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| Author(s): |
Aline Rodrigues Florencio Teixeira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas (ICB/SDI) |
| Defense date: | 2016-04-07 |
| Examining board members: |
Ana Lucia Tabet Oller do Nascimento;
Michelle Darrieux Sampaio Bertoncini;
Roxane Maria Fontes Piazza;
Rita de Cássia Ruiz;
Rosa Maria Silva
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| Advisor: | Ana Lucia Tabet Oller do Nascimento |
| Abstract | |
Leptospirosis is a systemic disease caused by pathogenic bacteria of genus Leptospira. The development of new strategies to prevent the disease is needed. Vaccines emerge as strong candidates to fight the problem.Currently research has focused to identify conserved antigens This project selected three hypothetical proteins of L. interrogans. Thesecoding sequences were characterized for their possible role in pathogenesis and their potential to protect animals against challenge with virulent leptospires. Genes were amplified by PCR and cloned into the expression vector pAE. The recombinant proteins were purified by metal affinity chromatography and were recognized by confirmed human leptospirosis serum samples.LIC13479 and LIC10050 proteins were able to bind with laminin, plasminogen and plasma fibronectin. The coding sequence LIC10537 was cloned in two fragments. Fragment 2was able to interact with plasminogen. All proteins were able to generate active plasmin. The recombinant proteins were able of inducing an immune response. Evaluation of immunoprotection in leptospirosis hamster model followed by challenge with virulent bacteria showed that the recombinant proteins conferred partial protection. (AU) | |