Determination of serum bactericidal activity with the aid of luminous bacteria

Author:

Barak M,Ulitzur S,Merzbach D

Abstract

Nonmarine luminous bacteria belonging to the genus Vibrio cholerae were extremely sensitive to the bactericidal activity of human serum. Luminous bacteria incubated in a medium containing serum showed a decrease in their in vivo luminescence that was directly proportional to the decrease in the viable count and was a function of the serum concentration. Both immunoglobulins and the complement system were required to exert the serum bactericidal activity. Serum lacking immunoglobulins or certain complement components, especially C3, did not affect the luminescence. The bactericidal effect of the serum on luminous bacteria was diminished by the presence of lipopolysaccharide or by pretreatment of the serum with different species of killed bacteria. As found in other systems, the bacteriolytic activity of serum was only augmented by lysozyme, but was not lysozyme dependent; although the luminous bacteria were converted into spheroplasts in serum containing 0.5 M sucrose, their in vivo luminescence was almost not affected. This system could easily distinguish between the C classical pathway and the properdin pathway. Ethylene glycol-bis (beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N'-tetraacetic acid, which inhibits only the classical complement pathway, did not inhibit the decrease in luminescence as did EDTA. Thus, it was possible to distinguish between deficiencies in complement components participating in both pathways and complement components that were involved only in the classical pathway. This system could also be used as a substitute to the hemolytic system in complement fixation tests.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Microbiology (medical)

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