TY - JOUR
T1 - Leishmania major
T2 - glycolipid antigens recognized by immune human sera
AU - Rosen, Graciela
AU - Londner, Mauricio V.
AU - Sevlever, Daniel
AU - Greenblatt, Charles L.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Miss Maria E. Westerman for her excellent technical assistance. This study was supported by US NIH-NIAID Research contract NO1-AI22668 (Epidemiology and Control of Arthropod-Borne Diseases in the Middle East).
PY - 1988/1/1
Y1 - 1988/1/1
N2 - Extraction of whole promastigotes with a mixture of hexane-isopropanol yielded two carbohydrate-lipid fractions immunologically active against immune sera from patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL): CLF-1 and CLF-2. Thin layer chromatography (TLC) separated both fractions into eight bands labeled A-H. Four of these bands, Rf 0.19, 0.25, 0.39 and 0.48 (A, B, C and E, respectively) were recognized by antibody from patients with CL in a solid phase radioimmunoassay. Antigens were also detected by autoradiography after immunoblotting of TLC. Compound A could be labeled biosynthetically with [3H]oleic acid, [14C]galactose, [14C]mannose, [14C]glucose and [32P]phosphate. B incorporated [14C]galactose, [14C]mannose, [14C]glucose and [14C]myo-inositol. C was labeled with [14C]galactose and [14C]mannose, while E incorporated [14C]glucose, [14C]mannose, [3H]oleic acid and [14C]myoinositol. Two antigens (A and B) could be also labeled on the surface of living promastigotes using galactose oxidase and [3H]sodium borohydride. Experimental data showed that CLF-1 and CLF-2, both carbohydrate-containing fractions, had different chromatographic patterns from excreted factor (EF), a polysaccharide antigen from Leishmania. The present study characterizes glycolipid molecules from L. major promastigotes, able to stimulate the immune system from patients with CL.
AB - Extraction of whole promastigotes with a mixture of hexane-isopropanol yielded two carbohydrate-lipid fractions immunologically active against immune sera from patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL): CLF-1 and CLF-2. Thin layer chromatography (TLC) separated both fractions into eight bands labeled A-H. Four of these bands, Rf 0.19, 0.25, 0.39 and 0.48 (A, B, C and E, respectively) were recognized by antibody from patients with CL in a solid phase radioimmunoassay. Antigens were also detected by autoradiography after immunoblotting of TLC. Compound A could be labeled biosynthetically with [3H]oleic acid, [14C]galactose, [14C]mannose, [14C]glucose and [32P]phosphate. B incorporated [14C]galactose, [14C]mannose, [14C]glucose and [14C]myo-inositol. C was labeled with [14C]galactose and [14C]mannose, while E incorporated [14C]glucose, [14C]mannose, [3H]oleic acid and [14C]myoinositol. Two antigens (A and B) could be also labeled on the surface of living promastigotes using galactose oxidase and [3H]sodium borohydride. Experimental data showed that CLF-1 and CLF-2, both carbohydrate-containing fractions, had different chromatographic patterns from excreted factor (EF), a polysaccharide antigen from Leishmania. The present study characterizes glycolipid molecules from L. major promastigotes, able to stimulate the immune system from patients with CL.
KW - Cutaneous leishmaniasis
KW - Glycolipid antigens
KW - Leishmania major
KW - Thin layer chromatography
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U2 - 10.1016/0166-6851(88)90028-X
DO - 10.1016/0166-6851(88)90028-X
M3 - Article
C2 - 3344001
AN - SCOPUS:0023640269
SN - 0166-6851
VL - 27
SP - 93
EP - 99
JO - Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology
JF - Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology
IS - 1
ER -