Generation of a monoclonal antibody that recognizes the amino-terminal decapeptide of the B-subunit of Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin. A new probe for studying toxin assembly intermediates.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
T AminTimothy R Hirst

Abstract

Cholera toxin and the related Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin are hexameric proteins comprising one A-subunit and five B-subunits. In this paper we report the generation and characterization of a monoclonal antibody, designated LDS47, that recognizes and precipitates in vivo assembly intermediates of the B-subunit (EtxB) of E. coli heat-labile enterotoxin. The monoclonal antibody is unable to precipitate native B-subunit pentamers, thus making LDS47 a useful probe for studying the early stages of enterotoxin biogenesis. The use of LDS47 to monitor the in vivo turnover of newly synthesized B-subunits in the periplasm of E. coli demonstrated that (i) the turnover of unassembled B-subunits followed an apparent first order process and (ii) it occurred concomitantly with the assembly of native B-pentamers (k = 0.317 +/- 0.170 min-1; t1/2 = 2.2 min). No other proteins were co-precipitated with the newly synthesized B-subunits; a finding that implies that unassembled B-subunits do not stably associate with other periplasmic proteins prior to their assembly into a macromolecular complex. The use of overlapping synthetic peptides corresponding to the entire EtxB polypeptide demonstrated that the epitope recognized by LDS47 is l...Continue Reading

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