NATURAL INFECTION OF BABOONS BY ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA ELICITS ANTI- GAL-LECTIN HEAVY SUBUNIT IGA AND IGG ANTIBODIES WITH SHARED EPITOPE SPECIFICITY TO THAT OF HUMANS | ||||
| Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology | ||||
| Article 17, Volume 43, Issue 3, December 2013, Page 723-735 PDF (295.09 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesp.2013.93319 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| MOHAMED D. ABD-ALLA1; ROMAN F. WOLF2, 3; GARY L. WHITE2, 3; STANLEY D. KOSANKE2, 3; DAVID W. CAREY2, 3; JACO J. VERWEIJ4; YASSER M. M. EL-DESSOUKY5; MIE-JIE ZHANG6; JONATHAN I. RAVDIN5 | ||||
| 1Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Egypt. | ||||
| 2Department of Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.+ | ||||
| 3Comparative Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, | ||||
| 4Department of Parasitology/Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, | ||||
| 5Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin | ||||
| 6Department of Population Health Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Non-human primates, such as baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis), are natural hosts for Entamoeba species; infections can be asymptomatic or result in invasive lethal disease. It was sought to determine whether following natural infection by Entamoeba. histolytica, baboon anti-amebic antibodies recognized native Gallectin, a recombinant portion of the lectin heavy subunit (designated LC3) and specific heavy subunit epitopes; we compared the specificity of anti-amebic antibodies from baboons to that of humans following asymptomatic E. histolytica infection or cure of amebic liver abscess (ALA). Female baboons (n=54), aged one to three years of age and living in captivity were screened for infection by real time PCR. E. histolytica infection was found in 37 baboons and was associated with serum anti-LC3 IgG (73%) and anti-LC3 IgA (46%) or intestinal anti-Gal-Lectin IgA antibody responses (49%), p<0.021 for each compared to that observed with baboons having an E. dispar infection (n=10) or uninfected baboons (n=7). The ELISA OD reading for anti-LC3 or anti-lectin antibodies correlated strongly with the presence of a PCR CT value indicative of E. histolytica infection. In humans with asymptomatic E. histolytica infection or those recently cured of ALA, 63% and 57% had serum anti- LC3 IgA and 65% and 57% had serum anti-LC3 IgG antibodies respectively. Epitope- specific synthetic peptides were used as capture antigens in ELISA; for baboons that possessed anti-LC3 and anti-lectin antibodies, 74% had anti-peptide IgG or IgA antibodies, compared to 86% of asymptomatic humans and 92% of ALA subjects(P>0.05). | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Entamoeba histolytica; baboons Papio; Gal-lectin; natural infection; mucosal immunity | ||||
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