Prabhakaran K, Harris E B, Kirchheimer W F
Infect Immun. 1975 Aug;12(2):267-9. doi: 10.1128/iai.12.2.267-269.1975.
We reported earlier the occurrence of a unique o-diphenoloxidase in Mycobacterium leprae recovered from lepromatous human tissues. No other source of M. leprae fro biochemical studies was available at the time. In the present report, properties of phenoloxidase in M. leprae separated from infected armadillo tissues are presented. The results show that the o-diphenoloxidase remains unaltered in the passage of the bacilli from the human to the the animal host, indicating that the enzyme is an intrinsic characteristic of the leprosy bacteria.
我们之前报道过，从瘤型麻风病人组织中分离出的麻风分枝杆菌中存在一种独特的邻二酚氧化酶。当时没有其他用于生化研究的麻风分枝杆菌来源。在本报告中，我们展示了从感染犰狳组织中分离出的麻风分枝杆菌中酚氧化酶的特性。结果表明，在杆菌从人类宿主传播到动物宿主机体通道中，邻二酚氧化酶并未改变，这表明该酶是麻风杆菌的固有特性。
