DNA adenine methylase is essential for viability and plays a role in the pathogenesis of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Vibrio cholerae.

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is one of the most potent trigger substances for monocytes and macrophages causing secretion of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and other inflammatory mediators. The nature of the nuclear factors involved in human TNF-alpha gene regulation is still unknown. Nuclear factor kappa B (NF-k...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takashiba S,Van Dyke TE,Shapira L,Amar S

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three parameters of rotavirus infection, i.e., clinical disease, viral antigen in infected intestines, and infectious virus in feces, were assessed in infant mice nursed by mothers with or without preexisting rotavirus antibody. Diarrhea was the only consistent sign of clinical disease, and its course followed that of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Little LM,Shadduck JA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the correlation between the incA I47T mutation in Chlamydia trachomatis and the nonfusogenic phenotype, the incA genes of 25 isolates were sequenced. Four major sequence types were identified. Seven isolates (28%) had the I47T mutation. Isolates representing the four sequence types expressed IncA in the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pannekoek Y,van der Ende A,Eijk PP,van Marle J,de Witte MA,Ossewaarde JM,van den Brule AJ,Morré SA,Dankert J

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CXCL16 is a recently discovered multifaceted chemokine that has been shown not only to recruit activated T lymphocytes but also to play a direct role in the binding and phagocytosis of bacteria by professional antigen-presenting cells. In this study, we investigated the role of CXCL16 in vivo in the regulation of the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fahy OL,Townley SL,McColl SR

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulent Streptococcus suis serotype 2 strains are invasive extracellular bacteria causing septicemia and meningitis in piglets and humans. One objective of this study was to elucidate the function of complement in innate immune defense against S. suis. Experimental infection of wild-type (WT) and C3(-/-) mice demonst...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Seitz M,Beineke A,Singpiel A,Willenborg J,Dutow P,Goethe R,Valentin-Weigand P,Klos A,Baums CG

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionnaires' disease is clinically manifested as severe pneumonia caused by Legionella pneumophila. However, the dendritic cell (DC)-centered immunological framework of the host defense against L. pneumophila has not been fully delineated. For this study, we focused on a potent chemoattractant for lymphocytes, fracta...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kikuchi T,Andarini S,Xin H,Gomi K,Tokue Y,Saijo Y,Honjo T,Watanabe A,Nukiwa T

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli is a major cause of enteric/diarrheal diseases, urinary tract infections, and sepsis. E. coli K1 is the leading gram-negative organism causing neonatal meningitis, but the microbial basis of E. coli K1 meningitis is incompletely understood. Here we employed comparative genomic hybridization to investi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yao Y,Xie Y,Kim KS

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody responses against proteins located on the surface or in the apical organelles of merozoites are presumed to be important components of naturally acquired protective immune responses against the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. However, many merozoite antigens are highly polymorphic, and antibodies indu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cortés A,Mellombo M,Masciantonio R,Murphy VJ,Reeder JC,Anders RF

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of chronic and recurrent Staphylococcus aureus infections is associated with the emergence of slow-growing mutants known as small-colony variants (SCVs), which are highly tolerant of antibiotics and can survive inside host cells. However, the host and bacterial factors which underpin SCV emergence duri...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Painter KL,Strange E,Parkhill J,Bamford KB,Armstrong-James D,Edwards AM

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed an improved recombination-based in vivo expression technology (RIVET) and used it as a screening method to identify Vibrio cholerae genes that are transcriptionally induced during infection of infant mice. The improvements include the introduction of modified substrate cassettes for resolvase that ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Osorio CG,Crawford JA,Michalski J,Martinez-Wilson H,Kaper JB,Camilli A

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera toxin (CT) and related Escherichia coli enterotoxins LTI and LTIIb have a conserved hydrophobic region at the AB(5) interface postulated to be important for toxin assembly. Hydrophobic residue F223 in the A subunit of CT (CTA) as well as residues 174, L77, and T78 in the B subunit of CT (CTB) were replaced ind...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tinker JK,Erbe JL,Hol WG,Holmes RK

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagosome acidification is an important component of the microbicidal response by infected eukaryotic cells. Thus, intracellular pathogens that reside within phagosomes must either block phagosome acidification or be able to survive at low pH. In this work, we studied the effect of phagosomal acidification on the surv...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Steele-Mortimer O,St-Louis M,Olivier M,Finlay BB

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in periodontal status are associated with shifts in the composition of the bacterial community in the periodontal pocket. The relative abundances of several newly recognized microbial species, including Filifactor alocis, as-yet-unculturable organisms, and other fastidious organisms have raised questions on th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Aruni AW,Zhang K,Dou Y,Fletcher H

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three types of caseinolytic proteases (Pase-A, Pase-B, and Pase-C) were isolated and purified from culture supernatants of Porphyromonas gingivalis 381 by the combined procedures of acetone precipitation, gel filtration, solubilization with octylthioglucoside followed by affinity chromatography on arginine-Sepharose 4...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hinode D,Hayashi H,Nakamura R

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intact tissues are relatively resistant to Pseudomonas aeruginosa-induced disease, and injury predisposes tissue to infection. Intact epithelia contain polarized cells that have distinct apical and basolateral membranes with unique lipids and proteins. In this study, the role of cell polarity in epithelial cell suscep...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fleiszig SM,Evans DJ,Do N,Vallas V,Shin S,Mostov KE

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of myelopoiesis by three synthetic muramyl peptides was investigated in vivo. Two adjuvant-active compounds (N-acetylmuramyl dipeptide [MDP] and MDP-butyl-ester) elicited significant responses in DBA/2 mice characterized by a rise in the level of monocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating activity in serum, a p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galelli A,Chedid L

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The superoxide anion (O2-)-generating activity of guinea pig macrophages stimulated by wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), immune complexes, or phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) was studied after short- and long-term exposures of the cells to muramyl dipeptide (MDP) or lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Neither MDP nor LPS alone induce...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yagawa K,Kaku M,Ichinose Y,Nagao S,Tanaka A,Tomoda A

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural heterogeneity in the structure of the lipid A portion of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) produces differential effects on the innate immune response. Gram-negative bacterial species produce LPS structures that differ from the classic endotoxic LPS structures. These differences include hypoacylation and hypophosphoryl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chilton PM,Hadel DM,To TT,Mitchell TC,Darveau RP

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the ability of peptidoglycan (PepG) and lipoteichoic acid (LTA) isolated from Staphylococcus aureus to induce the release of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and IL-10 in whole human blood and identified the cellular origins of these cytokines. Both PepG and LTA induced t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang JE,Jørgensen PF,Almlöf M,Thiemermann C,Foster SJ,Aasen AO,Solberg R

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelias that cause Lyme disease lose the ability to infect and cause disease in laboratory animals following 10 to 16 passages of in vitro culture. In this study, clonal populations of the Sh-2-82 (Sh2) and B31 strains of Borrelia burgdorferi were isolated by subsurface plating on BSK-II agar plates and examined for...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Norris SJ,Howell JK,Garza SA,Ferdows MS,Barbour AG

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma penetrans adhered to cultured human cells, forming clusters that localized to specific areas of the host cell surface. Adherence and cluster formation were inhibited by anti-M. penetrans antibodies, suggesting the involvement of specific adhesin-receptor interactions. Ultrastructural studies showed that aft...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Girón JA,Lange M,Baseman JB

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-six Aeromonas hydrophila isolates were tested for cytotoxin and hemolysin production. Sixty-six (69%) of the isolates were both cytotoxic and hemolytic, whereas the rest produced neither cytotoxin nor hemolysin. No evidence of a separate cytotonic activity could be found in any of the isolates. Cytotoxin activi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cumberbatch N,Gurwith MJ,Langston C,Sack RB,Brunton JL

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mouse model of Lyme borreliosis, the host immune response during infection with Borrelia burgdorferi results in the remission of carditis and arthritis, as well as global reduction of spirochete numbers in tissues, without elimination of infection. These events were recapitulated by passive transfer of immune s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barthold SW,Hodzic E,Tunev S,Feng S

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoteichoic acids (LTAs) belong to the immunostimulatory class of molecules of gram-positive bacteria (GPB). Previous investigations showed that the macrophage scavenger receptor (SR), a glycosylated trimeric transmembrane protein, binds directly to many GPB, possibly via LTA. SR binding to other ligands is dependent...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Greenberg JW,Fischer W,Joiner KA

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual strains of Staphylococcus aureus have different capacities to become internalized by osteoblasts. Here we report that the levels of sigma(B) expressed by S. aureus correlate with the capacity of this bacterium to be internalized by osteoblasts. However, sigma(B) is not essential for internalization and does...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nair SP,Bischoff M,Senn MM,Berger-Bächi B

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria is an asymmetric lipid bilayer that consists of inner leaflet phospholipids and outer leaflet lipopolysaccharides (LPS). The asymmetric character and unique biochemistry of LPS molecules contribute to the OM's ability to function as a molecular permeability barrier tha...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giordano NP,Cian MB,Dalebroux ZD

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetanus neurotoxin (TeNT) and botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) are clostridial neurotoxins (CNTs) responsible for the paralytic diseases tetanus and botulism, respectively. CNTs are AB toxins with an N-terminal zinc-metalloprotease light chain that is linked by a disulfide bond to a C-terminal heavy chain that includes a t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Blum FC,Przedpelski A,Tepp WH,Johnson EA,Barbieri JT

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were infected with 170 Trichinella spiralis larvae, and their blood clearance of carbon particles was studied 4, 7, 13, 32, and 135 days later and compared with that of noninfected control mice. Clearance in mice with a 4-day-old infection was comparable to that in the controls; clearances in mice with 7- and 13-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barriga OO

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a group of highly conserved molecules that initiate the innate immune response to pathogens by recognizing structural motifs expressed by microbes. We have identified a novel TLR, TLR15, by bioinformatic analysis of the chicken genome, which is distinct from any known vertebrate TLR and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Higgs R,Cormican P,Cahalane S,Allan B,Lloyd AT,Meade K,James T,Lynn DJ,Babiuk LA,O'farrelly C

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding Clostridium sordellii phospholipase C (Csp) was cloned and expressed as a histidine-tagged (His-tag) protein, and the protein was purified to compare its enzymatic and biological activities with those of Clostridium perfringens phospholipase C (Cpa) and Clostridium bifermentans phospholipase C (Cbp)....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karasawa T,Wang X,Maegawa T,Michiwa Y,Kita H,Miwa K,Nakamura S

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00