REAGENTS AND SOLUTIONS:
Anthrax protective antigen and anthrax lethal factor, 1 mg/ml
Dissolve anthrax lethal factor and anthrax protective antigen (List Biological Labo-
ratories, cat. no. 172B and 171E) each to a nal concentration of 1 mg/ml in sterile
dH2O. Divide into 10-l aliquots or an appropriate volume for the users experiments
and store up to 2 years at 80C. Avoid freeze-thaw cycles. Remove one aliquot of
each from the freezer 30 min prior to starting the experiment. Allow them to come to
room temperature. Enzymatically inactive anthrax lethal factor (List Biological Lab-
oratories, cat. no. 176) can be used as a negative control, if desired. Good biosafety
level 2 laboratory practices should be employed in the safe handling of this reagent.
Protective antigen and lethal factor should be stored separately.
Author did not indicate which specific lethal factor was utilized. List Labs provides Product #172 (Anthrax Lethal Factor (LF), Recombinant from B. anthracis) and Product #169 (Anthrax Lethal Factor (LF-A), Recombinant from B. anthracis Native Sequence).
LPS, 1 mg/ml
Prepare a 1 mg/ml stock of Salmonella Minnesota R595 (Re) LPS (e.g., List Bi-
ologicals, cat. no. 434) in H2O containing 0.5% triethylamine. Divide into 100-l
aliquots and store up to 1 year at 4C.