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Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 8:1174-1191, 2009.
© 2009 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Identification of Bacillus anthracis Spore Component Antigens Conserved across Diverse Bacillus cereus sensu lato Strains^*,

Sanghamitra Mukhopadhyay, Arya Akmal, Andrew C. Stewart, Ru-ching Hsia and Timothy D. Read^,¶

From the Biological Defense Research Directorate, Naval Medical Research Center, Rockville, Maryland 20852 and
Electron Microscopy Core Facility, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, Maryland 21201

We sought to identify proteins in the Bacillus anthracis spore, conserved in other strains of the closely related Bacillus cereus group, that elicit an immune response in mammals. Two high throughput approaches were used. First, an in silico screening identified 200 conserved putative B. anthracis spore components. A total of 192 of those candidate genes were expressed and purified in vitro, 75 of which reacted with the rabbit immune sera generated against B. anthracis spores. The second approach was to screen for cross-reacting antigens in the spore proteome of 10 diverse B. cereus group strains. Two-dimensional electrophoresis resolved more than 200 protein spots in each spore preparation. About 72% of the protein spots were found in all the strains. 18 of these conserved proteins reacted against anti-B. anthracis spore rabbit immune sera, two of which (alanine racemase, Dal-1 and the methionine transporter, MetN) overlapped the set of proteins identified using the in silico screen. A conserved repeat domain protein (Crd) was the most immunoreactive protein found broadly across B. cereus sensu lato strains. We have established an approach for finding conserved targets across a species using population genomics and proteomics. The results of these screens suggest the possibility of a multiepitope antigen for broad host range diagnostics or therapeutics against Bacillus spore infection.

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