EXTRACELLULAR ACCUMULATION OF POTENTLY MICROBICIDAL BACTERICIDAL PERMEABILITY-INCREASING PROTEIN AND P15S IN AN EVOLVING STERILE RABBIT PERITONEAL INFLAMMATORY EXUDATE
EXTRACELLULAR ACCUMULATION OF POTENTLY MICROBICIDAL BACTERICIDAL PERMEABILITY-INCREASING PROTEIN AND P15S IN AN EVOLVING STERILE RABBIT PERITONEAL INFLAMMATORY EXUDATE
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DOI:
10.1172/jci117873
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发表时间:
1995-04-01
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
WEISS, J
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作者:
WEINRAUCH, Y;FOREMAN, A;WEISS, J
To what extent the host defense role of granule-associated antibacterial proteins and peptides of PMN includes extracellular action has not been established, To address this question, we have analyzed the antibacterial activity of cell-free (ascitic) fluid (AP) obtained from glycogen-induced sterile inflammatory rabbit peritoneal exudates in which > 95% of the accumulating cells are PMN, AF, but not plasma collected in parallel, exhibits potent activity toward serum-resistant Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, Total and specific antibacterial activity of AF increases during the first 12 h after injection of glycogen in parallel with the influx of PMN, At maximum, > 99 % of 10(7) encapsulated Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus are killed in 30 min/ml of AF, Neutralizing antibodies against the bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) of PMN abolishes activity of AF toward encapsulated E. coli but has no effect on activity vs staphylococci, However, BPI alone(similar to 1 mu g/ml in AF) can only account for less than or equal to 20% of AF activity toward E. coli, AF also contains 15 kD PMN proteins (p15s) that act in synergy with BPI, Purified BPI and p15s, in amounts present in AF, reconstitute the growth-inhibitory activity of AF toward encapsulated E. coli, These findings show for the first time an extracellular function of endogenous BPI, providing, together with the p15s, a potent microbicidal system toward Gram-negative bacteria resistant to plasma-derived proteins and phagocytes in inflammatory exudates.