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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1984-6-1
pubmed:abstractText
The small cationic outer membrane-disorganizing peptide PMBN sensitized four smooth, encapsulated strains of Escherichia coli (serotypes 02:K1, 04:K12, 018:K1, and 018:K5) to the lethal action of serum. The concentrations of PMBN required were low (0.3 to 1.0 microgram/ml). One E. coli strain (IH 11030; 075:K5) remained virtually resistant to serum and also to anti-075 hyperimmune serum plus complement (C) even in the presence of PMBN. This strain was nevertheless sensitive to the outer membrane permeability-increasing action of PMBN. In the bactericidal system, PMBN could be replaced by high concentrations of lysine20 or protamine but not lysine4. The PMBN-dependent bactericidal activity of GPS was abolished by heating or zymosan treatment that inactivate its C but not by lack of the action of the classical pathway of the C in C4-deficient GPS. PMBN formed a bactericidal system also with normal rabbit, rat, and human serum but not with mouse serum. The bactericidal system against E. coli 018:K1 and its derivative EH 817 (018:K1-) was found to require a factor that can be removed from normal sera by absorption with a rough E. coli strain. This factor could be replaced by specific anti-018 antibodies. The bactericidal activity of fetal calf serum plus PMBN against E. coli 018:K1 was enhanced by normal rabbit or anti-E. coli 018 hyperimmune serum. We suggest that PMBN unshields the deep structures and the hydrophobic membrane milieu of the outer membrane and facilitates the insertion of the membrane attack complex of the C into this milieu.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0022-1767
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
132
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2582-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Antibodies, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides, pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Blood Bactericidal Activity, pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Blood Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Complement Activation, pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Escherichia coli, pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Guinea Pigs, pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Hot Temperature, pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Lysine, pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Microbial Sensitivity Tests, pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Oligopeptides, pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Polymyxin B, pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Polymyxins, pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Protamines, pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Rabbits, pubmed-meshheading:6325539-Rats
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
An outer membrane-disorganizing peptide PMBN sensitizes E. coli strains to serum bactericidal action.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't