Borrelia burgdorferi complement regulator-acquiring surface protein 1 of the Lyme disease spirochetes is expressed in humans and induces antibody responses restricted to nondenatured structural determinants

Infect Immun. 2006 Dec;74(12):7024-8. doi: 10.1128/IAI.01028-06. Epub 2006 Sep 25.

Abstract

Borrelia burgdorferi complement regulator-acquiring surface protein 1 (CRASP-1), the dominant factor H and FHL-1-binding protein of the Lyme disease spirochete B. burgdorferi, is implicated in pathogen persistence and was recently reported to be nonimmunogenic in humans. Here we show that serum samples from Lyme disease patients contain antibodies with exclusive specificity for nondenatured structural determinants of CRASP-1.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antibodies, Bacterial / blood*
  • Antibody Formation
  • Bacterial Proteins / immunology*
  • Borrelia burgdorferi / immunology*
  • Epitopes / immunology
  • Humans
  • Lyme Disease / immunology*
  • Membrane Proteins / immunology*

Substances

  • Antibodies, Bacterial
  • Bacterial Proteins
  • Epitopes
  • Membrane Proteins
  • complement regulator-acquiring surface proteins, Borrelia burgdorferi