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Infection and Immunity, December 2007, p. 5716-5719, Vol. 75, No. 12
0019-9567/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.01049-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

{alpha}-Enolase Resides on the Cell Surface of Mycoplasma fermentans and Binds Plasminogen{triangledown}

Amichai Yavlovich, Hagai Rechnitzer, and Shlomo Rottem*

Department of Membrane and Ultrastructure Research, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Received 30 July 2007/ Returned for modification 5 September 2007/ Accepted 20 September 2007

Plasminogen (Plg) binding to the cell surface of Mycoplasma fermentans results in a marked increase in the maximal adherence of the organism to HeLa cells, enhanced Plg activation by the urokinase-type Plg activator, and the induction of the internalization of M. fermentans by eukaryotic host cells (A. Yavlovich, A. Katzenell, M. Tarshis, A. A. Higazi, and S. Rottem, Infect. Immun. 72:5004-5011, 2004). In this study, the M. fermentans Plg binding protein was isolated by affinity chromatography of Triton X-100-solubilized M. fermentans membranes by utilizing a column of a Plg-biotin complex attached to avidin that was eluted with {varepsilon}-aminocaproic acid. The eluted ~50-kDa protein was identified by mass spectrometric techniques as {alpha}-enolase. The possibility that {alpha}-enolase, a key cytoplasmatic glycolytic enzyme, resides also on the cell surface of M. fermentans was supported by an immunoblot analysis using polyclonal anti-{alpha}-enolase antiserum, which showed that {alpha}-enolase was present in a purified M. fermentans membrane preparation, as well as by immunochemical criteria and by immunoelectron microscopy analysis. Our observation that Plg blocked the binding of anti-{alpha}-enolase antibodies to a 50-kDa polypeptide band resolved by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of M. fermentans membrane or soluble preparations further supports our notion that mycoplasmal surface {alpha}-enolase is a major Plg binding protein of M. fermentans.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Membrane and Ultrastructure Research, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem 91120, Israel. Phone: 972-2-675 8148. Fax: 972-2-678 4010. E-mail: Rottem{at}cc.huji.ac.il

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 15 October 2007.

Editor: J. L. Flynn

Infection and Immunity, December 2007, p. 5716-5719, Vol. 75, No. 12
0019-9567/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.01049-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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