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Gastric Mucosa Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction Analysis for Detecting Helicobacter pylori and Antibiotic Resistance
Published on: March 7, 2025
IgG subclasses against Helicobacter pylori isolates: an important tool for disease characterization
F Martínez-Becerra1, G Castillo-Rojas, S Ponce de León
1Programa de Inmunología Molecular Microbiana, Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
Abstract:
Helicobacter pylori infects around 50% of the world's population and is associated with diverse pathologies. In the most severe cases, the bacterium causes peptic ulcers and gastric cancer. The interplay between H. pylori and the host's immune response may help to determine the specific outcome of the infection. To study the relationship between antibody subclasses and variation in immune recognition, we determined the immunoglobulin G1 and 2 (IgG1 and IgG2) titres of sera obtained from patients with different H. pylori-associated pathologies. IgG1 and IgG2 titres were determined by ELISA in 44 sera of patients with different H. pylori-associated diseases (peptic ulcer, bleeding peptic ulcers, gastric cancer and dyspepsia). Soluble proteins from lysates were obtained from 12 different clinical isolates from similar associated diseases. We found that soluble proteins from lysates of H. pylori strains (SPLHP) recognition patterns in these sera were highly variable. Overall, IgG2 titres were higher than the IgG1 titres in the infected patients. In particular, those with peptic ulcers showed marked elevation in IgG2/IgG1 ratios, while SPLHPs from dyspeptic patients resulted in high IgG1 titres. Our results reveal that correlation of antibody subclass titres with Th1/Th2 markers may aid pathology characterization and show a potential diagnosis that could be formally evaluated in other studies.
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