ADHERENCE OF MYCOPLASMA-GALLISEPTICUM TO HUMAN ERYTHROCYTES
ADHERENCE OF MYCOPLASMA-GALLISEPTICUM TO HUMAN ERYTHROCYTES
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DOI:
10.1128/iai.21.2.365-372.1978
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
BREDT, W
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作者:
BANAI, M;KAHANE, I;BREDT, W
Pathogenic mycoplasmas adhere to and colonize the epithelial lining of the respiratory and genital tracts of infected animals. An experimental system suitable for the quantitative study of mycoplasma adherence was developed. The system consists of human erythrocytes (RBC) and the avian pathogen Mycoplasma gallisepticum, in which membrane lipids were labeled. The amount of mycoplasma cells attached to the RBC, which was determined according to radioactivity measurements, decreased on increasing the pH or ionic strength of the attachment mixture. Attachment followed 1st-order kinetics and depended on temperature. The mycoplasma cell population remaining in the supernatant fluid after exposure to RBC showed a much poorer ability to attach to RBC during a 2nd attachment test, indicating an unequal distribution of binding sites among cells within a given population. The gradual removal of sialic acid residues from the RBC by neuraminidase was accompanied by a decrease in mycoplasma attachment. Isolated glycophorin, the RBC membrane glycoprotein carrying almost all the sialic acid moieties of the RBC, inhibited M. gallisepticum attachment; asialoglycophorin and sialic acid itself were very poor inhibitors of attachment. Only part of the 125I-labeled glycophorin bound to mycoplasmas could be removed by neuraminidase or by exchange with unlabeled glycophorin. Glycophorin, representing the isolated major RBC receptor for M. gallisepticum, may bind to the mycoplasmas specifically, through its sialic acid moieties, and nonspecifically, through its exposed hydrophobic polypeptide moiety.