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A recombinant enolase from Anisakis simplex is differentially recognized in natural human and mouse experimental infections

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A 1,963-bp cDNA was isolated from an Anisakis simplex cDNA library by immunoscreening with a hyperimmune rabbit serum raised against a crude extract of A. simplex L3 larvae. The open reading frame encodes a putative protein of 436 amino acid residues, which exhibits high similarity (70–80%) to enolase molecules from various other organisms, including helminth parasites. After subcloning and expression of the A. simplex cDNA in PGEX-4T-3, the resulting glutathione S-transferase fusion protein, purified by glutathione-Sepharose-4B chromatography, showed functional enolase activity. The immunogenicity of the recombinant A. simplex enolase was analyzed by immunoblotting using sera obtained from (a) mice immunized with crude extracts (CE) of A. simplex, or other nematode species, (b) mice immunized with excretory–secretory (ES) antigens from A. simplex, or (c) mice infected with L3 larvae by the intraperitoneal route. In addition, we used ELISA, to investigate the presence of IgG1 and IgE antibodies against this molecule in sera from patients infected with A. simplex. Mouse sera obtained after infection with L3 or raised against CE antigens, but not sera raised against ES antigens, showed strong reactivity with the recombinant A. simplex enolase. We also obtained good reactivity in Western blotting with sera from mice immunized with CE antigens from Ascaris suum and Toxocara canis, but not with sera from mice immunized with CE antigens from Trichuris muris, Trichinella spiralis or Hysterothylacium aduncum. In contrast to the experimental infections/immunizations in mice, we were unable to detect anti-enolase IgE antibodies in sera from human patients infected with A.simplex (15 sera), and the levels of anti-enolase IgG1 antibodies in these sera were low and apparently nonspecific. These results seem to indicate that, during natural infection in humans, A. simplex larvae do not offer sufficient antigenic stimulus to induce anti-enolase antibodies.

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Acknowledgments

This present work was supported by grants SAF2002–04057 (Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Spain), 1028/97 (Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, Spain) and MPY 1337/01 (Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain).

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    Fernanda Romarís, Sonia Lorenzo & Florencio M. Ubeira

  3. Centro de Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

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Note: Nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper were submitted to the GenBank, EMBL and DDBJ databases under the accession number AJ496792.

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Rodríguez, E., Romarís, F., Lorenzo, S. et al. A recombinant enolase from Anisakis simplex is differentially recognized in natural human and mouse experimental infections. Med Microbiol Immunol 195, 1–10 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00430-005-0236-7

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