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JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE BIOLOGY
Volume 216, Issue 2-3, Pages 61-71Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00232-007-9030-3
Keywords
antimicrobial peptide; plantaricin A; Lactobacillus plantarum; anterior pituitary cells; membrane permeabilization; patch clamp
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Plantaricin A (PlnA) is a 26-mer peptide pheromone with membrane-permeabilizing, strain-specific antibacterial activity, produced by Lactobacillus plantarum C11. We investigated the membrane-permeabilizing effects of PlnA on cultured cancerous and normal rat anterior pituitary cells using patch-clamp techniques and microfluorometry (fura-2). Cancerous cells displayed massive permeabilization within 5 s after exposure to 10-100 mu m PlnA. The membrane depolarized to nearly 0 mV, and the membrane resistance decreased to a mere fraction of the initial value after less than 1 min. In outside-out membrane patches, 10 mu m PlnA induced membrane currents reversing at 0 mV, which is compatible with an unspecific conductance increase. The D and L forms of the peptide had similar potency, indicating a nonchiral mechanism for the membrane-permeabilizing effect. Surprisingly, inside-out patches were insensitive to 1 mm PlnA. Primary cultures of normal rat anterior pituitary cells were also insensitive to the peptide. Thus, PlnA differentiates between plasma membranes and membrane leaflets. Microfluorometric recordings of [Ca-2] (i) and cytosolic concentration of fluorochrome verified the rapid permeabilizing effect of PlnA on cancerous cells and the insensitivity of normal pituitary cells.
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