Affiliation:
1. Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York 10016, USA.
Abstract
Prompt killing of many strains of Escherichia coli during phagocytosis in vitro by isolated polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) requires the presence of nonlethal doses of nonimmune serum (B. A. Mannion, J. Weiss, and P. Elsbach, J. Clin. Invest. 86:631-641, 1990). Because this requirement is bypassed in a phospholipase A (PLA)-rich mutant (pldA ) of E. coli, we have examined the effect of serum on bacteria] phospholipid (PL) degradation during phagocytosis of wild-type (pldA+) and PLA-deficient (pldA) E. coli. In parallel with increased killing, nonlethal doses of serum increased the degradation of prelabeled bacterial PL during phagocytosis by two- to fivefold, to nearly the same levels (ca. 50 to 60%) as those produced during phagocytosis of E. coli pldA in the absence of serum. The effects on the E. coli pldA mutant imply that there is a serum-mediated enhancement of granule-associated group II PMN PLA2 activity. At the same doses, serum promoted action against E. coli in the presence of purified rabbit and human group II PLA2 but did not activate bacterial PLA. Related PLA2s that lack specific structural determinants needed for optimal activity against E. coli treated with the bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) of PMN are also less active than wild-type group II PLA2 against serum-treated E. coli. Treatment of E. coli with C7- or C9-depleted serum did not enhance bacterial killing or PL degradation during phagocytosis or the action of purified PLA2. In summary, these findings suggest that (i) nonlethal assemblies of the membrane attack complex promote intracellular killing and destruction of E. coli ingested by PMN, in part by promoting the action of granule-associated PLA2 against ingested bacteria, and (ii) structural determinants first implicated in PLA2 action against BPI-treated E. coli are also important in PLA2 action in concert with other host defense systems, such as complement.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology
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