Figure 1

Acanthamoeba extracellular protease profiles of T1 (AGE isolate) and T4 (AK isolate). Conditioned medium (CM) from T1 and T4 isolates was collected and used for zymography as described in "Materials and Methods". CM + PMSF or CM + 1, 10-phenathroline means that the CM was incubated with these protease inhibitors prior to electrophoresis and in the case of 1, 10 phenanthroline it was also included in the developing buffer. Note that AK isolate (T4 genotype) exhibited two serine proteases of approx. Mw. of 85 KD and 130 KD that were inhibited with PMSF, i.e., serine protease inhibitor. In contrast, AGE isolate exhibited one serine protease at approx. Mw. 130 KD and a 150 KD metalloprotease sensitive to 1, 10-phenanthroline, i.e., metalloprotease inhibitor. Results are representative of three independent experiments.