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Actinomyces viscosus T14V is virulent (V) for monoinfected rats, causing periodontal disease and bone loss, whereas,A. viscosus T14AV, a mutant strain, is avirulent (AV). Surface antigens from the T14V and T14AV strains were prepared by lysozyme digestion of cell walls and were compared by immunodiffusion against antisera to T14V and T14AV whole cells. The V-associated antigen (V-antigen) was detected readily in the T14V, but not readily in the T14AV cell wall extract. Antiserum specific for the V-antigen was prepared by absorbing anti-A. viscosus T14V serum with cell walls from the T14AV strain. This antiserum was used in the indirect peroxidase-labeled antibody technique to localize the V-antigen on the bacterial cell surface at the ultrastructural level. With whole bacterial cells, the V-antigen was found on fine fibrils and was detected in both the T14V and T14AV strains. The presence of V-antigen on the AV strain was supported by the demonstration of antibodies against the V-antigen in anti-A. viscosus T14AV serum. Examination of isolated bacterial cell walls revealed a greater amount of fibrils and V-antigen on the T14V cell wall than on the T14AV cell wall. The data suggest that the presence of V-antigen represents a quantitative rather than a qualitative difference between the V and the AV strains ofA. viscosus T14. Samples of human plaque were examined, and the V-antigen was found to be a specific marker for the fibril-containing layer of certain plaque bacteria, which are probably strains ofA. viscosus orA. naeslundii.

Identification of the Virulence-Associated Antigen on the Surface Fibrils of Actinomyces viscosus T14