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Identification of novel antibody-reactive detection sites for comprehensive gluten monitoring.

ABSTRACT: Certain cereals like wheat, rye or barley contain gluten, a protein mixture that can trigger celiac disease (CD). To make gluten-free diets available for affected individuals the gluten content of foodstuff must be monitored. For this purpose, antibody-based assays exist which rely on the recognition of certain linear gluten sequence motifs. Yet, not all CD-active gluten constituents and fragments formed during food processing/fermentation may be covered by those tests. In this study, we therefore assayed the coverage of reportedly CD-active gluten components by currently available detection antibodies and determined the antibody-inducing capacity of wheat gluten constituents in order to provide novel diagnostic targets for comprehensive gluten quantitation. Immunizations of outbred mice with purified gliadins and glutenins were conducted and the linear target recognition profile of the sera was recorded using synthetic peptide arrays that covered the sequence space of gluten constituents present in those preparations. The resulting murine immunorecognition profile of gluten demonstrated that further linear binding sites beyond those recognized by the monoclonal antibodies ?20, R5 and G12 exist and may be exploitable as diagnostic targets. We conclude that the safety of foodstuffs for CD patients can be further improved by complementing current tests with antibodies directed against additional CD-active gluten components. Currently unrepresented linear gluten detection sites in glutenins and ?-gliadins suggest sequences QQQYPS, PQQSFP, QPGQGQQG and QQPPFS as novel targets for antibody generation.

SUBMITTER: Rockendorf N

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5536345 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Identification of novel antibody-reactive detection sites for comprehensive gluten monitoring.

Röckendorf Niels N Meckelein Barbara B Scherf Katharina A KA Schalk Kathrin K Koehler Peter P Frey Andreas A

PloS one 20170731 7

Certain cereals like wheat, rye or barley contain gluten, a protein mixture that can trigger celiac disease (CD). To make gluten-free diets available for affected individuals the gluten content of foodstuff must be monitored. For this purpose, antibody-based assays exist which rely on the recognition of certain linear gluten sequence motifs. Yet, not all CD-active gluten constituents and fragments formed during food processing/fermentation may be covered by those tests. In this study, we therefo ...[more]

PMID: 28759621

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Project description:Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic inflammation of the small intestine triggered by the ingestion of gluten in genetically predisposed individuals. Tissue transglutaminase (TG2) is a key factor in the pathogenesis of CD, because it catalyzes both the deamidation of specific glutamine residues and the formation of covalent Nε-(γ-glutamyl)-lysine isopeptide crosslinks resulting in TG2-gluten peptide complexes. These complexes are thought to activate B cells causing the secretion of anti-TG2 autoantibodies that serve as diagnostic markers for CD, although their pathogenic role remains unclear. To gain more insight into the molecular structures of TG2-gluten peptide complexes, we developed a reciprocal proteomic analysis strategy, which facilitates the comprehensive identification of isopeptides in a complex protein hydrolysate. The workflow consists of four steps: (1) performance of the model reaction between TG2 and gluten peptide(s) followed by tryptic hydrolysis, clean-up and untargeted nLC-MS/MS analysis (2), prediction of tryptic TG2-derived lysine peptides that serve as potential isopeptide modifications (3) the search for isopeptides by configuring the TG2-modifications in MaxQuant and search against the α-gliadin fasta file and (4) the reciprocal search for isopeptides by configuring the gluten peptide(s) as modification in MaxQuant and search against the TG2 fasta file. After verification by manual data curation and visualization, this strategy enabled the identification of 26 different isopeptides involving 19 TG2 lysine residues, only six of which were known previously. Experiments with different TG2-gluten peptide molar ratios revealed that K-425, K-590, K-600 and K-649 were the most preferred lysine residues involved in isopeptide crosslinking. Further, expanding the model system to three gluten peptides allowed the localization of the preferred glutamine crosslinking sites. The described strategy is generally applicable to any hydrolysate containing isopeptides and these new insights into the structure of TG2-gluten peptide complexes may help clarify the role of extracellular TG2 in CD autoimmunity and in other inflammatory diseases.

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Identification of novel antibody-reactive detection sites for comprehensive gluten monitoring.

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Identification of novel antibody-reactive detection sites for comprehensive gluten monitoring.

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