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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-9-8
pubmed:abstractText
Infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis first involves its adhesion to mononuclear host phagocytes. Various macrophage opsonic and non-opsonic receptors are known to mediate this adhesion, with some specificity of mannosyl receptors for the more virulent strains. Mannosylated lipoarabinomannan, a major component of cell walls from M. tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis BCG, is endowed with mannooligosaccharide units that could mediate its binding to these latter receptors. To explore its interaction with murine immune cells by flow cytometry, we report a new procedure to fluorescently tag the polysaccharide molecules. We covalently labeled mannosylated lipoarabinomannan from M. bovis BCG with biotin, allowing formation of stable complexes with streptavidin coupled to a fluorochrome. In this work, we demonstrated that this major carbohydrate antigen interacts selectively with murine phagocytes, i.e. granulocytes and macrophages. This binding was affected by temperature and was serum- and divalent-cation-dependent. It also appears to involve a metabolically recycling protein receptor on the phagocyte surface and mannosyl aggretopes on the mannosylated lipoarabinomannan molecule. Thus, the latter may provide a means for mycobacteria to bind to and invade their host phagocytes. This molecule could constitute one of the early factors of mycobacterial virulence.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0014-2956
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
231
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
440-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-7-23
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Mannosylated lipoarabinomannan interacts with phagocytes.
pubmed:affiliation
Département des Glycoconjugués et Biomembranes, Laboratoire de Pharmacologie et Toxicologie Fondamentales du CNRS, Toulouse, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't