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| Author(s): |
Vera Letticie de Azevedo Ruiz
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia (FMVZ/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2007-04-13 |
| Examining board members: |
Leonardo José Richtzenhain;
Paulo Eduardo Brandão;
Magali D'Angelo;
Fabio Gregori;
Rodrigo Martins Soares
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| Advisor: | Leonardo José Richtzenhain |
| Abstract | |
Neospora caninum, a protozoa phylogenetically related to other coccidea, is an obligatory intracellular parasite, able to cause abortions in bovine and neuromuscular paralysis in dogs. Researches with Neospora caninum antigens and recombinant proteins leads to numerous information to a better diagnosis and differentiation of several coccidea. The purposes of this study were expressing the Neospora caninum inner protein Nc56 in a prokaryotic system (Escherichia coli) and evaluate its antigenicity with i>Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii positive bovine sera. It was established the ideal conditions to express the protein (4 hour induction and 0,2% L-arabinose concentration) and, after that, two protein purification systems were assayed (immobilized metal affinity chromatography and elution from polyacrylamide gel) resulting in a better protein recuperation the elution method. A panel of previous RIFI-tested bovine sera was selected to evaluate the immune reactivity of Nc56 protein with Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii positive sera. The negative control was obtained from a Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii negative newborn male bovine and the positive control was obtained from the same animal (6 month old), after the inoculation of live Neospora caninum tachyzoits. The indirect ELISA assay was performed in 96-wells microtiters plates, coated with purified Nc56 recombinant protein (10 µg/mL), resulting in higher optical densities for Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii positive sera, when compared with negative control. The purified recombinant protein and the crude extract of soluble proteins in denaturing binding buffer were submitted to Western-blotting to evaluate its antigenicity with Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii/i> positive sera. The results obtained in both techniques shown that Nc56 purified recombinant protein has cross reactivity between both coccidea, therefore, it is not indicated to be used as antigen in neosporosis serodiagnosis. (AU) | |