Blackwood L L, Stone R M, Iglewski B H, Pennington J E
Infect Immun. 1983 Jan;39(1):198-201. doi: 10.1128/iai.39.1.198-201.1983.
Acute Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia was established in guinea pigs by intratracheal instillation of bacteria. Challenge strains included PAO-1, a strain known to produce exotoxin A, alkaline protease, and elastase, and several PAO-1 mutants deficient in either biologically active exotoxin A or elastase production. Survival, intrapulmonary killing of bacteria, and blood cultures were compared among the groups. Strains of P. aeruginosa deficient in active elastase production appeared to be less virulent than the parent strain and were more easily cleared from the lung. Opposite results were obtained for the exotoxin A-deficient mutants. These data suggest that elastase, but not exotoxin A, was an important virulence factor during acute pneumonia due to P. aeruginosa.
通过气管内注入细菌在豚鼠中建立急性铜绿假单胞菌肺炎。攻击菌株包括PAO-1,一种已知能产生外毒素A、碱性蛋白酶和弹性蛋白酶的菌株,以及几种缺乏生物活性外毒素A或弹性蛋白酶产生能力的PAO-1突变体。比较了各组之间的存活率、肺内细菌清除率和血培养结果。缺乏活性弹性蛋白酶产生能力的铜绿假单胞菌菌株似乎比亲本菌株的毒力更低,并且更容易从肺部清除。外毒素A缺陷突变体则得到相反的结果。这些数据表明,在铜绿假单胞菌引起的急性肺炎期间,弹性蛋白酶而非外毒素A是一种重要的毒力因子。