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The enzymatic activities of 53 strains of Pseudomonas cepacia were determined by using the API ZYM system. Strong alkaline phosphatase, acid phosphatase, butyrate esterase, caprylate esterase, myristate lipase, leucine arylamidase, and phosphoamidase activities were consistently detected in all strains. Weak activities were observed for valine arylamidase, beta-glucosidase, and N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase. No activities could be demonstrated for cystine arylamidase, trypsin, chymotrypsin, alpha-galactosidase, beta-galactosidase, beta-glucuronidase, alpha-glucosidase, alpha-mannosidase, and alpha-fucosidase. Enzymatic activities of pseudomonads may provide useful information about their pathogenesis and information for identification of Pseudomonas species.
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PMID:Enzymatic characterization of Pseudomonas cepacia by API ZYM profile. 335 98

Nineteen hydrolytic enzymes were detected in individual adult Pergamasus longicornis (Berlese) mites--amylase, hide protease, alkali phosphatase, esterase (C4), esterase lipase (C8), lipase (C14), leucine arylamidase, valine arylamidase, cystine arylamidase, acid phosphatase, phosphoamidase, alpha-galactosidase, beta-galactosidase, beta-glucuronidase, alpha-glucosidase, beta-glucosidase, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, alpha-mannosidase, and alpha-fucosidase. All but the phosphatases were detected for the first time. Tryptic and chymotryptic activity were consistently not demonstrable. Comparisons are made with saprophagous mites. No clear enzymic specialization for predation was found.
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PMID:Digestion in the soil predatory mite Pergamasus longicornis (Berlese) (Acari: Mesostigmata: Parasitidae)--detectable hydrolases. 356 25

Activities of lysosomal enzymes acid phosphatase, N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase, beta-galactosidase, acid lipase and cathepsins B and D were studied after accumulation of neutral red, acridine orange chloroquine and daunorubicin in lysosomes of fibroblasts of the LSM substrain. All the drugs studied proved to be inhibitors of these enzymes except of daunorubicin, which stimulated acid lipase activity. Lysosomotropic drugs are considered as possible regulators of the activity of lysosomes.
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PMID:[Lysosomotropic agents as regulators of the activity of lysosomal hydrolases]. 368 95

Kinetics of Neutral red (NR) and Acridine orange (AO) uptake by cultured L cells (subline LSM) has been studied. It was found that the uptake of both NR and AO, with their constant concentrations in the medium was characterized as a two-phase process. During 2 hours, these cells concentrated as much as 90% of the total amount of NR and AO taken up during the whole incubation period. The segregation and accumulation of NR, AO as well as NH4Cl took place in lysosomes. NR and AO concentrations within the cells exceed by 600 and 400 times, respectively, those in the medium. NR, AO and NH4+ accumulation in cells resulted in inhibition of the activity of the following lysosomal hydrolases: cathepsins B and D, acid lipase, N-acetyl-beta,D-glucosaminidase, beta-galactosidase, acid phosphatase and galactosyltransferase, the latter being a marker of Golgi apparatus. The effect of lysosomal enzyme activity inhibition on the cell economy, and a possible role of lysosomotropic agents as regulators of the lysosomal apparatus functional activity are discussed.
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PMID:[Effect of the segregation of neutral red, acridine orange and ammonium chloride by L cells (subline LSM) on lysosomal hydrolase activity]. 376 7

One hundred twenty-seven isolates of Aeromonas comprising the three currently recognizable species (A. hydrophila, A. sobria, and A. caviae) were evaluated for biochemical and exoenzymatic properties. Aeromonas species were generally (greater than 90%) characterized as gram-negative fermentative rods that were oxidase-, catalase-, and beta-galactosidase-positive, produced arginine dihydrolase, and failed to decarboxylate ornithine. More than 95% of all isolates tested failed to grow on 6.5% salt or thiosulfate-citrate bile salts agar and were resistant to the vibriostatic agent 0/129. Most Aeromonas species produced acid from hexoses while failing to ferment alcoholic sugars or trisaccharides. In exoenzymatic studies, Aeromonas species were uniformly found to produce several exoenzymes, including amylase, DNase, RNase, esterase, lipase, gelatinase, protease, fibrinolysin, and chitinase. Within the genus, a number of biochemical and enzymatic properties were found to be associated with one or more of the taxonomically recognizable species. These properties included glycoside utilization, Heiberg grouping based upon fermentation of arabinose, sucrose, and mannose, and the elaboration of several extracellular enzymes (elastase, hemolysin, lecithinase, phosphatase). In addition, phenotypic markers previously associated with enterotoxigenic Aeromonas isolates were almost exclusively found among A. hydrophila and A. sobria species, suggesting that these species are the major enteric pathogens.
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PMID:Biochemical and exoenzymatic properties of Aeromonas species. 388 8

Histochemical procedures for PMN granule enzymes were carried out on smears prepared from normal rabbit bone marrow, and the smears were examined by light microscopy. For each of the enzymes tested, azo dye and heavy metal techniques were utilized when possible. The distribution and intensity of each reaction were compared to the distribution of azurophil and specific granules in developing PMN. The distribution of peroxidase and six lysosomal enzymes (acid phosphatase, arylsulfatase, beta-galactosidase, beta-glucuronidase, esterase, and 5'-nucleotidase) corresponded to that of azurophil granules. Progranulocytes contained numerous reactive granules, and later stages contained only a few. The distribution of one enzyme, alkaline phosphatase, corresponded to that of specific granules. Reaction product first appeared in myelocytes, and later stages contained numerous reactive granules. The results of tests for lipase and thiolacetic acid esterase were negative at all developmental stages. Both types of granules stained for basic protein and arginine. It is concluded that azurophil and specific granules differ in their enzyme content. Moreover, a given enzyme appears to be restricted to one of the granules. The findings further indicate that azurophil granules are primary lysosomes, since they contain numerous lysosomal, hydrolytic enzymes, but the nature of specific granules is uncertain since, except for alkaline phosphatase, their contents remain unknown.
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PMID:Differences in enzyme content of azurophil and specific granules of polymorphonuclear leukocytes. I. Histochemical staining of bone marrow smears. 487 49

Porcine rotaviral infectivity for continuous porcine kidney (PK-15) cells was enhanced by incorporation of pancreatic endopeptidases into the cell culture maintenance medium. Marked enhancement of infectivity was induced by trypsin, whereas elestase and alpha-chymotrypsin enhanced infectivity to a lesser extent. Bacterial protease also induced some enhancement of porcine rotaviral infectivity. A synergistic enhancement of porcine rotaviral infectivity was noticed with trypsin and alpha-chymotrypsin combined. Porcine rotaviral infectivity was not affected by incorporation of alpha-amylase, alkaline phosphatase, beta-galactosidase, carboxypeptidase-A, deoxyribonuclease, enterokinase, lipase, or ribonuclease into the maintenance medium.
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PMID:Porcine rotaviral infection of cell culture: effects of certain enzymes. 624 64

A simple and reproducible scheme for identifying biotypes of Gardnerella vaginalis has been developed, based on reactions for lipase, hippurate hydrolysis, and beta-galactosidase. Among a total of 359 strains tested, eight biotypes were observed, the most common ones being types 1 (beta-galactosidase positive, lipase positive, hippurate positive), 2 (beta-galactosidase negative, lipase positive, hippurate positive), and 5 (beta-galactosidase negative, lipase negative, hippurate positive). The distribution in biotypes was similar among isolates from Antwerp, Seattle, and Nairobi. There were no differences in biotypes between strains isolated from patients with and without bacterial vaginosis (nonspecific vaginitis). Up to 14% of women with bacterial vaginosis harbored at least two different biotypes of G. vaginalis in the vagina. G. vaginalis strains isolated before and after treatment for bacterial vaginosis belonged to identical biotypes when the time interval between two specimens was less than 1 week. Similarly, G. vaginalis isolates from the vaginas of women with bacterial vaginosis and from the urethras of their male sex partners belonged to identical biotypes when strains were isolated within the same 24-h period from both partners (P less than 0.005).
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PMID:Biotypes of Gardnerella vaginalis. 633 36

A detailed histochemical study of the macrophage involvement during experimental atherogenesis in rhesus and cynomolgus monkeys was performed. Aortic, carotid, and femoral artery lesions were examined in both species after 4, 8, and 12 months of atherogenic diet feeding. Macrophages were identified and quantified in the atherosclerotic lesions using acid lipase, acid esterase, beta-galactosidase, and cytochrome oxidase histochemical procedures. Morphometric quantitation revealed that the cynomolgus monkey arterial lesions were larger and consistently demonstrated a greater number of cells with characteristics of macrophages in the intimal, medial, and adventitial portion of the arteries when compared to the primarily intimal rhesus monkey lesions. Biochemical assays of aortic samples for acid lipase and acid esterase activity also showed consistently higher activities in the cynomolgus samples when compared to the rhesus samples. Average serum cholesterol levels were higher in the cynomolgus monkeys than in the rhesus monkeys, but the differences in the arterial lesions still existed when animals with overlapping cholesterol levels were compared. Macrophages and their associated activities predominated in experimental cynomolgus monkey atherosclerosis when it was compared to the rhesus disease process, which may be an explanation for some of the differences in atherogenesis reported in these two species.
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PMID:Histochemical detection and quantification of macrophages in rhesus and cynomolgus monkey atherosclerotic lesions. 650 64

Enzymatic characterization of 48 Aeromonas hydrophila complex isolates from various sources was determined with the API ZYM system (Analytab Products, Plainview, N.Y.). All isolates lacked valine and cystine aminopeptidases, chymotrypsin, alpha-mannosidase, alpha-fucosidase, alpha-galactosidase, and beta-glucuronidase but possessed caprylate esterase-lipase, leucine aminopeptidase, acid phosphatase, phosphoamidase, and N-acetyl-beta-glucosidase. Variability was found in the presence of alkaline phosphatase, butyrate esterase, myristate lipase, trypsin, beta-galactosidase, alpha-glucosidase, and beta-glucosidase. No significant differences were evident among the enzymatic profiles of isolates from various sources.
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PMID:Enzymatic characterization of Aeromonas hydrophila complex by the API ZYM system. 681 46


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