[HTML][HTML] Purification of outer membrane vesicles from Pseudomonas aeruginosa and their activation of an IL-8 response

SJ Bauman, MJ Kuehn - Microbes and infection, 2006 - Elsevier
Considerable lung injury results from the inflammatory response to Pseudomonas
aeruginosa infections in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). The P. aeruginosa laboratory strain
PAO1, an environmental isolate, and isolates from CF patients were cultured in vitro and
outer membrane vesicles from those cultures were quantitated, purified, and characterized.
Vesicles were produced throughout the growth phases of the culture and vesicle yield was
strain-independent. Strain-dependent differences in the protein composition of vesicles were …