MYCOBACTERIUM-PARATUBERCULOSIS ANTIGEN-D - CHARACTERIZATION AND EVIDENCE THAT IT IS A BACTERIOFERRITIN

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BROOKS, BW [1 ]
YOUNG, NM [1 ]
WATSON, DC [1 ]
ROBERTSON, RH [1 ]
SUGDEN, EA [1 ]
NIELSEN, KH [1 ]
BECKER, SAWE [1 ]
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[1] NATL RES COUNCIL CANADA,DIV BIOL SCI,OTTAWA K1A 0R6,ONTARIO,CANADA
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10.1128/JCM.29.8.1652-1658.1991
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
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By using a combination of agarose and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, Mycobacterium paratuberculosis antigen D was resolved from a crude sonicated preparation of the organism and characterized as a component with a molecular mass of approximately 400,000 Da. While this component was composed mainly of protein, with unusually high proportions of glutamic acid and leucine, it was resistant to digestion with a number of proteolytic enzymes. Structural detail revealed by electron microscopy, amino acid sequence data, and the demonstration of a Soret band in its absorption spectrum indicated that antigen D was similar to an Escherichia coli bacterioferritin.
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