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Infection and Immunity, November 2000, p. 6250-6256, Vol. 68, No. 11
0019-9567/00/$04.00+0
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Antigenic Structure of Outer Membrane Protein E of Moraxella catarrhalis and Construction and Characterization of Mutants

Timothy F. Murphy,1,2,3,* Aimee L. Brauer,1 Norine Yuskiw,1 and Thomas J. Hiltke1

Division of Infectious Diseases of the Department of Medicine1 and the Department of Microbiology,2 State University of New York at Buffalo, and the Veterans Affairs Western New York Healthcare System,3 Buffalo, New York 14215

Received 9 June 2000/Returned for modification 25 July 2000/Accepted 9 August 2000

Outer membrane protein E (OMP E) is a 50-kDa protein of Moraxella catarrhalis which possesses several characteristics indicating that the protein will be an effective vaccine antigen. To study the antigenic structure of OMP E, eight monoclonal antibodies were developed and characterized. Three of the antibodies recognized epitopes which are present on the bacterial surface. Fusion peptides corresponding to overlapping regions of OMP E were constructed, and immunoblot assays were performed to localize the areas of the molecule bound by the monoclonal antibodies. These studies identified a surface-exposed epitope in the region of amino acids 80 through 180. To further study the protein, two mutants which lack OMP E were constructed. In bactericidal assays, the mutants were more readily killed by normal human serum compared to the isogenic parent strains. These results indicate that OMP E is involved in the expression of serum resistance of M. catarrhalis.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: VA Western New York Healthcare System, Medical Research 151, 3495 Bailey Ave., Buffalo, NY 14215. Phone: (716) 862-7874. Fax: (716) 862-6526. E-mail: murphyt{at}acsu.buffalo.edu.

Infection and Immunity, November 2000, p. 6250-6256, Vol. 68, No. 11
0019-9567/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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