An Unbiased Immunization Strategy Results in the Identification of Enolase as a Potential Marker for Nanobody-Based Detection of Trypanosoma evansi

Trypanosoma evansi is a widely spread parasite that causes the debilitating disease "surra" in several types of ungulates. This severely challenges livestock rearing and heavily weighs on the socio-economic development in the affected areas, which include countries on five continents. Active case finding requires a sensitive and specific diagnostic test. In this paper, we describe the application of an unbiased immunization strategy to identify potential biomarkers for Nanobody (Nb)-based detection of T. evansi infections. Alpaca immunization with soluble lysates from different T. evansi strains followed by panning against T. evansi secretome resulted in the selection of a single Nb (Nb11). By combining Nb11-mediated immuno-capturing with mass spectrometry, the T. evansi target antigen was identified as the glycolytic enzyme enolase. Four additional anti-enolase binders were subsequently generated by immunizing another alpaca with the recombinant target enzyme. Together with Nb11, these binders were evaluated for their potential use in a heterologous sandwich detection format. Three Nb pairs were identified as candidates for the further development of an antigen-based assay for Nb-mediated diagnosis of T. evansi infection.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

Vaccines - 8(2020), 3 vom: 24. Juli

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Zeng [VerfasserIn]
Pinto Torres, Joar Esteban [VerfasserIn]
Goossens, Julie [VerfasserIn]
Vertommen, Didier [VerfasserIn]
Caljon, Guy [VerfasserIn]
Sterckx, Yann G-J [VerfasserIn]
Magez, Stefan [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Diagnosis
Enolase
Homologous and heterologous detection assays
Journal Article
Nanobody
Trypanosoma evansi

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Date Revised 27.10.2020

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/vaccines8030415

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM312979045