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Abstract

The obligate intracellular Gram-negative bacterium causes Q fever, a worldwide zoonosis. Here we labelled with biotin and used biotin-streptavidin affinity chromatography to isolate surface-exposed proteins (SEPs). Using two-dimensional electrophoresis combined with mass spectrometry, we identified 37 proteins through bioinformatics analysis. Thirty SEPs expressed in (recombinant SEPs, rSEPs) were used to generate microarrays, which were probed with sera from mice experimentally infected with or sera from Q fever patients. Thirteen rSEPs were recognized as seroreactive, and the majority reacted with at least 50 % of the sera from mice infected with but not with sera from mice infected with , or Further, 13 proteins that reacted with sera from patients with Q fever did not react with sera from patients with brucellosis or mycoplasma pneumonia. Our results suggest that these seroreactive SEPs have potential as serodiagnostic antigens or as subunit vaccine antigens against Q fever.

Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (Award 81371767 and 31170161)
  • National Basic Research Program of China (Award 2010CB530200/2010CB530205)
  • Natural Science and Technology Major Project of China (Award 2013ZX10004803)
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