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. 1982 Sep;37(3):1181–1190. doi: 10.1128/iai.37.3.1181-1190.1982

Liberation of serotonin from rabbit blood platelets by bacterial cell walls and related compounds.

K Harada, S Kotani, H Takada, M Tsujimoto, Y Hirachi, S Kusumoto, T Shiba, S Kawata, K Yokogawa, H Nishimura, T Kitaura, T Nakajima
PMCID: PMC347664  PMID: 7129634

Abstract

A study was made on the activity of various bacterial cell walls and peptidoglycans to liberate serotonin from rabbit blood platelets. All of the test cell walls or peptidoglycans prepared from 27 strains of 21 bacterial species were shown to cause a marked release of serotonin, regardless of differences in types of peptidoglycan and non-peptidoglycan moieties and in some biological properties. The assay made with the water-soluble "digests" of Staphylococcus epidermidis cell wall peptidoglycans, which were prepared by use of appropriate enzymes, revealed that a polymer of peptidoglycan subunits (a disaccharide-stempeptide) was definitely active in the release of serotonin, but a structural unit monomer was inactive. Among a variety of synthetic muramylpeptides and their 6-O-acyl derivatives, only 6-O-(3-hydroxy-2-docosylhexacosanoyl)-N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanyl-D-isoglutaminyl- L-lysyl-D-alanine was found to hold a strong serotonin-liberating activity.

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