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J Clin Microbiol. 1990 September; 28(9): 1906-1912

Monoclonal antibodies against the different subcomponents of colonization factor antigen II of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.

Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Göteborg, Sweden.

ABSTRACT

Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against the different coli surface antigens CS1, CS2, and CS3 of colonization factor antigen II (CFA/II) of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) were generated by fusing F/O myeloma cells with spleen cells from BALB/c mice immunized with different preparations of purified CFA/II. Five hybrids that produced antibodies specific for CS1, CS2, or CS3 in high titer were cloned and propagated. All the anti-CS MAbs were of the immunoglobulin G1 isotype, and all gave single precipitation lines in immunodiffusion tests when reacting with CFA/II-positive E. coli extracts containing the corresponding CS factor. The binding of all the MAbs to solid-phase-bound CFA/II could be completely inhibited by purified CFA/II containing the corresponding CS factor. However, whereas one MAb against CS3 was inhibited by all of 18 different CFA/II-positive strains tested, another anti-CS3 MAb was inhibited by bacteria expressing CS1 and CS3 (CS1 + CS3 strains) or CS3 alone but not by CS2 + CS3 strains, suggesting antigenic differences in CS3 when expressed by different strains. Use of the anti-CS MAbs in slide agglutination, immunodiffusion, or a CFA inhibition enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay revealed differences in the relative distribution of the various CS factors of CFA/II in clinical ETEC isolates from different geographic areas. By using the anti-CS MAbs in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay-nitrocellulose replica method, CFA/II-positive colonies could be detected in stool cultures from infected animals without prior isolation of the ETEC organisms.

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