title: Elastase in the pathogenic free-living amoebae Naegleria and Acanthamoeba spp.
abstract: The data showed that pathogenic free-living amoebae contain the proteolytic enzyme elastase. The levels of enzyme were similar in Naegleria fowleri, N. australianis italica, and Acanthamoeba culbertsoni A-1. No difference was found between elastase levels in a highly pathogenic N. fowleri and those in the same organism which had lost pathogenicity as a result of long-term axenic maintenance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunology, Adelaide Children's Hospital, Australia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ferrante
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Bates
mesh_terms: D000048:Acanthamoeba / Q000201:enzymology*; D000818:Animals; D009253:Naegleria / Q000201:enzymology*; D010196:Pancreatic Elastase / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D010196:Pancreatic Elastase