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Impact of in vitro evolution on antigenic diversity of Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG)

Copin, Richard and Coscollá, Mireia and Efstathiadis, Efstratios and Gagneux, Sebastien and Ernst, Joel D.. (2014) Impact of in vitro evolution on antigenic diversity of Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG). Vaccine : the official journal of the International Society for Vaccines, 32 (45). pp. 5998-6004.

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Abstract

Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), the only vaccine currently used against tuberculosis, is an attenuated derivative of M. bovis that has been propagated in vitro for more than 40 years. We have previously reported that the experimentally-verified human T cell epitopes of the M. tuberculosis complex (MTBC) are the most conserved elements of the genome; whether immune recognition is the force driving the conservation of epitopes in the MTBC is unknown. Therefore, we sequenced the genomes of 12 BCG strains to determine whether T cell epitopes were under selection pressure during BCG in vitro evolution. We constructed a genome-wide phylogeny and refined the previously-determined BCG phylogeny. Notably, we identified a new cluster between BCG Japan and BCG Russia, and repositioned the relationships of several strains within the lineage. We also compared the sequence diversity of 1530 experimentally verified human T cell epitopes in the BCG vaccines with those in the MTBC. We found 23% of the known T cell epitopes are absent, and that the majority (82%) of the absent epitopes in BCG are contained in 6 proteins encoded in 2 regions of difference (RD) unique to BCG strains. We also found that T cell epitope sequences in BCG are more conserved than non-epitope sequences in the same gene. Finally, we find evidence that epitope sequence variation in BCG potentially affects human T cell recognition. These findings provide new insight into sequence variation in a slow-growing bacterium closely related to the MTBC that has been subjected to prolonged passage outside of a mammalian host, and indicate little difference in the extent of variation in vivo and in vitro.
Faculties and Departments:09 Associated Institutions > Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH)
UniBasel Contributors:Coscollá, Mireja and Gagneux, Sebastien
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Elsevier ; [Online:] Amsterdam
ISSN:0264-410X
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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