Miller Christopher C, Rawat Mamta, Johnson Todd, Av-Gay Yossef
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of British Columbia, 2733 Heather St., Vancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 3J5.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2007 Sep;51(9):3364-6. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00347-07. Epub 2007 Jul 16.
Nitric oxide (NO) is an efficient antimicrobial agent. A role for mycothiol in protecting mycobacteria from nitrosative damage was revealed by showing that a Mycobacterium smegmatis mutant is sensitive to NO. A direct correlation between NO and mycothiol levels confirmed that mycothiol is important for protecting mycobacteria from NO attack.
一氧化氮(NO)是一种有效的抗菌剂。耻垢分枝杆菌突变体对NO敏感,这表明了巯基乙醇在保护分枝杆菌免受亚硝化损伤方面的作用。NO与巯基乙醇水平之间的直接相关性证实,巯基乙醇对于保护分枝杆菌免受NO攻击很重要。