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Conservation and antigenic cross-reactivity of the transferrin-binding proteins of and Free

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acquires iron from the iron-transporting glycoprotein transferrin via a receptor-mediated process. This involves two outer-membrane transferrin-binding proteins (Tbps) termed Tbp1 and Tbp2 which show considerable preference for the human form of transferrin. Since the Tbps are attracting considerable attention as potential vaccine components, we used transferrin affinity chromatography to examine their conservation amongst 28 type b strains belonging to different outer-membrane-protein subtypes as well as six non-typable strains. Whole cells of all type b and non-typable strains examined bound human transferrin; whilst most strains possessed a Tbp1 of approximately 105 kDa, the molecular mass of Tbp2 varied from 79 to 94 kDa. Antisera raised against affinity-purified native Tbp1/Tbp2 receptor complex cross-reacted on Western blots with the respective Tbps of all the strains examined. When used to probe Tbps, sera from each of four mice immunized with the Tbp1/2 complex recognized the 68 kDa Tbp2 of strain B16B6 but not the 78 kDa Tbp2 of strain 70942. Serum from one mouse also reacted weakly with Tbp1 of strain B16B6. Apart from a weak reaction with the Tbp2 of a serotype 5 strain, this mouse antiserum failed to recognize the Tbps of the porcine pathogen However, a monospecific polyclonal antiserum raised against the denatured Tbp2 of B16B6 recognized the Tbps of all and strains examined. Since forms part of the natural flora of the upper respiratory tract, human sera were screened for the presence of antibodies to the Tbps. Sera from healthy adults contained antibodies which recognized both Tbp1 and Tbp2 from but not Convalescent sera from meningococcal meningitis patients contained antibodies which, on Western blots, recognized the Tbps2s of both pathogens. These data demonstrate the existence of shared epitopes on the Tbps of and despite their transferrin species specificity.

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Keyword(s): Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, , antigenic conservation , Haemophilus influenzae, , Neisseria meningitidis, and transferrin-binding proteins 1 and 2
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Conservation and antigenic cross-reactivity of the transferrin-binding proteins of Haemophilus influenzae, Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis
Microbiology 142, 3505 (1996); https://doi.org/10.1099/13500872-142-12-3505
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