ROLE OF SUPEROXIDE ANION GENERATION IN PHAGOCYTIC BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY - STUDIES WITH NORMAL AND CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE LEUKOCYTES
ROLE OF SUPEROXIDE ANION GENERATION IN PHAGOCYTIC BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY - STUDIES WITH NORMAL AND CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE LEUKOCYTES
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DOI:
10.1172/jci108055
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发表时间:
1975-01-01
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
RAJAGOPALAN, KV
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作者:
JOHNSTON, RB;KEELE, BB;RAJAGOPALAN, KV
The capacity of human phagocytes to generate superoxide anion (O2-), a free radical of O, and a possible role for this radical or its derivatives in the killing of phagocytized bacteria were explored using leukocytes from normal individuals and patients with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). Superoxide dismutase, which removes O2-, consistently inhibited phagocytosis-associated nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) reduction indicating the involvement of O2- in this process. Superoxide dismutase inhibited the luminescence that occurs with phagocytosis, implicating O2- in this phenomenon, perhaps through its spontaneous dismutation into singlet O. Subcellular fractions from homogenates of normal and CGD leukocytes generated O2- effectively in the presence of NADH as substrate. O2- generation by intact cells during phagocytosis was markedly diminished in 9 patients with CGD. Leukocytes from mothers determined to be carriers of X-linked recessive CGD by intermediate phagocytic reduction of NBT elaborated O2- to an intermediate extent, further demonstrating the interrelationship between NBT reduction and O2- generation in phagocytizing cells. Activity of superoxide dismutase, the enzyme responsible for protecting the cell from the damaging effects of O2-, was approximately equal in homogenates of normal and CGD granulocytes. Polyacrylamide electrophoresis separated this activity into a minor band that appeared to be the Mn-containing superoxide dismutase associated with mitochondria and a more concentrated, cyanide-sensitive, cytosol form of the enzyme with electrophoretic mobility that corresponded to that of erythrocyte cuprozinc superoxide dismutase. Superoxide dismutase inhibited the phagocytic killing of Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus viridans. A similar inhibitory effect was noted with catalse which removes H2O2. Neither enzyme inhibited the ingestion of bacteria. Peroxide and O2- are believed to interact to generate the potent oxidant, hydroxyl radical (.cntdot.OH). A requirement for .cntdot.OH in the phagocytic bactericidal event might explain the apparent requirement for O2- and H2O2 for such activity. In agreement with this possibility, benzoate and mannitol, scavengers of .cntdot.OH, inhibited phagocytic bactericidal activity. Generation of singlet O from O2- and .cntdot.OH also might explain these findings. The granulocyte elaborates O2- as concomitant of the respiratory burst that occurs with phagocytosis. To what extent the energy inherent in O2- is translated into microbial death through O2- itself, H2O2, .cntdot.OH, singlet O or some other agent remains to be clearly defined.