INHIBITION OF PHAGOLYSOSOME FUSION IS LOCALIZED TO CHLAMYDIA-PSITTACI-LADEN VACUOLES
INHIBITION OF PHAGOLYSOSOME FUSION IS LOCALIZED TO CHLAMYDIA-PSITTACI-LADEN VACUOLES
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DOI:
10.1128/iai.32.2.889-896.1981
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
WYRICK, PB
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作者:
EISSENBERG, LG;WYRICK, PB
Intracellular survival of C. psittaci is in part dependent on the ability of the organism to thwart phagolysosome formation. Circumvention of phagolysosome fusion could be localized to chlamydia-laden vacuoles or generalized to all phagososomes in the host cell. To determine which of these modes is in operation, the ability of Chlamydia elementary and reticulate bodies to protect Saccharomyces cerevisiae from degradation in macrophage (mouse) phagolysosomes was examined via acridine orange and Giemsa staining. No statistically significant differnece was evident between the amount of fusion observed in coinfected macrophages and those infected with yeast cells alone. This was not dependent on some unique interaction between the Chlamydia and the yeast cells since viable count studies to determine the protection of a 2nd organism, Escherichia coli, also failed to show significantly different amounts of inactivation of the bacteria by macrophages in the presence of C. psittaci. Thus the inhibition of phagolysosome fusion is localized to Chlaymdia-laden phagosomes.