Patent Application: US-59264696-A

Abstract:
the invention relates to a polypeptide capable of reacting specifically with an anti - toxoplasma gondii p30 protein antibody , and comprising a peptide sequence , in which any succession of 6 contiguous amino acids exhibits at most 67 % homology with the peptide sequence of said p30 protein , identified by seq id no . 1 , or comprising a sequence derived from said peptide sequence , and the applications of this polypeptide especially for detecting a toxoplasma gondii infection , in a biological sample .

Description:
the invention will be understood more clearly with the aid of the following examples . it should be clearly understood , however , that these examples are given solely by way of illustrating the subject of the invention , and do not in any manner constitute a limitation thereof . selection of a pentadecapeptide capable of reacting specifically with an anti - p30 monoclonal anti - body . in a first instance , a pentadecapeptide expression library was constructed in a filamentous phage according to the method described by scott and smith ( 1990 , science , 249 , 386 - 390 ). this library was produced by inserting a synthetic oligonucleotide into a gene encoding a phage envelope protein ( protein piii ) of which five copies are present at the surface of the phage . this oligonucleotide consists of a sequence having a degenerate code ( nnk ) 15 ! where nnk represents a mixture equal to codons corresponding to the 20 amino acids and the amber stop codon . this expression library makes it possible to obtain , at the surface of the phage , five copies of a fused protein ( piii - pentadecapeptide ). the site of insertion of the pentadecapeptide into the sequence of the piii protein corresponds to the sequence : nh 2 - ala - asp - gly - ala - pentadecapeptide !- gly - ala - ala - gly - ala - glu - thr - val - glu - cooh ( seq id no . 46 ). in a second instance , the bottom of the petri dishes 35 mm in diameter is treated with 1 ml of a streptavidin solution at the concentration of 10 μg / ml in 0 . 1m nahco 3 and incubated overnight at 4 ° c . after removal of the streptavidin solution , a solution of 0 . 1m nahco 3 , 0 . 1 % bovine serum albumin ( bsa ), 0 . 1 μg / ml of streptavidin and 0 . 02 % nan 3 is added in order to saturate the non - specific binding sites and the whole is incubated for 2 hours at room temperature . the petri dishes are washed 6 times with tbs buffer ( 0 . 1m tris buffer , ph 7 . 2 )/ 0 . 5 % tween and 10 μg of biotinylated anti - p30 monoclonal antibody 1e1e7 ( biome rieux ) are then incubated overnight at 4 ° c . in the petri dishes treated as described above . this makes it possible to obtain , in a known manner , petri dishes at the bottom of which are immobilized said antibodies via streptavidin . a sample of the expression library containing about 10 12 virions is then incubated for four hours at 4 ° c . in the presence of said biotinylated antibodies attached to the bottom of the petri dish . after several washes with tbs , the phages which have remained attached to the anti - p30 antibodies are eluted with 400 μl of a 0 . 1n hcl solution , ph 2 . 2 , containing 0 . 1 % bsa , and then neutralized with 75 μl of a 1m tris - hcl solution , ph 9 . 1 after concentrating to 100 μl , the suspension of eluted phages is subjected to an amplification step by infecting a suspension at 5 10 9 bacteria / ml of a strain of e . coli ( k91kan ). the infected bacteria ( see sambrook et al ., 1989 . molecular cloning : a laboratory manual , 2nd edition , cold spring harbor laboratory , cold spring harbor ) are incubated for 45 minutes at 37 ° c . in 20 ml of nzy medium ( tryptone 10 g / l , yeast extract 5 g / l , nacl 5 g / l , ph adjusted to 7 ) containing 0 . 2 μg / ml of tetracycline . the tetracycline concentration of the medium is then raised to 20 mg / ml . with the infectious phages carrying a tetracycline - resistance gene , only the bacteria which were infected by the phage are amplified . the bacterial culture is continued overnight at 37 ° c . after centrifugation of the culture in order to remove the bacterial cells , 3 ml of polyethylene glycol ( peg ) 16 . 3 %- nacl 3 . 3m are added to the supernatant in order to precipitate the phages present . after an overnight incubation at 4 ° c . and centrifugation , the phage pellet is taken up in 1 ml of tbs ( 0 . 1m tris buffer , ph 7 . 2 ) and reprecipitated with 150 μl of peg / nacl . centrifugation makes it possible to obtain a phage pellet which is resuspended in 200 μl of tbs . the phage concentration after this amplification is about 2 10 13 virions / ml . about 10 12 virions derived from the preceding amplification step are incubated with a 100 nm solution of monoclonal antibody 1e1e7 , overnight at 4 ° c . this mixture is then placed in a petri dish previously treated with streptavidin and incubated for ten minutes at room temperature . the petri dish is washed several times with tbs ( 0 . 1m tris buffer , ph 7 . 2 )/ tween 0 . 5 % and the phages which remained attached to the anti - p30 monoclonal antibodies are eluted as described above . after another phage amplification phase using 100 μl of eluted phages and another phase of selection by anti - p30 monoclonal antibodies 1e1e7 ( at the concentration of 0 . 1 nm ), 58 infected bacterial colonies are isolated and 30 chosen at random are inoculated individually into 1 . 7 ml of nzy - tetracycline medium ( 20 μg / ml ). after a 16 to 24 hour shake culture at 37 ° c ., the cells are removed by centrifugation . the supernatant ( 1 ml ) is mixed with 150 μl of a peg / nacl solution and incubated for four hours at 4 ° c . after centrifugation , the phages are resuspended in 500 μl of tbs . the phage preparations thus obtained contain about 5 10 11 phages per millilitre . this phage selection from an expression library was performed with a monoclonal antibody specific for the p30 protein . moreover , it was checked that the phages , in which no oligonucleotide was inserted , do not react with this same antibody . consequently , the nucleic sequence introduced into the selected phage clones should correspond to a pentadecapeptide which allows the recognition of the phage by the anti - p30 antibodies 1e1e7 . determination of the sequence of the phage clones selected and immunological analysis of said clones by the elisa technique . the dna of phages corresponding to the 30 clones chosen was prepared according to the method described by sambrook et al ., 1989 . molecular cloning : a laboratory manual , 2nd edition , cold spring harbor laboratory , cold spring harbor . the sequencing of these clones was carried out according to the manufacturer &# 39 ; s procedure ( united states biochemicals ) with the sequenase enzyme ( trade name ) using a primer of 18 bases ( 5 - tgaattttctgtatgagg - 3 ) ( seq id no . 47 ). this primer is complementary to nucleotides 1663 - 1680 of the gene encoding the native piii protein of the phage . the nucleic sequences obtained , when they are converted into amino acid sequences , indicate that the peptide sequence trp - his - trp - arg - his - arg - ile - pro - leu - gln - leu - ala - ala - gly - arg ( seq id no . 48 ) is found a large number of times in the clones selected . indeed , as shown in the following table , of the 30 clones sequenced , eleven of them correspond to this sequence . ______________________________________sequence of the number ofphage clones identical sequences______________________________________whwrhriplqlaagr ( seq id no . 48 ) 11rhwrhrkplqlatgr ( seq id no . 49 ) 1lafhrfnlsrplqrd ( seq id no . 50 ) 4thshqwrhhqfpapt ( seq id no . 51 ) 3rrwvrypvhlhspiv ( seq id no . 52 ) 5arfpkelrgsvrsah ( seq id no . 53 ) 1gswvlrhssvgfhfv ( seq id no . 54 ) 1gsfhwfrgsrhvvvh ( seq id no . 55 ) 1swrffhsgmprvsrs ( seq id no . 56 ) 1gsphryrgarhvavd ( seq id no . 57 ) 1wkalfshsyrssgvp ( seq id no . 58 ) 1______________________________________ the importance of this motif was then analyzed by an immunoenzymatic test , by carrying out an elisa test for each of the 30 phage clones selected . however , it should be noted that after the purification step , the clones to be tested do not all have the same phage concentration and that these differences can cause aspecific variations of the optical density measurements during the elisa test . in order to overcome this problem , the attachment of the phages onto the elisa plates was standardized by the use of anti - m13 phage antibodies added to a fixed saturating concentration . thus , in a first instance , 100 μl of anti - m13 phage antibodies diluted 1 / 1000 in 0 . 1m nahco 3 , ph 8 . 6 ( marketed by prinn , inc . boulder , colo . 80303 ), are attached overnight in the wells of nunc maxisorb ( tradename ) microtiter plates . after two washes with tbs / tween 0 . 05 %, 100 μl of the various purified phage clones are then incubated for two hours at 37 ° c . in the wells . the saturation of the aspecific sites is carried out with tbs containing 1 % bsa for two hours at 37 ° c . after three washes with tbs / tween 0 . 05 %, 100 μl of the anti - p30 monoclonal antibody 1e1e7 , at the concentration of 3 nm , 4 nm or 6 nm , are added and incubated overnight at 4 ° c . after four washes with tbs / tween 0 . 05 %, 100 μl of anti - mouse conjugate labeled with peroxidase ( marketed by jackson immuno research laboratories inc .) are added before incubating for one hour at 37 ° c . the enzymatic reaction for visualization is carried out by adding 100 μl of an h 2 o 2 / ortho - phenylenediamine ( opd ) solution and incubating the sample for 30 minutes at room temperature . the staining reaction is stopped by adding 50 μl of 1 . 8n sulfuric acid . the optical density is measured on a biome rieux plate reader at 492 nm . these results , obtained by elisa , confirm the previous sequencing results because the phage clones for which the best elisa responses are observed ( od varying between 0 . 269 and 0 . 274 for a concentration of monoclonal antibody 1e1e7 of 3 nm ) possess a nucleic sequence corresponding to the pentadecapeptide trp - his - trp - arg - his - arg - ile - pro - leu - gln - leu - ala - ala - gly - arg ( seq id no . 48 ). the sequence of the clones for which a negative response is observed does not exhibit any homology with this sequence . in addition , the results show that the higher the concentration of monoclonal antibody 1e1e7 present in the test , the higher the immunoenzymatic response . inhibition , by the native p30 protein , of the elisa response obtained with the phage clone identified . a competition elisa test was carried out in order to determine if the response obtained with the phage clone identified is inhibited by pre - incubation of the anti - p30 monoclonal antibody 1e1e7 with the p30 protein . the elisa test is carried out as described in example 2 with the following modifications : the monoclonal antibody 1e1e7 ( at the concentration of 6 nm ) is preincubated with various concentrations of p30 protein for 20 minutes at 37 ° c . and then the mixture is added to the wells of the elisa plate in which the phages corresponding to the pentadecapeptide trp - his - trp - arg - his - arg - ile - pro - leu - gln - leu - ala - ala - gly - arg ( seq id no . 48 ) are attached . the results obtained show that the elisa response is inhibited by 45 % for a p30 protein concentration of 35 ng / ml . this inhibition is up to 80 % with a p30 protein concentration of 3 . 5 μg / ml . the results obtained ( fig1 ) are standardized by using anti - m13 antibodies as described above . the decrease in the immunoenzymatic response observed clearly demonstrates that the phage clone identified is recognized by the same antibodies capable of recognizing the p30 protein . the phage clone identified , and especially the pentadecapeptide trp - his - trp - arg - his - arg - ile - pro - leu - gln - leu - ala - ala - gly - arg ( seq id no . 48 ), is therefore a competitor for the native p30 protein , which is capable of becoming substituted for said p30 protein . specificity of the anti - toxoplasma gondii human antibodies for the sequence trp - his - trp - ara - his - arg - ile - pro - leu - gln - leu - ala - ala - gly - arg ( seq id no . 48 ) carried by the phage clone identified . the monoclonal antibody 1e1e7 recognizes an immunodominant site on the p30 protein . efforts have been made to know if the pentadecapeptide trp - his - trp - arg - his - arg - ile - pro - leu - gln - leu - ala - ala - gly - arg ( seq id no . 48 ) is also recognized by the human antibodies present in the sera of a patient infected with toxoplasma gondii . the elisa test was carried out as described in example 2 with the following modifications : 100 μl of various dilutions of human serum of a patient infected with toxoplasma gondii ( positive serum -- reference g8 ) are brought into contact with the phage clone identified , immobilized as described in example 2 , for 30 minutes at 37 ° c . after two washes with tbs / tween 0 . 05 %, 100 μl of monoclonal antibody 1e1e7 at the concentration of 6 nm are added and incubated overnight at 4 ° c . after four washes with tbs / tween , 100 μl of anti - mouse conjugate labeled with peroxidase are added and then incubated for one hour at 37 ° c . the enzymatic reaction for visualization was carried out by adding 100 μl of an h 2 o 2 / orthophenylenediamine ( opd ) solution and incubating the sample for 30 minutes at room temperature . the staining reaction is stopped by adding 50 μl of 1 . 8n sulfuric acid . the optical density is measured on a biome rieux plate reader at 492 nm . moreover , a control was produced , under the same reaction conditions but with a human serum not infected with toxoplasma gondii ( negative serum ), in order to ensure that the phage clone identified reacts specifically with the human serum of a patient infected with toxoplasma gondii . the results ( fig2 ) show that when the positive human serum is diluted 1 / 100 , 000 , a 27 % inhibition of the attachment of the monoclonal antibody 1e1e7 is observed , and that from the 1 / 100 dilution of the human serum , the inhibition is maximum and is up to 60 %. this example therefore shows that the phages containing the sequence trp - his - trp - arg - his - arg - ile - pro - leu - gln - leu - ala - ala - gly - arg ( seq id no . 48 ) are indeed recognized by the antibodies present in the sera of patients infected with toxoplasma gondii . multiple syntheses of overlapping pentadecapeptides and immunological analysis of said peptides by the elisa technique . having obtained phage clones which give positive and specific responses during immunoanalysis , we tried to determine the minimum motif recognized specifically by the monoclonal antibody 1e1e7 in the sequence trp - his - trp - arg - his - arg - ile - pro - leu - gln - leu - ala - ala - gly - arg ( seq id no . 48 ). for that , we carried out the chemical synthesis of overlapping peptides which cover this sequence according to the technologies developed on the one hand by berg et al . ( 1989 , j . ann . chem . soc ., 111 , 8024 - 8026 ) and marketed by cambridge research biochemicals ( tradename : spotscan ) and on the other hand by geysen et al . ( 1987 , j . of immunological methods , 102 , 259 - 274 ) and marketed by chiron ( tradename : pepscan ) which are both based on the simultaneous synthesis of a large number of peptides and on their analysis by elisa . these methods allow the synthesis of overlapping peptides reproducing a determined sequence . according to the &# 34 ; pepscan &# 34 ; technique , the synthesis is carried out with nonesterified amino acids , protected by an fmoc group ( nova biochem ). the activated esters of amino acids are formed directly on a &# 34 ; crown &# 34 ; during the coupling reaction . after deprotection of the amino acids by a 20 % solution of piperidine in n , n - dimethylformamide ( dmf ), the first amino acid is coupled to the &# 34 ; crown &# 34 ; at the concentration of 30 or 60 nm . the coupling reactions use benzotriazol - 1 - yloxytris ( dimethylamino ) phosphonium hexafluorophosphate ( bop ) as coupling agent , hydroxybenzotriazole ( hobt ) and n , n - diisopropylethylamine ( diea ) to activate the reaction . the amino acids solubilized in n - methylpyrrolidone ( nmp ) are distributed into the various wells of the elisa plate and brought into contact with the &# 34 ; crowns &# 34 ; overnight at room temperature . the peptides are synthesized by means of successive deprotection cycles with piperidine , washing with dmf and addition of one amino acid per day . after adding the last amino acid , the terminal amino group is acylated with a mixture of dmf : acetic anhydride : tri - ethylamine ( 5 : 2 : 1 , v / v / v ) and the side chain - protecting groups are removed with the aid of a mixture of tri - fluoroacetic acid : water : phenol : ethanedithiol : thioanisol ( 85 : 4 : 5 : 2 : 4 , v : v : w : v : v ). the immunoreactivity of the peptides thus coupled to the surface of the &# 34 ; crowns &# 34 ; can then be tested by elisa . according to the &# 34 ; spotscan &# 34 ; technique , the synthesis of the peptides is carried out on cellulose membranes ( cambridge research biochemicals ). the principle of the method is the same as that for pepscan . the esterified amino acids are solubilized in n - methylpyrrolidone ( nmp ) at the concentration of 300 nm and 0 . 9 μl are deposited at the level of spots for the deposition of bromophenol blue . after a 15 minute incubation , another deposition of amino acids is carried out followed by another 15 minute incubation . if the coupling between the two amino acids is carried out correctly , a change in color is observed ( passage from blue to yellowish green ). after three washes in dmf , an acetylation step is carried out with acetic anhydride . then the terminal amino groups of the peptides being synthesized are deprotected with 20 % piperidine in dmf . the deposition spots are restained with a 1 % bromophenol blue solution in dmf , washed three times with methanol and dried . these operations as a whole constitute a cycle for addition of an amino acid and this cycle is repeated up to the end of the synthesis . when all the amino acids have been added , the nh 2 - terminal group of the last amino acid is deprotected with 20 % piperidine in dmf and is acetylated with acetic anhydride . the side chain protecting groups are removed by a dichloromethane : trifluoroacetic acid : triisobutylsilane mixture ( 5 ml : 5 ml : 250 μl ). the immunoreactivity of the peptides thus synthesized can then be tested by elisa . in order to reproduce the entire pentadecapeptide included in the phage clone isolated and to determine the possible role of the contiguous amino acids belonging to the sequence of the piii protein of the phage ( see example 1 ), the chemical synthesis of overlapping pentadecapeptides , which cover the sequence phe - tyr - ser - his - ser - ala - asp - gly - ala - trp - his - trp - arg - his - arg - ile - pro - leu - gln - leu - ala - ala - gly - arg - gly - ala - ala - gly - ala - glu - thr - val - glu - ser - cys - leu - ala ( seq id no . 59 ), was carried out on an activated cellulose membrane (&# 34 ; spotscan &# 34 ;). after synthesis of the various pentadecapeptides , the membrane is rinsed with methanol , washed in tbs ( 0 . 1m tris , ph 7 . 2 ) and then incubated overnight at room temperature in saturation buffer ( marketed by cambridge research biochemicals ). after several washes with tbs - t ( 0 . 1m tris , ph 7 . 2 - 0 . 05 % tween 20 ), the membrane is brought into contact with a solution of anti - p30 monoclonal antibody 1e1e7 ( 60 nm ) and incubated for 4 hours at room temperature . after three washes with tbs - t , the anti - mouse immunoglobulin conjugate labeled with galactosidase ( marketed by cambridge research biochemicals ) is added at a 1 / 200 dilution and the whole is incubated for two hours at room temperature . after several washes of the membrane with pbs - tween 0 . 05 % and pbs , the immunoreactivity at the level of the various spots is visualized by adding a solution of substrate ( 5 - bromo - 4 - chloro - 3 - indoyl - d - galactopyranoside in pbs containing magnesium chloride and potassium ferricyanide ) and incubating for 10 to 40 minutes . the color of the spots is assessed qualitatively . sequential analysis of the results obtained shows that a first color is obtained with the sequence ser - ala - asp - gly - ala - trp - his - trp - arg - his - arg - ile - pro - leu - gln ( seq id no . 23 ). then the blue color increases gradually along the sequence of the phage to reach a maximum with the sequences his - arg - ile - pro - leu - gln - leu - ala - ala - gly - arg - gly - ala - ala - gly ( seq id no . 9 ) and arg - ile - pro - leu - gln - leu - ala - ala - gly - arg - gly - ala - ala - gly - ala ( seq id no . 32 ). a very slight color is still visible for the sequence ile - pro - leu - gln - leu - ala - ala - gly - arg - gly - ala - ala - gly - ala - glu ( seq id no . 33 ) but it disappears completely from the sequence pro - leu - gln - leu - ala - ala - gly - arg - gly - ala - ala - gly - ala - glu - thr ( seq id no . 34 ). these results have , moreover , been confirmed by the synthesis of the same peptides by the so - called &# 34 ; pepscan &# 34 ; technique which , contrary to the so - called &# 34 ; spotscan &# 34 ; technique , makes it possible to quantify the level of elisa response obtained for each peptide . the &# 34 ; crowns &# 34 ; carrying the pentadecapeptides , synthesized as described above in microtiter plates , are saturated for one hour with the aid of a solution con taining 1 % ovalbumin , 1 % bovine serum albumin in pbs - t ( phosphate buffer , ph 7 . 2 , containing 0 . 1 % tween 20 ). after incubating overnight at 4 ° c . with 150 μl of monoclonal antibody 1e1e7 diluted 1 / 100 ( 60 nm ), and four washes with pbs - t , the wells of the plate are incubated for one hour with peroxidase - labeled anti - mouse conjugate diluted 1 / 1000 ( marketed by jackson immuno research laboratories inc .). following a series of four washes with pbs - t , the wells of the plate are incubated with the abts substrate ( 0 . 5 mg / ml of azino - di - 3 - ethylbenzo - thiazoline - 6 - sulfonate in citrate buffer , ph 4 . 0 , containing 0 . 03 % hydrogen peroxide ). the absorbance measurements are carried out at 405 nm on an elisa plate reader ( biome rieux ). moreover , two pentadecapeptides containing the sequences pro - leu - ala - gln ( seq id no . 60 ) and gly - leu - ala - gln ( seq id no . 61 ) were synthesized as positive and negative controls , respectively , and were tested using an anti -( pro - leu - ala - gln ) ( seq id no . 60 ) monoclonal antibody . these results ( fig3 ) confirm the results obtained during the selection of the phage clone ( example 1 ) containing a nucleic sequence encoding the pentadecapeptide trp - his - trp - arg - his - arg - ile - pro - leu - gln - leu - ala - ala - gly - arg ( seq id no . 48 ). moreover , they show that the first amino acids trp - his - trp - arg ( seq id no . 62 ) at the nh 2 end are not necessary for the recognition of the peptide by the anti - p30 monoclonal antibodies and that , on the other hand , the addition of the sequence gly - ala - ala - gly ( seq id no . 63 ) to the cooh end of the peptide makes it possible to improve this reactivity . finally , these results show that an isolated peptide , in which a succession of 11 contiguous amino acids does not exhibit more than 36 % homology with the sequence of the native p30 protein , is capable of being recognized by antibodies specific for said protein . substitutions of amino acids in the peptide his - arg - ile - pro - leu - gln - leu - ala - ala - gly - arg - gly - ala - ala - gly ( seq id no . 9 ) and immunological analysis of said modified peptides by the elisa technique . in order to determine to what extent the nature of the various amino acids constituting the peptide his - arg - ile - pro - leu - gln - leu - ala - ala - gly - arg - gly - ala - ala - gly ( seq id no . 9 ) may vary without affecting the antigenic properties of said peptide toward anti - p30 antibodies , point substitution tests were carried out . the peptides were synthesized according to the so - called &# 34 ; pepscan &# 34 ; method described in the preceding example by substituting on the peptide each amino acid at a given position by the other nineteen . these peptides were then tested by the elisa technique as described above . the importance of each residue can thus be examined and a peptide covering the best amino acids at each position can then be synthesized . the results obtained ( fig4 a to 4f ) show that the histidine in position 1 , the arginine in position 2 , the proline in position 4 and the glutamine in position 6 appear to play an important role in the recognition by the anti - p30 monoclonal antibody 1e1e7 . these amino acids give the highest signals and should therefore be conserved in the final peptide . the results obtained also show that when the isoleucine in position 3 is replaced with : histidine , leucine , asparagine or serine , a response is observed which is equivalent to that observed in the presence of isoleucine , proline , lysine , aspartic acid or glutamic acid , a complete disappearance of the recognition by the monoclonal antibody is observed . the results show , in addition , that when the leucine in position 5 is replaced with : the aromatic amino acids tyrosine and tryptophan , a very clear increase in the elisa response is obtained , glycine and histidine , an increase in the response is also obtained with the antibodies , cysteine , a response is observed which is equivalent to that observed in the presence of leucine , lysine , arginine , phenylalanine , aspartic acid and glutamic acid , a sharp decrease in the response is obtained . for the other positions tested ( leucine in position 7 , alanine in position 8 and in position 9 , glycine in position 10 and arginine in position 11 ), the results , which are obtained by their substitution by the other 19 amino acids , are not significantly different from those observed with the reference peptide his - arg - ile - pro - leu - gln - leu - ala - ala - gly - arg - gly - ala - ala - gly ( seq id no . 9 ). chemical synthesis of two pentadecapeptides and elisa test with positive human sera . based on the information obtained from the preceding examples , the pentadecapeptides his - arg - ile - pro - leu - gln - leu - ala - ala - gly - arg - gly - ala - ala - gly ( seq id no . 9 ) and his - arg - ile - pro - trp - gln - leu - ala - ala - gly - arg - gly - ala - ala - gly ( seq id no . 10 ) were synthesized according to the method described in patent application no . ep 93420183 . these peptides were then tested by elisa with respect to their reactivity toward several sera from patients infected with toxoplasma gondii . the wells of a maxisorb ( tradename , nunc ) micro - titer plate are saturated with 100 μl of a 50 mm hco 3 na solution , ph 9 . 6 , containing 10 μg / ml of peptide to be tested for 2 hours at 37 ° c . the plate is washed with pbs buffer / tween 20 0 . 05 %. the wells are then saturated with 100 μl of washing buffer supplemented with 1 % bovine serum albumin for 1 hour at 37 ° c . and then washed as described above . the sera to be analyzed are diluted 1 / 200 and 1 / 1000 in the saturation buffer and incubated for 2 hours at 37 ° c . after washing , a solution of anti - human immunoglobulin goat &# 34 ; antibody &# 34 ; conjugate labeled with peroxidase ( marketed by jackson immuno research laboratories inc .) is added at the dilution of 1 / 10 , 000 and the plates are incubated for 1 hour at 37 ° c . after washing , the ortho - phenylenediamine ( opd ) substrate is added and the reaction is stopped after 10 minutes by the addition of 50 μl of h 2 so 4 . the optical density is read at 492 nm . the results obtained show that these two peptides do not at all react with the negative sera and that they are specifically recognized by the sera from patients infected with toxoplasma gondii . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 63 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 336 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : not relevant ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : metservalserleuhishispheileileserserglypheleuthr151015sermetpheprolysalavalargargalavalthralaglyvalphe202530alaalaprothrleumetserpheleuargcysglyvalmetalaser354045aspproproleuvalalaasnglnvalvalthrcysproasplyslys505560serthralaalavalileleuthrprothrgluasnhisphethrleu65707580lyscysprolysthralaleuthrgluproprothrleualatyrser859095proasnargglnilecysproalaglythrthrsersercysthrser100105110lysalavalthrleuserserleuileproglualagluaspsertrp115120125trpthrglyaspseralaserleuaspthralaglyilelysleuthr130135140valproileglulyspheprovalthrthrglnthrphevalvalgly145150155160cysilelysglyaspaspalaglnsercysmetvalthrvalthrval165170175glnalaargalaserservalvalasnasnvalalaargcyssertyr180185190glyalaaspserthrleuglyprovallysleuseralagluglypro195200205thrthrmetthrleuvalcysglylysaspglyvallysvalprogln210215220aspasnasnglntyrcysserglythrthrleuthrglycysasnglu225230235240lysserphelysaspileleuprolysleuthrgluasnprotrpgln245250255glyasnalaserserasplysglyalathrleuthrileasnlysglu260265270alapheproalagluserlysservalileileglycysthrglygly275280285serproglulyshishiscysthrvallysleugluphealaglyala290295300alaglyseralalysserseralaglythralaserhisvalserile305310315320phealametvalthrglyleuileglyserilealaalacysvalala325330335 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 2 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 6 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : not relevant ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 3 ( d ) other information : / note = &# 34 ; xaa is gly or his or leu orasn or ser or tyr or ile &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 5 ( d ) other information : / note = &# 34 ; xaa is leu or trp or cys orgly or his or tyr &# 34 ;( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 2 : hisargxaaproxaagln15 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 3 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 11 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : not relevant ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 3 ( d ) other information : / note = &# 34 ; xaa is gly or his or leu orasn or ser or tyr or ile &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 5 ( d ) other information : / note = &# 34 ; xaa is leu or trp or cys orgly or his or tyr &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 7 .. 11 ( d ) other information : / note = &# 34 ; xaa is an amino acidselected from the group consisting of the 20 aminoacids , each xaa being independently selected from theother locations .&# 34 ;( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 3 : hisargxaaproxaaglnxaaxaaxaaxaaxaa1510 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 4 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 15 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : not relevant ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 3 ( d ) other information : / note = &# 34 ; xaa is gly or his or leu orasn or ser or tyr or ile &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 5 ( d ) other information : / note = &# 34 ; xaa is leu or trp or cys orgly or his or tyr &# 34 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