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ArticleClinical and experimental medicine2008

Serovar-specific immune responses to peptides of variable regions of Chlamydia trachomatis major outer membrane protein in serovar D-infected women.

Pragya Srivastava, Rishein Gupta, Hem Chandra Jha, Rajneesh Jha, Apurb Rashmi Bhengraj, Sudha Salhan, Aruna Mittal

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Article in Clinical and experimental medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Pragya SrivastavaDivision of Tissue Culture/Microbiology, Institute of Pathology, ICMR, Safdarjung Hospital Campus, Post Box no. 4909, New Delhi, 110029, India.
Rishein Gupta
Hem Chandra Jha
Rajneesh Jha
Apurb Rashmi Bhengraj
Sudha Salhan
Aruna Mittal
Safdarjang Hospital · INIndian Council of Medical Research · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The role of major outer membrane protein (MOMP) variable regions in the interaction of chlamydiae and host cells has been evaluated and their role in neutralization of antibodies has been clearly demonstrated. There are also studies that delineate the contribution of these regions to the cell-mediated immune response of the host and suggest that serovar E elicits serovar-specific immune responses in infected humans. However, further studies with other serovars are required to confirm these findings and to elucidate the role and importance of serovar-specific responses of variable regions of MOMP in other serovars. We, therefore, performed a detailed analysis of the humoral and cellular immune responses against the serovar D-specific variable segments (VS) of MOMP in women infected with Chlamydia trachomatis. We found that VS4 elicits significantly higher responses (both humoral and cellular) than other VS peptides (VS1, VS2 and VS3). VS4 elicited significantly higher (P < 0.0001) proliferative responses, interferon-gamma levels (P < 0.0001) as well as higher prevalence (P < 0.0001) of IgG antibodies against VS4 in serovar D-infected patients as compared to patients infected with other serovars, suggesting its role in serovar-specific immune responses.

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Amino Acid SequenceBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsChlamydia InfectionsChlamydia trachomatisEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayFemaleHumansMolecular Sequence DataPolymerase Chain ReactionPolymorphism, Restriction Fragment LengthBacterial Outer Membrane Proteins

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