Effect of heat or chemical treatment on leptospiral antigens.
AUTOR(ES)
Pope, V
RESUMO
The use of bacterins is one of the primary methods in the control of leptospirosis in domestic animals, especially cattle, swine, and dogs. Bacterins have been made using chemically treated or heat-inactivated organisms. Many of the initial studies indicated that the bacterins gave complete protection, whereas later reports found that some inactivation methods resulted in bacterins that protect against death but not against kidney infection and renal shedding. This raised the possibility that some of the antigens had been altered. To investigate this possibility, we heat or chemically treated Leptospira interrogans serovar icterohaemorrhagiae CF-1, L. interrogans serovar canicola Moulton, L. interrogans serovar grippotyphosa SC4397, L. interrogans serovar hardjo Hardjoprajitno, and L. interrogans serovar pomona MLS. Temperatures used to determine alterations in antigens were 50, 56, 80, 100, and 121 degrees C. The chemicals used were formaldehyde, phenol, and thimerosal. Analysis was done using Laemmli gels and Western blots. We found that heating at 50 or 56 degrees C had the smallest effect on antigens, whereas heating at 80 or 100 degrees C caused the appearance of high-molecular-weight bands on Western blots. Heating at 121 degrees C caused almost all the bands to disappear, in both the stained gel and the Western blot. Both phenol and Formalin treatment altered proteins, whereas thimerosal treatment appeared to have little effect compared with heating at 50 degrees C.
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