Inhibition by amoeba-specific antiserum and by cytochalasin B of the cytopathogenicity of Naegleria fowleri in mouse embryo-cell cultures.

Abstract:

:Inhibitors of trophozoite motility and phagocytosis were used to investigate the mechanism of Naegleria fowleri cytopathogenicity in mouse-embryo (ME)-cell cultures. Amoebae that were immobilised and agglutinated by specific antiserum exhibited no cytopathic activity, although they remained alive and were in constant contact with the ME cells. Mammalian-cell damage occurred only when the organisms recovered pseudopodium function and began to migrate over the monolayers as they overcame the inhibitory effects of the antiserum. Cytochalasin B at a concentration of 10 microgram/ml, shown to prevent the engulfment of chick erythrocytes by amoebae, also inhibited the cytopathogenicity of Naegleria when incorporated in ME-cell culture medium. Despite repeated contact with active trophozoites, the ME cells showed only those morphological changes characteristically induced by cytochalasin B itself. The amoebae in turn showed signs of starvation after 3 or 4 days' incubation, suggesting that the feeding activity of trophozoites was suppressed. Colchicine, on the other hand, inhibited neither the ingestion of erythrocytes nor the destruction of ME cells by amoebae. It was concluded that the cytopathogenicity of N. fowleri in ME-cell cultures was due to physical rather than biochemical or cytotoxic mechanisms and was associated with the phagocytic activity of trophozoites.

journal_name

J Med Microbiol

authors

Brown T

doi

10.1099/00222615-12-3-355

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1979-08-01 00:00:00

pages

355-62

issue

3

eissn

0022-2615

issn

1473-5644

journal_volume

12

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