PMID: 6413906Jun 1, 1983Paper

Surface polysaccharide of Moraxella non-liquefaciens identical to Neisseria meningitidis group B capsular polysaccharide. A chemical and immunological investigation

NIPH Annals
K BøvreL O Frøholm

Abstract

In whole cell preparations of 27 nonmucoid strains of Moraxella nonliquefaciens neuraminic acid was detected by gas chromatography (GC) in 16 (59%) of the strains. Seven neuraminic-acid-containing strains were tested for agglutination with diagnostic group-specific meningococcal antisera produced in rabbits, and all were positive with group B serum. Counter-immunoelectrophoresis of bacterial suspensions of the three strains with the strongest reaction with such anti-group B serum gave distinct precipitation lines. When tested by double immunodiffusion in agarose with monoclonal antibody to meningococcal group B polysaccharide, suspension of a strain of M nonliquefaciens gave identity reaction with a strain of Neisseria meningitidis, and reacted even more strongly than the latter. Phenol extracts of M nonliquefaciens strains generally contained higher amounts of neuraminic acid than N meningitidis group B strains. Neuraminic-acid-containing polysaccharides of M nonliquefaciens strains sedimented more slowly by ultra-centrifugation than the group-specific B polysaccharide of N meningitidis strains. They also reacted more strongly with a monoclonal anti-group B antiserum than did N meningitidis group B capsular polysaccharide in a...Continue Reading

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