title: The immunochemical structure and surface arrangement of Leishmania donovani lipophosphoglycan determined using monoclonal antibodies.
abstract: Using intact Leishmania donovani promastigotes or purified L. donovani lipophosphoglycan (LPG) as immunogens, we have derived four LPG-specific monoclonal antibodies (MAbs). Two of these MAbs recognize an epitope consisting of the repeating phosphorylated galactose beta-1,4-mannose disaccharide portion of the molecule and cross-reacted with LPG from Leishmania major. These MAbs bound to the surface of living promastigotes of both species. The two other MAbs bound to the phosphosaccharide core structure of LPG and did not bind to the surface of living parasites, presumably due to masking of the core region. Experiments using all four MAbs with an LPG-deficient promastigote mutant indicated that both the repeat epitope and phosphosaccharide core were present in these cells, suggesting that incomplete assembly was responsible for the absence of intact LPG.
authors: Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
authors: D L
authors: DL
authors: Tolson
authors: S J
authors: SJ
authors: Turco
authors: R P
authors: RP
authors: Beecroft
authors: T W
authors: TW
authors: Pearson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000954:Antigens, Surface / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D003429:Cross Reactions; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D000939:Epitopes / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D006028:Glycosphingolipids / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D007893:Leishmania donovani / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000954:Antigens, Surface; D000939:Epitopes; D006028:Glycosphingolipids; C008290:lipophosphonoglycan