HEAT-STABLE SEROTYPING ANTIGENS EXPRESSED BY STRAINS OF CAMPYLOBACTER-JEJUNI ARE PROBABLY CAPSULAR AND NOT LONG-CHAIN LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE

Authors
CHART H FROST JA OZA A THWAITES R GILLANDERS S
Citation
H. Chart et al., HEAT-STABLE SEROTYPING ANTIGENS EXPRESSED BY STRAINS OF CAMPYLOBACTER-JEJUNI ARE PROBABLY CAPSULAR AND NOT LONG-CHAIN LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE, Journal of Applied Bacteriology, 81(6), 1996, pp. 635-640
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology,"Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology
Journal title
Journal of Applied Bacteriology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00218847
Volume
81
Issue
6
Year of publication
1996
Pages
635 - 640
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-8847(1996)81:6<635:HSAEBS>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
The role of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the serotyping of Campylobacte r jejuni based on heat-stable antigens was examined using SDS-PAGE and a silver strain for carbohydrate. None of the 32 type strains of Camp . jejuni expressed long-chain LPS. Rabbit antibodies, prepared to 10 s elected strains of Camp. jejuni, reacted with surface-exposed carbohyd rate antigens, which were not LPS. This study suggests that the heat-s table antigens of Camp. jejuni, which form the basis for the establish ed Penner serotyping scheme, are probably capsular and not LPS.