Yuriko Ozeki, Akira Yokoyama, Akihito Nishiyama, Yutaka Yoshida, Yukiko Ohara, Tsukasa Mashima, Chikako Tomiyama, Amina K Shaban, Atsuki Takeishi, Mayuko Osada-Oka, Takehiro Yamaguchi, Yoshitaka Tateishi, Jun-Ichi Maeyama, Mariko Hakamata, Hiroshi Moro, Toshiaki Kikuchi, Daisuke Hayashi, Fumiko Suzuki, Toshiko Yamamoto, Sumiko Iho, Masato Katahira, Saburo Yamamoto, Sohkichi Matsumoto
Tuberculosis remains a large health threat, despite the availability of the tuberculosis vaccine, BCG. As BCG efficacy gradually decreases from adolescence, BCG-Prime and antigen-booster may be an efficient strategy to confer vaccine efficacy. Mycobacterial DNA-binding protein 1 (MDP1, namely Rv2986c, hupB or HU) is a major Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein that induces vaccine-efficacy by co-administration with CpG DNA. To produce MDP1 for booster-vaccine use, we have created recombinant MDP1 produced in both Escherichia coli (eMDP1) and Mycolicibacterium smegmatis (mMDP1), an avirulent rapid-growing mycobacteria...
April 21, 2024: Scientific Reports