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Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex and Mycobacterial Heat Shock Proteins in Lymph Node Tissue from Patients with Pulmonary Sarcoidosis

Anna Dubaniewicz,^1* Mirosawa Dubaniewicz-Wybieralska,² Adam Sternau,³ Zofia Zwolska,⁴ Ewa Iycka-wieszewska,⁵ Ewa Augustynowicz-Kope,⁴ Jarosaw Skokowski,⁶ Mahavir Singh,⁷ and Lech Zimnoch⁸

Department of Pathophysiology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland,¹ Department of Radiology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland,² Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland,³ National Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Warsaw, Poland,⁴ Department of Pathomorphology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland,⁵ Department of Surgical Oncology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland,⁶ LIONEX Diagnostics and Therapeutics GmbH and GBF, Braunschweig, Germany,⁷ Department of Medical Pathomorphology, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland⁸

Received 11 July 2006/ Accepted 14 July 2006

We demonstrated that not whole Mycobacterium tuberculosis but its particular antigens, hsp70_Mtb, hsp65_Mtb, and hsp16_Mtb, are present in lymph node tissues of patients with sarcoidosis (SA). hsp16_Mtb occurs in the early stage of SA, whereas hsp70_Mtb occurs in stage II of SA. hsp65_Mtb is highly expressed in the capillary vessels in lymph node tissues in patients with SA.

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