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BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 44, 期 18, 页码 6910-6919出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi047342s
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI-15834] Funding Source: Medline
Escherichia coli were transformed by electroporation to introduce a plasmid harboring a GFP gene-containing vector. The fluorescence of the purified GFP isolated from the transformant was quenched by myeloperoxidase (MPO)-generated HOC1, by peroxynitrous acid (ONOOH) and by enzymatically or radiolytically generated NO2 but not by other putative neutrophil-generated oxidants. Fluorescence from the bacterium was effectively quenched by HOC1 but not peroxynitrite, oxidizing radicals derived from its O-O bond homolysis, or the other oxidants under study. Exposure of serum-opsonized bacteria to human neutrophils resulted in extensive loss of GFP fluorescence; fluorescence microscopy revealed that phagocytosed bacteria were completely quenched but that bacteria remaining in the external media were unquenched. Addition of sodium azide to the medium to inhibit MPO prevented neutrophil-mediated fluorescence quenching. Because the amount of HOC1 required to inhibit bacterial fluorescence was an order of magnitude greater than required to inhibit colonial growth, these results imply that sufficient HOC1 was formed within the neutrophil phagosome to kill the microbe.
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