Abstract
The functional properties of complement in invertebrate deuterostomes are rather ill-defined. Here we showed that the humoral fluids from amphioxus Branchiostoma belcheri were capable of causing lysis of some Vibrio species including Vibrio alginolyticus HW284, Vibrio parahaemolyticus HW458 and Vibrio harvey SF-1, the first such data in the invertebrate deuterostomes. The fluid bacteriolytic activity was abolished by pre-incubation with heat-inactivated rabbit anti-human C3 serum, heating at 45 degrees C for 30 min, and repeated thawing and freezing. Additionally, the bacteriolytic activity was Mg(2+)-dependent and Ca(2+)-independent, and selective activation of the alternative pathway by zymosan A induced a loss of bacteriolytic activity. This strongly suggests that activation of the alternative complement pathway is responsible for the fluid bacteriolytic activity. It was also shown that some Vibrio species like Vibrio cincinnatiensis HW287 appeared resistant to the complement-mediated lysis. The LPS profiling revealed that the fluid-resistant V. cincinnatiensis HW287 had an LPS profile with a ladder of both high-molecular-weight (HMW) and low-molecular-weight (LMW) O-antigen bands, whereas the fluid-sensitive V. alginolyticu...Continue Reading
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