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Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, 07 1997, 440-446, Vol 4, No. 4
Copyright © 1997 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

T-cell, antibody, and cytokine responses to homologs of the 60- kilodalton heat shock protein in Helicobacter pylori infection

SA Sharma, GG Miller, RA Peek Jr, G Perez-Perez and MJ Blaser
Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA.

For Helicobacter pylori, the hsp60 heat shock protein encoded by hspB is being considered as a potential candidate for subunit vaccines. We investigated the humoral and cellular responses to H. pylori hsp60 and its cross-reactivity with the homologous Mycobacterium bovis p65 protein and autologous human hsp60 protein. H. pylori-infected persons had significantly higher levels than uninfected persons of serum immunoglobulin G antibodies recognizing H. pylori hsp60, but not M. bovis p65 or human hsp60, as determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. In contrast, immunoblotting demonstrated cross-reactivity of H. pylori hsp60 with human hsp60. T-cell recognition of H. pylori hsp60 was found in both infected and uninfected subjects, and there was no recognition of human hsp60. T cells from infected and uninfected subjects that had been activated in response to H. pylori hsp60 or M. bovis p65 were phenotypically similar but appeared to secrete different levels of gamma interferon and interleukin-10. These results demonstrate an apparent difference in the epitopes recognized by the T and B cells responding to H. pylori hsp60 in H. pylori-infected persons. In contrast to the T-cell responses, which were highly variable in all subjects and showed no recognition of autologous proteins, a specific B-cell response that may have cross-reactivity to human hsp60 is evident in some infected subjects.

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