ArticleMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz2024
PPE59 antibodies in tuberculous patients and potential use for diagnosis when assayed with other rapid biomarkers.
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backgroundPPE 59, which is absent from bacillus Calmette Guérin (BCG) strains, seems to induce a humoral immune response in patients with tuberculosis (TB). Additional studies are needed to better evaluate this protein in immune response to tuberculosis.
objectivesTo evaluate the response of antibodies to PPE59 in TB individuals, its combination with IgG response to other, previously tested mycobacterial antigens (Ag) and with sputum smear microbiology (SM) results.
methodsWe have cloned and expressed the rv3429 gene that encodes PPE59, then IgG, IgM, and IgA against PPE59 antigens measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in 212 sera samples obtained from the following subject cohorts: TB residents from Italy (79) and in Brazil (52); and an all-Brazilian cohort of 55 patients with other respiratory disorders; 10 patients infected with non-tuberculous mycobacteria, and 16 asymptomatic subjects. Drawing on results from a previous study(17) of serum samples from Brazilian subjects tested for IgG by ELISA against mycobacterial antigens ESAT-6, 16kDa, MT10.3, MPT-64 and 38kDa, the results were analysed in combination with those of the PPE59 and SM tests.
findingsKeeping the specificity rate at 97%, the overall PPE59 IgA sensitivity was 42.7%, while IgG and IgM showed lower performance (p < 0.0001). Combining PPE59 IgA/16kDa IgG results increased sensitivity to 71%, and even higher rates when the results were combined with SM results (86.5%, p = 0.001), at 88.9% specificity. Positive IgA was associated with pulmonary image alterations of high TB probability (p < 0.05). MAIN
conclusionsTests with TB patients found a moderate frequency of positivity for PPE59 IgA. However, the higher level of sensitivity attained in combination with PPE59 IgA/16kDa IgG/SM results unheard of before, although imperfect, suggests that this may be a potential additional tool for rapid detection of TB in low-resource areas.
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