PubMed · 4178607
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J A Boycott. 1969-02-01. Diagnosing brucellosis.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(69)91260-4
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Brucella abortus has been characterized as a T-independent type 1 antigen/carrier in human and murine antibody responses. In this report it is shown that BA can activate human CD3+ T cells to secrete interferon-gamma (IFN gamma). Unlike mitogens, such as phytohemagglutinin, this stimulation was associated with minimal T-cell proliferation or upregulation of interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor. Monocytes inhibited BA-mediated IFN gamma secretion since their removal resulted in increased responses, whereas adding monocytes back to cultures caused inhibition. BA elicited IFN gamma from CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, although CD4+ T cells secrete significantly more (p less than 0.05) IFN gamma than CD8+ T cells. The ability of BA to elicit IFN gamma from human T cells was inhibited in the presence of anti-Tac, suggesting that BA also induces IL-2 secretion and that IL-2 is involved in BA-mediated IFN gamma secretion. Detectable IL-2 secretion was induced by BA in the presence of anti-Tac. Exogenous IL-2 acted synergistically with BA to enhance IFN gamma secretion, suggesting that the amount of IL-2 released by BA alone was insufficient for optimal IFN gamma release. Furthermore, addition of IL-2 to T cells from individuals with poor or absent responses to BA, including individuals infected with HIV-1, restored their ability to secrete IFN gamma in response to BA. These data indicate that BA is capable not only of activating human B cells but can also induce T cells, probably of the TH1 phenotype, to secrete IFN gamma.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Three transposon-containing 'suicide' plasmids were evaluated for their efficiency in promoting insertional mutagenesis in Brucella abortus. All three plasmids are mobilizable vectors and so were conjugally transferred from mobilizing strains of the donor Escherichia coli. The transposition frequencies were expressed as the ratio of Kmr exconjugants per total recipient cells at the initiation of mating. The pUT/Km-based delivery system, which utilizes a derivative of Tn5, yielded a very high frequency of 2.7 x 10(-5) of transposition in B. abortus. In comparison to previously reported accounts of transposition in B. abortus, both the over thousand-fold higher and more stable number of mutants, makes the pUT/Km system a very useful tool for in vivo transposon mutagenesis of Brucella strains.
Antigenic phenol phase S-type lipopolysaccharides (LPS) isolated from Brucella abortus (B. abortus) strains 7 and Mustapha were observed to have 13C n.m.r. spectra which were almost identical to the one reported for the Brucella abortus 1119-3. The glycosyl content of the lipid A obtained from the LPS of strain 7 was found to be 2-acetamido-2-deoxyglucose only while strain Mustapha was found to contain both 2-acetamido-2-deoxyglucose and 2-acetamido-2-deoxygalactose. The fatty acid present in the lipid A of both strains was mainly n-hexadecanoic acid. Octadecanoic acid, 3-hydroxytetradecanoic acid as well as small quantities of 3-hydroxydodecanoic acid were also identified. This contrasts with the earlier reports of the absence of 3-OH-14:0 in the LPS of Brucella abortus.