Polymorphism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein MPT64 in China and its impact on the sensitivity of MPT64-based diagnostic kit
QIU Yan, JIANG Yi, LIU Hai-can, LI Ma-chao, WAN Kang-lin, LIU Zhi-guang
State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Beijing 102206,China
Abstract:ObjectiveTo investigate the polymorphism of the antigen MPT64 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) in China and its impact on T/B cell epitopes and to further explore its impact on detection of tuberculosis (TB) infection by an immunochromatographic assay using Mycobacterium tuberculosis( M.tuberculosis) diagnostic kit (colloidal gold method).MethodsWe selected 180 clinical isolates from 2,346 MTBC preserved in the Tuberculosis Laboratory, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Comparative sequence analysis was performed on the MPT64 genes after amplification and comparison was made between the polymorphisms of T/B cell epitopes and of non-epitopes. Then the strains with mutations and those without mutations were incubated by BACTEC MGIT 960 system. After the strains were detected positive by the system , protein MPT64 was determined by an immunochromatographic assay using anti-MPT64 monoclonal antibodies marked with colloidal gold.ResultsAmong the 180 isolates in this study, fifteen strains (8.33%, including 2 BCG strains) presented polymorphisms in the MPT64 protein. Eight of the 13 strains had a 63bp deletion, while four strains showed single-base nonsynonymous mutations and one strain had a single-base insertion . The mutations of MPT64 gene led to changes in 13 T cell epitopes (56.52%) and 4 B cell epitopes(80%), and the values of dN/dS in the antigen epitope regions of T cell and B cell were obviously higher than those in the non-epitope regions. When being tested by M.tuberculosis diagnostic kit (colloidal gold method), eight strains with 63bp deletion showed negative results, whereas five strains with single-base mutations and all the wild strains had positive ones.ConclusionsPolymorphism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein MPT64 is one of the reason for its antigen change. It can lead to related functional change of the antigen and induce immunologic escape. A 63bp deletion causes false negative results in the detection of MPT64 antigen by M.tuberculosis diagnostic kit (colloidal gold method), while the single-base mutation do not affect the detection performance of the kit.
仇艳,蒋毅,刘海灿,李马超,万康林,刘志广. 中国结核分支杆菌MPT64蛋白多态性及对MPT64抗原检测试剂盒的敏感性影响[J]. 实用预防医学, 2015, 22(4): 385-389.
QIU Yan, JIANG Yi, LIU Hai-can, LI Ma-chao, WAN Kang-lin, LIU Zhi-guang. Polymorphism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein MPT64 in China and its impact on the sensitivity of MPT64-based diagnostic kit. , 2015, 22(4): 385-389.
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