CHARACTERIZATION OF THE EXTRACELLULAR BACTERICIDAL FACTORS OF RAT ALVEOLAR LINING MATERIAL
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE EXTRACELLULAR BACTERICIDAL FACTORS OF RAT ALVEOLAR LINING MATERIAL
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DOI:
10.1172/jci111537
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
HSU, LC
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作者:
COONROD, JD;LESTER, RL;HSU, LC
The surfactant fraction (55,000-g pellet) of leukocyte-free rat bronchoalveolar lavage fluid contains factors that rapidly kill and lyse pneumococci. These factors were purified and identified biochemically by using a quantitative bactericidal test to monitor fractionation procedures. Ninty-one percent of the antipneumococcal activity of rat surfactant was recovered in chloroform after extraction of rat surfactant with chloroform-methanol (Bligh-Dyer procedure). After chromatography on silicic acid with chloroform, acetone and methanol, all detectable antibacterial activity (.apprx. 80% of the initial activity) eluted with the neutral lipids in chloroform. When rechromatographed on silicic acid with hexane, hexane-chloroform and chloroform, the antibacterial activity eluted with free fatty acids (FFA). TLC, established that the antibacterial activity was confined to the FFA fraction. GLC showed that the fatty acid fraction contained a mixture of long-chain FFA (C12-C22) of which 66.7% were saturated and 32.4% were unsaturated. The quantity of TLC-purified FFA needed to kill 50% of 108 pneumococci under standardized conditions (1 bactericidal unit) was 10.6 .+-. 0.5 .mu.g. Purified FFA acted as detergents, causing release of [3H]choline from pneumococcal cell walls and increased bacterial cell membrane permeability, evidenced by rapid unloading of 3-O-[3H]methyl-D-glucose. FFA acting as detergents appear to account for the bactericidal and bacteriolytic activity of rat pulmonary surfactant for pneumococci.