出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/06/11 06:48 UTC 版)
Clostridium histolyticum (or CLOHI) is an anaerobic, motile, gram-positive bacterium that thrives in feces and soil. The ammonia and proteases it produces, including several collagenases, digest proteins outside its body into amino acids, which it eats. When Cl. histolyticum infects an open wound, it can also necrotize tissue for consumption by secreting an exotoxin that induces cytolysis.