title: Serological specificity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis glycolipids.
abstract: Six glycolipid fractions can be extracted from lipid crude extracts of Canetti type strains of M. tuberculosis. Among these fractions are two phenolglycolipids. The major component is a triglycosyl phenolphthiocerol dimycocerosate (PGL-Tb 1) and the second is a monoglycosyl diacyl phenolphthiocerol identical to mycoside B of M. bovis. Similar glycolipid compounds can also be found in wild strains of M. tuberculosis recently isolated from tuberculous patients. One of these compounds has been identified as PGL-Tb 1.
authors.affiliation: Unité de la Tuberculose et des Mycobactéries, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Papa
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Laszlo
authors.forename: H L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: David
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Daffé
mesh_terms: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D000918:Antibody Specificity; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D006017:Glycolipids / Q000276:immunology* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000276:immunology*; D012698:Serologic Tests; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis
chemical_list: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D006017:Glycolipids; C045169:phenolic glycolipid I, Mycobacterium leprae