Mycoplasma pulmonis inhibits electrogenic ion transport across murine tracheal epithelial cell monolayers.
Mycoplasma pulmonis inhibits electrogenic ion transport across murine tracheal epithelial cell monolayers.
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肺支原体抑制跨小鼠气管上皮细胞单层的生电离子传输。
DOI:
10.1128/iai.66.1.272-279.1998
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发表时间:
1998
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
Bridges,RJ
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作者:
Lambert,LC;Trummell,HQ;Singh,A;Cassell,GH;Bridges,RJ
Murine chronic respiratory disease is characterized by persistent colonization of tracheal and bronchial epithelial cell surfaces byMycoplasma pulmonis, submucosal and intraluminal immune and inflammatory cells, and altered airway activity. To determine the direct effect ofM. pulmonisupon transepithelial ion transport in the absence of immune and inflammatory cell responses, primary mouse tracheal epithelial cell monolayers (MTEs) were apically infected and assayed in Ussing chambers.M. pulmonis-infected MTEs, but not those infected with a nonmurine mycoplasma, demonstrated reductions in amiloride-sensitive Na+absorption, cyclic AMP, and cholinergic-stimulated Cl−secretion and transepithelial resistance. These effects were shown to require interaction of viable organisms with the apical surface of the monolayer and to be dependent upon organism number and duration of infection. Altered transport due toM. pulmoniswas not merely a result of epithelial cell death as evidenced by the following: (i) active transport of Na+and Cl−, albeit at reduced rates; (ii) normal cell morphology, including intact tight junctions, as demonstrated by electron microscopy; (iii) maintenance of a mean transepithelial resistance of 440 Ω/cm2; and (iv) lack of leakage of fluid from the basolateral to the apical surface of the monolayer. Alteration in epithelial ion transport in vitro is consistent with impaired pulmonary clearance and altered airway function inM. pulmonis-infected animals. Furthermore, the ability ofM. pulmonisto alter transport without killing the host cell may explain its successful parasitism and long-term persistence in the host. Further study of the MTE-M. pulmonismodel should elucidate the molecular mechanisms which mediate this reduction in transepithelial ion transport.