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Infect Immun. 1991 April; 59(4): 1264-1270

Effect of urease on HeLa cell vacuolation induced by Helicobacter pylori cytotoxin.

Infection Disease Section, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.

ABSTRACT

Concentrated broth culture supernatants from 50 to 60% of Helicobacter pylori strains induce eukaryotic cell vacuolation in vitro. A quantitative assay for cell vacuolation was developed on the basis of the rapid uptake of visibly vacuolated HeLa cells was significantly greater than that of nonvacuolated cells. By using the rapid NRU assay, we sought to determine the roles of H. pylori cytotoxin, urease, and ammonia in the vacuolation of HeLa cells. The NRU of HeLa cells incubated in medium containing ammonium chloride or ammonium sulfate was significantly greater than that of cells incubated in medium alone. In addition, ammonium salts augmented the NRU induced by H. pylori supernatants. The NRU induced by jack bean urease was augmented by the addition of urea to cell culture medium; this suggests that urease-mediated NRU occurs via the generation of ammonia. Acetohydroxamic acid blocked the NRU induced by jack bean urease and urea but failed to block the uptake induced by H. pylori supernatants. Supernatant from a non-urease-producing H. pylori mutant strain induced NRU identical to that of the urease-positive parental strain. These observations indicate that the vacuolating activity in H. pylori supernatants is not mediated solely by urease activity but that it may be potentiated by urease-mediated ammonia production.

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