Mechanism of serum resistance among Brucella abortus isolates

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 235-244

  Eisenschenk, Frank C ^a   Houle, Jeri Joan ^a   Hoffmann, Edward Marker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brucella abortus; Cattle bacteria; Complement; O antigen; Serum resistance

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; O ANTIGEN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; CATTLE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMMUNOREGULATION; NONHUMAN; SERUM BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS, BOVINE; CATTLE; COMPLEMENT C1Q; COMPLEMENT HEMOLYTIC ACTIVITY ASSAY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; O ANTIGENS;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032887317     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1135(99)00075-9     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Alberti S., Marques G., Hernandez-Alles S., Rubires X., Tomas J.M., Vivanco F., Benedi V.J. Interaction between complement subcomponent C1q and the Klebsiella pneumoneae porin OmpK36. Infect. Immun. 64:1996;4719-4725.
2. Allen C.A., Adams L.G., Ficht F.A. Transposon-derived Brucella abortus rough mutants are attenuated and exhibit reduced intracellular survival. Infect. Immun. 66:1998;1008-1016.
3. Betz S.J., Isliker H. Antibody independent interaction between Escherichia coli J5 and human complement. J. Immunol. 127:1981;1748-1754.
4. Billingsly, M.L., Pennypacker, K.R., Hoover, C.G., Brigati, D.J., Kinkaid, R.L., 1985. A rapid and sensitive method for detection and quantification of calcineurin and calmodulin-binding proteins using biotinylated calmodulin, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., U.S.A. 82, 7585-7589.
5. Campbell R.D., Booth N.A., Fothergill J.E. Purification and characterization of subcomponent Clq of the first component of bovine complement. Biochem. J. 177:1979;531-540.
6. Clas F., Loos M. Antibody-independent binding of the first component of complement (C1) and its subcomponent Clq to the S and R forms of Salmonella minnesota. Infect. Immun. 31:1981;1138-1144.
7. Corbeil L.B., Blau K., Inzana T.L., Nielsen K.H., Jacobson R.H., Corbeil R.R., Winter A.J. Killing of Brucella abortus by bovine serum. Infect. Immun. 56:1988;3251-3261.
8. Eisenschenk F.C., Houle J.J., Hoffmann E.M. Serum sensitivity of field isolates and laboratory strains of Brucella abortus. Am. J. Vet. Res. 56:1995;1592-1598.
9. Hoffmann E.M. Inhibition of complement by a substance isolated from human erythrocytes. I. Extraction from human erythrocyte stroma. Immunochemistry. 6:1969;391-405.
10. Hoffmann E.M., Houle J.J. Failure of Brucella abortus lipopolysaccharide to activate the alternative pathway of complement. Vet. Immunol. Immunopath. 5:1983;65-76.
11. Hoffmann E.M., Houle J.J. Contradictory roles for antibody and complement in the interaction of Brucella abortus with its host. Crit. Rev. Microbiol. 21:1995;153-163.
12. Houle J.J., Hoffmann E.M. The use of a passive hemolysis system to evaluate the complement activities of six mammalian species. Vet. Immunol. Immunopath. 16:1987;259-270.
13. Joiner K.A., Hammer C.H., Brown E.J., Cole R.J., Frank M.M. Studies on the mechanics of bacterial resistance to complement-mediated killing. I. Terminal complement components are deposited and released from Salmonella minnesota S218 without causing bacterial death. J. Exp. Med. 155:1982;797-808.
14. Joiner K.A., Hammer C.H., Brown E.J., Frank M.M. Studies on the mechanism of bacterial resistance to complement-mediated killing. II. C8 and C9 release C5b67 from the surface of Salmonella minnesota S218 because the terminal complex does not insert into the bacterial outer membrane. J. Exp. Med. 115:1982;809-819.
15. Joiner K.A., Grossman N., Schmetz M., Lewie L. C3 binds preferentially to long-chain lipopolysaccharide during alternative pathway activation by Salmonella minnesota. J. Immunol. 136:1986;710-715.
16. Laemmli U.K. Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriphage T4. Nature. 227:1970;680-685.
17. Loos M., Weelek B., Thesen R., Opferkuch W. Antibody-independent interaction of the first component of complement with gram-negative bacteria. Infect. Immun. 22:1978;5-9.
18. Mayer, M.M., 1967. Complement and complement fixation. In: Kabat, E.A., Mayer, M.M. (Eds.), Experimental Immunochemistry, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL, pp. 133-240.
19. Plackett P., Cottew G.S., Best S.J. An indirect hemolysis test (IHLT) for bovine brucellosis. Aust. Vet. J. 52:1976;136-140.
20. Sowa B.A., Kelley K.A., Ficht T.A., Frey M., Adams L.G. SDS soluble and peptidoglycan-bound proteins in the outer-membrane-peptidoglycan complex of Brucella abortus. Vet. Microbiol. 27:1991;351-369.
21. Stemmer F., Loos M. Evidence for direct binding of the first component of complement, C1, to outer membrane proteins from Salmonella minnesota. Curr. Top. Microbiol. Immunol. 121:1985;73-84.
22. Towbin, H., Staehelin, T., Gordon, J., 1979. Electrophoretic transfer of proteins from acrylamide gels to nitrocellulose sheets: Procedure and some applications, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 76, 4350-4354.
23. Van der Ley P., Kuipers O., Thammosser J. O-antigenic chains of lipopolysaccharide prevent the binding of antibody molecules to an outer membrane pore protein in Enterobacteriacea. Microbiol. Pathogenesis. 1:1986;43-49.