Preferential binding of the neutrophil cytoplasmic granule-derived bactericidal/permeability increasing protein to target bacteria. Implications and use as a means of purification.
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- 15 April 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Immunology
- Vol. 142 (8) , 2807-2812
- https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.142.8.2807
Abstract
The specificity of the basic bactericidal/permeability increasing protein (BPI) of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) for gram-negative bacteria is attributable to its strong attraction for the negatively charged envelope LPS. The antibacterial activity of PMN homogenates or extracts toward Escherichia coli corresponds to their BPI content and is blocked by anti-BPI IgG, suggesting that BPI action is unaffected by the presence of other PMN proteins. To test if BPI is preferentially bound to E. coli when other antibacterial proteins are present, we have measured binding in buffered (pH 7.5) balanced salts solution of [125I] human BPI to E. coli J5 in the presence and absence of other human PMN granule proteins. BPI binding is saturable with an apparent K = 23 nM and 2.2 million binding sites/cell. While binding of [125I] human BPI is competitively inhibited by human or rabbit BPI, it is only weakly inhibited by myeloperoxidase, lysozyme, or cathepsin G. In contrast, myeloperoxidase binding to E. coli is strongly inhibited by BPI. Moreover, incubation of E. coli with crude extracts of PMN or CML spleen results in near quantitative binding of BPI, identified by silver staining and immunoblotting after SDS-PAGE of the washed E. coli pellet, without recognizable binding of other leukocyte proteins (greater than 98% of added total protein is recovered in supernatant). After addition of 200 mM MgCl2, approximately 80% of bound BPI is released as fully active and pure protein (as judged by SDS-PAGE and HPLC). Thus the selective and reversible binding of BPI in crude PMN extracts to target bacteria provides a one-step "affinity" purification procedure.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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