Interruption of multiple cellular processes in HT-29 epithelial cells by Pseudomonas aeruginosa exoenzyme S.

abstract：:To explore the mechanisms underlying the eosinophil-mediated inflammation of tropical pulmonary eosinophilia (TPE), bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid, serum, and supernatants from pulmonary and blood leukocytes (WBC) from patients with acute TPE (n = 6) were compared with those obtained from healthy uninfected indivi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： O'Bryan L,Pinkston P,Kumaraswami V,Vijayan V,Yenokida G,Rosenberg HF,Crystal R,Ottesen EA,Nutman TB

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attachment of Fusobacterium nucleatum to various oral surfaces is mediated by several adhesins anchored on its outer surface. Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) were prepared and used to identify the putative galactose-binding adhesin of F. nucleatum PK1594. Four unique MAbs, 8G7, 26B9, 28G11, and 29D4, were isolated on the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shaniztki B,Hurwitz D,Smorodinsky N,Ganeshkumar N,Weiss EI

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis, the etiological agent of anthrax disease, is a proven weapon of bioterrorism. Currently, the only licensed vaccine against anthrax in the United States is AVA Biothrax, which, although efficacious, suffers from several limitations. This vaccine requires six injectable doses over 18 months to stimul...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Osorio M,Wu Y,Singh S,Merkel TJ,Bhattacharyya S,Blake MS,Kopecko DJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spleen cells from BALB/c mice infected with 2 X 10(7) L. major promastigotes and developing progressive disease produced significantly lower levels of interleukin-2 (IL-2) in response to concanavalin A stimulation than did spleen cells from uninfected mice. In contrast, spleen cells from sublethally irradiated and inf...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cillari E,Liew FY,Lelchuk R

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endothelium is a specific target for Bartonella henselae, and endothelial cell infection represents an important step in the pathogenesis of cat scratch disease and bacillary angiomatosis. Mechanisms of Bartonella-endothelial cell interaction as well as signaling pathways involved in target cell activation were an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fuhrmann O,Arvand M,Göhler A,Schmid M,Krüll M,Hippenstiel S,Seybold J,Dehio C,Suttorp N

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total and insoluble dextransucrase activities were measured in cell-associated and supernatant fractions of Streptococcus mutans GS-5 grown in several media. Although the amount of cell-associated and supernatant activity varied greatly as a function of medium, the total activity appeared constant. The distribution of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Montville TJ,Cooney CL,Sinskey AJ

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditions are described for the production of an extracellular cytotoxin or CHO cell-killing factor by Vibrio fluvialis, a recently recognized enteric pathogen. The cell-killing factor was ammonium sulfate precipitable, heat labile, and inactivated by proteases, and had an isoelectric point (estimated by sucrose dens...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wall VW,Kreger AS,Richardson SH

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors which control the levels of catalase within yeast cells of Histoplasma capsulatum were studied. Only a small fraction of the total catalase activity could be detected in whole cells. The bulk of the activity was revealed in cell-free extracts or in cells permeabilized with acetone. The formation of the enzyme ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Howard DH

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei is a facultative intracellular gram-negative bacterium that can survive and multiply inside macrophages. One of the mechanisms by which B. pseudomallei escapes macrophage killing is by interfering with the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS). However, the bacterial components...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Arjcharoen S,Wikraiphat C,Pudla M,Limposuwan K,Woods DE,Sirisinha S,Utaisincharoen P

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocytes derived from 72- to 90-day-old fetal piglet thymuses respond in vitro to phytohemagglutinin quantitatively greater than do spleen cell lymphocytes. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rodey GE,Day N,Holmes-Gray B,Good RA

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysogenic conversion of Shigella flexneri type antigens was studied with the aid of wild-type and thermosensitive mutant phages. With all wild-type phages, the appearance of glycosylated antigen was accompanied by the appearance of polyprenyl phosphate glucose synthetase activity. With some of the mutant phages, the a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Financsek I,Ketyi I,Sasak W,Jankowski W,Janczura E,Chojnacki T

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, is transmitted by ticks. During transmission from the tick to the host, spirochetes are delivered with tick saliva, which contains the salivary protein Salp15. Salp15 has been shown to protect spirochetes against B. burgdorferi-specific antibodies. We now show that Salp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schuijt TJ,Hovius JW,van Burgel ND,Ramamoorthi N,Fikrig E,van Dam AP

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although excystation is crucial to the initiation of infection by Giardia lamblia, little is known about the regulation of this important process. We have been able to reliably induce excystation in vitro by mimicking cyst passage through the stomach and upper small intestine by the exposure of in vitro-derived cysts ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Meng TC,Hetsko ML,Gillin FD

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid compositions of 40 patient isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis derived from Madras, Burma, Rangoon, and East Africa were studied, and two major populations of tubercle bacilli were distinguished. Nearly all of the strains previously designated as attenuated for the guinea pig (D. A. Mitchison) are characteriz...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Goren MB,Brokl O,Schaefer WB

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunogenic aminopeptidase was purified from Brucella melitensis strain VTRM1. The purification procedure consisted of ammonium sulfate fractionation and three chromatographic steps. This procedure resulted in a yield of 29% and a 144-fold increase in specific activity. The aminopeptidase appeared to be a monomeric...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Contreras-Rodriguez A,Ramirez-Zavala B,Contreras A,Schurig GG,Sriranganathan N,Lopez-Merino A

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired cellular immunity to infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is believed to reside in the capacity of mononuclear phagocytes of immunized animals to inhibit intracellular multiplication of the parasite. However, in macrophage tissue culture systems, it has been customary to employ streptomycin in the medium...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Patterson RJ,Youmans GP

更新日期：1970-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes replicates mainly in resting macrophages and hepatocytes residing in infected tissues. Both innate and acquired resistance strongly depend on activation of listericidal capacities of macrophages by gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) produced by natural killer cells and T lym...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Szalay G,Hess J,Kaufmann SH

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae, the pathogen that causes cholera, also survives in aqueous reservoirs, probably in the form of biofilms. Quorum sensing negatively regulates V. cholerae biofilm formation through HapR, whose expression is induced at a high cell density. In this study, we show that the concentration of the quorum-sensi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liu Z,Stirling FR,Zhu J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adhesion of Trichomonas vaginalis is believed to be dependent on four adhesion proteins, which are thought to bind to vaginal epithelial cells in a specific manner with a ligand-receptor type of interaction. However, the specific receptors on the host cell have not yet been identified. In this work, the ability of the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Addis MF,Rappelli P,Fiori PL

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen of 22 female mice (CF1 strain) inoculated intragastrically with Treponema hyodysenteriae developed cecal and colonic lesions consisting of catarrhal inflammation, edema, and occasional hemorrhage. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Joens LA,Glock RD

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arg-gingipain (Rgp) and Lys-gingipain (Kgp) are Porphyromonas gingivalis cysteine proteinases implicated as major virulence factors in pathologies of periodontitis. We purified a 660-kDa cell-associated gingipain complex existing as a homodimer of two catalytically active monomers which comprises their catalytic and a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takii R,Kadowaki T,Baba A,Tsukuba T,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a gram-negative marine bacterium. A limited population of the organisms causes acute gastroenteritis in humans. Almost all of the clinical V. parahaemolyticus isolates exhibit beta-type hemolysis on Wagatsuma agar, known as the Kanagawa phenomenon (KP). KP is induced by the thermostable dire...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Izutsu K,Kurokawa K,Tashiro K,Kuhara S,Hayashi T,Honda T,Iida T

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural bactericidal resistance to Mycobacterium bovis BCG is under the control of a single gene, designated Bcg. Lung granuloma formation in susceptible (Bcgs) and resistant (Bcgr) mice was studied in two sets of Bcg-congenic systems, namely, the BALB/c (Bcgs)-C.D2 (BALB/c.Bcgr) pair and the B10.A (Bcgs)-B10.Ar (Bcgr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sato IY,Kobayashi K,Kasama T,Kaga S,Kasahara K,Kanemitsu H,Nakatani K,Takahashi T,Nakamura RM,Skamene E

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light and electron microscopy with histochemical staining were used to estimate exopolysaccharide production by strains of viridans streptococci recovered from patients with endocarditis. Six strains were selected for study because they represented a wide range of in vitro polysaccharide production. By light microscop...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mills J,Pulliam L,Dall L,Marzouk J,Wilson W,Costerton JW

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piliated Burkholderia (formerly Pseudomonas) cepacia from sputa of cys tic fibrosis patients in Toronto, Canada, were shown earlier to bind to purified mucins and to a protein receptor on epithelial cells via a 22-kDa adhesin located on unique cable pili. However, a second receptor, thought to be lipid in nature, was ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sylvester FA,Sajjan US,Forstner JF

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic necrotizing factor type 1 (CNF1) and CNF2 are toxins of pathogenic Escherichia coli that share 85% identity over 1,014 amino acids. Although both of these toxins modify GTPases, CNF1 is a more potent inducer of multinucleation in HEp-2 cells, binds more efficiently to HEp-2 cells, and, despite the conservati...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Grande KK,Meysick KC,Rasmussen SB,O'Brien AD

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pac gene of the serotype c strain Streptococcus mutans MT8148 encodes a cell surface protein antigen (PAc) of approximate 190 kilodaltons. The serotype c strain S. mutans GS-5 does not produce the 190-kilodalton PAc but produces a lower-molecular-weight protein that reacts with anti-PAc serum. The SphI-BamHI fragm...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Koga T,Okahashi N,Takahashi I,Kanamoto T,Asakawa H,Iwaki M

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE) is an emerging febrile systemic disease caused by the HGE agent, an obligatory intracellular bacterium of granulocytes. The pathogenicity- and immunity-related mechanisms of HGE are unknown. In this study, several cytokines generated in human peripheral blood leukocytes (PBLs) inc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kim HY,Rikihisa Y

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement-fixing (CF) activity of antigens from cultured Burkitt lymphoma cells was determined by using normal American sera as the source of antibody. Approximately 75% of the sera fixed complement with the positive cell lines. These lines contained the herpes-like virus detectable by electron microscopy. The co...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McCormick KJ,Stenback WA,Mumford DM,Trentin JJ

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genomic library of meningococcal DNA from a clinical isolate of Neisseria meningitidis was constructed in the expression vector lambda gt11. Outer membrane complex was prepared from the same strain and used to immunize rabbits to raise polyclonal anti-outer membrane complex serum. The amplified library was probed wi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barlow AK,Heckels JE,Clarke IN

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00