Human antibodies against a purified glucosylceramide from Cryptococcus neoformans inhibit cell budding and fungal growth.

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody was used to characterize a 135-kDa surface-located membrane protein (Lmp1) generally present in Mycoplasma hominis strains. The monoclonal antibody, 552, was applied to identify the corresponding gene in an expression library of M. hominis PG21 DNA. The M. hominis PG21 lmp1 gene was sequenced, an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ladefoged SA,Birkelund S,Hauge S,Brock B,Jensen LT,Christiansen G

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various pathogenic bacteria with the capacity to live within eukaryotic cells activate an apoptotic program in infected host cells. Induction of apoptosis by Listeria monocytogenes in murine dendritic cells and hepatocytes has been described. Here we address the questions of whether and how the pathogen kills macropha...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barsig J,Kaufmann SH

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation of purR was previously shown to enhance the virulence of Staphylococcus aureus in a murine sepsis model, and this cannot be fully explained by increased expression of genes within the purine biosynthesis pathway. Rather, the increased production of specific S. aureus virulence factors, including alpha toxin a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alkam D,Jenjaroenpun P,Ramirez AM,Beenken KE,Spencer HJ,Smeltzer MS

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:To define the role of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) lipooligosaccharide (LOS) in the induction of proinflammatory cytokine gene expression during otitis media, we compared the abilities of formalin-killed NTHI strain 2019 and its LOS htrB and rfaD mutants to stimulate human middle ear epithelial (HMEE) cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tong HH,Chen Y,James M,Van Deusen J,Welling DB,DeMaria TF

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant major surface antigen (P30), which was produced as a glutathione S-transferase (EC 2.5.1.18) fusion protein of Toxoplasma gondii, was found to be able to activate macrophages to kill T. gondii in vitro. The macrophage activation was due to P30 in the fusion protein, not to glutathione S-transferase. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Makioka A,Kobayashi A

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Random minitransposon mutagenesis was used to identify genes involved in the survival of Bordetella bronchiseptica within eukaryotic cells. One of the mutants which exhibited a reduced ability to survive intracellularly harbored a minitransposon insertion in a locus (ris) which displays a high degree of homology to tw...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jungnitz H,West NP,Walker MJ,Chhatwal GS,Guzmán CA

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：:Streptococcus sanguis 804 (NCTC 10904) was grown ih batch culture at constant pH. and the glucosyltransferase activity of the supernatant was assayed over a 40-h growth period. The optimum pH for enzyme production was 7.0 to 7.2. During growth of the culture, three reproducible phases of enzyme activity were observed....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Beeley JA,Black PM

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of protection found in vaccine studies of murine visceral leishmaniasis are significantly lower than for cutaneous leishmaniasis; whether this is due to the high-challenge murine model employed and/or is a consequence of differences required in tissue-specific local immune responses is not understood. Conse...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ahmed S,Colmenares M,Soong L,Goldsmith-Pestana K,Munstermann L,Molina R,McMahon-Pratt D

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a gram-negative bacillus that is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in immunosuppressed patients, burn patients, and patients with cystic fibrosis. Although immunity to these bacteria has been associated with serum antibody, more recent evidence suggests that T-cell-mediated immunity ma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Porwoll JM,Gebel HM,Rodey GE,Markham RB

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of the intracellular pathogen Rhodococcus equi to H(2)O(2) treatment, a situation potentially encountered after the oxidative burst of alveolar macrophages, was analyzed. Compared to other bacteria, including Deinococcus radiodurans, R. equi showed exceptionally high resistance to this stress. A proteomic...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Benoit S,Benachour A,Taouji S,Auffray Y,Hartke A

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-toxin, the major cytolysin of Staphylococcus aureus, preferentially attacks human platelets and cultured monocytes, thereby promoting coagulation and the release of interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor. Titers of naturally occurring antibodies in human blood are not high enough to substantially inhibit these ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bhakdi S,Mannhardt U,Muhly M,Hugo F,Ronneberger H,Hungerer KD

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-reactive protein (CRP) has long been known to appear in the sera of individuals with inflammatory processes, but its role in host defense against bacterial infection is unclear. We have recently demonstrated that CRP in the presence of the classical complement pathway markedly enhances the opsonization of Streptococ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mold C,Edwards KM,Gewurz H

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet microbicidal proteins (PMPs) are small, cationic peptides which possess potent microbicidal activities against common bloodstream pathogens, such as Staphylococcus aureus. We previously showed that S. aureus strains exhibiting resistance to thrombin-induced PMP (tPMP-1) in vitro have an enhanced capacity to c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bayer AS,Prasad R,Chandra J,Koul A,Smriti M,Varma A,Skurray RA,Firth N,Brown MH,Koo SP,Yeaman MR

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An apparent inhibition of induction of mouse hepatic tryptophan oxygenase by endotoxin has been reported previously, as evidenced by low catalytic activity. This could be due either to decreased tryptophan oxygenase levels or to inactivation of existing enzyme molecules. To resolve this question, the enzyme was quanti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rippe DF,Berry LJ

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies revealed that acetylation is a widely used protein modification in prokaryotic organisms. The major protein acetylation acetyltransferase YfiQ and the sirtuin-like deacetylase CobB have been found to be involved in basic physiological processes, such as primary metabolism, chemotaxis, and stress respons...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liu W,Tan Y,Cao S,Zhao H,Fang H,Yang X,Wang T,Zhou Y,Yan Y,Han Y,Song Y,Bi Y,Wang X,Yang R,Du Z

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The pulmonary immune response protects healthy individuals against Pneumocystis pneumonia (PcP). However, the immune response also drives immunopathogenesis in patients who develop severe PcP, and it is generally accepted that optimal treatment requires combination strategies that promote fungal killing and also provi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hoy Z,Wright TW,Elliott M,Malone J,Bhagwat S,Wang J,Gigliotti F

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of complement-mediated killing of seven serum-sensitive Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains was examined. All seven strains were sensitive to the bactericidal activity of 20% pooled normal human serum (PNHS) containing magnesium EGTA, which blocks the classical complement pathway (CCP), or 20% PNHS preheated ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schiller NL

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The obligate intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii critically relies on host cell invasion during infection. Proteins secreted from the apical micronemes are central components for host cell recognition, invasion, egress, and virulence. Although previous work established that the sporozoite protein with an altered ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huynh MH,Boulanger MJ,Carruthers VB

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attachment of radioisotope-labeled Mycoplasma pneumoniae to hamster tracheal rings in organ culture was examined by radioautography and liquid scintillation counting. Radioautographs of individual rings exposed for 8 h to (3H) thymidine-labeled virulent M. pneumoniae revealed a dense extracellular collection of em...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Powell DA,Hu PC,Wilson M,Collier AM,Baseman JB

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Henle 407 and HeLa cells were compared as hosts for Shigella dysenteriae at a low multiplicity of infection. Efficiency of attachment and invasion without centrifugation, as well as selectivity for pathogenic over nonpathogenic S. dysenteriae without Congo red, were much greater for Henle 407 cells than for HeLa cells...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sen A,Leon MA,Palchaudhuri S

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of human-specific antibody on surface membrane antigens of trypomastigotes of Trypanosoma cruzi was studied in vitro by using immunofluorescence methods. Immune sera induced aggregation of surface antigens in trypomastigotes to form polar cell caps. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schmuñis GA,Szarfman A,Langembach T,de Souza W

更新日期：1978-05-01 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：:Streptolysin O (SLO) and streptolysin S (SLS) are potent cytolytic toxins produced by almost all clinical isolates of group A streptococci (GAS). Allele-replacement mutagenesis was used to construct nonpolar (in-frame) deletion mutations in the slo and sagB genes of the serotype M5 GAS strain Manfredo, producing isoge...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fontaine MC,Lee JJ,Kehoe MA

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MtsABC is a Streptococcus pyogenes ABC transporter which was previously shown to be involved in iron and zinc accumulation. In this study, we showed that an mtsABC mutant has impaired growth, particularly in a metal-depleted medium and an aerobic environment. In metal-depleted medium, growth was restored by the additi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Janulczyk R,Ricci S,Björck L

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma interferon (IFN-γ) induces expression of the tryptophan-catabolizing enzyme indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO1) in human epithelial cells, the permissive cells for the obligate intracellular bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. IDO1 depletes tryptophan by catabolizing it to kynurenine with consequences for C. trachom...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ibana JA,Belland RJ,Zea AH,Schust DJ,Nagamatsu T,AbdelRahman YM,Tate DJ,Beatty WL,Aiyar AA,Quayle AJ

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One mechanism by which interferons (IFNs) can inhibit chlamydial infection is by the induction of the enzyme indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), which restricts the availability of tryptophan, which is required for chlamydial growth. Other immunomodulating agents, including interleukin-1 (IL-1), can interact synergisti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carlin JM,Weller JB

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nasal vaccine, consisting of outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) from group B Neisseria meningitidis, was given to 12 volunteers in the form of nose drops or nasal spray four times at weekly intervals, with a fifth dose 5 months later. Each nasal dose consisted of 250 microg of protein, equivalent to 10 times the intramu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Haneberg B,Dalseg R,Wedege E,Høiby EA,Haugen IL,Oftung F,Andersen SR,Naess LM,Aase A,Michaelsen TE,Holst J

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The innate immune response in human tuberculosis is not completely understood. To improve our knowledge regarding the role of cathelicidin hCAP-18/LL37 in the innate immune response to tuberculosis infection, we used immunohistochemistry, immunoelectron microscopy, and gene expression to study the induction and produc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rivas-Santiago B,Hernandez-Pando R,Carranza C,Juarez E,Contreras JL,Aguilar-Leon D,Torres M,Sada E

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic microorganisms were isolated and identified from 9 of 10 malignant tissues aseptically obtained from surgical patients. The organisms isolated are species commonly associated with the flora of the human body. When these cancer-associated organisms were grown in Trypticase soy broth (BBL Microbiology Systems), ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Backus BT,Affronti LF

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00