Differences in the concentrations of small, anionic, antimicrobial peptides in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and in respiratory epithelia of patients with and without cystic fibrosis.

abstract：:One major outer membrane protein (P1) of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), with an apparent molecular weight of 34,000 (34K) as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), has been shown to be heat modifiable. After heating at 100 degrees C for 5 min in 2% SDS, the P1 protein...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gonzales FR,Leachman S,Norgard MV,Radolf JD,McCracken GH Jr,Evans C,Hansen EJ

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was performed to determine whether Histoplasma capsulatum (yeast phase) is able to activate the alternative complement pathway. H. capsulatum yeasts were shown to consume C3 in C4-deficient guinea pig serum. Immunoelectrophoretic conversion of alternative pathway component factor B confirmed that C3 ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ratnoff WD,Pepple JM,Winkelstein JA

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pertussis toxin (PT), a virulence factor secreted by Bordetella pertussis, contributes to respiratory tract infection and disease caused by this pathogen. By comparing a wild-type (WT) B. pertussis strain to a mutant strain with an in-frame deletion of the ptx genes encoding PT (DeltaPT), we recently found that the la...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carbonetti NH,Artamonova GV,Andreasen C,Dudley E,Mays RM,Worthington ZE

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production and role of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) in pneumococcal pneumonia were investigated in a mouse pneumonia model. When approximately 10(6) CFU of Streptococcus pneumoniae TUM19 were used to inoculate CBA/J mice intranasally, TNF-alpha levels in the lungs and serum began to increase from 1 and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takashima K,Tateda K,Matsumoto T,Iizawa Y,Nakao M,Yamaguchi K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important role for immunoglobulin M (IgM) during early acute virulent Toxoplasma gondii infection was identified using IgM-/- mice that lack surface and secretory IgM but maintain normal B-cell functionality and isotype class switching. Following intraperitoneal inoculation with the virulent RH strain, IgM-/- mice ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Couper KN,Roberts CW,Brombacher F,Alexander J,Johnson LL

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the intraleukocytic survival of isogenic strains of Salmonella typhimurium, whose outer membrane lipopolysaccharide differed in O antigen and lipid A composition and whose susceptibility to nonoxidative antimicrobial granule proteins of human polymorphonuclear neutrophilis (PMN) could be established. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stinavage P,Martin LE,Spitznagel JK

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune response of mice to live, heat-killed, or autoclaved Mycobacterium leprae was investigated. After sensitization with 10(7) organisms in each group, recipient mice were transfused with the sensitized splenocytes 28 days later. A selected number of these mice were infected with 5 X 10(3) M. leprae, and the re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Graham L Jr,Navalkar RG

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin G (IgG)- and IgM-specific antibody titers against Salmonella typhi Ty2 porins have been measured in 30 paired typhoid sera by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. These studies have found that IgG serum titers of acute and convalescent sera were 625 and 5,000 times higher, respectively than the control se...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Calderón I,Lobos SR,Rojas HA,Palomino C,Rodríguez LH,Mora GC

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene products from an 8-kb region adjacent to the 3' end of the ptx operon are required by Bordetella pertussis for the export of pertussis holotoxin. At least one of these gene products (PtlC) is specifically required for the export of assembled holotoxin from the periplasmic space. ptlC mutants exhibit a 20-fold...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baker SM,Masi A,Liu DF,Novitsky BK,Deich RA

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AMA-1 of Plasmodium falciparum is a promising candidate antigen in malaria vaccine development. In this study, we have mapped the immunodominant T-cell determinants in this antigen by using synthetic peptides. From the amphipathic scores, 17 putative T-cell determinants were identified. Nine of the 17 peptides complem...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lal AA,Hughes MA,Oliveira DA,Nelson C,Bloland PB,Oloo AJ,Hawley WE,Hightower AW,Nahlen BL,Udhayakumar V

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella spp. and Shigella spp. are responsible for millions of cases of enteric disease each year worldwide. While these pathogens have evolved distinct strategies for interacting with the human intestinal epithelium, they both induce significant proinflammatory responses that result in massive transepithelial migr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mumy KL,Bien JD,Pazos MA,Gronert K,Hurley BP,McCormick BA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment with nontoxic monophosphoryl lipid A (MPL), which was derived from a polysaccharide-deficient, heptoseless Re mutant of Salmonella typhimurium, was found to inactivate suppressor T-cell activity, as evidenced by a decrease in the degree of low-dose immunological paralysis expressed and an increase in the mag...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baker PJ,Hiernaux JR,Fauntleroy MB,Prescott B,Cantrell JL,Rudbach JA

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Staphylococcus aureus repeat (STAR) element is a sequence identified in two intergenic regions in S. aureus. The element is found in 13 to 21 copies in individual S. aureus strains, and elements in the homologous intergenic location are variable in length. The element sequence consists of several small and unusual...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cramton SE,Schnell NF,Götz F,Brückner R

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between bacteria and fibronectin is believed to play an important role in the pathogenicity of clinically important Gram-positive cocci. In the present study, we identified a gene encoding a predicted fibronectin-binding protein of Enterococcus faecium (fnm), a homologue of Streptococcus pneumoniae pav...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Somarajan SR,La Rosa SL,Singh KV,Roh JH,Höök M,Murray BE

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae contains an inhibitor of human neutrophil elastase. The agent does not inhibit other proteases, including neutrophil cathepsin G and pancreatic elastase. It is active in the presence of insoluble elastin as well as synthetic elastase substrates. The inhibitor is present in the pneumococcal cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vered M,Simon SR,Janoff A

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C4BP (C4b-binding protein) is a high-molecular-weight plasma protein that inhibits the classical pathway of complement activation. Recent experiments have demonstrated that C4BP binds to many strains of the gram-positive bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes, a major respiratory tract pathogen. Binding to S. pyogenes was s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Berggård K,Johnsson E,Mooi FR,Lindahl G

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic peptide whose sequence was derived from the circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium knowlesi coupled to bovine gamma globulin has been shown to be immunogenic when administered with Freund complete adjuvant. The present experiments were designed to test the immunogenicity of the peptide when attached to a t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clough ER,Audibert FM,Barnwell JW,Schlesinger DH,Arnon R,Chedid LA

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells in the Brucella spp. are intracellular pathogens that survive and replicate within host monocytes. Brucella maintains persistent infections in animals despite the production of high levels of anti-Brucella-specific antibodies. To determine the effect of antibody opsonization on the ability of Brucella to establi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bellaire BH,Roop RM 2nd,Cardelli JA

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exfoliatin caused skin loss in hairless mutant mice only while they lacked hair, but older mice were more resistant to this effect than neonates. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kapral FA,Miller MM

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports have demonstrated that heat-stable (A-type) capsule on piliated enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli enhances colonization of enterotoxigenic E. coli in the small intestine and enhances virulence of enterotoxigenic E. coli. In this report, four encapsulated enterotoxigenic E. coli strains and one encapsul...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Runnels PL,Moon HW

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis L2 is an obligate intracellular microorganism with a unique biphasic life cycle. The extracellular form, the elementary body (EB), is infectious but metabolically inactive. Attachment of EBs to host cells is medicated by a heparan sulfate-like glycosaminoglycan. Following attachment, the EB is in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Birkelund S,Johnsen H,Christiansen G

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colony counts and light microscopy were used to assess the capacity of Candida albicans to colonize, infect the alimentary tract, and cause disseminated disease in athymic (nu/nu), euthymic (nu/+), beige (bg/bg), black (bg/+), beige athymic (bg/bg nu/nu), or beige euthymic (bg/bg nu/+) germfree mice. The alimentary tr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cantorna MT,Balish E

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi is a causative agent of Lyme disease, the most common arthropod-borne disease in the United States. B. burgdorferi evades host immune defenses to establish a persistent, disseminated infection. Previous work showed that P66-deficient B. burgdorferi (Δp66) is cleared quickly after inoculation in mi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Curtis MW,Hahn BL,Zhang K,Li C,Robinson RT,Coburn J

更新日期：2018-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize the roles of Porphyromonas gingivalis and its components in disease processes, we investigated the cytokine profiles induced by live P. gingivalis, its lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and its major fimbrial protein, fimbrillin (FimA). A cytokine antibody array revealed that human monocyte-derived macrophages...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhou Q,Amar S

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate (TDM) plays important roles in the development of granulomatous inflammation during infection with Mycobacterium spp., Rhodococcus spp., etc. To reveal the augmenting effect of TDM on vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) production and neovascularization, we investigated murine granuloma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sakaguchi I,Ikeda N,Nakayama M,Kato Y,Yano I,Kaneda K

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was previously determined that the type II secretion system (T2SS) promotes the ability of Legionella pneumophila to grow in coculture with amoebae. Here, we discerned the stage of intracellular infection that is potentiated by comparing the wild-type and T2SS mutant legionellae for their capacity to parasitize Aca...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： White RC,Truchan HK,Zheng H,Tyson JY,Cianciotto NP

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae releases peptidoglycan fragments during growth, and these molecules induce an inflammatory response in the human host. The proinflammatory molecules include peptidoglycan monomers, peptidoglycan dimers, and free peptides. These molecules can be released by the actions of lytic transglycosylases o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schaub RE,Perez-Medina KM,Hackett KT,Garcia DL,Dillard JP

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant resistance against influenza virus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections was induced when trehalose dimycolate from M. tuberculosis or M. bovis but not M. avium was combined with muramyl dipeptide. Trehalose dimycolate from M. tuberculosis, in contrast to that from M. avium, could confer resistance aga...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Masihi KN,Brehmer W,Lange W,Werner H,Ribi E

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have implicated Gardnerella vaginalis as an important etiological agent in bacterial vaginosis (BV). It produces a cholesterol-dependent cytolysin, vaginolysin (VLY). In this study, we sought to characterize the interaction between vaginal epithelium, G. vaginalis, and VLY using EpiVaginal tissues from MatTek....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Garcia EM,Kraskauskiene V,Koblinski JE,Jefferson KK

更新日期：2019-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory cytokines play an important role in human immune responses to malarial disease. However, the role of these mediators in disease pathogenesis, and the relationship between host protection and injury remains unclear. A total of 248 cases of severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria among children aged 3 months t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lyke KE,Burges R,Cissoko Y,Sangare L,Dao M,Diarra I,Kone A,Harley R,Plowe CV,Doumbo OK,Sztein MB

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00