Release of soluble peptidoglycan from growing gonococci: hexaminidase and amidase activities.

abstract：:In order to deploy virulence factors at appropriate times and locations, microbes must rapidly sense and respond to various metabolite signals. Previously, we showed a transient elevation of the methionine-derived metabolite methylthioadenosine (MTA) concentration in serum during systemic Salmonella enterica serovar T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bourgeois JS,Zhou D,Thurston TLM,Gilchrist JJ,Ko DC

更新日期：2018-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of cryptococcal polysaccharide to a non-encapsulated strain of Cryptococcus neoformans was studied. Binding of purified polysaccharide to the yeast was determined by inhibition of phagocytosis and by indirect immunofluorescence techniques. The ability of cryptococcal polysaccharide to prevent phagocytosis ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozel TR

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsular types 5 and 8, which account for about 70% of Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from the blood of patients, resisted in vitro phagocytosis by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN). Antisera and monoclonal antibody to type 5 and 8 capsular polysaccharides (CPS) induced type-specific in vitro phagocytos...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karakawa WW,Sutton A,Schneerson R,Karpas A,Vann WF

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of compact colonies of Staphylococcus aureus in serum-soft agar is mainly a result of a reaction between protein A and the Fc-part of immunoglobulin G and not a clumping factor-fibrinogen reaction. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Forsum U,Forsgren A,Hjelm E

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intraerythrocytic apicomplexan Babesia microti, the primary causative agent of human babesiosis, is a major public health concern in the United States and elsewhere. Apicomplexans utilize a multiprotein complex that includes a type I membrane protein called apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA1) to invade host cells. We...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moitra P,Zheng H,Anantharaman V,Banerjee R,Takeda K,Kozakai Y,Lepore T,Krause PJ,Aravind L,Kumar S

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequences of three previously undescribed Pseudomonas aeruginosa pilin structural genes are presented. Comparisons of deduced pilin primary structure and flanking DNA sequence allowed placement of these and six previously published sequences into one of two groups. Epitope mapping, using overlapping imm...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Castric PA,Deal CD

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mig gene of Streptococcus dysgalactiae, a major bovine mastitis pathogen, encodes two plasma protein-binding receptors, alpha2-macroglobulin (alpha2-M) and immunoglobulin G (IgG). In this study, the mig gene from one S. dysgalactiae isolate was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The IgG receptor region enco...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Song XM,Perez-Casal J,Bolton A,Potter AA

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In experimental visceral leishmaniasis, in which the tissue macrophage is the target, in vivo responsiveness to conventional chemotherapy (pentavalent antimony [Sb]) requires a T-cell-dependent mechanism. To determine if this mechanism involves gamma interferon (IFN-gamma)-induced activation and/or specific IFN-gamma-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Murray HW,Delph-Etienne S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic peptides and murine monoclonal antibodies were used to map cross-reactive chlamydial epitopes. A species-specific epitope in the central region of variable sequence region 4 abuts the amino-terminal end of a B-serogroup-specific or F/G-serogroup-specific epitope, which in turn abuts known serovar-specific ep...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Batteiger BE,Lin PM,Jones RB,Van Der Pol BJ

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces boulardii, a nonpathogenic yeast, is effective in treating some patients with Clostridium difficile diarrhea and colitis. We have previously reported that S. boulardii inhibits rat ileal secretion in response to C. difficile toxin A possibly by releasing a protease that digests the intestinal receptor fo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Castagliuolo I,LaMont JT,Nikulasson ST,Pothoulakis C

更新日期：1996-12-01 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：:Virus population dynamics in the lungs, trachea, and nasopharynx of Swiss-ICR mice were studied after respiratory challenge with mouse-adapted preparations of strain A2/Aichi/2/68 influenza virus. Markedly higher doses of virus were required to produce infection with nasopharyngeal challenge than with bronchoalveolar ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Larson EW,Dominik JW,Rowberg AH,Higbee GA

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing bacteria and the subsequent release of Stxs and endotoxins into the bloodstream may damage blood vessels in the colon, kidneys, and central nervous system, leading to bloody diarrhea, acute renal failure, and neurological complications. The proinflammatory cytokines tumor nec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Harrison LM,van Haaften WC,Tesh VL

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell wall lytic enzyme (Kyowa lytic no. 2 enzyme) liberated arthritogenic hydrosoluble peptidoglycans from both arthritogenic and non-arthritogenic bacterial cell walls. From these cell walls, mutanolysin (peptidoglycan-degrading enzyme) also liberated hydrosoluble peptidoglycans which, however, lacked arthritogenicit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kohashi O,Pearson CM,Watanabe Y,Kotani S

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly hatched chicks were vaccinated orally with a genetically defined Salmonella enteritidis aroA candidate, strain CVL30. In chickens immunized with 10(5) or 10(9) CFU and challenged by the intravenous route with 10(8) CFU of S. enteritidis 109 Nalr at 8 weeks old, there were similar reductions in colonization of th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cooper GL,Venables LM,Woodward MJ,Hormaeche CE

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antigenic complex has been isolated in a highly purified from from the Melvin strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The complex has a molecular weight of 9.3 x 10(6) and on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was found to consist of several subunits; the most predominant had the following molecular...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karkhanis YD,Anderson RL,Zeltner JY,Carlo DJ,Stoudt TH

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 25-kb linear plasmid lp25 and one of the 28-kb linear plasmids (lp28-1) are required for experimental infection in Borrelia burgdorferi, the etiologic agent of Lyme disease. The loss of these plasmids either eliminates infectivity (lp25) or significantly increases the 50% infective dose during a 2-week infection p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Labandeira-Rey M,Seshu J,Skare JT

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group A streptococci of M protein type 5 have been epidemiologically related to acute rheumatic fever in a number of reported outbreaks. Preliminary bacteriological evidence suggests that M5 may be an important "rheumatogenic" type in Santiago, Chile. To assess further the relationship of this streptococcal serotype t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bisno AL,Berrios X,Quesney F,Monroe DM Jr,Dale JB,Beachey EH

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CC chemokine receptor 4 (CCR4) and its two ligands, CCL17 and CCL22, are critically involved in different immune processes. In models of lipopolysaccharide-induced shock, CCR4-deficient (CCR4(-/-)) mice showed improved survival rates associated with attenuated proinflammatory cytokine release. Using CCR4(-/-) mice wit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Traeger T,Kessler W,Assfalg V,Cziupka K,Koerner P,Dassow C,Breitbach K,Mikulcak M,Steinmetz I,Pfeffer K,Heidecke CD,Maier S

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hagfish, Eptatretus stoutii, has been shown to synthesize bactericidal antibodies after injections of gram-negative organisms. These bactericidins could be detected as early as 2 days after the primary injection. Secondary responses were accelerated, although titers were not significantly higher than those reached...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Acton RT,Weinheimer PF,Hildemann WH,Evans EE

更新日期：1971-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori strains frequently express Lewis X (Le(x)) and/or Le(y) on their cell surfaces as constituents of the O antigens of their lipopolysaccharide molecules. To assess the effect of Le(x) and Le(y) expression on the ability of H. pylori to colonize the mouse stomach and to adhere to epithelial cells, iso...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takata T,El-Omar E,Camorlinga M,Thompson SA,Minohara Y,Ernst PB,Blaser MJ

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) is a major metabolic end product detected in deep periodontal pockets that is produced by resident periodontopathic microbiota associated with the progression of periodontitis. Treponema denticola, a member of the subgingival biofilm at disease sites, produces cystalysin, an enzyme that catabo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chu L,Dong Z,Xu X,Cochran DL,Ebersole JL

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid extracts derived from a group A Streptococcus, when preincubated with tumor cells before inoculation, were shown to prevent completely the development of Ehrlich ascites tumor in mice. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kigoshi S

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast form of the dimorphic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum survives within macrophages after phagocytosis. To do so, it must avoid, inhibit, or resist a variety of toxic oxygen metabolites. Using ferricytochrome c reduction to assay superoxide release, we examined the response of mouse macrophages to the yeast form...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eissenberg LG,Goldman WE

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioluminescent reporter assays have been widely used to study the effect of Toxoplasma gondii on host gene expression. In the present study, we extend these studies by engineering novel reporter cell lines containing a gamma-activated sequence (GAS) element driving firefly luciferase (FLUC). In RAW264.7 macrophages, T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Olias P,Sibley LD

更新日期：2016-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ring-necked pheasant virus, an avian leukosis virus, when injected into 10-day old chick embryos, caused angiosarcomas in the lungs of infected chickens within a short time. Angiosarcomas appeared as localized foci of proliferating cells in the lungs as early as 2 weeks posthatch, and by 6 weeks, the lungs of the infe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carter JK,Proctor SJ,Smith RE

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peritoneal exudate T lymphocytes from Listeria monocytogenes-immune mice in the presence of the homologous antigen (heat-killed L. monocytogenes) and normal macrophages showed L. monocytogenes-specific proliferative responses. Proliferation was inhibited by macrophages from L. monocytogenes- or Corynebacterium parvum-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kaufmann SH,Simon MM,Hahn H

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When phagocytosis of Staphylococcus aureus by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) takes place on the surface of cultured human endothelial cells, the endothelial monolayers are damaged by lysosomal enzymes that are released by the PMN. Because PMN can phagocytose opsonized as well as unopsonized staphylococci on ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,Thijssen HM,Verhoef J

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it has been known for some time that Salmonella typhimurium is able to survive and even replicate in the normally bactericidal environment of the macrophage phagosome, the mechanisms by which this organism accomplishes this feat remain obscure. In this study, a murine macrophage cell line and confocal immunof...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rathman M,Barker LP,Falkow S

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that a mutant (designated C4) of Streptococcus mutans 6715 wild type (WT) is defective in glucosyltransferase (GTF)-synthesized insoluble glucan and is avirulent in gnotobiotic rats. This study investigated the factors which would render this mutant virulent in gnotobiotic rats. Microbial a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hirasawa M,Kiyono H,Shiota T,Hull RA,Curtiss R 3rd,Michalek SM,McGhee JR

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00