Haemagglutinating and haemolytic activity of the extracellular vesicles of Bacteroides gingivalis W50
- 1 October 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Oral Microbiology and Immunology
- Vol. 5 (5), 269-274
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-302x.1990.tb00424.x
Abstract
The extracellular vesicles (ECV) and extracellular protein (EP) fractions of Bacteroides gingivalis W50 showed haemagglutinating (HA) activity towards sheep erythrocytes. Similar fractions from the nonpathogenic strain W50/BE1 did not haemagglutinate. W50 ECV HA activity was not inhibited by various glycosidase, phospholipase or protease pretreatments, sugars or amino acids, including arginine or lysine. The haemagglutinating activity of ECV was associated only with the extracellular vesicle membrane. The EP and ECV of both strains displayed haemolytic activity. This activity was apparently depressed in the presence of 10 mM dithiothreitol (DTT). All EP and ECV fractions degraded certain structural sheep erythrocyte membrane proteins. The greatest activity was displayed by W50 ECV and W50/BE1 EP and was enhanced by DTT. In the presence of DTT, the ECV of both strains degraded purified human haemoglobin but this activity was greatly reduced in its absence.Keywords
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