HBV抗原肽-HLA-A*2402复合物四聚体的构建及初步检测应用

目的：构建2种HBV抗原肽-HLA-A＋2402复合物四聚体，并初步用该2种四聚体检测针对不同抗原肽特异性的细胞毒性T细胞（CTL）。方法：原核高效表达HLA-A＋2402-BSP和β2m蛋白后，分别与乙型肝炎病毒抗原肽P01756-764和Corell7-125在体外复性折叠成可溶性的HLA-A＋2402抗原肽复合物单体，经BirA酶作用并通过凝胶过滤层析法纯化复合物单体，分别将复合物单体与藻红蛋白标记的链霉亲和素按一定比例耦合构建成2种HBV抗原肽四聚体。最后进行流式细胞术检测。结果：Dot-ELISA和ELISA检测显示获得了2种具有天然构象的生物素化的HBV抗原肽-HLA-A＋2402复合物单体。结论：构建的2种四聚体可以检测乙型肝炎感染者体内特异性的CTL。

Construction and primary application of two HBV-HLA-A * 2402-peptide tetramers

AIM: To construct two soluble HLA-A*2402-peptide tetramers and detect the HBV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) with the constructed HLA-A*2402-peptide tetramers. METHODS: After proteins HLA-A*2402-BSP and beta2m were made an effective prokanyotical expression, the purified proteins were refolded into HLA-A*2402-beta2m-peptide complexes in the presence of two antigenic peptides (Hepatitis B virus Pol756-764 or Core117-125) with dilution method. Then the complexes were biotinylated by BirA enzyme and purified by gel-filtration chromatography. The tetramers were generated by mixing the complex with PE-Streptavidin in the molar ratio of 5:1. FCM can and cell quest software were used to analyze the stained PBMCs. RESULTS: Two biotinylated HBV-HLA-A*2402-peptide complexes were identified by Western blot and they were shown to have natural conformation by Dot-ELISA and ELISA. CONCLUSION: The constructed HLA-A*2402-peptide tetramers can detect the HBV-specific CTLs in the patients with self-limited acute HBV infection.