THE INTERACTION IN VITRO BETWEEN POLYMORPHONUCLEAR LEUKOCYTES AND MYCOPLASMA
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- 1 December 1971
- journal article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Vol. 134 (6), 1417-1430
- https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.134.6.1417
Abstract
The interaction, between mycoplasma (PPLO) and human or rabbit leukocytes was examined in vitro. Upon incubation of M. hominis or M. arthritidis for 2 hr with rabbit peritoneal exudate granulocytes or leukocytes from human peripheral blood, no killing of mycoplasma was observed either in the presence or absence of type-specific antiserum. However, (14)CO(2) production from glucose-1-(14)C was stimulated up to 10-fold in the presence of live or heat-killed PPLO. The extent of stimulation depended upon the number of organisms and the presence of type-specific antiserum. The stimulation of (14)CO(2) production seems not because of tight adherence of PPLO to the leukocytes, since PPLO were quantitatively recovered in the medium after sedimenting the granulocytes. The enhanced conversion of medium lysolecithin to cellular lecithin that accompanies phagocytosis of polystyrene particles was significantly reduced when PPLO were also present. Mycoplasma alone elicited no stimulation of lecithin formation. Killing of E. coli, a microorganism readily engulfed and killed by leukocytes in vitro, was diminished when the leukocytes were preincubated with mycoplasma. These findings indicate that M. hominis and M. arthritidis are not ingested by granulocytes to any detectable extent, but that these organisms affect the leukocytes' metabolism and also impair phagocytosis of E. coli.Keywords
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