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Outer membrane protein A (OmpA), peptidoglycan-associated lipoprotein (PAL), and murein lipoprotein (MLP) are released in experimental Gram-negative sepsis

Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, jhellman{at}partners.org

H. Shaw Warren

Pediatrics and Medicine, and the Infectious Disease Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

We previously showed that Escherichia coli bacteria incubated in normal human serum release complexes that contain three conserved Gram-negative bacterial outer membrane proteins (OMPs) and LPS. We have identified the OMPs as outer membrane protein A (OmpA), peptidoglycan-associated lipoprotein (PAL), and murein lipoprotein (MLP). These OMPs are conserved among enteric Gram-negative bacteria and are bound by IgG in antisera raised to heat-killed rough bacteria such as E. coli J5 (J5 IgG). The present experiments were performed to further analyze the release of these OMPs in a rat wound infection model of sepsis. Plasma was collected from thermally injured rats with E. coli O18 sepsis and filtered. LPS was affinity-purified from plasma filtrates using monoclonal antibody specific for the O-polysaccharide side chain of E. coli O18 LPS. Plasma filtrates were also incubated with J5 IgG conjugated to magnetic beads. Affinity-purified samples were analyzed for the OMPs by immunoblotting. OmpA, PAL, and MLP were released into septic rat blood in complexes with LPS. PAL was consistently present in samples affinity-purified using J5 IgG. The results indicate that OmpA, PAL, and MLP are released and circulate in experimental Gram-negative sepsis and suggest that a proportion of released OMPs are tightly associated with LPS.

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