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  • Title: Immune-enhanced phagocytosis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae by macrophages: characterization of the major antigens to which opsonins are directed.
    Author: Jones RB, Newland JC, Olsen DA, Buchanan TM.
    Journal: J Gen Microbiol; 1980 Dec; 121(2):365-72. PubMed ID: 6114982.
    Abstract:
    antisera were prepared in rabbits against whole organisms of colony type 1 Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains F62 and B (fron gonococcal urethritis) and 7122 (a strain typical of those associated with disseminated gonococcal infection), and against purified outer membrane components from the same strains including pili and principal outer membrane protein. Antibody levels to pili, principal outer membrane protein and lipopolysaccharide were determined using a quantitative enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Each antiserum was heat-inactivated and tested for opsonic for its homologous strain, and this immune-enhanced phagocytosis was decreased by adsorption with homologous purified outer membrane components: pili greater than lipopolysaccharide greater than principal outer membrane protein. Opsonic activity was approximately equal for antiserum to purified pili and antiserum to the whole organisms for each of the three strains, and purified antibody to pili was highly opsonic. The F(ab')2 fragments of antibody to pili were not opsonic, indicating a role for the Fc receptor on the phagocyte membrane in immune-enhanced phagocytosis of gonococci.
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