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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-9-29
pubmed:abstractText
Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I was incubated with monolayers of cells derived from several portions of mouse kidney, and found to be ingested by all types of the renal cells. Intracellular localization of S. aureus was determined by resistance of intracellular cocci against lysostaphin digestion and confirmed by electron microscopy. From renal medulla, three morphological variants of the hyperosmolarity-tolerant (HOT) cells were obtained. The rate of cocci-ingesting cells varied from 16.9% to 93.4% among these of the HOT cells at the end of 3-hr incubation. From renal cortex, three morphological variants of epithelial cells grew in medium RK-1. Among them, only the cells on the edge of colony ingested Cowan I, while the epithelial cells on the center of colony ingested few cocci. Transferred from medium RK-1 to MEM supplemented with 10% FBS, part of the cortical cells changed into fibroblast-like appearance and obtained the capacity to ingest Cowan I. This result may indicate the correlation between ingesting capacity and cellular morphology. From a glomerulus, epithelial (GE) cells and fibroblast-like (GF) cells were obtained. The GE cells ingested not only S. aureus Cowan I but Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus saprophyticus after 30-min incubation, while the GF cells, like both of the HOT cells and the cortical cells, ingested only S. aureus. These results suggest a possibility that S. aureus is located within nonprofessional phagocytes during its infection and intracellular coccus plays an important role in its pathogenicity.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0385-5600
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
36
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
431-43
pubmed:dateRevised
2003-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Intracellular localization of Staphylococcus aureus within primary cultured mouse kidney cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Bacteriology, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article