Staphylococcal enterotoxin A: Partial unfolding caused by high pressure or denaturing agents enhances superantigenicity

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
Malika René-TrouillefouEliane Dumay

Abstract

The effect of transient exposure of Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin A (SEA) to high pressure and/or denaturing agents was examined by assessing the toxin superantigenicity and immunoreactivity, and by monitoring pressure-induced changes in fluorescence emission spectra. Pressurization of SEA at 600 MPa and 45 degrees C in Tris-HCl buffer (20 mM, pH 7.4) resulted in a marked increase in both T-cell proliferation (superantigenicity) and immunoreactivity. In opposite, pressurization at 20 degrees C did not change significantly SEA superantigenicity and immunoreactivity, indicating some toxin baro-resistance. Exposure of SEA to 8 M urea at atmospheric pressure or at 600 MPa and 20 degrees C, also led to a marked increase of superantigenicity (but not of immunoreactivity). In contrast, exposure of SEA to sodium-dodecylsulfate (30 mM) led to an increase of immunoreactivity with some effect on superantigenicity after pressurization at 45 degrees C only. High pressure up to 600 MPa induced spectral changes which at 20 degrees C were fully reversible upon decompression. At 45 degrees C, however, a sharp break of the centre of spectral mass mainly due to tryptophan residues was observed at 300 MPa, and irreversible spectral changes mai...Continue Reading

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