Intravenous vaccination with recombinant bacteria carrying expression plasmid for MPB/MPT51 in BALB/c mice elicited significant protective responses, comparable to those evoked by a live Mycobacterium bovis BCG vaccine (Miki et al., 2004).
References
Miki et al., 2004: Miki K, Nagata T, Tanaka T, Kim YH, Uchijima M, Ohara N, Nakamura S, Okada M, Koide Y. Induction of protective cellular immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis by recombinant attenuated self-destructing Listeria monocytogenes strains harboring eukaryotic expression plasmids for antigen 85 complex and MPB/MPT51. Infection and immunity. 2004; 72(4); 2014-2021. [PubMed: 15039321].
>YP_002646905.1 MPT51/MPB51 antigen protein [Mycobacterium bovis BCG str. Tokyo 172]
MKGRSALLRALWIAALSFGLGGVAVAAEPTAKAAPYENLMVPSPSMGRDIPVAFLAGGPHAVYLLDAFNA
GPDVSNWVTAGNAMNTLAGKGISVVAPAGGAYSMYTNWEQDGSKQWDTFLSAELPDWLAANRGLAPGGHA
AVGAAQGGYGAMALAAFHPDRFGFAGSMSGFLYPSNTTTNGAIAAGMQQFGGVDTNGMWGAPQLGRWKWH
DPWVHASLLAQNNTRVWVWSPTNPGASDPAAMIGQAAEAMGNSRMFYNQYRSVGGHNGHFDFPASGDNGW
GSWAPQLGAMSGDIVGAIR