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Volume 134, Issue 5

Attachment of Mycobacteria to Fibronectin-coated Surfaces Free

Abstract

This report investigates the extent of the expression of fibronectin (FN) binding properties among the mycobacteria and provides preliminary characteristics of the bacterial molecule(s) mediating attachment. Eight BCG substrains, three strains and four other mycobacterial species all expressed FN-binding capacity. Treatment of organisms with detergent prior to the binding assay destroyed the FN-binding capacity of BCG but not that of Trypsin pretreatment eliminated the FN-binding capacity of both BCG and [S]Methionine-labelled material in supernatants from BCG and cultures attached to FN-coated surfaces. These culture supernatants inhibited the attachment of BCG but not to FN-coated surfaces. This inhibitory activity of the supernatants was removed by affinity chromatography on FN-Sepharose but was not affected by similar passage over a control column (human serum albumin attached to Sepharose). These results demonstrate that the ability to bind FN is present in all mycobacterial species tested and suggest that attachment is mediated by trypsin-sensitive cell-surface component(s).

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Attachment of Mycobacteria to Fibronectin-coated Surfaces
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