›› 2018, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (6): 1447-1453.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2018.06.003

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Research on the Potential of IL-17 as a Biomarker of Bovine Tuberculosis and Establishment of Its Real-time PCR Assay

GAO Xintao, JIA Hong, HOU Shaohua, GUO Xiaoyu, YUAN Weifeng, JIANG Yitong, ZHU Hongfei, XIN Ting   

  1. Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
  • Received:2017-12-05 Online:2018-06-20 Published:2018-06-15

Abstract:

This study was aimed to explore the correlation between the transcription levels of cytokines (IL-6 and IL-17) and the infection of Mycobacterium bovis,and evaluate potential of these cytokines for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) diagnosis.Clinically TB-infected cattle and healthy cattle were screened by the skin tests and IFN-γ release assays.Heparinized blood from each animal was collected and used for isolation of the peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBMC).PBMCs were respectively incubated with bovine tuberculin (PPD-B),avian tuberculin (PPD-A),recombinant protein CFP-10-ESAT-6 (CE),PET or PBS at 37℃ for 6 h,and then the transcription levels of IL-6,IL-17 and IFN-γ mRNA were detected by Real-time PCR.As with PBS,PET could not stimulate the increase of cytokine mRNA level,which indicated the influence of PET contained in CE was negligible.PPD-B,PPD-A or CE significantly increased mRNA levels of IL-17 and IFN-γ in PMBCs from TB-infected cattle (P<0.05), of which PPD-B showed the highest stimulus intensity,while CE exhibited the best stimulus specificity.Under the condition that CE was selected as optimal stimulus,the correlation between IL-17 and respective IFN-γ mRNA levels were observed (spearman r=0.79),and then Real-time PCR assays of IL-17 and IFN-γ were preliminary developed.The detection rate of IL-17-based method on 14 clinical bTB-positive samples was 85.7%,which was higher than 71.4% of IFN-γ.Taken together,these findings supported the IL-17 mRNA level in PBMC was related with bTB infection,and demonstrated that measurement of IL-17 mRNA by Real-time PCR was potential for bTB diagnosis.

Key words: bovine tuberculosis; diagnosis; IL-17; IFN-γ; Real-time PCR

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