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. 1995 May;100(2):246–252. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.1995.tb03661.x

During active viscerocutaneous leishmaniasis the anti-P2 humoral response is specifically triggered by the parasite P proteins.

M Soto 1, J M Requena 1, L Quijada 1, S O Angel 1, L C Gomez 1, F Guzman 1, M E Patarroyo 1, C Alonso 1
PMCID: PMC1534337  PMID: 7743663

Abstract

In this work we show that in the sera from dogs naturally infected with the protozoan parasite Leishmania infantum there are antibodies that react specifically against the parasite acidic ribosomal proteins LiP2a and LiP2b, and that each one of the Leishmania P proteins elicits a specific humoral immune response. Using synthetic peptides, the antigenic epitope of these proteins has been mapped in a single region located adjacent to the C-terminal domain highly conserved among the eukaryotic P proteins. The anti-P antibodies elicited during the Leishmania infection do not recognize the conserved C-terminal domain of the parasite P proteins, in contrast with the findings reported in Chagas' disease or systemic lupus erythematosus. The antigenic epitopes of the LiP2a and LiP2b are almost identical in amino acid sequence. No reactivity against Trypanosoma cruzi and human P proteins was found in sera from L. infantum-infected dogs.

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