Tada R, Nagi-Miura N, Adachi Y, Ohno N Candida albicans derived fungal PAMPS, CAWS, water soluble mannoprotein-β-glucan complex shows similar immunotoxicological activity with bacterial endotoxin from Escherichia coli O9 Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin29(2) (2006)
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The structure was elucidated in this paper NCBI PubMed ID:16462025 Publication DOI:10.1248/bpb.29.240 Journal NLM ID:9311984 Publisher: Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Correspondence: ohnonaops.toyaku.ac.jp Institutions: Laboratory for Immunopharmacology of Microbial Products, School of Pharmacy, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, 1432-1 Horonouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0392, Japan, Laboratory for Immunopharmacology of Microbial Products, School of Pharmacy, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Tokyo, Japan
Candida albicans water soluble fraction (CAWS), water soluble fraction of Candida albicans mainly composed of mannoprotein-β-glucan complex, has various biological effects, such as anaphylactoid shock and coronary arteritis. These toxicological effects fit CAWS as one of PAMPs, pathogen-associated molecular patterns. Acute anaphylactoid reaction is known to be induced by lipopolysaccharide from Escherichia coli O9 (O9 LPS), which possesses the mannose homopolysaccharide as the O-antigen region. In the present study, we compared immunotoxicological and immunochemical similarity between CAWS and O9 LPS. CAWS strongly reacted with Candida serum factors, and the reactivity was found to be partially competed with O9 LPS. CAWS induced lethal toxicity was inhibited by pretreatment of mice with i.v. injection of CAWS. The lethality was found to be inhibited by i.v. injection of O9 LPS. Vice versa, O9 LPS induced acute lethal toxicity was also inhibited by pretreatment of mice with CAWS. These results suggested that CAWS, fungal PAMPs, and O9 LPS from Gram-negative bacteria share, at least in part, immunochemical and immunotoxicological activities.
Methods: serological methods Biological activity: serological data, biological activity data
Related record ID(s): 20181, 20509, 20510 NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs):1010797 Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G46886NR Show glycosyltransferases
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