CH523322A - Forming bacterial mutants - Google Patents

Forming bacterial mutants

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CH523322A
CH523322A CH1575471A CH1575471A CH523322A CH 523322 A CH523322 A CH 523322A CH 1575471 A CH1575471 A CH 1575471A CH 1575471 A CH1575471 A CH 1575471A CH 523322 A CH523322 A CH 523322A
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Thuillier Yvonne
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Rolland Sa A
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Abstract

Forming bacterial mutants. Comprises subjecting pathogenic or non-pathogenic bacteria in an acellular medium at the moment of subdivision to the action of a chemical, biochemical or physical induction agent by destroying the cell walls and cultivating the mutants so formed at 22-37 degrees C on an acellular nutritative medium osmotically balanced by additives controlling cellular permeability, the osmotic presence of the mixt. being between 20 and 30 ats. Physical induction is effected by osmotic shock plasmolysis. The mutants are used to prepare vaccines and serodiagnostic reagents.

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      Utilisation    de variants bactériens pour la     préparation    de     réactifs    pour     sérodiagnostics            Il        est        connu,    selon le brevet No 523321 (demande  No 4239/70) de préparer, à     partir    de     bactéries        suscepti-          bles    d'être pathogènes, des variants bactériens stables       reproductibles    par un cycle évolutif hétéromorphe.

   Le       procédé    de préparation desdits variants     bactériens,    dé  crit     dans    le brevet précité, est     caractérisé    en     ce    que l'on  soumet en milieu     salin    aqueux, lors de la     scissiparité,          lesdites        bactéries    à l'action d'un agent inducteur apte à  éliminer la     paroi    bactérienne par voie chimique, bio  chimique ou physicochimique,

   et en ce que les variants       ainsi    obtenus     sont        cultivés    et repiqués à une température       comprise    entre 22 et 370 C sur un milieu nutritif liquide  apte à favoriser la multiplication dudit variant et     osmo-          tiquement    équilibré par des éléments régularisant la  perméabilité     cellulaire    dudit variant, la pression osmoti  que -de l'ensemble desdits éléments régularisateurs étant  comprise entre 20 et 30 atm.  



  En plus du procédé d'obtention des variants     bac-          tériens,    le brevet précité a également pour objet l'utili  sation de ces variants     pour    la préparation de vaccins  stables.  



  Du fait de la facilité de mise en ouvre de ce procédé  d'obtention de variants, on a obtenu des souches pures  de variants     bactériens    doués de pouvoir pathogène et  des extraits antigéniques, exempts de cellules.  



  L'invention a pour objet l'utilisation des variants  bactériens     ainsi    obtenus, pour la préparation de réactifs  pour     sérodiagnostics    des germes infectieux des maladies  atypiques. Cette     utilisation    est     caractérisée    en ce qu'on  prépare par voie chimique un extrait antigénique     des-          dits    variants et qu'on isole de cet exrait un polysac  charide responsable     des    réactions sérologiques.  



  L'extraction des principes antigéniques est effectuée  en faisant agir sur une suspension de germes lavés pré  alablement une solution aqueuse d'acide trichloracétique  demi-normale, à un pH de 1 à 2 à une température de       0o    C.    L'extrait antigénique se présente sous la forme d'une  solution opalescente absolument non dialysable. Des  séché, il est     thermostable    ; par contre, il est     thermo-          labile    en     milieux        aqueux.     



       Injecté    à     l'animal,    il provoque l'apparition d'anti  corps     -spécifiques    ; ainsi     ses    fortes dilutions sont préci  pitées spécifiquement par un antisérum correspondant  antigénique. Enfin, il se     comporte        comme    une endo  toxine active;     injecté    à     l'animal,    il déclenche en effet  l'apparition     d'antitoxine.     



  Ce     composé        acidosoluble    antigénique isolé apparaît  fortement     polydispersé    en solution     aqueuse.     



  Très soluble dans l'eau, sous l'action de la chaleur  ou d'une     diastase,        il        se    clive; la fraction polysaccharide  se     détache    du reste du complexe antigénique, rompant  ainsi un     lien    moins     fort    que     celui    qui emprisonnait les  antigènes. du corps bactérien.  



  On peut     ainsi    isoler les constituants de l'extrait anti  génique     des        variants    de     Proteus    : un     polysaccharide    spé  cifique des     variants    obtenus, qui est responsable des ré  actions sérologiques typiques de la souche. Ce poly  saccharide libéré peut être précipité par adjonction de       plusieurs    volumes d'alcool ou d'acétone.  



  Le     polysaccharide        donne    à l'élément protéique     anti-          génique    sa spécificité et     est    responsable des réactions  sérologiques typiques de la souche.  



  On     utilise        ces        variants    stables obtenus par le pro  cédé     selon   <B>le</B> brevet No 523321 (demande No 4239/70)  pour la fabrication de réactifs pour     sérodiagnostics    et  identification des     agents    infectieux de maladies aty  piques.  



       Ces        réactifs        sérologiques    permettent la     recherche     d'un traitement     spécifique        (sensibilité    aux     antibiotiques     ou à     d'autres    thérapeutiques).  



  Ils ont aussi un     intérêt        certain    dans la recherche de  l'étiologie des     mycoplasmes    isolés en pathologie infec  tieuse.           Il        est    évident que la mosaïque     d'antigènes    telle  qu'elle existe dans la     cellule    des variants stables intacts  contient des     substances    autres que les     composants    phos  pholipides,     polysaccharides    et     protéines,

      mais on peut  penser que seuls les composants     polysaccharides    et pro  téiques sont les éléments     essentiels    de la manifestation  antigénique.



      Use of bacterial variants for the preparation of reagents for serodiagnostics It is known, according to patent No. 523321 (application No. 4239/70) to prepare, from bacteria likely to be pathogenic, stable bacterial variants reproducible by one cycle. evolutionary heteromorphic.

   The process for preparing said bacterial variants, described in the aforementioned patent, is characterized in that, in an aqueous saline medium, during fissiparity, said bacteria are subjected to the action of an inducing agent capable of eliminating the wall. bacterial by chemical, biochemical or physicochemical means,

   and in that the variants thus obtained are cultured and subcultured at a temperature between 22 and 370 ° C. on a liquid nutrient medium capable of promoting the multiplication of said variant and osmotically balanced by elements regulating the cell permeability of said variant, the pressure osmoti that -de all of said regulating elements being between 20 and 30 atm.



  In addition to the process for obtaining bacterial variants, the aforementioned patent also relates to the use of these variants for the preparation of stable vaccines.



  Owing to the ease of implementation of this method for obtaining variants, pure strains of bacterial variants endowed with pathogenicity and antigenic extracts, free of cells, have been obtained.



  The subject of the invention is the use of the bacterial variants thus obtained, for the preparation of reagents for serodiagnosis of infectious germs of atypical diseases. This use is characterized in that an antigenic extract of said variants is prepared chemically and a polysaccharide responsible for the serological reactions is isolated from this extract.



  The extraction of the antigenic principles is carried out by making act on a suspension of germs washed beforehand an aqueous solution of semi-normal trichloroacetic acid, at a pH of 1 to 2 at a temperature of 0 ° C. The antigenic extract is present in the form of an absolutely non-dialyzable opalescent solution. When dried, it is thermostable; on the other hand, it is heat labile in aqueous media.



       Injected into the animal, it causes the appearance of specific anti-bodies; thus its high dilutions are specifically precipitated by a corresponding antigenic antiserum. Finally, it behaves like an active endotoxin; injected into the animal, it triggers the appearance of antitoxin.



  This isolated antigenic acid-soluble compound appears to be highly polydispersed in aqueous solution.



  Very soluble in water, under the action of heat or a diastase, it cleaves; the polysaccharide fraction is detached from the rest of the antigenic complex, thus breaking a weaker bond than that which trapped the antigens. of the bacterial body.



  It is thus possible to isolate the constituents of the anti-gene extract of the Proteus variants: a polysaccharide specific to the variants obtained, which is responsible for the serological reactions typical of the strain. This released poly saccharide can be precipitated by adding several volumes of alcohol or acetone.



  The polysaccharide gives the antigenic protein element its specificity and is responsible for the serological reactions typical of the strain.



  These stable variants obtained by the process according to <B> the </B> patent No. 523321 (application No. 4239/70) are used for the manufacture of reagents for serodiagnosis and identification of infectious agents of atypical diseases.



       These serological reagents allow the search for a specific treatment (sensitivity to antibiotics or other therapies).



  They also have a definite interest in the search for the etiology of isolated mycoplasmas in infectious pathology. It is evident that the mosaic of antigens as it exists in the cell of intact stable variants contains substances other than the components phos pholipids, polysaccharides and proteins,

      but it can be thought that only the polysaccharide and protein components are the essential elements of the antigenic manifestation.

 

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REVENDICATION Utilisation de variants bactériens pour la prépara tion de réactifs pour sérodiagnostics, lesdits variants étant obtenus, à partir de bactéries susceptibles d'être pathogènes,. CLAIM Use of bacterial variants for the preparation of reagents for serodiagnostics, said variants being obtained from bacteria liable to be pathogenic. en soumettant en milieux salins aqueux, lors de la scissiparité, lesdites bactéries à l'action d'un agent inducteur apte à éliminer la paroi bactérienne par voie chimique, biochimique ou physicochimique, les variants ainsi obtenus étant cultivés et repiqués à une température comprisse entre 22 et 370 C sur un milieu nutritif liquide, by subjecting in aqueous saline media, during fissiparity, said bacteria to the action of an inducing agent capable of eliminating the bacterial wall chemically, biochemically or physicochemically, the variants thus obtained being cultured and subcultured at a temperature between 22 and 370 C on a liquid nutrient medium, caractérisée en ce qu'on prépare par voie chimique un extrait antigénique desdits variants. et qu'on isole de cet extrait un polysaccharide responsa ble des réactions sérologiques. SOUS-REVENDICATION Utilisation selon la revendication, caractérisée en ce qu'on précipite ledit polysaccharide à l'alcool ou à l'acétone. characterized in that an antigenic extract of said variants is prepared chemically. and that a polysaccharide responsible for serological reactions is isolated from this extract. SUB-CLAIM Use according to claim, characterized in that said polysaccharide is precipitated with alcohol or acetone.
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GB05672/69A GB1298668A (en) 1969-03-25 1969-03-25 Process for obtaining and preserving stable bacterial variants
CH423970A CH523321A (en) 1969-03-25 1970-03-20 Process for obtaining and preserving stable bacterial variants

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