The hemagglutinating activities of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lectins PA-IL and PA-IIL exhibit opposite temperature profiles due to different receptor types.

The two Pseudomonas aeruginosa lectins PA-IL and PA-IIL, which are very similar in subunit size, composition and properties, but differ in carbohydrate specificity, were shown to exhibit opposite temperature profiles in hemagglutination tests. The galactophilic PA-IL, which interacts with the erythrocyte I antigen (together with B or P system antigens), resembles Ii system-specific 'cold hemagglutinins' (including antibodies and lectins of animals and plants) in low (4 degrees C) temperature optimum, while the hemagglutination by the fucose- and mannose-binding PA-IIL (like that of antibodies and lectins which do not bind to these antigens) increases on raising the temperature from 4 to 37 degrees C and even to 42 degrees C. The preferential production of both P. aeruginosa lectins at 28 degrees C and their much stronger interaction with enzyme (protease or sialidase)-damaged cells, as well as the lower temperature optimum (4 degrees C) of PA-IL-binding to the host cells, may be associated with the saprophytic rather than parasitic designation of this bacterium.

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