Biological effects of Pseudomonas aeruginosa phenazine pigments.
Biological effects of Pseudomonas aeruginosa phenazine pigments.
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铜绿假单胞菌吩嗪色素的生物学效应。
DOI:
10.1159/000414339
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发表时间:
1987
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通讯作者:
Klinger,JD
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作者:
Sorensen,RU;Klinger,JD
The production of phenazine pigments is a distinctive feature of Pseu-domonas aeruginosa, although other microorganisms, including Pseudo-monas cepacia, are also natural sources of some of these metabolites [1, 2]. One of these pigments, pyocyanine (1-hydroxy-5-methyl-phenazine), has been extensively studied because of its antibiotic properties [1-3]. The potential pathogenic role of pyocyanine is controversial. In 1941, Schoental [4] found that concentrations of 50 mg/ml inhibited the growth of cultured fibroblasts, and intraperitoneal injections of 2 mg of pyосуаnine were lethal for mice. Subsequent studies failed to reveal toxicity in vivo [5, 6], leading Liu [7] to conclude that pyocyanine plays no part in the pathogenesis of human infections.Nevertheless, pyocyanine has been shown to alter cell functions in several systems. It enhances the respiration of tissues that require aerobic glycolysis [8] and inhibits the uptake of molecular oxygen by mouse monocytes [9], HeLa cells [10], isolated mouse liver mitochondria [11, 12], cul-tured BHK cells, and intact guinea pig peritoneal macrophages [13]. We became interested in the role of pyocyanine in the cytostatic effect of P. aeruginosa and its supernatants in lymphocyte cultures, postulating that this effect may contribute to local immunosuppressive mechanisms at sites of chronic P. aeruginosa infection [14, 15]. In the following discussion, we