The effect of different serum sources on the growth of human bone marrow mononuclear cells in liquid culture was investigated. Newborn calf serum failed to support growth in liquid cultures whether or not exogenous colony-stimulating factor was present. Neither adherent nor nonadherent cells proliferated in medium supplemented with horse serum. Fetal calf serum allowed proliferation of the nonadherent cell population, but only in the presence of colony-stimulating factor. However, no growth of adherent cells was observed in these cultures. Both the nonadherent and adherent populations grew well in the presence of pooled human sera. While growth of the nonadherent population was minimal in the absence of colony-stimulating factor, the adherent population appeared to increase to a greater extent when the factor was absent. The positive effect of the human serum was shown to be dose dependent in that as the proportion of serum was increased in the medium, the number of cells recovered from the cultures increased, regardless of the presence or absence of exogenous colony-stimulating factor.
{"title":"The effect of serum on human marrow mononuclear cell proliferation and maturation.","authors":"C D Alley, R P MacDermott, C C Stewart","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The effect of different serum sources on the growth of human bone marrow mononuclear cells in liquid culture was investigated. Newborn calf serum failed to support growth in liquid cultures whether or not exogenous colony-stimulating factor was present. Neither adherent nor nonadherent cells proliferated in medium supplemented with horse serum. Fetal calf serum allowed proliferation of the nonadherent cell population, but only in the presence of colony-stimulating factor. However, no growth of adherent cells was observed in these cultures. Both the nonadherent and adherent populations grew well in the presence of pooled human sera. While growth of the nonadherent population was minimal in the absence of colony-stimulating factor, the adherent population appeared to increase to a greater extent when the factor was absent. The positive effect of the human serum was shown to be dose dependent in that as the proportion of serum was increased in the medium, the number of cells recovered from the cultures increased, regardless of the presence or absence of exogenous colony-stimulating factor.</p>","PeriodicalId":17481,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Reticuloendothelial Society","volume":"34 3","pages":"271-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17660820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studies were undertaken to determine the effect of viable organisms of Mycobacterium bovis, strain Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG), on cell growth characteristics and phagocytic properties of cells from surgically-induced unilaterally hydronephrotic, contralateral, and normal rabbit kidneys. A single intravenous administration of 8 X 10(8) BCG organisms was given at the time of ureteral ligation. Four days after injection, explants were removed from the hydronephrotic, contralateral, and normal kidneys. Two cell types, fibroblasts and mononuclear phagocytes, grew from these explants. BCG caused a marked increase in the rate of growth of cells from the hydronephrotic and contralateral kidneys. There was no measurable effect of BCG on cells from the normal kidney.
{"title":"Effects of Mycobacterium bovis (strain BCG) on the interstitial cells of hydronephrotic, contralateral, and normal rabbit kidneys.","authors":"D L Thomasson, S Buck, T V Zenser, B B Davis","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Studies were undertaken to determine the effect of viable organisms of Mycobacterium bovis, strain Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG), on cell growth characteristics and phagocytic properties of cells from surgically-induced unilaterally hydronephrotic, contralateral, and normal rabbit kidneys. A single intravenous administration of 8 X 10(8) BCG organisms was given at the time of ureteral ligation. Four days after injection, explants were removed from the hydronephrotic, contralateral, and normal kidneys. Two cell types, fibroblasts and mononuclear phagocytes, grew from these explants. BCG caused a marked increase in the rate of growth of cells from the hydronephrotic and contralateral kidneys. There was no measurable effect of BCG on cells from the normal kidney.</p>","PeriodicalId":17481,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Reticuloendothelial Society","volume":"34 3","pages":"195-202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17412930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R van Furth, J W van der Meer, H Toivonen, T Rytömaa
The present work concerns a mathematical analysis of the growth of monoblasts, promonocytes, and macrophages in long-term bone marrow cultures in the presence of conditioned medium. For this purpose, use was made of the normalized data of four experiments, each done in triplicate. The computer program was based on a concept of hypothetical subcompartments within each developmental stage. The growth parameters were then determined experimentally or by trial and error after a series of computer simulations. The mathematical results are in close agreement with the numbers of monoblasts, promonocytes, and macrophages obtained by counts in 21-day-old bone marrow cultures. This approach provides a means to understand the kinetic behaviour of mononuclear phagocytes.
{"title":"Kinetic analysis of the growth of bone marrow mononuclear phagocytes in long-term cultures.","authors":"R van Furth, J W van der Meer, H Toivonen, T Rytömaa","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present work concerns a mathematical analysis of the growth of monoblasts, promonocytes, and macrophages in long-term bone marrow cultures in the presence of conditioned medium. For this purpose, use was made of the normalized data of four experiments, each done in triplicate. The computer program was based on a concept of hypothetical subcompartments within each developmental stage. The growth parameters were then determined experimentally or by trial and error after a series of computer simulations. The mathematical results are in close agreement with the numbers of monoblasts, promonocytes, and macrophages obtained by counts in 21-day-old bone marrow cultures. This approach provides a means to understand the kinetic behaviour of mononuclear phagocytes.</p>","PeriodicalId":17481,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Reticuloendothelial Society","volume":"34 3","pages":"227-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17675908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The characteristics of murine bone marrow mononuclear phagocytes in long-term cultures with embryonic fibroblast-conditioned medium were studied to determine the stage of development and state of activation of these cells. Two liquid culture systems were used: for studies on the morphology, cytochemistry, and functional characteristics at the cellular level, the cells were cultured adherent to a glass surface; and for experiments where the cells were needed in suspension (replating experiments, and studies on locomotion, intracellular killing, and cytotoxicity) use was made of Teflon culture systems. Three developmental stages of mononuclear phagocytes could be recognized easily in these cultures: monoblasts, promonocytes, and macrophages. In cultures on a glass surface, these cells grow in colonies separate from granulocytic colonies. When incubation is prolonged beyond 7-9 days, the granulocytes die, leaving pure mononuclear phagocyte cultures. Primary cultures, in which monoblasts, promonocytes, and some macrophages proliferate, can be maintained for 3-4 weeks. Calculation showed that one monoblast present on day 0 gives rise to a progeny of more than 7 X 10(3) mononuclear phagocytes by day 14; after that, the rate of proliferation declines despite the addition of fresh media. Regular replating of the cells cultured on Teflon made it possible to maintain proliferation over a period of almost 200 days. The cells in culture have the typical characteristics of mononuclear phagocytes, as judged by light microscopy, alpha-naphthyl butyrate esterase activity, lysozyme activity, presence of receptors for Fc and C3, and endocytic, microbicidal, and cytotoxic activity. The 5'nucleotidase activity, ingestion of erythrocytes via C3-receptor, locomotion, and antibody-dependent cytotoxicity indicate that the cultured bone marrow mononuclear phagocytes are more active than resident macrophages, and as active as or even more active than thioglycollate-induced macrophages. In conclusion, the population of mononuclear phagocytes in the liquid cultures of bone marrow is heterogenous with respect to developmental stage and state of activation.
{"title":"Characteristics of long-term cultures of proliferating, mononuclear phagocytes from bone marrow.","authors":"J W van der Meer, J S van de Gevel, R van Furth","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The characteristics of murine bone marrow mononuclear phagocytes in long-term cultures with embryonic fibroblast-conditioned medium were studied to determine the stage of development and state of activation of these cells. Two liquid culture systems were used: for studies on the morphology, cytochemistry, and functional characteristics at the cellular level, the cells were cultured adherent to a glass surface; and for experiments where the cells were needed in suspension (replating experiments, and studies on locomotion, intracellular killing, and cytotoxicity) use was made of Teflon culture systems. Three developmental stages of mononuclear phagocytes could be recognized easily in these cultures: monoblasts, promonocytes, and macrophages. In cultures on a glass surface, these cells grow in colonies separate from granulocytic colonies. When incubation is prolonged beyond 7-9 days, the granulocytes die, leaving pure mononuclear phagocyte cultures. Primary cultures, in which monoblasts, promonocytes, and some macrophages proliferate, can be maintained for 3-4 weeks. Calculation showed that one monoblast present on day 0 gives rise to a progeny of more than 7 X 10(3) mononuclear phagocytes by day 14; after that, the rate of proliferation declines despite the addition of fresh media. Regular replating of the cells cultured on Teflon made it possible to maintain proliferation over a period of almost 200 days. The cells in culture have the typical characteristics of mononuclear phagocytes, as judged by light microscopy, alpha-naphthyl butyrate esterase activity, lysozyme activity, presence of receptors for Fc and C3, and endocytic, microbicidal, and cytotoxic activity. The 5'nucleotidase activity, ingestion of erythrocytes via C3-receptor, locomotion, and antibody-dependent cytotoxicity indicate that the cultured bone marrow mononuclear phagocytes are more active than resident macrophages, and as active as or even more active than thioglycollate-induced macrophages. In conclusion, the population of mononuclear phagocytes in the liquid cultures of bone marrow is heterogenous with respect to developmental stage and state of activation.</p>","PeriodicalId":17481,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Reticuloendothelial Society","volume":"34 3","pages":"203-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17675907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R H Wiltrout, M J Brunda, E Gorelik, E S Peterson, J J Dunn, J Leonhardt, L Varesio, C W Reynolds, H T Holden
Murine peritoneal macrophages (pM phi) elicited in vivo by intraperitoneal (IP) inoculation of various agents were tested for their homing/distribution patterns after intravenous (IV) adoptive transfer to syngeneic C57BL/6 recipients. Resident pM phi (RpM phi) obtained from normal mice and pM phi elicited by proteose peptone (PpM phi) or thioglycollate broth (TpM phi) exhibited similar homing patterns following IV transfer. After initial arrest in the lungs, these cells rapidly disseminated to liver and spleen, with minimal or no detectable migration to peripheral lymph nodes, intestine, peritoneum, kidney, heart, or retention in the blood. The pattern of results reflected the properties of pM phi themselves, since highly enriched pM phi populations obtained by treatment of crude peritoneal exudate cells with anti-Thy 1.2 + C, or by fractionation on Percoll density gradients, gave similar results. The distribution of pM phi elicited by Brewer's thioglycollate medium (BTpM phi) was markedly different from other pM phi tested. BTpM phi homed rapidly to the lungs and many remained localized there for at least 72 hr with very little migration to the spleen. The distribution of PpM phi could be altered by activation of these cells in vivo through the IP injection of the pyran copolymer, MVE-2, prior to adoptive IV transfer. Activated PpM phi contained a population of highly differentiated, low density pM phi, separable on density gradients, which arrested in the lungs for appreciably longer periods of time than did PpM phi. These cells exhibited reduced ability for migration to the spleen. Macrophage-like (M phi-like) cell lines did not exhibit migration capability, but rather were rapidly cleared from the circulation in a manner similar to other types of tumor cells.
{"title":"Distribution of peritoneal macrophage populations after intravenous injection in mice: differential effects of eliciting and activating agents.","authors":"R H Wiltrout, M J Brunda, E Gorelik, E S Peterson, J J Dunn, J Leonhardt, L Varesio, C W Reynolds, H T Holden","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Murine peritoneal macrophages (pM phi) elicited in vivo by intraperitoneal (IP) inoculation of various agents were tested for their homing/distribution patterns after intravenous (IV) adoptive transfer to syngeneic C57BL/6 recipients. Resident pM phi (RpM phi) obtained from normal mice and pM phi elicited by proteose peptone (PpM phi) or thioglycollate broth (TpM phi) exhibited similar homing patterns following IV transfer. After initial arrest in the lungs, these cells rapidly disseminated to liver and spleen, with minimal or no detectable migration to peripheral lymph nodes, intestine, peritoneum, kidney, heart, or retention in the blood. The pattern of results reflected the properties of pM phi themselves, since highly enriched pM phi populations obtained by treatment of crude peritoneal exudate cells with anti-Thy 1.2 + C, or by fractionation on Percoll density gradients, gave similar results. The distribution of pM phi elicited by Brewer's thioglycollate medium (BTpM phi) was markedly different from other pM phi tested. BTpM phi homed rapidly to the lungs and many remained localized there for at least 72 hr with very little migration to the spleen. The distribution of PpM phi could be altered by activation of these cells in vivo through the IP injection of the pyran copolymer, MVE-2, prior to adoptive IV transfer. Activated PpM phi contained a population of highly differentiated, low density pM phi, separable on density gradients, which arrested in the lungs for appreciably longer periods of time than did PpM phi. These cells exhibited reduced ability for migration to the spleen. Macrophage-like (M phi-like) cell lines did not exhibit migration capability, but rather were rapidly cleared from the circulation in a manner similar to other types of tumor cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":17481,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Reticuloendothelial Society","volume":"34 3","pages":"253-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17675910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The kinetics of bactericidal activity of activated macrophages can be precisely described by a mathematical model in which phagocytosis, killing, digestion, and release of degraded bacterial material are considered to occur continuously. To gain a better understanding of these events, I have determined the period of time between first contact of bacteria with macrophages and the onset of killing. Activated rat peritoneal macrophages were incubated for various times up to 15 min with Listeria monocytogenes previously labeled with 3H-thymidine and the unassociated bacteria removed by two centrifugations through a density interface. Both cell-associated radioactivity and cell-associated viable bacteria, determined as colony forming units after sonication of the cell pellet, increased with time of incubation. However, the specific viability of these bacteria, expressed as the ratio of number of viable bacteria per unit radioactivity declined with time, as an approximate inverse exponential, after a lag period of 2.9 +/- 0.8 min. Evidence is given that other possible causes for this decline in specific viability, other than death of the bacteria, such as preferential ingestion of dead Listeria, clumping of bacteria, variations in autolytic activity, or release of Listericidins are unlikely. I conclude therefore that activated macrophages kill Listeria approximately 3 min after the cell and the bacterium first make contact.
{"title":"Kinetics of killing Listeria monocytogenes by macrophages: rapid killing accompanying phagocytosis.","authors":"W A Davies","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The kinetics of bactericidal activity of activated macrophages can be precisely described by a mathematical model in which phagocytosis, killing, digestion, and release of degraded bacterial material are considered to occur continuously. To gain a better understanding of these events, I have determined the period of time between first contact of bacteria with macrophages and the onset of killing. Activated rat peritoneal macrophages were incubated for various times up to 15 min with Listeria monocytogenes previously labeled with 3H-thymidine and the unassociated bacteria removed by two centrifugations through a density interface. Both cell-associated radioactivity and cell-associated viable bacteria, determined as colony forming units after sonication of the cell pellet, increased with time of incubation. However, the specific viability of these bacteria, expressed as the ratio of number of viable bacteria per unit radioactivity declined with time, as an approximate inverse exponential, after a lag period of 2.9 +/- 0.8 min. Evidence is given that other possible causes for this decline in specific viability, other than death of the bacteria, such as preferential ingestion of dead Listeria, clumping of bacteria, variations in autolytic activity, or release of Listericidins are unlikely. I conclude therefore that activated macrophages kill Listeria approximately 3 min after the cell and the bacterium first make contact.</p>","PeriodicalId":17481,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Reticuloendothelial Society","volume":"34 2","pages":"131-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17471839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fucose binding lectin (FBL) from Lotus tetragonolobus seeds has previously been shown by fluorescence microscopy to bind to human neutrophils. This study shows using highly sensitive flow cytometry that this lectin binds both to human peripheral blood neutrophils and monocytes but not to lymphocytes. This binding is blocked by the presence of free L-fucose and is reversible when neutrophils or monocytes stained with fluorescent FBL are subsequently incubated in 0.05 M L-fucose. Quantitative comparison of neutrophils and monocytes from the same individual show that neutrophils bind approximately 2.6 times more FBL than monocytes and that FBL binding is more efficiently reversed with neutrophils, as compared with monocytes, by L-fucose. Additional double-labeling studies of cells with FBL and the OKM1 monoclonal antibody, which identifies monocytes and granulocytes, show that all cells binding FBL also stain with the OKM1 monoclonal antibody. This study shows that qualitatively, FBL may be utilized as a human myeloid cell marker to differentiate peripheral blood monocytes and neutrophils from lymphocytes.
荧光显微镜已经证实,莲子中的聚焦结合凝集素(FBL)可以与人中性粒细胞结合。本研究使用高灵敏度流式细胞术显示,这种凝集素与人外周血中性粒细胞和单核细胞结合,但不与淋巴细胞结合。这种结合被游离的L-病灶阻断,当中性粒细胞或单核细胞被荧光FBL染色后在0.05 M L-病灶中孵育时,这种结合是可逆的。对来自同一个体的中性粒细胞和单核细胞的定量比较表明,中性粒细胞结合FBL的能力大约是单核细胞的2.6倍,并且与单核细胞相比,中性粒细胞通过L-聚焦更有效地逆转FBL的结合。另外对FBL细胞和OKM1单克隆抗体(可识别单核细胞和粒细胞)的双标记研究表明,所有结合FBL的细胞也被OKM1单克隆抗体染色。本研究定性地表明,FBL可作为人骨髓细胞的标志物,用于区分外周血单核细胞和中性粒细胞与淋巴细胞。
{"title":"Identification by flow cytometry of human monocytes with fucose-binding lectin (FBL) from Lotus tetragonolobus seeds.","authors":"D E Van Epps, R Brazil, K Tung, N Warner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fucose binding lectin (FBL) from Lotus tetragonolobus seeds has previously been shown by fluorescence microscopy to bind to human neutrophils. This study shows using highly sensitive flow cytometry that this lectin binds both to human peripheral blood neutrophils and monocytes but not to lymphocytes. This binding is blocked by the presence of free L-fucose and is reversible when neutrophils or monocytes stained with fluorescent FBL are subsequently incubated in 0.05 M L-fucose. Quantitative comparison of neutrophils and monocytes from the same individual show that neutrophils bind approximately 2.6 times more FBL than monocytes and that FBL binding is more efficiently reversed with neutrophils, as compared with monocytes, by L-fucose. Additional double-labeling studies of cells with FBL and the OKM1 monoclonal antibody, which identifies monocytes and granulocytes, show that all cells binding FBL also stain with the OKM1 monoclonal antibody. This study shows that qualitatively, FBL may be utilized as a human myeloid cell marker to differentiate peripheral blood monocytes and neutrophils from lymphocytes.</p>","PeriodicalId":17481,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Reticuloendothelial Society","volume":"34 2","pages":"113-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17633709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Respiratory syncytial virus was frequently isolated during a 10-day test period from the lungs of 4- to 6-week-old immunodeficient nude (nu/nu) mice and from gamma-irradiated C3H mice inoculated intranasally with this virus, but not from similar aged and comparably inoculated normal littermates of these mice. Virus isolation rates and levels of virus in lungs in both groups of immunodeficient mice were similar. No extrapulmonary dissemination of virus was observed in any test group of mice.
{"title":"Replication of respiratory syncytial virus in lungs of immunodeficient mice.","authors":"P R Wyde, C S Sun, V Knight","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Respiratory syncytial virus was frequently isolated during a 10-day test period from the lungs of 4- to 6-week-old immunodeficient nude (nu/nu) mice and from gamma-irradiated C3H mice inoculated intranasally with this virus, but not from similar aged and comparably inoculated normal littermates of these mice. Virus isolation rates and levels of virus in lungs in both groups of immunodeficient mice were similar. No extrapulmonary dissemination of virus was observed in any test group of mice.</p>","PeriodicalId":17481,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Reticuloendothelial Society","volume":"34 2","pages":"125-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17936657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Calcium-dependent proteolytic activity has been identified in extracts of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes. The activity is most pronounced in the neutral pH range with a pH optimum of 7.3. Maximal activation of the protease occurs at a free calcium concentration of 190 microM; it is half maximal at 91 microM. This protease activity is strongly inhibited by aprotinin and phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF) and more weakly inhibited by antipain, leupeptin, and o-phenanthroline. The protease is not activated by calmodulin nor is it inhibited by the calmodulin antagonist trifluoperazine. Gel filtration suggests a molecular weight of 74,100 daltons.
{"title":"Identification of calcium-dependent proteolytic activity in human polymorphonuclear leukocytes.","authors":"J L Legendre, H P Jones","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Calcium-dependent proteolytic activity has been identified in extracts of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes. The activity is most pronounced in the neutral pH range with a pH optimum of 7.3. Maximal activation of the protease occurs at a free calcium concentration of 190 microM; it is half maximal at 91 microM. This protease activity is strongly inhibited by aprotinin and phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF) and more weakly inhibited by antipain, leupeptin, and o-phenanthroline. The protease is not activated by calmodulin nor is it inhibited by the calmodulin antagonist trifluoperazine. Gel filtration suggests a molecular weight of 74,100 daltons.</p>","PeriodicalId":17481,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Reticuloendothelial Society","volume":"34 2","pages":"89-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17411499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J H Smith, D S Folse, E G Long, J D Christie, D T Crouse, M E Tewes, A M Gatson, R L Ehrhardt, S K File, M T Kelly
A significant prevalence of leprosy has been demonstrated in wild Louisiana armadillos. The Texas Gulf Coast still has endemic human leprosy, and recent mores in Texas have markedly increased armadillo-human contact. Armadillos were screened by physical examination, and by ear-snip and slit-scrape technique. Animals that screened "positive" were sacrificed and necropsied under aseptic conditions. Liver, spleen, gross lesions, and four groups of lymph nodes were cultured for mycobacteria and were studied histologically. Base ratios and DNA homology with Mycobacterium leprae were determined on mycobacteria from two armadillos (and two tissues from one of these); these studies indicate that the organism found in Texas armadillos is M leprae. Twenty-one of the armadillos were leprous--4.66%. The local prevalence varied from 1.0% to 15.4%. Epidemiologic implications of these findings and the occurrence of other concomitant mycobacterial infections are discussed.
{"title":"Leprosy in wild armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) of the Texas Gulf Coast: epidemiology and mycobacteriology.","authors":"J H Smith, D S Folse, E G Long, J D Christie, D T Crouse, M E Tewes, A M Gatson, R L Ehrhardt, S K File, M T Kelly","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A significant prevalence of leprosy has been demonstrated in wild Louisiana armadillos. The Texas Gulf Coast still has endemic human leprosy, and recent mores in Texas have markedly increased armadillo-human contact. Armadillos were screened by physical examination, and by ear-snip and slit-scrape technique. Animals that screened \"positive\" were sacrificed and necropsied under aseptic conditions. Liver, spleen, gross lesions, and four groups of lymph nodes were cultured for mycobacteria and were studied histologically. Base ratios and DNA homology with Mycobacterium leprae were determined on mycobacteria from two armadillos (and two tissues from one of these); these studies indicate that the organism found in Texas armadillos is M leprae. Twenty-one of the armadillos were leprous--4.66%. The local prevalence varied from 1.0% to 15.4%. Epidemiologic implications of these findings and the occurrence of other concomitant mycobacterial infections are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":17481,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Reticuloendothelial Society","volume":"34 2","pages":"75-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17411498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}