Failure of Brucella abortus lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to activate the alternative pathway of complement |
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Authors: | E M Hoffmann J J Houle |
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Institution: | Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, IFAS, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 USA |
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Abstract: | Bovine erythrocytes (E) coated with either crude or purified preparations of Brucella abortus LPS were not lysed by human complement (C) in the presence of the chelating agent ethyleneglycol-bis-N, N'-tetraacetic acid (EGTA). On the other hand, bovine red cells coated with Salmonella typhimurium LPS were lysed by human C in EGTA. B. abortus LPS preparations did not cause fluid phase human C consumption in the presence of calcium and magnesium ions. However, as expected, S. typhimurium LPS consumed C from human serum in a dose-dependent fashion. The results of these experiments indicate that B. abortus LPS differs from the Enterobacterial LPSs in that it cannot activate the alternative pathway of C in human serum. Furthermore, the failure of B. abortus LPS to consume C in the fluid phase in the presence of calcium and magnesium ions suggests that the LPS cannot cause antibody-independent activation of the classical pathway. |
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