Production of recombinant Entamoeba histolytica pyruvate phosphate dikinase and its application in a lateral flow dipstick test for amoebic liver abscess

BMC Infectious Diseases

Rahmah Noordin³  Nurulhasanah Othman³  Lim Boon Huat¹  Khairunisak Abdul Razak²  Nor Dyana Zakaria³  Muhammad Hafiznur Yunus³  Syazwan Saidin³ 

[1] School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan 16150, Malaysia;NanoBiotechnology Research and Innovation (NanoBRI) Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang 11800, Malaysia;Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang 11800, Malaysia

关键词: Lateral flow dipstick test;    Western blot;    Recombinant pyruvate phosphate dikinase;    Diagnosis;    Amoebic liver abscess;    Entamoeba histolytica;   

Others  :  1134183
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2334-14-182

 received in 2013-07-31, accepted in 2014-03-21,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Amoebic liver abscess (ALA) is the most common clinical manifestation of extraintestinal amoebiasis especially in developing countries, causing up to 100 000 fatal cases annually. Accurate and early diagnosis is important to prevent the disease complications, however its diagnosis still poses many challenges due to the limitations of the available detection tools. Pyruvate phosphate dikinase (PPDK), an excretory-secretory protein of E. histolytica, has been reported as a potential diagnostic marker for ALA, hence it may be exploited in the development of a new test for ALA.

Methods

Recombinant PPDK (rPPDK) was expressed, purified and evaluated by Western blot. In parallel, recombinant galactose-and-N-acetyl-D-galactosamine inhibitable lectin (Gal/GalNAc lectin) was produced and tested similarly. The protein identity was confirmed by analysis using MALDI-TOF/TOF. A lateral flow dipstick (LFD) test using rPPDK was subsequently developed (rPPDK-LFD) and evaluated for serodiagnosis of ALA.

Results

rPPDK was expressed as soluble protein after 4 hours of induction with 1 mM isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) at 30°C. Purification using nickel-nitrilotriacetic acid (Ni-NTA) resin yielded 1.5 mg of rPPDK from 1 L of culture with estimated molecular mass of 98 kDa on SDS-PAGE. Western blots using sera from patients with ALA, healthy individuals and other diseases probed with anti-human IgG₄-HRP showed the highest sensitivity (93.3%) and specificity (100%); as compared to blots using IgG and IgG₁ as secondary antibodies. Moreover, rPPDK showed better specificity when compared to rGal/GalNAc lectin. In the development of the LFD test, the optimum amount of rPPDK was 0.625 μg per dipstick and the optimum working concentration of colloidal gold conjugated anti-human IgG₄ was optical density (OD) 5 (1.7 μg of anti-human IgG₄). Evaluation of rPPDK-LFD using ALA patients and controls serum samples showed 87% diagnostic sensitivity and 100% specificity.

Conclusion

The developed rPPDK-LFD showed good potential for rapid diagnosis of ALA, and merit further multicentre validation using larger number of serum samples.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Saidin et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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