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ArticlePloS one2013

Discovery of a protective Rickettsia prowazekii antigen recognized by CD8+ T cells, RP884, using an in vivo screening platform.

Michal Gazi, Erika Caro-Gomez, Yenny Goez, Maria A Cespedes, Marylin Hidalgo, Paula Correa, Gustavo Valbuena

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Article in PloS one, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Bioinformatics and biology insights · 2026
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  7. The neglected challenge: Vaccination against rickettsiae.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020
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7 authors.

Michal GaziDepartment of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America.
Erika Caro-Gomez
Yenny Goez
Maria A Cespedes
Marylin Hidalgo
Paula Correa
Gustavo Valbuena

Funding

WRCE Nonhuman Primate CoreU54AI057156 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BR GALVESTON · PI WALKER, DAVID H · 2003 to 2013
$102.6M
NIAID NIH HHS 5U54AI057156-09NIAID NIH HHS U54 AI057156
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rickettsia prowazekii has been tested for biological warfare due to the high mortality that it produces after aerosol transmission of very low numbers of rickettsiae. Epidemic typhus, the infection caused by these obligately intracellular bacteria, continues to be a threat because it is difficult to diagnose due to initial non-specific symptoms and the lack of commercial diagnostic tests that are sensitive and specific during the initial clinical presentation. A vaccine to prevent epidemic typhus would constitute an effective deterrent to the weaponization of R. prowazekii; however, an effective and safe vaccine is not currently available. Due to the cytoplasmic niche of Rickettsia, CD8(+) T-cells are critical effectors of immunity; however, the identification of antigens recognized by these cells has not been systematically addressed. To help close this gap, we designed an antigen discovery strategy that uses cell-based vaccination with antigen presenting cells expressing microbe's proteins targeted to the MHC class I presentation pathway. We report the use of this method to discover a protective T-cell rickettsial antigen, RP884, among a test subset of rickettsial proteins.

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AnimalsAntigen-Presenting CellsAntigens, BacterialBacterial ProteinsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesComputational BiologyGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenes, BacterialGenetic VectorsMiceReproducibility of ResultsRickettsial VaccinesRickettsia prowazekiiTyphus, Epidemic Louse-BorneAntigens, BacterialBacterial ProteinsRickettsial Vaccines

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PMID24146844
PMCPMC3797808

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