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Paleoproteomics of the Dental Pulp: The plague paradigm

Rémi Barbieri
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Rania Mekni
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Anthony Levasseur
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Eric Chabrière
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Gérard Aboudharam
Michel Drancourt

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Chemical decomposition and fragmentation may limit the detection of ancient host and microbial DNA while some proteins can be detected for extended periods of time. We applied paleoproteomics on 300-year-old dental pulp specimens recovered from 16 individuals in two archeological funeral sites in France, comprising one documented plague site and one documented plague-negative site. The dental pulp paleoproteome of the 16 teeth comprised 439 peptides representative of 30 proteins of human origin and 211 peptides representative of 27 proteins of non-human origin. Human proteins consisted of conjunctive tissue and blood proteins including IgA immunoglobulins. Four peptides were indicative of three presumable Yersinia pestis proteins detected in 3/8 dental pulp specimens from the plague-positive site but not in the eight dental pulp specimens collected in the plague-negative site. Paleoproteomics applied to the dental pulp is a new and innovative approach to screen ancient individuals for the detection of blood-borne pathogens and host inflammatory response.
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hal-03851559 , version 1 (02-07-2024)

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Rémi Barbieri, Rania Mekni, Anthony Levasseur, Eric Chabrière, Michel Signoli, et al.. Paleoproteomics of the Dental Pulp: The plague paradigm. PLoS ONE, 2017, 12 (7), pp.e0180552. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0180552⟩. ⟨hal-03851559⟩
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