Immunoblotting to demonstrate antigenic and immunogenic differences among nine standard strains of Clostridium difficile - PubMed (original) (raw)

Immunoblotting to demonstrate antigenic and immunogenic differences among nine standard strains of Clostridium difficile

S R Heard et al. J Clin Microbiol. 1986 Sep.

Abstract

The epidemiology of Clostridium difficile-associated disease is being elucidated with the development of typing schemes for the organism. We recently described a new typing scheme based on the incorporation of [35S]methionine into bacterial proteins followed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and autoradiography. Nine standard strains were identified. We report here some observations on the antigenic differences among these nine strains when studied by immunoblotting. Type-specific rabbit antiserum was raised against each of the nine standard strains. Immunoblotting of the strains with these antisera demonstrated, in addition to the presence of shared, common proteins, a type-specific response with homologous antisera. When [35S]methionine-labeled C. difficile proteins were immunoblotted with homologous and heterologous antisera, both the immunoblots and the autoradiographs demonstrated the same strain-specific response. These strain-specific proteins, which have been so useful for epidemiological and typing purposes, were also immunogenic.

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