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. 1987 May;55(5):1126–1131. doi: 10.1128/iai.55.5.1126-1131.1987

A Mycoplasma genitalium protein resembling the Mycoplasma pneumoniae attachment protein.

P C Hu, U Schaper, A M Collier, W A Clyde Jr, M Horikawa, Y S Huang, M F Barile
PMCID: PMC260479  PMID: 2437033

Abstract

In previous studies with hyperimmune rabbit sera and monoclonal antibodies against the P1 protein of Mycoplasma pneumoniae, we obtained evidence of a shared antigenic determinant with a single protein of Mycoplasma genitalium. Because of biologic and morphologic similarities between these two human Mycoplasma species, attempts were made to characterize this cross-reacting protein of M. genitalium (designated MgPa). The protein was surface exposed and had an estimated molecular size of 140 kilodaltons. Electron microscopy with monoclonal antibodies produced against either MgPa or P1 demonstrated that MgPa is located over the surface of the terminal structure of M. genitalium which is covered by a nap layer. These immunologic and morphologic findings suggest that the MgPa protein of M. genitalium could be the counterpart of the P1 protein of M. pneumoniae.

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