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Antigenic heterogeneity in high- and low-virulence strains of Rickettsia rickettsii revealed by monoclonal antibodies.

Infection and Immunity, 01 Feb 1986, 51(2):653-660
https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.51.2.653-660.1986 PMID: 3080372 PMCID: PMC262399

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Previously it has been reported that strains of Rickettsia rickettsii that differ greatly in their ability to cause disease in guinea pigs are similar by serological and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analyses. In this study, we used monoclonal antibodies to the virulent R and the relatively avirulent HLP strains to investigate strain differences which might account for the disparate behavior of the strains in guinea pigs. Coomassie blue-stained sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis profiles of the R and HLP strains were nearly identical for polypeptides with apparent molecular weights greater than 32 kilodaltons (kDa). All of the monoclonal antibodies to a lipopolysaccharide-like antigen reacted equally well with antigen from both strains by immunoblotting. None of the antibodies to the lipopolysaccharide-like antigen protected mice against challenge with viable rickettsiae. Some antibodies reacted with both 120- and 155-kDa polypeptides of both strains in radioimmune precipitation and immunoblotting tests, and other antibodies reacted only with the homologous strain. The monoclonal antibodies cross-reacted with the heterologous strain in the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay essentially either completely or not at all. The ability of the monoclonal antibodies to the 120- and 155-kDa polypeptides to protect mice against the two strains was correlated with the ability of the antibodies to react with the antigens in the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and radioimmune precipitation or immunoblotting tests. These results demonstrate that R and HLP antigens which appear identical in molecular weight differ in their compositions of antigenic determinants.

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Infect Immun. 1986 Feb; 51(2): 653–660.
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Antigenic heterogeneity in high- and low-virulence strains of Rickettsia rickettsii revealed by monoclonal antibodies.

R L Anacker, R H List, R E Mann, and D L Wiedbrauk
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Previously it has been reported that strains of Rickettsia rickettsii that differ greatly in their ability to cause disease in guinea pigs are similar by serological and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analyses. In this study, we used monoclonal antibodies to the virulent R and the relatively avirulent HLP strains to investigate strain differences which might account for the disparate behavior of the strains in guinea pigs. Coomassie blue-stained sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis profiles of the R and HLP strains were nearly identical for polypeptides with apparent molecular weights greater than 32 kilodaltons (kDa). All of the monoclonal antibodies to a lipopolysaccharide-like antigen reacted equally well with antigen from both strains by immunoblotting. None of the antibodies to the lipopolysaccharide-like antigen protected mice against challenge with viable rickettsiae. Some antibodies reacted with both 120- and 155-kDa polypeptides of both strains in radioimmune precipitation and immunoblotting tests, and other antibodies reacted only with the homologous strain. The monoclonal antibodies cross-reacted with the heterologous strain in the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay essentially either completely or not at all. The ability of the monoclonal antibodies to the 120- and 155-kDa polypeptides to protect mice against the two strains was correlated with the ability of the antibodies to react with the antigens in the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and radioimmune precipitation or immunoblotting tests. These results demonstrate that R and HLP antigens which appear identical in molecular weight differ in their compositions of antigenic determinants.

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