Wang Y, Casadevall A
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461.
Infect Immun. 1994 Jul;62(7):3004-7. doi: 10.1128/iai.62.7.3004-3007.1994.
Melanized Cryptococcus neoformans cells were less susceptible than nonmelanized cells to the fungicidal effects of nitrogen- and oxygen-derived oxidants. The results support the hypothesis that the phenoloxidase enzyme system contributes to virulence by protecting C. neoformans against nitrogen- and oxygen-derived oxidative antimicrobial molecules produced by immune effector cells.
黑色素化的新型隐球菌细胞比未黑色素化的细胞对氮源和氧源氧化剂的杀菌作用更不敏感。这些结果支持了这样一种假说,即酚氧化酶系统通过保护新型隐球菌免受免疫效应细胞产生的氮源和氧源氧化抗菌分子的影响,从而有助于其毒力。