Isolation of the Mycobacterium leprae-specific glycolipid antigen, phenolic glycolipid-I, from formalin-fixed human lepromatous liver.

AUTOR(ES)

Izumi, S

RESUMO

A Mycobacterium leprae-specific phenolic glycolipid antigen was purified from Formalin-fixed liver preserved from an advanced lepromatous leprosy patient. Its chemical and immunological properties were compared with those of phenolic glycolipid-I obtained from M. leprae-infected armadillo liver. Based on the findings that the glycolipids from the two sources have the same thin-layer chromatographic properties, infrared absorption spectrum, sugar composition, and seroreactivity, we conclude that large quantities of the phenolic glycolipid-I antigen are produced in human lepromatous leprosy lesions and that Formalin-fixed lepromatous livers and spleens from the prechemotherapeutic era are suitable sources of the glycolipid.

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