Cloning and Expression of Leptospiral Immunoglobulin Like B Gene and Use of The Recombinant Antigen for The Diagnosis of Bovine and Caprine Leptospirosis

Authors

  • Yosef Deneke School of Veterinary Medicine, Jimma University College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Jimma, Ethiopia
  • Rajib Deb ICAR-Central Institute for Resea on Cattle Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Grass Farm Road, Meerut-250 001, Uttar Pradesh, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/ijasbt.v8i2.29588

Keywords:

Leptospirosis, LigB, MAT, rLigB based LAT

Abstract

In the present study recombinant LigB protein is employed in latex agglutination test, which is a cross reacting lipoprotein able to detect acute infection caused by any pathogenic leptospiral serovars. It was employed  for serodiagnosis of leptospirosis. The 46KDa 6X His tagged LigB protein, obtained by IPTG induction of recombinant E. coli M15 cells containing the N-terminal region of LigB gee in PQE30 expression vector, was purified by Ni-NTA affinity chromatography and adsorbed on latex bead surface for performing latex agglutination test against Leptospirosis suspected field sea. Western blot confirmed that rLigB is an immunodominant protein against which antibodies are produced during active infection. A total of 453 field sera, including 432 bovine sera, 18 caprine sera and three sera samples of buffalo bull collected post-mortem following death the animal from Indian Veterinary Research institute (IVRI) were tested using rLigB based LAT. The result showed that 300 sera were tested positive by rLigB based LAT, which were reconfirmed using microscopic agglutination test (MAT). The results from LAT were in concordance with MAT. In conclusion, under laboratory and field conditions, rLigB based LAT is a rapid, pen site, reliable diagnostic tool of high sensitivity and specificity for the detection of Leptospirosis.

Int. J. Appl. Sci. Biotechnol. Vol 8(2): 146-153

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Published

2020-06-25

How to Cite

Deneke, Y., & Deb, R. (2020). Cloning and Expression of Leptospiral Immunoglobulin Like B Gene and Use of The Recombinant Antigen for The Diagnosis of Bovine and Caprine Leptospirosis. International Journal of Applied Sciences and Biotechnology, 8(2), 146–153. https://doi.org/10.3126/ijasbt.v8i2.29588

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Research Articles: Biological Sciences