title: Interaction of a rat intestinal brush border membrane glycoprotein with type-1 fimbriae of Salmonella typhimurium.
abstract: Type-1 fimbriated Salmonella typhimurium was found to adhere to rat intestinal brush border membrane in a mannose sensitive manner. The maximum binding of the purified fimbriae observed with the rat illeal enterocytes was inhibited by 69.2% in presence of D-mannose. Brush border membrane from rat illeum was isolated, delipidified, solubilised and fractionated by affinity chromatography on type-1 fimbriae coupled Sepharose CL 4B column. Sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the material eluted from the column with D-mannose revealed a single band of molecular weight 60 kDa. The direct binding of this affinity eluted glycoprotein to the purified type-1 fimbriae was demonstrated by a modified Western blot experiment. Our findings suggest that the 60 kDa glycoprotein may serve as a receptor for the type-1 fimbriae in the rat intestinal brush border membrane and thereby may help in mediating bacterial adherence to the host epithelium.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Medicine and Biotechnology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mittal
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Vohra
authors.forename: N K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Ganguly
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005260:Female; D010861:Fimbriae, Bacterial / Q000378:metabolism*; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D007422:Intestines / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008297:Male; D008358:Mannose / Q000494:pharmacology; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008871:Microvilli / Q000737:chemistry*; D008970:Molecular Weight; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D008358:Mannose