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Humoral immunity in experimental syphilis: the demonstration of IgG as a treponemicidal factor in immune rabbit serum.

Abstract
The neutralizing activity present in immune rabbit serum (IRS) against virulent Treponema pallidum was shown to be mediated by IgG and complement. IgG was isolated and purified from both IRS and nonimmune rabbit serum (NRS) by the use of an affinity system in which staphylococcal protein A was conjugated to Sepharose 4B. The purity of the isolated IgG fractions was demonstrated by both immunoelectrophoresis and SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Fractions of IgG were tested for specific neutralizing activity as measured by an in vitro-in vivo neutralization test. Lesions failed to develop at 80% of the sites inoculated with treponemal suspensions containing IgG from IRS in the presence of unheated NRS as a source of complement; delayed atypical lesions were observed at the remaining sites. In contrast, typical lesions developed at all sites inoculated with suspensions containing IgG from IRS in the presence of heated NRS. They were significantly delayed, however, as compared with lesion development at control sites inoculated with suspensions containing IgG from NRS. These results provide the first direct evidence for an IgG complement-mediated treponemicidal mechanism operative in immune serum from rabbits with latent syphilis.
AuthorsD R Blanco, J N Miller, P A Hanff
JournalJournal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) (J Immunol) Vol. 133 Issue 5 Pg. 2693-7 (Nov 1984) ISSN: 0022-1767 [Print] United States
PMID6384371 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Immune Sera
  • Immunoglobulin G
Topics
  • Animals
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents (physiology)
  • Blood Physiological Phenomena
  • Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
  • Immune Sera (pharmacology)
  • Immunoglobulin G (biosynthesis, physiology)
  • Isoelectric Focusing
  • Male
  • Neutralization Tests
  • Rabbits
  • Syphilis (immunology, therapy)
  • Treponema pallidum (immunology)

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