A comparative immunological study of catalases from coagulase-positive staphylococci.

Archives of microbiology ·Vol. 120 ·No. 1 ·1979-01-16 ·Pages 53-6

Rupprecht M, Schleifer KH

Abstract

Protein homology studies with catalase as a reference point were carried out with coagulase-positive staphylococci belonging to Staphylococcus aureus, S. intermedius and S. hyicus. Antisera against catalases of S. aureus ATCC 12600 and S. aureus ATCC12601 reacted very weakly employing double immunodiffusion and quantitative microcomplement-fixation assay with cell-free extracts or catalase enriched preparations of S. intermedius or S. hyicus. The differences between coagulase-positive staphylococci could be confirmed by using the antiserum against S. intermedius H 11 catalase. Within the strains of the species S. intermedius immunological distances ranging up to 25 indicate a heterogeneity which justify the separation of the biotypes E and F on a subspecies level. Coagulase-positive strains of S. hyicus revealed neither a close relationship to S. aureus nor to S. intermedius.

MeSH Terms

Animals Catalase/immunology Coagulase/biosynthesis Complement Fixation Tests Cross Reactions Epitopes Humans Immunodiffusion Protein Conformation Species Specificity Staphylococcal Infections/microbiology Staphylococcus/enzymology

Chemicals

Coagulase Epitopes Catalase

Authors & Affiliations

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Rupprecht M

Schleifer K H

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Article Info

Journal

Archives of microbiology

Abbr.

Arch Microbiol

ISSN

0302-8933

DOI

10.1007/BF00413273

Published

1979-01-16

Pages

53-6

Language

English

Region

Germany

NLM ID

0410427

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