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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1986) 17, 489-498
© 1986 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

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Interaction of antimicrobial agents with human peripheral blood leucocytes: uptake and intracellular localization of certain sulphonamides and trimethoprims

J. Climax, T. J. Lenehan, R. Lambe, M. Kenny, E. Caffrey and A. Darragh

Institute of Clinical Pharmacology P.O. Box 469, Dublin 8, Ireland

accepted 11 September 1985

The uptake of sulphamethoxazole, sulphadiazine, sulphamerazine, sulphanilamide, trimethoprim and brodimoprim by human peripheral blood leucocytes, has been investigated. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was used to assay drug concentrations before and after incubation with leucocyte suspensions. Using radiolabelled material the intracellular localization of two of these compounds was also determined. The results indicated that all the investigated drugs were taken up by leucocytes. Differential studies demonstrated that mononuclear cells accumulated higher drug concentrations (0.13–0–55 µg/107 cells), than resting neutrophils (0.02–0–26 µg/107 cells) with the exception of sulphanilamide, which was taken up to a greater extent by neutrophils (0.75 µg/107 cells). During neutrophil phagocytosis intracellular levels of all the drugs except brodimoprim increased from 3 to 130-fold as compared to resting neutrophils. The uptake of 14C-sulphanilamide and 14C-trimethoprim, in neutrophils and mononuclear blood cells, as assessed by measurement of the cell-associated radioactivity, correlated well with that determined by the HPLC procedure. In the intracellular localization studies 14C-sulphanilamide and 14C-trimethoprim exhibited similar distribution profiles. In neutrophils, 35–40% of radiolabelled drug was located in both the microsome and cytosol fractions whereas in peripheral blood mononuclear cells 40–60% was found in the cytosol and 10–20% in the microsome fraction. The results of this study suggest that, following activation, leucocytes may actively transport these drugs and release them locally at sites of infection. The ability of neutrophils to further concentrate the drugs during phagocytosis may result in reduced survival time of some ingested bacteria. These concepts may be important in designing treatment stratagems for intracellular pathogens.


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