Fractionation of the Cells of Staphylococcus aureus

Staphylococcus aureus의 균체분획(菌體分劃)

The growing cells of S. aureus were fractionated along the Schmidt-Thannhauser-Schneider's technique into several fractions such as TCA(trichloroacetic acid)-soluble, lipid, nucleic acid, protein and residue fraction. They were also fractionated according to their cellular structure into Sonic-supernatant, SDS(sodium lauryl sulfate)-soluble, Formamide-soluble and Residue fraction. Fractionation was carried out by orderly treatment of the Sonic pellet with 1.0% SDS and hot$(150^{\circ}C)$ formamide, and the pellet was prepared by centrifugation of the cells sonic osillated for 20 minutes at 150 watt. Sonic-supernatant fraction contained a 91.3% of total DNA while other fractions contained less than 9.5%. SDS-soluble fraction showed a high activity of malate dehydrogenase(13.67 unit/mg protein) and which was higher 22.3 times than the activity found from unsoluble fraction. Formamide-soluble fraction prepared from SDS-undoluble pellet by using the hot formamide exhibited a clear action of reducing sugars against the Anthronesulfate, while it exhibited no clear action against the ninhydrin. However, contrastly, the residue remainnning after extraction with formamide exhibited a clear action against ninhydrin and glucosamine was detected form the hydrolysate of residue by paper chromatography. From these results it is considered that the Sonic-supernatant fraction is mainly consisted of plasmic component of the cells. Other fractions, SDS-soluble, Formamide-soluble and Residue, should be consisted of plasma membrane, lipoplysaccharide and peptidoglycan of the cell, respectively.

S. aureus를 TCA로 처리(處理)하여 저분자물질(低分子物質)을 추출(抽出)한 후(後) STS법(法)에 준(準)하여 지질핵산(脂質核酸), 단백질(蛋白質) 및 잔사(殘渣)로 분획(分劃)하였다. 이와 아울러 초음파처리(超音波處理)로 균체(菌體)를 파쇄(破碎)한 후(後) 원심(遠心)침전을 SDS 및 Formamide를 사용(使用)하여 축차적(縮次的)으로 가용성(可溶性) 획분(劃分)을 추출(抽出)하고 얻어진 각(各) 획분(劃分)의 성질(性質)을 조사(調査)하였다. 그 결과(結果), 초음파(超音波)로 파쇄(破碎)한 균(菌)의 원심상징액(遠心上澄液)에서 균체(菌體) DNA의 91.3%가 검출(檢出)되었고 원심침전(遠心沈澱)으로부터는 SDS 처리(處理)에 의(依)하여 높은 비활성(比活性)(13.67unit/mg Protein)의 Malate dehydrogenase가 유지되었다. 한편, SDS 처리균(處理菌)의 원심침전물(遠心沈澱物)을 다시 열(熱) Formamide $150^{\circ}C$로 추출(抽出)하고 가용성획분(可溶性劃分) 및 잔사(殘渣)를 각각(各各) 산(酸) 가수분해(加水分解)한 후(後) Paper chromatsgraph하여 잔사(殘渣)로부터 Glucosamine을 확인(確認)하였다. 그러나 가용성획분(可溶性劃分)은 Ninhydrin반응(反應)에는 음성(陰性)이었고 환원당반응(還元糖反應)은 음성(陰性)이었다. 이상(以上)의 결과(結果)로 부터 초음파(超音波)로 파쇄(破碎)한 균체(菌體)의 원심상징액(遠心上澄液)은 주(主)로 원형질획분(原形質劃分)이며 SDS 및 Formamide에 의(依)하여 용출(溶出)되어 나온것은 각각(各各) 원형질막(原形質膜) 및 세포벽(細胞壁)의 Polysaccharide 획분(劃分)으로, Formamide 불용성분(不溶性分)은 Peptidsglycan 획분(劃分)으로 판정(判定)되었다.