Abstract
Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces a factor (PF) which affects the enterobacterial common antigen (ECA); resulting in failure of the antigen to modify erythrocytes for hemagglutination by ECA antibodies. In the present study the nature of PF was determined. Pronase treatment abolished its activity, indicating the protein nature of PF. PF-treated ECA no longer coated erythrocytes but still reacted with ECA antibodies in immunoelectrophoresis tests with monospecific antiserum to ECA, although differences were noted between the precipitation patterns of PF-treated and untreated ECA. Therefore, PF does not significantly affect the antigenic determinant of ECA but rather affects its lipid carrier, an L-glycerophosphatide. Accordingly, differences in the sugar chain could not be detected by high-voltage paper electrophoretic examinations of partial hydrolysates of PF-treated and untreated ECA. PF liberates all fatty acids from ECA, similarly to commercial lipases, as evidenced by the liberation of unsubstituted glycerol upon HF degradation at 0 degrees C of PF-treated ECA. The lipase activity of PF is indicated also by the observation that a strain of P. aeruginosa with reduced lipase production and an exolipase-negative strain affect ECA either less or not at all. We conclude that PF is a lipase acting on the lipid moiety of ECA, which is responsible for the coating of erythrocytes, but not significantly on the serological determinant, the amino sugar chain.
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