Open AccessStructural Studies on the Immunogenic Form of the Enterobacterial Common Antigen
Author(s) -
KISS Peter,
RINNO Jesko,
SCHMIDT Günter,
MAYER Hubert
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
european journal of biochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1432-1033
pISSN - 0014-2956
DOI - 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1978.tb12440.x
Subject(s) - antigen , escherichia coli , microbiology and biotechnology , antibody , lipopolysaccharide , strain (injury) , biology , chemistry , immunology , biochemistry , gene , anatomy
It has been shown that enterobacterial common antigen is chemically linked to the hexose region of the R1‐type lipopolysaccharide of the Escherichia coli strain F470 which is immunogenic for this antigen. The number of R core stubs substituted is very small but it is apparently sufficient to induce antibody formation to the enterobacterial common antigen in the rabbit.