Monoclonal antibodies against Neisseria gonorrhoeae: production of antibodies directed against a strain-specific cell surface antigen.

Infection and Immunity
I NachamkinR S Mittler

Abstract

Hybridomas secreting monoclonal antibodies against an apparent strain-specific cell surface antigen of Neisseria gonorrhoeae were produced. Spleen cells from BALB/c mice immunized with whole gonococci were fused with mouse myeloma cell line Sp2/0, and hybrid cells were selected in culture. One hybridoma that secreted antibodies reactive with the immunizing strain was cloned by limiting dilution to obtain cell lines secreting monoclonal antibodies. These antibodies reacted with purified outer membranes from the immunizing strain as well as with whole gonococci. Binding of antibodies to whole gonococci was highly strain specific, with most gonococcal strains showing less than 1% of the binding with the immunizing strain. Antibodies did not bind to the other Neisseria species tested. Binding of monoclonal antibodies to whole gonococci of the immunizing strain was not dependent on state of piliation. The extent of antibody binding did vary in different colonial variants of the immunizing strain. Antibody bound to cells from colonies that were transparent or of intermediate opacity, but did not bind to cells from deeply opaque colony variants.

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