Role of iron and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid in the bactericidal activity of a superoxide anion-generating system.
Role of iron and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid in the bactericidal activity of a superoxide anion-generating system.
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铁和乙二胺四乙酸在超氧阴离子生成系统的杀菌活性中的作用。
DOI:
10.1016/0003-9861(81)90539-7
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发表时间:
1981
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Klebanoff,SJ
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作者:
Rosen,H;Klebanoff,SJ
In an earlier study, an enzymic superoxide anion-generating system consisting of acetaldehyde plus xanthine oxidase was found to be toxic toStaphylococcus aureus. Both superoxide anion (O) and its dismutation product hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) were required and it was proposed that (O) and H2O2interact to form the more powerful bactericidal agent(s), hydroxyl radical (OH·) and/or singlet oxygen. Iron chelated by EDTA appears to be a heretofore unrecognized requirement for the xanthine oxidase bactericidal system. The evidence is as follows: (1) the addition of iron salts to the xanthine oxidase system increased bactericidal activity whereas the iron chelators diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) and desferrioxamine were inhibitory; (2) dialysis of the EDTA-containing xanthine oxidase preparation abolished bactericidal activity which was restored on the addition of EDTA; (3) removal of trace amounts of iron by passage of salt solutions through a Chelex-100 column abolished bactericidal activity which was restored on the addition of iron.Iron and EDTA were most effective when present at 1:1 stoichiometry and they could not be replaced by a variety of other metals or chelators. The bactericidal activity of the acetaldehyde-xanthine oxidase-iron-EDTA system was inhibited by superoxide dismutase, catalase, and the OH · scavengers ethanol and mannitol, suggesting that the complex served as a catalyst of the reaction between (O) and H2O2to form OH· (Haber-Weiss reaction). Possible reasons for the relative catalytic specificity of iron-EDTA are considered.