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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 34(4), 1985, pp. 694-701
Copyright © 1985 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Monoclonal Antibodies to Metacyclic Stage Antigens of Trypanosoma Cruzi*

David Chao{dagger} AND Donald G. Dusanic
Department of Life Sciences, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809

Hybridoma cell lines secreting monoclonal antibodies against the Tulahuén strain of Trypanosoma cruzi were produced by the fusion of SP2/O-Ag14 myeloma cells with spleen cells from mice immunized with irradiated metacyclic trypomastigotes. Twenty of the monoclonals synthesized by the hybridomas were identified as IgM, 2 as IgG1, 10 as IgG2a, 3 as IgG2b, 4 as IgG3, 1 as IgE, and 1 as IgA. Twenty-three of these antibodies had {kappa} light chains and 18 showed {lambda} chains. Twelve of the monoclonals agglutinated metacyclic trypomastigotes without additional concentration and 4 of these precipitated antigens in extracts of T. cruzi metacyclic or epimastigote stages. One monoclonal precipitated an epimastigote antigen, while another reacted with a metacyclic antigen, and 2 antibodies formed precipitin lines with antigens of both stages. Agglutinin assays performed to characterize surface antigenic specificities of the 12 monoclonal antibodies showed that 2 reacted only with the metacyclic stage of the Tulahuén strain. Two monoclonals agglutinated both metacyclic trypomastigotes and epimastigotes of the Tulahuén strains. Three antibodies caused clumping of metacyclics and epimastigotes of the Tulahuén, Raccoon V, and Corpus Christi strains of T. cruzi, while a fourth also reacted with bloodstream trypomastigotes. One monoclonal detected identical epitopes on metacyclics and epimastigotes of T. cruzi and epimastigotes of Trypanosoma musculi, while 2 antibodies reacted with metacyclics, epimastigotes, and bloodstream trypomastigotes of the Tulahuén and Raccoon V strains and the bloodstream stage of T. musculi. One antibody agglutinated all stages and strains of T. cruzi, T. musculi, and Trypanosoma lewisi which were tested. None of the 12 monoclonals reacted with amastigotes of T. cruzi. The precipitin reactions between the monoclonals and parasite extracts indicate that more than 1 identical epitope is present on each precipitating antigen molecule, while agglutinin analyses demonstrated antigenic specificities and relationships among stages, strains, and species of these trypanosomes.

Accepted for publication January 17, 1985.


* This work was supported in part by research grant AI 14642 from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and by a fellowship from the National Science Council, Republic of China.


{dagger} Present address: Department of Parasitology, National Yang-Ming Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.






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