted OmpA-like protein. A modification of anchored PCR technology was used to obtain the nucleotide sequence of this downstream gene which was shown to encode a second OmpA homolog (OmpA2). The N-terminal amino acid sequence of OmpA2 was identical to that of the OmpA-like protein detected in the momp mutant. The H. ducreyi MOMP and OmpA2 proteins, which comigrated on SDS-PAGE gels and which were encoded by the tandem arranged momp and ompA2 genes, were 72% identical.     

Proteolytic cleavage of the Chlamydia pneumoniae major outer membrane protein in the absence of Pmp10

The genome of the obligate intracellular bacteria Chlamydia pneumoniae contains 21 genes encoding polymorphic membrane proteins (Pmp). While no function has yet been attributed to the Pmps, they may be involved in an antigenic variation of the Chlamydia surface. It has previously been demonstrated that Pmp10 is differentially expressed in the C. pneumoniae CWL029 isolate. To evaluate whether the absence of Pmp10 in the outer membrane causes further changes to the C. pneumoniae protein profile, we subcloned the CWL029 isolate and selected a clone with minimal Pmp10 expression. Subsequently, we compared the proteome of the CWL029 isolate with the proteome of the subcloned strain and identified a specific cleavage of the C-terminal part of the major outer membrane protein (MOMP), which occurred only in the absence of Pmp10. In contrast, when Pmp10 was expressed we predominantly observed full-length MOMP. No other proteins appeared to be regulated according to the presence or absence of Pmp10. These results suggest a close association between MOMP and Pmp10, where Pmp10 may protect the C-terminal part of MOMP from proteolytic cleavage.     

对虾白斑综合症病毒囊膜蛋白VP19的融合表达及其抗病毒感染作用

根据GenBank上WSSV囊膜蛋白基因vp19的序列,设计并合成引物,PCR扩增得到vp19基因并克隆到pGEM‐T载体中,经过BamHⅠ/HindⅢ酶切、连接并将vp19插入到pET32b表达载体中。用重组质粒pET32b-vp19转化大肠杆菌Origam(iDE3)pLysS,在IPTG诱导下,融合蛋白Trx-VP19以可溶性的形式得到表达,经SDS-PAGE和Western-blot检测显示其分子量与预期的大小相符合。目的蛋白经Ni2 柱纯化并定量后分别直接注射鳌虾和包被饲料投喂鳌虾。实验结果表明注射Trx-VP19可以提高鳌虾个体抗WSSV感染力的作用。