The main lytic factor of Trypanosoma brucei brucei in normal human serum is not high density lipoprotein

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The main lytic factor of Trypanosoma brucei brucei in normal human serum is not high density lipoprotein

J Raper, V Nussenzweig and S Tomlinson
Department of Medical and Biochemical Parasitology, New York University Medical School, New York 10016, USA.

Natural immunity of humans to the cattle pathogen Trypanosoma brucei brucei has been attributed to the presence in normal human serum (NHS) of lytic factors for the parasites. We and others have shown that NHS contains two trypanolytic factors (herein termed TLF1 and TLF2) that can be separated by gel filtration. TLF1 copurifies with a subclass of high density lipoprotein (HDL), whereas TLF2 has a much higher molecular weight and does not appear to be a lipoprotein. We find that the trypanolytic activity of purified TLF1 is totally inhibited by exogenous haptoglobin (Hp) at concentrations (0.1 mg/ml) lower than those present in NHS (0.2-2 mg/ml). In contrast, exogenous Hp (up to 2.5 mg/ml) has no effect on the lytic activity of either NHS or isolated TLF2. Hp-depleted sera from patients with intravascular hemolysis is severalfold more trypanolytic than NHS. These sera contain only TLF1, and their lytic activity is totally abolished upon the addition of Hp (0.1 mg/ml). When NHS containing different Hp allotypes is fractionated by gel filtration, TLF1 activity is either revealed or remains masked, depending on whether it coelutes with Hp. Masked TLF1 activity in the column fractions is revealed if Hp is removed by density gradient ultracentrifugation. We conclude that endogenous Hp inhibits TLF1 activity, and that TLF2 is the main trypanolytic factor in NHS.
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