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. 1995 Mar;63(3):911–916. doi: 10.1128/iai.63.3.911-916.1995

Neutrophil alkaline phosphatase activity increase in bacterial infections is not associated with a general increase in secretory vesicle membrane components.

A Karlsson 1, L Khalfan 1, C Dahlgren 1, T Stigbrand 1, P Follin 1
PMCID: PMC173089  PMID: 7868263

Abstract

The content of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) was determined in neutrophils isolated from patients with acute bacterial infections by a standard enzyme assay. Compared with control cells, patient cells exhibited about a fivefold increase in ALP activity. There was no difference between the ALP Km values of control and patient cells, which indicates that the elevated activity in patient cells was due to the presence of increased amounts of the enzyme. The ALP isozyme in both cell types was determined to be the tissue-unspecific ALP. The fact that much of the ALP activity was measurable only in the presence of detergent suggested that the enzyme was localized in the secretory vesicles, a putative reservoir of plasma membrane components. The amount and subcellular distribution of two other secretory vesicle membrane proteins, i.e., cytochrome b and complement receptor 3, were not altered; hence, we conclude that there was no general increase in amounts of secretory vesicle membrane constituents in the patient cells.

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