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Immunisation With Immunodominant Linear B Cell Epitopes Vaccine of Manganese Transport Protein C Confers Protection against Staphylococcus aureus Infection.

ABSTRACT: Vaccination strategies for Staphylococcus aureus, particularly methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) infections have attracted much research attention. Recent efforts have been made to select manganese transport protein C, or manganese binding surface lipoprotein C (MntC), which is a metal ion associated with pathogen nutrition uptake, as potential candidates for an S. aureus vaccine. Although protective humoral immune responses to MntC are well-characterised, much less is known about detailed MntC-specific B cell epitope mapping and particularly epitope vaccines, which are less-time consuming and more convenient. In this study, we generated a recombinant protein rMntC which induced strong antibody response when used for immunisation with CFA/IFA adjuvant. On the basis of the results, linear B cell epitopes within MntC were finely mapped using a series of overlapping synthetic peptides. Further studies indicate that MntC113-136, MntC209-232, and MntC263-286 might be the original linear B-cell immune dominant epitope of MntC, furthermore, three-dimensional (3-d) crystal structure results indicate that the three immunodominant epitopes were displayed on the surface of the MntC antigen. On the basis of immunodominant MntC113-136, MntC209-232, and MntC263-286 peptides, the epitope vaccine for S. aureus induces a high antibody level which is biased to TH2 and provides effective immune protection and strong opsonophagocytic killing activity in vitro against MRSA infection. In summary, the study provides strong proof of the optimisation of MRSA B cell epitope vaccine designs and their use, which was based on the MntC antigen in the development of an MRSA vaccine.

SUBMITTER: Yang HJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4764517 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Immunisation With Immunodominant Linear B Cell Epitopes Vaccine of Manganese Transport Protein C Confers Protection against Staphylococcus aureus Infection.

Yang Hui-Jie HJ Zhang Jin-Yong JY Wei Chao C Yang Liu-Yang LY Zuo Qian-Fei QF Zhuang Yuan Y Feng You-Jun YJ Srinivas Swaminath S Zeng Hao H Zou Quan-Ming QM

PloS one 20160219 2

Vaccination strategies for Staphylococcus aureus, particularly methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) infections have attracted much research attention. Recent efforts have been made to select manganese transport protein C, or manganese binding surface lipoprotein C (MntC), which is a metal ion associated with pathogen nutrition uptake, as potential candidates for an S. aureus vaccine. Although protective humoral immune responses to MntC are well-characterised, much less is known about detailed ...[more]

PMID: 26895191

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Project description:The opportunistic pathogen Staphylococcus aureus has become a major threat for human health and well-being by developing resistance to antibiotics, and by its fast evolution into new lineages that rapidly spread within the healthy human population. This calls for the development of active or passive immunization strategies to prevent or treat acute phase infections. Since no such anti-staphylococcal immunization approaches are available as yet, the present studies were aimed at identifying new leads for their development. For this purpose, we thoroughly profiled the cell surface-exposed staphylococcal proteome by combining two surface shaving approaches. In parallel, non-covalently cell wall-bound proteins were extracted with KSCN and analyzed by gel-free proteomics, and also the exoproteome was analyzed through gel-free proteomics. Lastly, we screened a selection of the identified cell wall-attached proteins for binding of immunoglobulin G from patients that have been challenged with different types of S. aureus over extended periods of time due to chronic wound colonization. The combined results of these analyses highlight particular cell surface-exposed S. aureus proteins with highly immunogenic epitopes as potentially powerful targets for the development of protective anti-staphylococcal immunization strategies. Bioinformatics pipeline: Reduction and alkylation, desalting of the samples, mass spectrometric (MS) analysis and database searches were performed as previously described (PMID: 20662103). The strain-specific uniprot databases were used for the /S. aureus/ strains Newman and USA300, respectively including concatenated reversed databases with 5250 and 5298 entries. Validation of MS/MS-based peptide and protein identifications was performed with Scaffold (version Scaffold_2_04_00, Proteome Software Inc., Portland, OR). Peptide identifications were accepted if they exceeded the specific database search engine thresholds. Sequest identifications required at least deltaCn scores of greater than 0.10 and XCorr scores of greater than 1.9, 2.2, 3.8 and 3.8 for singly, doubly, triply and quadruply charged peptides, respectively. All experiments were conducted in independent triplicates. Peptides were only accepted as identified if they were detected in at least two out of the three replicates per sample set. With these filter parameters no false positive hits were obtained.

Project description:Staphylococcus aureus is a human pathogen that has developed several approaches to evade the immune system, including a strategy to resist oxidative killing by phagocytes. This resistance is mediated by production of superoxide dismutase (SOD) enzymes which use manganese as a cofactor. S. aureus encodes two manganese ion transporters, MntABC and MntH, and a possible Nramp family manganese transporter, exemplified by S. aureus N315 SA1432. Their relative contributions to manganese transport have not been well defined in clinically relevant isolates. For this purpose, insertional inactivation mutations were introduced into mntC, mntH, and SA1432 individually and in combination. mntC was necessary for full resistance to methyl viologen, a compound that generates intracellular free radicals. In contrast, strains with an intact mntH gene had a minimal increase in resistance that was revealed only in mntC strains, and no change was observed upon mutation of SA1432 in strains lacking both mntC and mntH Similarly, MntC alone was required for high cellular SOD activity. In addition, mntC strains were attenuated in a murine sepsis model. To further link these observations to manganese transport, an S. aureus MntC protein lacking manganese binding activity was designed, expressed, and purified. While circular dichroism experiments demonstrated that the secondary and tertiary structures of this protein were unaltered, a defect in manganese binding was confirmed by isothermal titration calorimetry. Unlike complementation with wild-type mntC, introduction of the manganese-binding defective allele into the chromosome of an mntC strain did not restore resistance to oxidative stress or virulence. Collectively, these results underscore the importance of MntC-dependent manganese transport in S. aureus oxidative stress resistance and virulence.IMPORTANCE Work outlined in this report demonstrated that MntC-dependent manganese transport is required for S. aureus virulence. These study results support the model that MntC-specific antibodies elicited by a vaccine have the potential to disrupt S. aureus manganese transport and thus abrogate to its virulence.

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Immunisation With Immunodominant Linear B Cell Epitopes Vaccine of Manganese Transport Protein C Confers Protection against Staphylococcus aureus Infection.

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Immunisation With Immunodominant Linear B Cell Epitopes Vaccine of Manganese Transport Protein C Confers Protection against Staphylococcus aureus Infection.

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