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J Clin Microbiol. 1990 October; 28(10): 2240-2247

Electrophoretic analysis of the surface components of autoagglutinating surface array protein-positive and surface array protein-negative Aeromonas hydrophila and Aeromonas sobria.

Microbial Diseases Laboratory, California Department of Health Services, Berkeley 94704.

ABSTRACT

The protein and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) compositions of 10 autoagglutinating Aeromonas hydrophila and Aeromonas sobria strains were studied; one group consisted of five serogroup O:11 strains that contained an S layer, while a second group was composed of diverse serogroups that were S layer negative by transmission electron microscopy. All serogroup O:11 strains were found to contain a predominant 52,000- to 54,000-molecular-weight protein that was present on both whole-cell and outer membrane protein profiles; this protein was found to be glycine extractable under low-pH (pH 4) conditions and was identified as the surface array protein. LPS analysis revealed that all O:11 strains exhibited homogeneous-length O-polysaccharide side chains characterized primarily by two or three major bands. In contrast, S-layer-negative autoagglutinating strains of other serogroups lacked this predominant surface array protein, and silver stain analysis of LPS indicated that such profiles mainly consisted of core antigens and were deficient in or devoid of O-polysaccharide side chains. These collective results offer potential explanations for observed differences between these two groups in virulence, disease spectrum, and pathogenic properties.

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