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. 1989 Mar;57(3):969–974. doi: 10.1128/iai.57.3.969-974.1989

Binding of cholera toxin to pig intestinal mucosa glycosphingolipids: relationship with the ABO blood group system.

F R Bennun 1, G A Roth 1, C G Monferran 1, F A Cumar 1
PMCID: PMC313207  PMID: 2917796

Abstract

A search for compounds from intestinal mucosa of pigs carrying and not carrying blood group A-active substances (A+ and A- pigs, respectively) capable of binding cholera toxin (CT) was performed. Glycolipid extracts from a pool of pig intestinal mucosa resolved in thin-layer chromatography (TLC) revealed the presence of six to eight compounds capable of binding 125I-CT, two of them running as the ganglioside standards GM1 and GD1b. When intestinal mucosa glycolipids from single pigs were assayed by TLC for CT-binding capacity, two different patterns of labeling were observed. The main difference was at the level of compounds running below GD1b. The A+ pigs but not the A- pigs showed CT binding at this level. The major CT-binding compound detected only in A+ pigs was purified and some properties were determined. After TLC developed with different solvent systems, the purified compound bound CT and also immunoreacted with anti-A and anti-AB antisera but not with anti-B antiserum. The compound was also able to inhibit the hemagglutination of human A erythrocytes caused by anti-A antiserum, but inhibition was not observed with the B-anti-B or O (H)-Ulex europaeus lectin systems. A partial chemical characterization indicated that the active compound is a neutral glycosphingolipid containing glucose, fucose, galactose, and hexosamine. The existence of a blood group-active substance(s) able to interact with CT may help to explain the relationship between ABO blood groups and the diarrheal disease caused by infection with Vibrio cholerae.

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