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Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, July 1999, p. 627-629, Vol. 6, No. 4
1071-412X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Brucella Outer Membrane Lipoproteins Share Antigenic Determinants with Bacteria of the Family Rhizobiaceae

Axel Cloeckaert,1,* Anne Tibor,2 and Michel S. Zygmunt1

Laboratoire de Pathologie Infectieuse et Immunologie, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, 37380 Nouzilly, France,1 and Unité d'Immunologie-Microbiologie, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium2

Received 6 November 1998/Returned for modification 19 January 1999/Accepted 6 April 1999

Brucellae have been reported to be phylogenetically related to bacteria of the family Rhizobiaceae. In the present study, we used a panel of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to Brucella outer membrane proteins (OMPs) to determine the presence of common OMP epitopes in some representative bacteria of this family, i.e., Ochrobactrum anthropi, Phyllobacterium rubiacearum, Rhizobium leguminosarum, and Agrobacterium tumefaciens, and also in bacteria reported to serologically cross-react with brucella, i.e., Yersinia enterocolitica O:9, Escherichia coli O:157, and Salmonella urbana. In particular, most MAbs to the Brucella outer membrane lipoproteins Omp10, Omp16, and Omp19 cross-reacted with O. anthropi and P. rubiacearum, which are actually the closest relatives of brucellae. Some of them also cross-reacted, but to a lower extent, with R. leguminosarum and A. tumefaciens. The putative Omp16 and Omp19 homologs in these bacteria showed the same apparent molecular masses as their Brucella counterparts. None of the antilipoprotein MAbs cross-reacted with Y. enterocolitica O:9, E. coli O:157, or S. urbana.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratoire de Pathologie Infectieuse et Immunologie, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, 37380 Nouzilly, France. Phone: 2 47 42 78 72. Fax: 2 47 42 77 79. E-mail: cloeckae{at}tours.inra.fr.

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, July 1999, p. 627-629, Vol. 6, No. 4
1071-412X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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