Characteristics of a lipid preparation (lipid A) from Haemophilus influenzae type a lipopolysaccharide.
AUTOR(ES)
Raichvarg, D
RESUMO
Mild hydrolysis of Haemophilus influenzae type a lipopolysaccharide by ion exchangers yielded a lipid A extracted by chloroform. It contained phosphorus, glucosamine, and fatty acids. Myristic, palmitic, 3-hydroxymyristic, and oleic acids and two other unidentified long-chain fatty acids were found. The free lipid A was not toxic for mice at doses of up to 50 mg/kg and did not provoke a Shwartzman reaction. The Limulus test activity was positive up to 10(-12) g/ml, but the pyrogenicity in rabbits was lower than with the original lipopolysaccharide. However, the lipid A did induced a mitogenic response and polyclonal B-cell activation in mouse spleen cell cultures. Complexing lipid A with bovine serum albumin gave a nontoxic preparation which lost these immunological activities. Immunochemical studies showed that the major reactive determinants of this lipid-protein complex were altered after such a linkage. Consequently, the nontoxic and mitogenic lipid A isolated from H. influenzae type a did not exhibit all of the classical activities of lipid A preparations.
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