TY - JOUR ID - 90346 TI - Fractionation and identification of the allergic proteins in Aspergillus species JO - Current Medical Mycology JA - CMM LA - en SN - 2423-3439 AU - Falahati, Mehraban AU - Falak, Reza AD - Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran AD - Department of Immunologyt, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 2 IS - 4 SP - 37 EP - 45 KW - Allergy KW - Aspergillus KW - Protein identification KW - Protein fractionation DO - 10.18869/acadpub.cmm.2.4.37. N2 - Background and Purpose: Allergy is an undesired immune response to non-pathogenic agents. However, some opportunistic microorganisms such as fungi can also cause allergy. Among those fungi, hyphae form of Aspergillus strains including A. fumigatus, A. flavus, and A. niger could be mentioned. In this study, we aimed to separate allergic proteins from Aspergillus strains and determine their identity. Materials and Methods: Standard species of Aspergillus strains were cultivated in optimized conditions and the mycelium was separated by centrifugation. The fungal cells were lysed through physical methods such as freezethawing and grinding to prepare a suitable protein extract. The protein concentration was measured by Bradford method and the electrophoretic pattern of the extract was determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). The proteins were fractionated by ammonium sulfate precipitation and anion exchange chromatography using fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) system. The IgE immunoreactivity of the sensitized patients and controls was studied using the fractionated proteins by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Following SDS-PAGE, proteins were electrotransferred onto polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) membranes and the strips were blotted with allergic patients' and controls' sera. The immunoreactive bands were excised from colloidal coomassie-stained SDS-PAGE gels and studied by mass spectroscopy methods. Results: Among the studied species, A. fumigatus showed stronger IgE reactivity and more IgE reactive protein bands than others did. The proteins with higher molecular weights showed stronger immunoreactivity in Western blotting. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis demonstrated a correlation between the results of the applied ELISA methods. One of the most prominent IgE reactive proteins was confirmed to be 45 kDa mycelia catalase. Conclusion: Our findings confirmed that high molecular weight proteins might play a major role in allergy and IgE reactivity to Aspergillus species. Moreover, the results showed that precipitation and chromatographic methods are applicable for fractionation of fungal proteins such as mycelial catalase.   UR - https://cmm.mazums.ac.ir/article_90346.html L1 - https://cmm.mazums.ac.ir/article_90346_f0c1ea769bd7644c56bffba579ca1594.pdf ER -