Antibodies and dilutions used for immunoblotting experiments. mAb: monoclonal antibody; PoAb: polyclonal antibody.
1. Introduction
Olive pollen allergy is a leading cause of seasonal allergic disease in the Mediterranean countries, where olive trees are intensively cultivated and pollen grain count reaches very high levels during the pollination season (Wheeler, 1992, Liccardi et al., 1996). The level of sensitization to olive pollen among the general population is directly related to the abundance of trees as this determines allergen exposure. Nevertheless, apart from tree abundance, other factors such as genetic background may influence the incidence of sensitization to olive pollen even in areas of very high exposition (Geller-Bernstein et al. 1996).Olive trees have been cultivated in the Mediterranean basin for several millennia and this has led to the selection of a wide variety of cultivars with agronomic importance. Olive germplasm is exceptionally wide, with more than 250 cultivars only in Spain (Barranco and Rallo, 2005), probably as a direct consequence of intensive cultivation.
Material commonly used for clinical and biological analysis corresponds in most cases to commercially available pollen, obtained from uncertain varietal sources. Previous studies have determined that most allergens isolated and characterized up to date are highly polymorphic (Villalba et al. 1993, 1994; Lombardero et al. 1994; Asturias et al. 1997; Alché et al. 1998; Tejera et al. 1999; Huecas et al. 2001; Martínez et al. 2002; Jiménez-López et al. 2012). Besides polymorphism, olive cultivars display broad differences in the expression levels for many allergens (Carnés et al. 2002; Conde Hernandez et al. 2002; Castro et al. 2003; Morales 2012) as well as in the number and molecular characteristics of the expressed allergen isoforms (Hamman-Khalifa et al. 2003, 2008; Hamman-Khalifa 2005; Castro et al. 2010; Jiménez-López et al. 2012). These differences are in a certain degree maintained over the years, and have been demonstrated to be associated to the genetic background of the different olive cultivars (Fernandez Caldas et al. 2007; Morales 2012; Morales et al. this volume). Differences in the allergen composition of the extracts, particularly as regard to the olive pollen major allergen Ole e 1, are responsible of large differences in the biological potency of the extracts. Thus, Castro et al. (2003) analysed the allergenicity and Ole e 1 content in pollen samples of 10 cultivars of olive trees, and compared it to a commercial extract with no indication on varietal origin, probably representing a mixture of several cultivars. The authors found that there are important differences in the content of this major allergen and that Ole e 1 abundance correlated with total allergenicity when extracts were tested by skin prick test (SPT) on allergic patients. Interestingly some patients (about 10%) did not react with a commercial extract and only reacted to extracts coming from specific cultivars. These findings may have important implications in both diagnosis and therapy of olive pollen allergy, and in the efficacy and safety of the preparations used for specific immunotherapy (SIT) (Castro et al., 2003; Alché et al. 2007; Hamman-Khalifa et al. 2008; Jiménez-López 2008; Morales 2012).
The basis for personalized SIT, based in the individual usage of olive cultivar extracts, have been described and are protected by several Spanish patents (Alché et al. 2005, 2006). However, and as handling and characterization of a large number of cultivar extracts is impracticable under industrial and clinical standards, the present work intends to define a limited number of model cultivar, characterized by distinctive pollen allergen profiles. For this purpose, a number of olive pollen extracts have been analysed in their content for several relevant allergens. After appropriate quantitation, several model cultivars have been defined to group the cultivars analysed. This model can be used as the basis for a future classification and inclusion of the numerous olive cultivars available.
2. Materials and methods
2.1. Pollen samples
2.2. Preparation of crude protein extracts and SDS-PAGE
Crude protein extracts were obtained by stirring 1 g of pollen for each cultivar in 10 ml extraction buffer (0.01 M ammonium bicarbonate, pH 8.0, and 2 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride) for 8 h at 4°C. After centrifugation (2 x 30 minutes at 14,000 rpm at 4°C), the supernatants were filtered through a 0.2 µm filter, and stored in aliquots at –20°C. Protein concentration in the different samples was measured using the Bio-Rad reagent (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA) and bovine serum albumin (BSA) as standard.
Proteins (30 µg per lane) and Mw1 (New England BioLabs, Ipswich, MA, USA) and Mw2 standards (MBI Fermentas, Vilnius, Lithuania) were separated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) in 15% gels in a MiniProtean II system (Bio-Rad). The resulting gels were stained with Coomassie blue. The same procedure described here was applied to a commercially available extract used for olive pollen allergy diagnosis.
2.3. Immunoblotting
Gels obtained as described above were transferred onto BioTrace® polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) membranes (Pall BioSupport, Port Washington, NY, USA) at 100 V for 1.5 hours using a Mini Trans-Blot Electrophoretic Transfer Cell (Bio-Rad). Immunoblots were performed independently in the case of Ole e 1 (Figure 2) and Ole e 2 (Figure 3). Ole e 5 and Ole e 9 were simultaneously detected in the same membrane (Figure 4). Prior to the treatment with antibodies, the membranes were blocked with TBST buffer (Tris buffered saline: TBS + 0.3% v/v Tween 20) + 10% w/v dried skimmed milk.
The membranes were probed with antibodies to the following allergenic proteins: Ole e 1, (olive pollen major allergen), Ole e 2 (profilin), Ole e 5 (Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase) and Ole e 9 (1,3-β-glucanase). The anti-Ole e 1 mAb was kindly provided by Dr. Carlos Lahoz (Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain) (Lauzurica et al. 1988). The anti-Ole e 2 polyclonal antibody (PoAb) was produced by immunization of rabbits with a keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH)-linked synthetic peptide (AQSATFPQFKPEEM) designed from the predicted amino acid sequence of an olive profilin (Ole e 2). Specificity of the antibody was already reported by Western blotting experiments and immunolocalization of the allergen (Morales et al. 2008). The anti-Ole e 9 polyclonal Ab was produced as described above using a synthetic peptide (YPYFAYKNQPTPDT) from the Ole e 9 amino acid sequence (Huecas et al. 2001; Duffort et al. 2006). Finally, we also purchased a commercially available PoAb that recognizes a chloroplastidic isoform of Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase (SOD) from
Primary Abs were diluted in blocking solution and incubated for 2 h at room temperature, whereas secondary Abs were diluted in TBST buffer and incubated for 1 h at room temperature in the dark. After Ab incubation, membranes were rinsed in TBST buffer four times for 5 min each. The different Abs used in this work and their corresponding dilutions are summarized in Table 1. Each experiment described below was repeated in triplicate. Negative controls included preimmune serum in the cases of Ole e 2 and Ole e 9.
Mouse anti-olive Ole e 1 mAb (Lauzurica et al. 1988) | 1:20,000 | Goat anti-mouse IgG Ab, Alexa fluor 488-conjugated (Molecular Probes) | 1:10,000 | |
Rabbit anti-olive Ole e 2 PoAb (Morales et al. 2008) | 1:20,000 | Donkey anti-rabbit IgG (Fab fragment) Ab, Cy3-conjugated (Jackson ImmunoResearch) | 1:10,000 | |
Rabbit anti-Cu/Zn SOD PoAb (Agrisera Prod. No. AS06 170) | 1:250 | Goat anti-rabbit IgG Ab, Alexa fluor 633-conjugated (Molecular Probes) | 1:10,000 | |
Ole e 9 (N- domain) | Rabbit anti-olive Ole e 9 PoAb | 1:10,000 | Goat anti-rabbit IgG Ab, Alexa fluor 633-conjugated (Molecular Probes) | 1:10,000 |
Imaging was carried out with a Pharos FX Plus Molecular Imager (Bio-Rad) using the Quantity One v4.6.2 software (Bio-Rad).
2.4. Absolute and relative quantitation of allergens
The intensity of each fluorescent band was calculated using the quantitation tools of the Quantity One v4.6.2 software. In order to increase sensitivity of measurements and to avoid disturbing factors like the intensity of the background, the presence of individual non-specific spots, etc., two different methods for quantitation were used:
For each allergen studied, reactive bands were identified, their optical density individually measured and then their absolute values added for each cultivar. Relative percentages of each allergen were then calculated for each cultivar, taking the cultivar with the highest optical density as the reference, which was assigned 100%.
Simultaneous measurement of the optical density corresponding to all reactive bands from a given allergen in each cultivar was also performed. As before, relative percentages were also calculated, referred to the cultivar with the highest optical density, which was assigned 100%.
Finally, average of the percentages calculated by both methods was worked out, and the resulting percentages were newly made relative to the cultivar with the highest percentage, which was re-assigned 100%.
3. Results
3.1. SDS-PAGE protein profiles
Figure 1 shows the protein profiles of the extracts analysed after SDS-PAGE and Coomassie staining. The patterns observed for the major protein species were somewhat similar for all the cultivars tested. However, clear quantitative differences were distinguished, from which the most conspicuous were those in the protein range of 17-20 kDa. Proteins within this range were relatively abundant in the extracts corresponding to the cvs. ΄Picual΄, ΄Manzanilla΄, ΄Cornicabra΄, ΄Hojiblanca΄, ΄Loaime΄, ΄Blanqueta΄ and ΄Lucio΄.
When the commercial pollen extract was assayed by SDS-PAGE, a protein profile similar to the profile corresponding to the individual cultivars was observed, although several bands were absent or poorly resolved. Proteins in the range 17-20 kDa represented a low proportion of the total protein for this extract.
3.2. Immunoblot detection and quantitation of Ole e 1
Immunoblots probed with the monoclonal antibody to Ole e 1 resulted in the presence of two major immunoreactive bands of 18 and 20 kDa, corresponding to the monomeric non-glycosylated and mono-glycosylated forms (Figure 2). Other immunoreactive bands with low quantitative relevance were observed (36, 40 y 44 kDa) in several lanes.
Bands corresponding to the Mw of 18 and 20 kDa were quantitated according to the methods described above. Absolute measurements of the intensity of each individual band and both bands simultanously are displayed in Table 2, as well as the relative percentages calculated as described above.
3672 | 14385 | 16746 | 11894 | 20033 | 12174 | 17668 | 30706 | 41345 | 40388 | 17436 | |
2348 | 10666 | 11233 | 7983 | 11716 | 3204 | 11804 | 22780 | 21143 | 32768 | 13087 | |
6021 | 25051 | 27979 | 19877 | 31749 | 15378 | 29472 | 52784 | 62489 | 73156 | 30523 | |
8.23 | 34.24 | 38.25 | 27.17 | 43.40 | 21.02 | 40.28 | 72.15 | 85.41 | 100 | 41.72 | |
6659 | 26741 | 29626 | 22044 | 34260 | 20950 | 32493 | 54095 | 60906 | 73900 | 30345 | |
9.01 | 36.18 | 40.09 | 29.83 | 46.36 | 28.35 | 43.97 | 73.21 | 82.42 | 100 | 41.06 | |
8.62 | 35.21 | 39.17 | 28.5 | 41.88 | 24.68 | 42.125 | 72.68 | 83.915 | 100 | 41.39 |
3.3. Immunoblot detection and quantitation of Ole e 2
Immunoblots probed with the polyclonal antiserum to Ole e 2 resulted in the presence of up to five major immunoreactive bands of c.a. 14, 13.7, 14.2, 14.9 and 15.7 kDa (Figure 3).
Bands corresponding to the five Mws were quantitated according to the methods described above. Absolute measurements of the intensity of each individual band and all five bands simultanously are displayed in Table 3, as well as the relative percentages calculated as described above.
357152 | 277747 | 248153 | 405554 | 165942 | 394519 | 537187 | 356024 | 910640 | 476889 | 350778 | |
398025 | 305569 | 261364 | 312528 | 198300* | 250846 | 484703 | 463371 | 1004748 | 454397 | 486318 | |
264210 | 198300* | 198300* | 223593 | 147305 | 198300* | 198300* | 198300* | 987772 | 410790 | 198300* | |
198300* | 198300* | 198300* | 198300* | 290636 | 198300* | 198300* | 198300* | 198300* | 198300* | 198300* | |
198300* | 198300* | 198300* | 217632 | 198300* | 198300* | 198300* | 198300* | 198300* | 198300* | 198300* | |
1415987 | 1178216 | 1104417 | 1357607 | 1000483 | 1240265 | 1616790 | 1414295 | 3299760 | 1738676 | 1431996 | |
42.91 | 35.70 | 33.47 | 41.14 | 30.31 | 37.59 | 49 | 42.86 | 100 | 52.70 | 43.39 | |
2281004 | 2385713 | 2464789 | 2550651 | 2499993 | 2472138 | 2437099 | 2312637 | 2913894 | 2092950 | 1973168 | |
78.3 | 81.87 | 84.59 | 87.53 | 85.80 | 84.84 | 83.64 | 79.37 | 100 | 71.83 | 67.71 | |
60.605 | 58.78 | 59.03 | 64.335 | 58.055 | 61.215 | 66.32 | 61.115 | 100 | 62.265 | 55.55 |
3.4. Immunoblot detection and quantitation of Ole e 5 and Ole e 9
Immunoblots probed with the commercial antibody to Cu,Zn SOD (Ole e 5) and the polyclonal antiserum to Ole e 9 resulted in the presence of up to five major immunoreactive bands of c.a. 16, 16.5, 22, 26 and 50 kDa for Ole e 5, and two immunoreactive bands of c.a. 36 and 46.5 kDa for Ole e 9 (Figure 4).
Bands corresponding to the five Mws of Ole e 5 and two of Ole e 9 were quantitated according to the methods described above. Absolute measurements of the intensity of each individual band and all five bands simultanously are displayed in Tables 4 and 5, as well as the relative percentages calculated as described above.
4. Clustering of cultivars according to their relative allergenic content
Table 6 summarizes the final relative averages of reactivity calculated for each cultivar and allergen. Relative values present a wide range in the case of allergens Ole e 1 and Ole e 9, whereas Ole e 2 and Ole e 5 allergens maintain values relatively constant, higher than 50% for all cultivars, with a single exception (Ole e 5 in the cultivar ΄Lucio΄).
Therefore, the following thresholds have been defined in order to divide cultivars into cultivars with high/average/low allergenic content for the allergens Ole e 1 and Ole e 9. In the case of Ole e 1, we have considered that percentages of 30% and 35% may represent reasonable limits, taking into account the extremely high content of some cultivars in this allergen, which may represents up to 23% of the total protein content for these cultivars (Castro et al. 2003). For Ole e 9, the percentages of 40% and 60% were selected as the thresholds.
12522 | 10472 | 13810 | 16174 | 8515 | 16875 | 20320 | 19682 | 1054 | 793 | 714 | |
33503 | 21491 | 23191 | 27710 | 33630 | 28904 | 36422 | 39682 | 27218 | 23811 | 4304 | |
9451 | 7946 | 9623 | 14385 | 12453 | 9703 | 13812 | 17211 | 6380 | 5201 | 5041 | |
6221 | 3389 | 3688 | 7134 | 7617 | 4447 | 7775 | 11424 | 12698 | 9191 | 7098 | |
5611 | 7474 | 9643 | 4818 | 3941 | 5794 | 8238 | 19507 | 12979 | 5625 | 4200 | |
67308 | 50772 | 59955 | 70221 | 66156 | 65723 | 86567 | 107506 | 47350 | 44621 | 21357 | |
62.61 | 47.23 | 55.77 | 65.32 | 61.54 | 61.13 | 80.52 | 100 | 44.04 | 41.51 | 19.87 | |
122909 | 95529 | 107694 | 136847 | 128879 | 118503 | 157103 | 155113 | 136354 | 107779 | 79135 | |
78.23 | 60.81 | 68.55 | 87.11 | 82.03 | 75.43 | 100 | 98.73 | 86.79 | 68.60 | 50.37 | |
70.42 | 54.02 | 62.16 | 76.215 | 71.785 | 68.28 | 90.26 | 99.365 | 65.415 | 55.055 | 35.12 | |
70.87 | 54.36 | 62.55 | 76.70 | 72.24 | 68.72 | 90.83 | 100 | 65.83 | 55.41 |
20241 | 18902 | 25868 | 18912 | 15583 | 17605 | 24746 | 44273 | 29766 | 28377 | 20736 | |
39567 | 23419 | 17751 | 16764 | 13584 | 13916 | 20517 | 53338 | 22784 | 13160 | 12730 | |
59808 | 42322 | 43619 | 35677 | 29167 | 31521 | 45264 | 97612 | 52550 | 41538 | 33467 | |
61.27 | 43.36 | 44.68 | 36.55 | 29.88 | 32.29 | 46.37 | 100 | 53.83 | 42.55 | 34.28 | |
72676 | 51950 | 56389 | 47169 | 39589 | 45075 | 59672 | 102195 | 74531 | 52213 | 39717 | |
71.11 | 50.83 | 55.17 | 46.15 | 38.73 | 44.10 | 58.39 | 100 | 72.93 | 51.09 | 38.86 | |
66.19 | 47.095 | 49.925 | 41.35 | 34.305 | 38.195 | 52.38 | 100 | 63.38 | 46.82 | 36.57 |
Thresholds low/average/high | ||||||||||||
8.62 | 35.21 | 39.17 | 28.5 | 41.88 | 24.68 | 42.125 | 72.68 | 83.915 | 100 | 41.39 | 30%-35% | |
60.605 | 58.78 | 59.03 | 64.335 | 58.055 | 61.215 | 66.32 | 61.115 | 100 | 62.265 | 55.55 | - | |
70.87 | 54.36 | 62.55 | 76.70 | 72.24 | 68.72 | 90.83 | 100 | 65.83 | 55.41 | 35.34 | - | |
66.19 | 47.095 | 49.925 | 41.35 | 34.305 | 38.195 | 52.38 | 100 | 63.38 | 46.82 | 36.57 | 40%-60% |
The following categories were established after following the above mentioned criteria:
΄Hojiblanca΄-type extract, characterized by high contents of Ole e 1 and Ole e 9. The cultivar ΄Loaime΄ could be included in this same group.
΄Picual΄- type extract, characterized by high content of Ole e 1 and low to average contents of Ole e 9. The cultivars ΄Manzanilla΄, ΄Lucio΄, ΄Cornicabra΄, ΄Lechín΄ and ΄Blanqueta΄ could be included in this same group.
΄Arbequina΄ -type extract, characterized by low content in both Ole e 1 and Ole e 9, with average to high contents of Ole e 5 and Ole e 2. The cultivar ΄Verdial΄ could be included in this same group.
The
This initial proposal should be implemented by further analyzing additional olive pollen allergens (some of them highly relevant from a clinical point of view like Ole e 7), and by analyzing the allergen profiles of other agronomically relevant cultivars. However, the classification obtained here is in good agreement with the genetic relationships among cultivars already described on the basis of Ole e 1 and Ole e 2 polymorphism (Hamman-Khalifa et al. 2008; Jiménez-López et al., 2012). Moreover, this classification also supports clinical findings describing sharp differences in patient’s reactivity to commercially available extracts depending on their place of residence in Spain, where these model cultivars are differentially predominant (Casanovas et al. 1997). Providing that sensitization to specific allergens can be determined in individual patients, the application of the concept of allergenic profile to allergen extracts could be considered a major adventage. This concept would therefore open the posibility of choosing the allergen extract matching the sensitivity of each patient. Moreover, the continuous development of new molecular tools (e.g. new antibodies with higher specificity) will undoubtedly improve the present type of studies, which has to be considered still preliminary.
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) (ERDF-cofinanced projects AGL2008-00517, BFU2011-22779 and PIE-200840I186) and the Junta de Andalucía (ERDF-cofinanced projects P2010-CVI5767 and P2010-AGR6274). The authors acknowledge the availability of plant material and the collaboration of the staff of the IFAPA center “Venta del Llano” (Mengíbar, Spain) depending from the Andalusian Regional Government.
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