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Infect Immun. 1992 August; 60(8): 3136-3142

Monoclonal antibodies specific for elongation factor Tu and complete nucleotide sequence of the tuf gene in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Department for Vaccine Development and Research, National Bacteriological Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden.

ABSTRACT

Monoclonal antibodies against mycobacterial antigens were produced by immunizing LOU/C rats with live Mycobacterium bovis BCG. The antibodies were characterized by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by Western blotting (immunoblotting). One antibody, MAMB 2, reactive with a 47-kDa protein was used to screen a lambda gt11 M. tuberculosis gene library (R. A. Young, B. R. Bloom, C. M. Grosskinsky, J. Ivanji, D. Thomas, and R. W. Davis, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 82:2583-2587, 1985). Three recombinant phages reactive with MAMB 2 in plaque lysates were isolated, and part of the insert was sequenced. The mycobacterial inserts were all expressed as proteins fused with beta-galactosidase when the phages were induced as lysogens in Escherichia coli. The entire M. tuberculosis tuf gene was obtained by screening the lambda gt11 library with a DNA probe specific for the primary clones. A phage isolated from this screening was able to express the native protein in E. coli when introduced as a lysogen. A comparison of the entire gene sequence and the deduced protein sequence with the EMBL DNA and Swiss-Prot protein data libraries revealed strong homologies with elongation factors of bacteria, yeast mitochondria, and a plant chloroplast.

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