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. 1986 Feb;96(1):39–48. doi: 10.1017/s0022172400062513

The relationship between the serogroup antigen and lipopolysaccharide of Legionella pneumophila.

J W Conlan, L A Ashworth
PMCID: PMC2129596  PMID: 3950395

Abstract

Serogroup-specific antigen was extracted from a number of Legionella pneumophila strains and compared with phenol-water extracted lipopolysaccharide on the basis of gel filtration, chemical analysis, SDS-PAGE and reaction with serogroup-specific antibody in immunoblots. Serogroup specificity is apparently borne by the O side-chains of the lipopolysaccharide, which, although smooth in type, partitions in the phenol phase. For four serogroup 1 strains tested, there was no qualitative correlation between O side-chain length and pulmonary virulence for guinea-pigs.

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