Alteration of Physical, Chemical, and Biological Properties of Endotoxin by Treatment with Mild Alkali

Overview

Journal J Bacteriol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Microbiology

Date 1969 Mar 1

PMID 4887496

Citations 25

Authors

M Niwa

K C MILNER

E Ribi

J A Rudbach

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Abstract

Treatment with alkali is one of several methods for removing fatty acids from bacterial endotoxins and, in the process, detoxifying the material. Saponification of fatty acid esters is the major detectable chemical change produced by alkali; however, kinetic studies of mild alkaline hydrolysis of endotoxin failed to correlate rates of detoxification with rates of loss of ketodeoxyoctonates, heptose, O-acetyl groups, or fatty acid esters. The alterations occurring during the critical stages of hydrolysis apparently changed the essential chemical conformation of endotoxic particles before cleavage of a significant amount of material took place. The rates of both saponification and detoxification were markedly increased by carrying out the reaction in media of ethyl alcohol or dimethylsulfoxide instead of water.

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