Nonoxidative antimicrobial effects of human polymorphonuclear leukocyte granule proteins on Chlamydia spp. in vitro.
AUTOR(ES)
Register, K B
RESUMO
Proteins from isolated granules of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes were assessed for their nonoxidative microbicidal effect on chlamydiae by two different methods: a radioisotope assay for elementary body integrity and a biological assay for inclusion development. Crude granule extract, which consisted of a mixture of all granule proteins, caused a 20 to 30% decrease in infectivity and a 52% decrease in infectivity when incubated with Chlamydia psittaci CAL-10 and Chlamydia trachomatis serovar E, respectively. To define more specifically the components that were damaging to chlamydiae, crude granule extract was subjected to Sephadex G-75 column chromatography and isolated granule fractions were obtained. Only fractions containing lysozyme as the major component consistently caused reductions in infectivity of C. trachomatis elementary bodies. In contrast, fractions collected after the lysozyme fraction, containing proteins with molecular masses of 13,000 daltons or less, had detrimental effects on C. psittaci infectivity. Additional experiments using highly purified human polymorphonuclear leukocyte lysozyme confirmed its infectivity-reducing action upon C. trachomatis but not upon C. psittaci.
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