Abstract
Monoclonal antibodies that react with Rhizobium leguminosarum lipopolysaccharide core antigens (LPS-2) have been used to investigate LPS-2 structure in Rhizobium etli. The panel of antibodies (JIM 32 - JIM 35, JIM 37, JIM 38) specific for LPS-2 of R. leguminosarum strain 3841 and its core components displays similar reactivities towards isolated LPS-2 from R. etli CE109 (a mutant of wild-type strain R. etli CE3 that displays LPS-2 as its main LPS form on the cell surface). This result suggests the antibodies bind to similar epitopes on both strains and, hence, that R. leguminosarum and R. etli have very similar LPS core and lipid A antigen structures. More detailed analysis of the antibody binding sites with isolated LPS-2 and lipid A from R. etli suggests that some of the antibodies (JIM 32, 33, 34, and MASM-I) bind some part of the core oligosaccharides, while others (JIM 35 and JIM 38) involve lipid A. These antibodies have already proven useful in the biochemical analysis of the LPS antigen forms. For example, the loss of reactivity of certain LPS forms with antibody JIM 37 has led to the discovery of a hitherto unnoticed form of the LPS antigen in a precipitate formed during the phenol/water extraction procedure. This new form reacts with the JIM 37 antibody. Furthermore, the positive reaction of some of the antibodies with only sonicated wild-type R. etli cells suggests that either an effective way of masking the display of core antigens on whole bacterial cells is occurring or that core forms of the LPSs are never displayed on the surface of the bacterial cells. Either possibility, once confirmed, could be important for our picture of the Rhizobium cell surface and could also have some bearing on symbiotic nodule infection and development.
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Abbreviations
- LPS:
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lipopolysaccharide
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Kannenberg, E.L., Forsberg, L.S., Carlson, R.W. (1996). Lipopolysaccharide core components of Rhizobium etli reacting with a panel of monoclonal antibodies. In: Elkan, G.H., Upchurch, R.G. (eds) Current Issues in Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 72. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5700-1_22
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