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• W1483141804 abstract "African animal trypanosomosis or nagana is a tsetse fly-transmitted disease, caused by Trypanosoma congolense, T. vivax and to a lesser extent T. brucei brucei. The disease causes major losses in revenue in many livestock-producing African countries. The available control methods, including chemotherapeutic drugs and insecticidal spraying, have becomeenvironmentally unacceptable. Antigenic variation displayed by the parasites has hindered vaccine development efforts. In this context, rather than focusing solely on the parasite itself, efforts in vaccine development have shifted towards targeting pathogenic factors released by theparasites during infection. Congopain, the major cysteine protease of T. congolense, has been shown to act as a pathogenic factor in the disease process. Analysis of the immune response of trypano-tolerant cattle revealed that these animals have the ability to control congopain activity in vivo. Therefore, congopain is an attractive vaccine candidate. To test the protective potential of congopain, immunisation studies had been conducted in cattle using the baculovirus-expressed catalytic domain of congopain (C2) in RWL, a saponin-based proprietary adjuvant from SmithKline-Beecham. Immunised animals were partially protected against a disease caused by an infection with T.congolense. Unfortunately, subsequent attempts to reproduce these results were disappointing. Itwas hypothesised that this failure could be due to the different expression system (P. pastoris) used to produce the antigen (C2), or the different adjuvant, ISA206 (Seppic), used, thus hinting towards an epitope presentation problem. Congopain had been shown to dimerise atphysiological pH in vitro. Sera from trypano-tolerant cattle preferentially recognised the dimer conformation, advocating for protective epitopes to be dimer associated. For that reason, the present study aimed at improving the antigenicity of congopain through firstly, the elucidation ofthe protective epitopes associated with the dimer, secondly, the determination of the 3-D structure of the protease in order to map protective epitopes to later design mimotopes, and thirdly improve the delivery of congopain to the immune cells while maintaining theconformation of the protease by using a molecular adjuvant, BiP. A dimerisation model was proposed, identifying the amino acid residues forming the dimerisation motif of congopain. In the present study, particular amino acid residues located in the dimerisation motif were mutated by PCR-based site-directed mutagenesis to generate mutants with different dimerisation capabilities. The congopain mutants were expressed in yeast and their dimerisation capability was assessed by PhastGel® SDS-PAGE. The mutations altered both the electrophoretic mobility of the mutants and their enzymatic characteristics compared to wild-type congopain. This advocated for the involvement of these amino acid residues in the dimerisation process, although they seem not to be the only partakers. Wild-type C2 and mutant forms of C2 were…" @default.
• W1483141804 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W1483141804 creator A5066000460 @default.
• W1483141804 date "2009-01-01" @default.
• W1483141804 modified "2023-09-28" @default.
• W1483141804 title "Structural studies aimed at improving the antigenicity of congopain." @default.
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