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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2020, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (11): 1243-1249.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-6621.2020.11.018

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Pathogenic mechanism of Ag85 complex and its application progress in the development of tuberculosis vaccine

LIANG Zheng-min, WANG Yuan-zhi, LIU Yi-duo, ZHOU Xiang-mei()   

  1. College of Veterinary Medicine, Chinese Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
  • Received:2020-04-01 Online:2020-11-10 Published:2020-11-13
  • Contact: ZHOU Xiang-mei E-mail:zhouxm@cau.edu.cn

Abstract:

Effective vaccines are urgently needed to control the transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). A variety of MTB immunogenic molecules have been identified by now. And of them, the antigen 85 (Ag85) complex (Ag85A, Ag85B and Ag85C) is an important virulence factor, it could mediate the adhesion and invasion of MTB and the synthesis of the cell wall. Ag85 complex has been used in the construction of many new vaccines, such as recombinant attenuated vaccines, protein adjuvant vaccines and virus vector vaccines. In this paper, pathogenic mechanism of Ag85 complex and its application progress in the development of tuberculosis vaccine are reviewed, and the effects of Ag85 complex as antigens in developing different types of tuberculosis vaccines are also investigated.

Key words: Antigens,bacterial, Antigen-antibody complex, Virulence factors, Tuberculosis, Vaccines,synthetic, Review literature as topic