Influence of the Escherichia coli capsule on complement fixation and on phagocytosis and killing by human phagocytes

The Journal of Clinical Investigation
M A Horwitz, S C Silverstein

Abstract

To define mechanisms by which polysaccharide capsules confer enhanced virulence on gram-negative bacteria, we examined the effect of the Escherichia coli capsule on complement fixation to the bacterial surface and on phagocytosis and killing of these bacteria by mouse macrophages and human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) and monocytes. When E. coli were attached to mouse macrophages with concanavalin A, the macrophages readily phagocytosed unencapsulated but not encapsulated bacteria even in the presence of fresh mouse serum; macrophages did not phagocytose encapsulated E. coli unless antibacterial or anti-Con A antibody was added. Similarly, when these bacteria were attached to human PMN with Con A, PMN ingested unencapsulated but not encapsulated E. coli. PMN phagocytosed and killed encapsulated serum-resistant E. coli only in the presence of both complement and antibacterial antibody; PMN phagocytosed and killed unencapsulated E. coli of the same strain in the presence of complement alone. Fluorescence microscopy showed that antibody had to be present for encapsulated but not unencapsulated E. coli to fix complement to its surface. To examine the role of the complement receptors of human PMN and monocytes in phagocytosis ...Continue Reading

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