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Epitope analysis of lipid A preparations from Pseudomonas diminuta and Pseudomonas vesicularis
S Arata1, T Hirayama, Y Akiyama
1Department of Microbial Chemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan.
FEMS Microbiology Letters
|July 15, 1989
Abstract:
In vitro antigenic reactivity of lipid A from Pseudomonas diminuta and Pseudomonas vesicularis with homologous and heterologous lipid A antibodies including monoclonal antibodies was studied by inhibition test of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The results suggest that both Pseudomonas lipid As have very similar epitopes, including species-specific and cross-reactive epitopes as compared with enterobacterial lipid A.