ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2013, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (10): 1616-1621.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2013.10.015

Previous Articles     Next Articles

Expression of 17-kDa Protein of Bartonella henselae and Its Usage in the Development of an Indirect ELISA

CHENG Wang-kun, CHANG Chen, MA Pei-pei, CHEN Pan, ZHENG Fang-yuan, LI Yu-feng*   

  1. (Key Laboratory of Animal Bacteriology of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China)
  • Received:2013-04-08 Online:2013-10-23 Published:2013-10-23

Abstract:

In order to investigate the epidemiology of Bartonella henselae infection, the 17-kDa protein gene of B. henselae was cloned into a prokaryotic expression vector (pET-28a) and constructed a recombinant plasmid pET-28a-17kDa. Then the pET-28a-17kDa was transformed into competent E. coli strain (BL21). The 17-kDa protein was expressed with IPTG induction and purified with nickel-agarose by affinity chromatography. Moreover, an indirect ELISA assay was developed to detect anti-B. henselae antibody using the purified protein as coating antigen. The optimized reaction conditions were as follows: antigen protein was coated at 37 for 2 h with 0.4 μg·mL1 concentration and then stored overnight at 4 ; The plates were blocked with 1% BSA at 37 for 3 h; The serum sample was incubated at 37 for 1 h with 1:100 dilution and secondary antibody was incubated at 37 for 0.5 h with 115 000 dilution. The cutoff values of positive and negative results were OD450 nm 0.392 and OD450 nm 0.332 6, respectively. The specificity results showed that the protein could not react with positive sera of other six diseases (PRRSV, PCV2, CSFV, PRV, FMDV, M. suis) and the repeatability of intra- and inter-assay were excellent. Furthermore, total of 379 clinical sera samples obtained from swine farms were detected and the positive rate was 51.72%. In conclusion, the results showed that the indirect ELISA could be used for epidemiological surveys and diagnosis on Bartonella henselae.

CLC Number: