RELATIONSHIP OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE PRODUCTION BY MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS TO VIRULENCE FOR CATALASEDEFICIENT MICE
RELATIONSHIP OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE PRODUCTION BY MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS TO VIRULENCE FOR CATALASEDEFICIENT MICE
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DOI:
10.1128/jb.98.3.1036-1040.1969
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发表时间:
1969-01-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
FEINSTEIN, RN
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作者:
BRENNAN, PC;FEINSTEIN, RN
Mycoplasma pulmonis, an etiological agent of murine pneumonia, produced about 0.065 μmoles of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) per hr per 1010colony-forming units. When glucose was present at a concentration of 0.01m, H2O2production was increased by 50%. To determine if H2O2production byM. pulmoniscould be correlated with virulence, normal, acatalasemic, and acatalatic mice were infected with the organism. Three days after infection withM. pulmonissignificantly more acatalatic mice had pneumonia than did normal or acatalasemic mice. The pneumonia in acatalatic mice was also more severe than in the other two groups. Five days after infection, pneumonia in the acatalatic mice was resolved, whereas normal mice were severely affected. The presence of pneumonia and the severity were correlated with the recovery ofM. pulmonisfrom the lesions. In vitro studies of the effect of catalase onM. pulmonisshowed that exogenously supplied catalase stimulated the growth ofM. pulmonisat 37 C and prolonged its survival at 25 C. Hemolysis of sheep blood, guinea pig blood, rabbit blood, and normal and acatalasemic mouse blood byM. pulmoniswas inversely related to the catalase activity of the erythrocytes. These findings suggest that H2O2secretion contributes to the virulence ofM. pulmonisand to the death of the microorganism in the absence of host catalase.