Journal article
gp72, the 72 kilodalton glycoprotein, is the membrane acceptor site for C3 on Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigotes
The Journal of experimental medicine, Vol.161(5), pp.1196-1212
1985
DOI: 10.1084/jem.161.5.1196
PMCID: PMC2187612
PMID: 3886827
Abstract
We examined the interaction of complement component C3 with surface molecules on Trypanosoma cruzi. Five- to six-fold more C3 was bound to epimastigotes (Epi) than to metacyclic trypomastigotes (CMT) of strain M88. Epi and CMT were surface iodinated, then incubated in C8-deficient serum, and detergent lysates were applied to anti-C3 antibody that had been coupled to Sepharose. We found that 9.20-10.24% of applied 125I-Epi protein bound to anti-C3-sepharose, compared to 2.64% binding of 125I-CMT protein. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed that C3 was attached to 125I-Epi protein by a covalent bond. Samples eluted from anti-C3-sepharose with hydroxylamine revealed a single, major, 72 kD band, suggesting that C3b attaches almost exclusively to the 72 kD glycoprotein of Epi by a hydroxylamine-susceptible ester bond. An antiserum was prepared from lysates of serum-treated Epi that had been affinity-purified on anti-C3-sepharose. This antiserum immunoprecipitated a single 72 kD component (gp72) from surface-iodinated Epi, and specifically recognized only gp72 from Epi in immunoblots. In contrast to the results with Epi, gp72 on CMT was not found to be an efficient acceptor molecule for C3 deposition. The results are the first to evaluate the acceptor site for C3 deposition on a parasite, and they show that gp72 on Epi, but not gp72 on CMT, serves as the preferential acceptor for C3 during antibody-independent alternative complement pathway activation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- gp72, the 72 kilodalton glycoprotein, is the membrane acceptor site for C3 on Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigotes
- Creators
- K Joiner - Laboratory of Clinical InvestigationS Hieny - National Institutes of HealthL. V Kirchhoff - National Institutes of HealthA Sher - National Institutes of Health
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of experimental medicine, Vol.161(5), pp.1196-1212
- DOI
- 10.1084/jem.161.5.1196
- PMID
- 3886827
- PMCID
- PMC2187612
- NLM abbreviation
- J Exp Med
- ISSN
- 0022-1007
- eISSN
- 1540-9538
- Publisher
- Rockefeller University Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1985
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Infectious Diseases; Epidemiology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984280838702771
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