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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 1999, p. 5186-5191, Vol. 65, No. 11
0099-2240/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Epitope Identification for a Panel of Anti-Sinorhizobium meliloti Monoclonal Antibodies and Application to the Analysis of K Antigens and Lipopolysaccharides from Bacteroids

Bradley L. Reuhs,1,* Samuel B. Stephens,1 Daniel P. Geller,1 John S. Kim,1 Joshua Glenn,1 Jessica Przytycki,1 and Tuula Ojanen-Reuhs2

Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-4712,1 and Department of Biosciences, Division of General Microbiology, SF-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland2

Received 25 January 1999/Accepted 24 August 1999

In two published reports using monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) generated against whole cells, Olsen et al. showed that strain-specific antigens on the surface of cultured cells of Sinorhizobium meliloti were diminished or absent in the endophytic cells (bacteroids) recovered from alfalfa nodules, whereas two common antigens were not affected by bacterial differentiation (P. Olsen, M. Collins, and W. Rice, Can. J. Microbiol. 38:506-509, 1992; P. Olsen, S. Wright, M. Collins, and W. Rice, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 60:654-661, 1994). The nature of the antigens (i.e., the MAb epitopes), however, were not determined in those studies. For this report, the epitopes for five of the anti-S. meliloti MAbs were identified by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis-immunoblot analyses of the polysaccharides extracted from S. meliloti and Sinorhizobium fredii. This showed that the strain-specific MAbs recognized K antigens, whereas the strain-cross-reactive MAbs recognized the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) core. The MAbs were then used in the analysis of the LPS and K antigens extracted from S. meliloti bacteroids, which had been recovered from the root nodules of alfalfa, and the results supported the findings of Olsen et al. The size range of the K antigens from bacteroids of S. meliloti NRG247 on polyacrylamide gels was altered, and the epitope was greatly diminished in abundance compared to those from the cultured cells, and no K antigens were detected in the S. meliloti NRG185 bacteroid extract. In contrast to the K antigens, the LPS core appeared to be similar in both cultured cells and bacteroids, although a higher proportion of the LPS fractionated into the organic phase during the phenol-water extraction of the bacteroid polysaccharides. Importantly, immunoblot analysis with an anti-LPS MAb showed that smooth LPS production was modified in the bacteroids.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 220 Riverbend Rd., Athens, GA 30602-4712. Phone: (706) 542-1216. Fax: (706) 542-4412. E-mail: breuhs{at}ccrc.uga.edu.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 1999, p. 5186-5191, Vol. 65, No. 11
0099-2240/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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