Alipour Nader, Gaeini Nasrin
Nader Alipour, Department of Medical Microbiology and Biotechnology, DEU University and Graduate of Middle East Technical university (METU), Ankara 06800, Turkey.
World J Gastroenterol. 2017 Mar 28;23(12):2266-2268. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v23.i12.2266.
The manuscript titled "Vacuoles of Candida yeast behave as a specialized niche for ()" not only has not been prepared in a scientific manner but the methodology used was not adequate, and therefore the conclusion reached was not correct. First of all, "yeast" is a broad terminology covering a great number of genera and species of unicellular micro-organisms. The authors should have defined the organism with its binary scientific name. This measure would allow experiment reproduction by the scientific community. Moreover, the criteria established by Robert Koch to identify a specific microorganism or pathogen was not adopted in the methodology used. Regarding the methodology applied, use of the chicken egg-yolk (IgY) antibody and PCR of the apparently tainted yeast population to prove existence in the yeast vacuoles might be main factors for their wrong conclusions. Bacterial tropism toward yeast extract is a known phenomenon, and yeast extract is one of the main ingredients in culture media. Their internalization through phagocytosis or similar pathways does not seem possible or practical because of the thick and cellulosic yeast wall. While the small size of yeast cells does not support their ability in harboring several , other observations such as inefficiency of anti-fungal therapy as anti- therapy strongly reject the conclusion reached by the above-mentioned article.
题为《念珠菌酵母的液泡表现为一种特殊的生态位用于()》的手稿不仅没有以科学的方式撰写,而且所使用的方法也不充分,因此得出的结论是不正确的。首先,“酵母”是一个宽泛的术语,涵盖了大量单细胞微生物的属和种。作者应该用其二名法科学名称来定义该生物体。这一措施将使科学界能够重复实验。此外,所使用的方法没有采用罗伯特·科赫建立的鉴定特定微生物或病原体的标准。关于所应用的方法,使用鸡卵黄(IgY)抗体以及对明显受污染的酵母群体进行PCR以证明其在酵母液泡中的存在可能是导致他们得出错误结论的主要因素。细菌对酵母提取物的嗜性是一种已知现象,并且酵母提取物是培养基中的主要成分之一。由于酵母细胞壁厚实且具有纤维素性质,通过吞噬作用或类似途径将它们内化似乎不太可能或不切实际。虽然酵母细胞体积小不支持它们容纳多种(物质)的能力,但其他观察结果,如抗真菌治疗作为抗(某种物质)治疗无效,强烈否定了上述文章得出的结论。