Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A inhibits proliferation of human bone marrow progenitor cells in vitro.

AUTOR(ES)

Stuart, R K

RESUMO

Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A, a potent inhibitor of eukaryotic protein synthesis, is produced in vivo during human infection. We tested the hypothesis that exotoxin A may be responsible for the leukopenia which sometimes accompanies pseudomonas disease by examining the in vitro toxicity of exotoxin A for human bone marrow granulocyte-macrophage progenitor cells (colony-forming units in culture [CFU-c] in the soft agar cloning system. Colony formation by freshly obtained marrow cells from five normal subjects was inhibited by exotoxin A in a concentration-dependent manner. The mean 50 and 100% inhibitory concentrations of toxin were 1.4 x 10(-10) and 1.4 x 10(-8) M, respectively, and significant inhibition was observed at a toxin concentration as low as 1.4 x 10(-13) M in two subjects. The inhibitory effect of exotoxin A on colony formation was specifically neutralized by antiserum to exotoxin A. Although mouse CFU-c were somewhat less sensitive to exotoxin A in vitro compared with human CFU-c, exotoxin A produced significant leukopenia in vivo in mice. These data suggest a possible mechanism for the leukopenia which sometimes occurs in human pseudomonas disease.

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