Activities of Aeromonas hydrophila hemolysins and their interaction with erythrocyte membranes.
AUTOR(ES)
Kozaki, S
RESUMO
The activity of hemolysin produced by Aeromonas hydrophila CA-11, isolated from an environmental source, was more sensitive to temperature than that of hemolysin produced by strain AH-1, isolated from a diarrheal case. CA-11 hemolysin failed to elicit hemolysis below 10 degrees C. Immunoblotting analyses showed that both hemolysins formed into oligomers in rabbit erythrocyte membrane even when no hemolysis occurred. suggesting that the binding and the subsequent oligomerization are temperature independent. Sodium salicylate inhibited lysis of rabbit erythrocytes by both hemolysins, but selected monosaccharides and oligosaccharides did not. Thin-layer immunostaining indicated that both hemolysins bound to phosphoglycerides with net negative charge but weakly to the ones with no net negative charge. Neither sphingomyelin nor lysophosphoglyceride reacted with the hemolysins, whereas the hemolysins bound to free fatty acids. These results suggest that the binding of either hemolysin to the membrane component, probably phospholipid, requires both negative charge of the polar head group and suitable hydrophobicity of the nonpolar tails.
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