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Succinic Acid Production by Bacteroides fragilisA Potential Bacterial Virulence Factor
Ori D. Rotstein, MD;
Carol L. Wells, PhD;
Timothy L. Pruett, MD;
Jennifer J. Sorenson;
Richard L. Simmons, MD
Arch Surg. 1987;122(1):93-98.
Abstract
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• We previously demonstrated that Bacteroides species elaborate a factor that impairs polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) migration. This factor, active at a pH of 5.5 but not at 7.4, had similar inhibitory characteristics as the Bacteroides metabolite succinic acid. We examined the kinetics of production of this inhibitory factor and correlated its presence with succinic acid concentrations in the culture filtrate. In the four to six hours after Bacteroides fragilis 9032 reached the stationary phase of growth, there was a large increase in succinic acid production with an accompanying reduction in culture pH. This correlated well with the generation of a leukocyte-inhibitory factor. Pure succinic acid in sterile culture medium at concentrations similar to those detected in the 18-hour culture filtrate (20 mmol/L) produced comparable reduction in PMN migration. Following gel filtration chromatography of B fragilis culture filtrate, the fractions containing succinic acid labeled with carbon 14 inhibited PMN migration.
(Arch Surg 1987;122:93-98)
Author Affiliations
From the Department of Surgery, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto (Dr Rotstein); and the Division of Surgical Infectious Diseases, Department of Surgery (Drs Pruett and Simmons and Ms Sorenson), and the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (Dr Wells), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication July 17, 1986.
Read before the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Surgical Infection Society, Chicago, April 22, 1986.
Reprint requests to 25 Leonard Ave, Suite 404, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 2R2 (Dr Rotstein).
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