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Infect Immun ; 67(5): 2371-6, 1999 May.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10225897

ABSTRACT

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a persistent pathogen in the airways of patients with cystic fibrosis or bronchiectasis from other causes and appears to have evolved strategies to survive the inflammatory response of the host. We hypothesized that the secreted hemolytic phospholipase C (PLC) of P. aeruginosa (PlcHR) would decrease neutrophil respiratory burst activity. We found that while intact wild-type P. aeruginosa cells stimulated moderate respiratory burst activity from human neutrophils, an isogenic mutant pseudomonas (DeltaHR strain) containing a targeted deletion of the plcHR operon induced a much more robust oxidative burst from neutrophils. In contrast, a second pseudomonas mutant (DeltaN) containing a disruption in the gene encoding the nonhemolytic PLC (PlcN) was not different from the wild type in stimulating neutrophil O2.- production. Readdition of purified PlcHR to the DeltaHR strain suppressed neutrophil O2.- production to levels stimulated by wild-type bacteria. Interestingly, purified PlcHR decreased phorbol myristate acetate (PMA)- but not formyl methionyl-leucyl-proline (fMLP)-induced respiratory burst activity, suggesting interference by PlcHR with a protein kinase C (PKC)-specific signaling pathway. Accordingly, the PKC inhibitor bisindolylmaleimide inhibited the oxidative burst induced by either PMA or intact pseudomonas, but not by fMLP, whereas the p38 kinase inhibitor SB-203580 fully inhibited the respiratory burst induced by fMLP or the PlcHR-replete wild-type bacteria, but not PMA or the PlcHR-deficient DeltaHR bacterial mutant. We conclude that expression of PlcHR by P. aeruginosa suppresses bacterium-induced neutrophil respiratory burst by interfering with a PKC-dependent, non-p38 kinase-dependent pathway.


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Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases , Neutrophils/physiology , Pseudomonas aeruginosa/enzymology , Pseudomonas aeruginosa/pathogenicity , Respiratory Burst/physiology , Type C Phospholipases/physiology , Bronchiectasis/complications , Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors , Cystic Fibrosis/complications , Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology , Hemolysis/physiology , Humans , In Vitro Techniques , Mutation , Neutrophils/drug effects , Neutrophils/immunology , Opportunistic Infections/etiology , Protein Kinase C/antagonists & inhibitors , Pseudomonas Infections/etiology , Pseudomonas aeruginosa/genetics , Respiratory Burst/drug effects , Virulence/genetics , Virulence/physiology , p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases
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Planta ; 186: 70-4, 1991.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11538124

ABSTRACT

The acid-growth theory predicts that a solution with a pH identical to that of the apoplast of auxin-treated tissues (4.5.-5.0) should induce elongation at a rate comparable to that of auxin. Different pH profiles for elongation have been obtained, however, depending on the type of pretreatment between harvest of the sections and the start of the pH-incubations. To determine the acid sensitivity under in vivo conditions, oat (Avena sativa L.) coleoptile, maize (Zea mays L.) coleoptile and pea (Pisum sativum L.) epicotyl sections were abraded so that exogenous buffers could penetrate the free space, and placed in buffered solutions of pH 3.5-6.5 without any preincubation. The extension, without auxin, was measured over the first 3 h. Experiments conducted in three laboratories produced similar results. For all three species, sections placed in buffer without pretreatment elongated at least threefold faster at pH 5.0 than at 6.0 or 6.5, and the rate elongation at pH 5.0 was comparable to that induced by auxin. Pretreatment of abraded sections with pH-6.5 buffer or distilled water adjusted to pH 6.5 or above gave similar results. We conclude that the pH present in the apoplast of auxin-treated coleoptile and stems is sufficiently low to account for the initial growth response to auxin.


Subject(s)
Avena/growth & development , Cotyledon/growth & development , Pisum sativum/growth & development , Plant Stems/growth & development , Zea mays/growth & development , Avena/drug effects , Avena/physiology , Cotyledon/drug effects , Cotyledon/physiology , Hydrogen-Ion Concentration , Indoleacetic Acids/pharmacology , Pisum sativum/drug effects , Pisum sativum/physiology , Plant Stems/drug effects , Plant Stems/physiology , Zea mays/drug effects , Zea mays/physiology
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Plant Physiol ; 97: 449-51, 1991.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11538376

ABSTRACT

Previous research has suggested that the epidermis of dicotyledonous stems is the primary site of auxin action in elongation growth. We show for pea (Pisum sativum L.) epicotyl sections that this hypothesis is incorrect. In buffer (pH 6.5), sections from which the outer cell layers were removed (peeled) elongated slowly and to the same extent as intact sections. Addition of 10 micromolar indoleacetic acid to this incubation medium caused peeled sections to grow to the same extent and with the same kinetics as auxin-treated nonpeeled sections. This indicates that both epidermis and cortical tissues have the ability to respond rapidly to auxin and that the epidermis is not the sole site of auxin action in dicotyledonous stems. Previous reports that peeled pea sections respond poorly to auxin may have resulted from an acid extension of these sections due to the use of distilled water as the incubation medium.


Subject(s)
Indoleacetic Acids/pharmacology , Indoleacetic Acids/physiology , Pisum sativum/growth & development , Plant Stems/growth & development , Buffers , Culture Media , Hydrogen-Ion Concentration , Pisum sativum/drug effects , Pisum sativum/physiology , Plant Stems/drug effects , Plant Stems/physiology
5.
Planta ; 186(1): 70-4, 1991 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24186576

ABSTRACT

The acid-growth theory predicts that a solution with a pH identical to that of the apoplast of auxintreated tissues (4.5-5.0) should induce elongation at a rate comparable to that of auxin. Different pH profiles for elongation have been obtained, however, depending on the type of pretreatment between harvest of the sections and the start of the pH-incubations. To determine the acid sensitivity under in vivo conditions, oat (Avena sativa L.) coleoptile, maize (Zea mays L.) coleoptile and pea (Pisum sativum L.) epicotyl sections were abraded so that exogenous buffers could penetrate the free space, and placed in buffered solutions of pH 3.5-6.5 without any preincubation. The extension, without auxin, was measured over the first 3 h. Experiments conducted in three laboratories produced similar results. For all three species, sections placed in buffer without pretreatment elongated at least threefold faster at pH 5.0 than at 6.0 or 6.5, and the rate elongation at pH 5.0 was comparable to that induced by auxin. Pretreatment of abraded sections with pH-6.5 buffer or distilled water adjusted to pH 6.5 or above gave similar results. We conclude that the pH present in the apoplast of auxin-treated coleoptile and stems is sufficiently low to account for the initial growth response to auxin.

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