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Lipopolysaccharide-binding proteins of Limulus amebocyte lysate.

Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco.

ABSTRACT

Limulus amebocyte lysate, obtained from horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) blood cells, contains a coagulation system which is activated by bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). A chromatographic fraction of Limulus lysate, containing the endotoxin-sensitive factor(s) which initiates the coagulation cascade, was studied. We utilized a photoreactive, cleavable, radiolabeled derivative of Salmonella minnesota LPS, LPS-(p-azidosalicylamido)-1,3'-dithiopropionamide (LPS-ASD), to identify LPS-binding proteins. The lysate fraction was incubated with LPS-ASD, and LPS-binding proteins were identified by autoradiography of sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels. An 82-kDa protein, a major protein component of this fraction from Limulus lysate, was identified as a LPS-binding protein in a majority of lysates. Incubation of whole Limulus lysate with antiserum to this protein resulted in enhanced sensitivity of the lysate to LPS, suggesting that this 82-kDa protein is a negative regulator of coagulation. A minor 50-kDa protein component of lysate also was identified as a LPS-binding protein and is a candidate for the LPS-sensitive coagulation protein in L. polyphemus.

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