Purification and Antigenic Detection of
Lipopolysaccharides of
Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Isolate from Faisalabad,
Pakistan
Mujtaba Hassan1, Aamir Ali1*, Abrar
Ahmad1, Muhammad Kashif Saleemi2, Muhammad
Wajid1, Yasra Sarwar1 and Mazhar Iqbal1
1National
Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering College,
Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (NIBGE-C,
PIEAS), Faisalabad, Pakistan, 2Department of Pathology,
University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
*Corresponding author:
myaamirali@yahoo.com
Abstract
Genus Salmonella of the bacterial family Enterobacteriaceae
contains clinically important Salmonella enterica
species comprising more than 2600 serovars which cause infections in both humans
and animals particularly in poultry, mounting a major public health concern. Due
to fecal-oral route transmission of Salmonella, improving sanitation and
hygienic conditions can control the disease. However, the target is difficult to
achieve in densely populated developing countries like Pakistan, thus precise
diagnosis and vaccination are essential. Eleven Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium were isolated from 26 Salmonella suspected
poultry samples collected from local poultry farms. Different biochemical tests,
genus and serovar-specific polymerase chain reactions lead to biochemical
identification and molecular confirmation of the isolates. The nucleotide
sequencing of the amplified products of 16S rRNA genes resulted in molecular
confirmation and NCBI Genbank accession numbers
MK041590 and MK041597. Large scale
growth of the representative S.
Typhimurium MAW1 isolate resulted in sufficient bacterial cell pellet. The
purification of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) antigens of the local
S. Typhimurium isolate yielded LPS as
53 mg/L of the culture broth. Hyper immune sera were raised in mice by
formalin-killed whole-cell bacteria. The LPS endotoxicity was detected as >1000
EU/mL by Limulus Amebocyte Lysate assay and the antigenicity was found adequate
by distinct precipitin line against the developed antisera using immuno-diffusion
assay. The work will be helpful in making the first polysaccharide-protein based
conjugate vaccine candidate against the local
S. Typhimurium isolate.
To Cite This Article:
Hassan M, Ali A, Wajid M, Ahmad A, Saleemi MK,
Sarwar Y and Iqbal M, 2021. Purification and antigenic detection of
lipopolysaccharides of Salmonella enterica
serovar Typhimurium isolate from Faisalabad, Pakistan. Pak Vet J, 41(3):
434-438.
http://dx.doi.org/10.29261/pakvetj/2021.046