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  • Title: Analysis of the original antigenic sin antibody response to the major outer membrane protein of Chlamydia trachomatis.
    Author: Berry JD, Peeling RW, Brunham RC.
    Journal: J Infect Dis; 1999 Jan; 179(1):180-6. PubMed ID: 9841837.
    Abstract:
    The anamnestic antibody response to the Chlamydia trachomatis major outer membrane protein (MOMP) was evaluated in mice after priming with serovar C and boosting either with the homologous serovar or with heterologous serovars (A, H, K, and B). Microimmunofluorescence antibody responses demonstrated that boosting with heterologous serovars strongly recalled antibody to serovar C, typical of an original antigenic sin (OAS) response. Boosting with serovars antigenically related to serovar C (A, H, and K) recalled antibody to the variable domain 1 (VD1) peptide of the MOMP of serovar C as determined by a pin-peptide ELISA. Complete amino acid substitution analysis of the VD1 peptide epitope of the MOMP showed that the original antigenic sin response to each boosting serovar contained antibodies with unique patterns of VD1 peptide recognition. The data suggest that antigenically related C. trachomatis serovars differentially recruit B cell lineages from a heterogeneous memory B cell pool that had been induced by priming with the original serovar and thus account for the OAS antibody response.
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