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- Title
A comparison of the antigenicity of the extracellular products and whole-cell sonicates from <em>Mycobacterium</em> spp. in rabbits, mice and fish by immunoblotting and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
- Authors
Chen, S.-C.; Adams, A.; Thompson, K. D.; Richards, R. H.
- Abstract
The antigenicity of extracellular products (ECPs) derived from Mycobacterium spp. isolated from snakehead, Channa striata (Bloch), and Siamese fighting fish, Betta splendens (Regan), were examined by immunoblotting and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using sera collected from immunized rabbits, mice and fish (rainbow trout). All three species responded to a 65-kDa protein present in both the ECPs and whole cell sonicates (WCSs) from a variety of Mycobacterium spp. Cross-reactivity of anti-M. tuberculosis and anti-human heat-shock protein monoclonal antibodies (MAbs), and the presence of fibronectin binding proteins secreted into ECPs of mycobacteria were also examined. The MAbs against human 60-kDa heat-shock protein cross-reacted with the band at 65 kDa in the ECPs of TB1 (isolated from snakehead fish) and the type strain M. marinum, while the anti-M. tuberculosis MAb E29-47 elicited a strong reaction with a band at 21 kDa with most of the ECPs from mycobacterial strains examined. The major fibronectin-binding proteins were located between 21 and 25 kDa. The 65-kDa protein from ECPs of Mycobacterium spp. proved strongly immunogenic to rabbits, mice and fish. Rabbit antiserum against the 65-kDa protein from strain TB267 reacted with many non-Mycobacterium WCSs, and therefore, the 65-kDa protein from Mycobacterium spp. is believed to be a common protein found in many fish bacterial pathogens.
- Subjects
MYCOBACTERIUM; SIAMESE fighting fish; SNAKEHEADS (Fish); ENZYME-linked immunosorbent assay; IMMUNOBLOTTING; CHANNA; BETTA; AQUACULTURE
- Publication
Journal of Fish Diseases, 1997, Vol 20, Issue 6, p427
- ISSN
0140-7775
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1365-2761.1997.00322.x