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J Med Microbiol 55 (2006), 505-510; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46333-0
© 2006 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 1473-5644

Dependence of the lethal effect of pore-forming haemolysins of Gram-positive bacteria on cytolytic activity

Isao Watanabe1, Takamasa Nomura1, Takanari Tominaga1, Kazuhiro Yamamoto1, Chikara Kohda2, Ikuo Kawamura1 and Masao Mitsuyama1

1 Department of Microbiology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Yoshidakonoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

2 Department of Bacteriology, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo 142-8555, Japan

Correspondence
Masao Mitsuyama
mituyama{at}mb.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Received 16 September 2005
Accepted 12 January 2006

Among bacterial haemolysins, cholesterol-dependent cytolysins (CDCs) produced by various Gram-positive bacteria are known to exhibit a lethal activity in mice. In this study, recombinant CDCs of streptolysin O, pneumolysin, ivanolysin O, listeriolysin O and several listeriolysin O mutants were constructed and the relationship between cytolytic activity and the lethal activity of each recombinant protein in mice was examined. Specific activity for cytolysis was determined by a quantitative haemolytic assay. Each protein was injected intravenously into mice and the lethal activity was evaluated by measuring the time until death of the mice. The four full-length CDC proteins exhibited lethal activity and their activities were highly proportional to their cytolytic activities. Inhibition of haemolytic activity resulted in the loss of lethal activity and non-haemolytic mutants of listeriolysin O did not exhibit any lethal activity. These data clearly indicate that the lethal effect of CDC proteins is dependent on the cytolytic activity.

Abbreviations: CDC, cholesterol-dependent cytolysin; HU, haemolytic unit; ILO, ivanolysin O; LLO, listeriolysin O; PLY, pneumolysin; SLO, streptolysin O.




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