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第一作者： Zhang, Yan Li

作者： Zhang, Yan Li;Li, Yun Yan;Zhao, Ben Peng;Yuan, Chun Xiu;Yang, Jian Mei;Lin, Jiao Jiao;Feng, Xin Gang;Li, Yun Yan;Zhao, Ben Peng

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期刊名称：PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH （ 影响因子：2.289； 五年影响因子：2.403 ）

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摘要： The tegument of schistosomula contains T cell antigens that might simulate the protective mechanisms of the radiation-attenuated vaccine in a mouse model of schisto-somiasis. Immune mechanisms mediated by the CD4+ Th1 response are important in the RAV model. To rapidly identify Th1 epitopes in molecules from the Schistosoma japonicum schistosomula tegument, this study analyzed S. japonicum proteomics data. Preliminary experiments identified a protein similar to prosaposin (SjPSAP) from the tegument of schistosomula. We confirmed that SjPSAP was present in the tegument of the parasite using an indirect immunofluores-cence assay. We then identified Th cell epitopes in SjPSAP using in silico prediction combined with experimental validation. From the SjPSAP sequence, we used several algorithms to predict 11 promiscuous Th cell epitopes that might bind to both murine and human MHC class II molecules. To validate the in silico predictions, proliferation and cytokine production profiles of spleen lymphocytes from BALB/c mice immunized with the 11 predicted peptides were measured in vitro using a modified methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium assay and flow cytometry. The results showed that 4 of the 11 predicted peptides induced a recall CD4+ Th1 response in vitro. We measured direct binding of the four peptides predicted to induce a response to antigen-presenting cells from BALB/c mice using a fluorometric method and found that the peptides bound to both I-Ad and I-Ed mouse molecules. These results demonstrated that potentially protective Th1-type epitopes in SjPSAP molecules could be identified rapidly by combining in silico prediction with experimental validation. This strategy could be a fast method for identifying Th1 epitopes in a schistosoma antigen with features such as large size or poor expression of recombinant antigens.

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