TY - JOUR
KW - Animals
KW - Armadillos
KW - Basidiomycota
KW - Catechol Oxidase
KW - Cells, Cultured
KW - Levodopa
KW - Liver
KW - Melanocytes
KW - Mycobacterium leprae
KW - Oxidation-Reduction
KW - Tritium
AU - Prabhakaran K
AU - Harris E B
AU - Kirchheimer W F
AB - <p>We reported earlier the occurrence of a unique o-diphenoloxidase in Mycobacterium leprae recovered from lepromatous human tissues. No other source of M. leprae fro biochemical studies was available at the time. In the present report, properties of phenoloxidase in M. leprae separated from infected armadillo tissues are presented. The results show that the o-diphenoloxidase remains unaltered in the passage of the bacilli from the human to the the animal host, indicating that the enzyme is an intrinsic characteristic of the leprosy bacteria.</p>
BT - Infection and immunity
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/807522?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1975 Aug
IS - 2
J2 - Infect. Immun.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>We reported earlier the occurrence of a unique o-diphenoloxidase in Mycobacterium leprae recovered from lepromatous human tissues. No other source of M. leprae fro biochemical studies was available at the time. In the present report, properties of phenoloxidase in M. leprae separated from infected armadillo tissues are presented. The results show that the o-diphenoloxidase remains unaltered in the passage of the bacilli from the human to the the animal host, indicating that the enzyme is an intrinsic characteristic of the leprosy bacteria.</p>
PY - 1975
SP - 267
EP - 9
T2 - Infection and immunity
TI - o-Diphenoloxidase of Mycobacterium leprae separated from infecected armadillo tissues.
VL - 12
SN - 0019-9567
ER -