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Outer membrane protein a conservation among Orientia tsutsugamushi isolates suggests its potential as a protective antigen and diagnostic target

Evans, Sean M. and Adcox, Haley E. and VieBrock, Lauren and Green, Ryan S. and Luce-Fedrow, Alison and Chattopadhyay, Suschsmita and Jiang, Ju and Marconi, Richard T. and Paris, Daniel and Richards, Allen L. and Carlyon, Jason A.. (2018) Outer membrane protein a conservation among Orientia tsutsugamushi isolates suggests its potential as a protective antigen and diagnostic target. Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 3 (2). p. 63.

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Abstract

Scrub typhus threatens one billion people in the Asia-Pacific area and cases have emerged outside this region. It is caused by infection with any of the multitude of strains of the bacterium; Orientia tsutsugamushi; . A vaccine that affords heterologous protection and a commercially-available molecular diagnostic assay are lacking. Herein, we determined that the nucleotide and translated amino acid sequences of outer membrane protein A (OmpA) are highly conserved among 51; O. tsutsugamushi; isolates. Molecular modeling revealed the predicted tertiary structure of; O. tsutsugamushi; OmpA to be very similar to that of the phylogenetically-related pathogen,; Anaplasma phagocytophilum; , including the location of a helix that contains residues functionally essential for; A. phagocytophilum; infection. PCR primers were developed that amplified; ompA; DNA from all; O. tsutsugamushi; strains, but not from negative control bacteria. Using these primers in quantitative PCR enabled sensitive detection and quantitation of; O. tsutsugamushi ompA; DNA from organs and blood of mice that had been experimentally infected with the Karp or Gilliam strains. The high degree of OmpA conservation among; O. tsutsugamushi; strains evidences its potential to serve as a molecular diagnostic target and justifies its consideration as a candidate for developing a broadly-protective scrub typhus vaccine.
Faculties and Departments:09 Associated Institutions > Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH)
09 Associated Institutions > Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) > Department of Medicine (MED)
UniBasel Contributors:Paris, Daniel Henry
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
ISSN:2414-6366
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
Language:English
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