Toxoplasma gondii antigens: Recovery analysis of tachyzoites cultivated in Vero cell maintained in serum free medium

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• 作者：Thaí ; s Alves da Costa-Silva^a ; Cristina da Silva Meira^a ; Neuza Frazzatti-Gallina^b ; Vera Lucia Pereira-Chioccola^a ; ^{pchioccola@gmail.com}
• 关键词：Toxoplasma gondii ; Vero cells ; Serum-free medium ; Tachyzoites ; Antigens
• 刊名：Experimental Parasitology
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：99_00144894
• 类别：imm
• 出版时间：April, 2012
• 卷：130
• 期：4
• 页码：463-469
• 文件大小：449 K

摘要

Vero cells have been used successfully in Toxoplasma gondii maintenance. Medium supplementation for culture cells with fetal bovine serum is necessary for cellular growth. However, serum in these cultures presents disadvantages, such as the potential to induce hypersensitivity, variability of serum batches, possible presence of contaminants, and the high cost of good quality serum. Culture media formulated without any animal derived components, designed for serum-free growth of cell lines have been used successfully for different virus replication. The advantages of protozoan parasite growth in cell line cultures using serum-free medium remain poorly studied. Thus, this study was designed to determine whether T. gondii tachyzoites grown in Vero cell cultures in serum-free medium, after many passages, are able to maintain the same antigenic proprieties as those maintained in experimental mice. The standardization of Vero cell culture in serum-free medium for in vitro T. gondii tachyzoite production was performed establishing the optimal initial cell concentration for the confluent monolayer formation, which was 1 脳 10⁶ Vero cell culture as initial inoculum. The total confluent monolayer formatted after 96 h and the best amount of harvested tachyzoites was 2.1脳10⁷ using parasite inoculum of 1.5 脳 10⁶ after 7 days post-infection. The infectivity of tachyzoites released from Vero cells maintained in serum-free medium was evaluated using groups of Swiss mice infected with cell-culture tachyzoites. The parasite concentrations were similar to those for mice infected with tachyzoites collected from other infected mice. The data from both in vivo and in vitro experiments showed that in at least 30 culture cell passages, the parasites maintained the same infectivity as maintained in vivo. Another question was to know whether in the several continued passages, immunogenic progressive loss could occur. The nucleotide sequences studied were the same between the different passages, which could mean no change in their viability in the lysate antigen. Thus, the antigen production by cell culture has clear ethical and cost-saving advantages. Moreover, the use of culture media formulated without any human or animal derived components, designed for serum-free growth of cell lines, successfully produced tachyzoites especially for antigen production.