Alvarez P, Leguizamón M S, Buscaglia C A, Pitcovsky T A, Campetella O
Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas, Universidad Nacional de General San Martin, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Infect Immun. 2001 Dec;69(12):7946-9. doi: 10.1128/IAI.69.12.7946-7949.2001.
The repetitive shed acute-phase antigen (SAPA) from Trypanosoma cruzi was thoroughly mapped by SPOT peptides and phage display strategies, showing that a single SAPA repeat is composed of multiple overlapping B-cell epitopes. We propose that this intricate antigenic structure constitutes an alternative device to repetitiveness in order to improve its immunogenicity.
通过斑点肽和噬菌体展示策略对克氏锥虫的重复性脱落急性期抗原(SAPA)进行了全面定位,结果表明单个SAPA重复序列由多个重叠的B细胞表位组成。我们提出,这种复杂的抗原结构构成了一种重复性的替代机制,以提高其免疫原性。