Acid stress upregulated outer membrane proteins in clinical isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, but not most commensal Neisseria

Robin Pettit, T. M. Whelan, K. S. Woo

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Abstract

Human immune serum recognition of outer membrane components from commensal and pathogenic Neisseria cultured under neutral and acidic conditions was investigated. Acid stress caused no detectable alterations in lipooligosaccharide migration and (or) staining, in outer membrane protein profiles, or in immune serum recognition of outer membrane components from Neisseria mucosa or Neisseria sicca. There was also no difference in the lipoologosaccharide electrophoretic pattern of acid- and neutral-grown Neisseria lactamica, but there were differences in outer membrane protein expression. The outer membrane protein alterations induced by acid stress in N. lactamica were not the same as those seen in isolates from patients with uncomplicated gonococcal infection, pelvic inflammatory disease, and disseminated gonococcal infection. Many differences were detected in the immune serum recognition of outer membrane components from acid- and neutral-cultured N. lactamica and from the clinical isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and these should be considered in vaccine design.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)871-876
Number of pages6
JournalCanadian journal of microbiology
Volume47
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2001

Keywords

  • Acid stress
  • Commensal Neisseria
  • Neisseria gonorrhoeae
  • Outer membrane proteins

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Microbiology
  • Immunology
  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics

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