Lee B C, Levesque S
Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Infect Immun. 1997 Jul;65(7):2970-4. doi: 10.1128/iai.65.7.2970-2974.1997.
Neisseria gonorrhoeae expresses two hemin-binding proteins (HmBPs) of 97,000 and 44,000 in molecular weight. A murine monoclonal antibody (MAb) produced against the 97-kDa HmBP from N. gonorrhoeae PID543 specifically inhibited in a concentration-dependent manner the ability of hemin to promote growth. The anti-97-kDa HmBP MAb competitively inhibited binding of the 97-kDa HmBP to a hemin-agarose affinity column. In Western immunoblots, the MAb recognized the 97-kDa homologs from a limited survey of clinical gonococcal isolates. These results support the contention that the 97-kDa HmBP is involved in the gonococcal hemin acquisition pathway.
淋病奈瑟菌表达两种分子量分别为97,000和44,000的血红素结合蛋白(HmBPs)。一种针对淋病奈瑟菌PID543的97-kDa HmBP产生的鼠单克隆抗体(MAb)以浓度依赖性方式特异性抑制血红素促进生长的能力。抗97-kDa HmBP MAb竞争性抑制97-kDa HmBP与血红素-琼脂糖亲和柱的结合。在蛋白质免疫印迹中,该MAb从有限的临床淋病奈瑟菌分离株调查中识别出97-kDa同源物。这些结果支持了97-kDa HmBP参与淋病奈瑟菌血红素获取途径的观点。