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Infect Immun. 1979 July; 25(1): 284-292

Cryptococcal culture filtrate antigen for detection of delayed-type hypersensitivity in cryptococcosis.

ABSTRACT

Previous studies on a cryptococcal culture filtrate (CneF) antigen have shown that the antigen is useful in detecting delayed-type hypersensitivity and that it is specific for Cryptococcus. This study further defined one more parameter of specificity, showing that the CneF antigen does not elicit delayed-type hypersensitivity responses in Cryptococcus albidus-sensitized guinea pigs. When the crude CneF antigen was subjected to ultrafiltration fractionation, the skin test active components were found to be in the 50,000 or greater molecular weight range fraction. The concentrated retentates of the XM50 ultrafiltration membrane were more sensitive antigens than the crude CneF antigens. Further fractionation of the XM50 retentate using 3% acrylamide gel electrophoresis separated the antigen into two bands. One band, the P fraction, migrated only a short distance into the gel; the fraction was carbohydrate-like and did not elicit significant skin test responses in sensitized guinea pigs. The other band, G fraction, appeared with the tracking dye, was glycoprotein-like, and elicited significantly positive skin tests in sensitized guinea pigs. G fractions prepared using three different serotypes of Cryptococcus neoformans elicited similar size indurations when used in skin testing guinea pigs sensitized with either the homologous serotype isolated of C. neoformans or the heterologous serotype isolate.

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