Streptococcus suis interactions with the murine macrophage cell line J774: adhesion and cytotoxicity.

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated that expression of virulence in Shigella spp. is controlled by growth temperature. To study the regulation of virulence (vir) genes, we set out to develop a rapid, easily-assayed phenotype with which to measure expression of virulence. This report described a procedure for isolating ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Maurelli AT,Curtiss R 3rd

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of an extract from a helminth (Ascaris suum) in zymosan-induced arthritis (ZYA) or collagen-induced arthritis (CIA). Rats and mice, respectively, received 1 mg and 0.1 mg zymosan intra-articularly (i.a.). Test groups received an A. suum extract either per os (p.o.) or intraperitoneally (i.p....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rocha FA,Leite AK,Pompeu MM,Cunha TM,Verri WA Jr,Soares FM,Castro RR,Cunha FQ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) genome sequence, we found that EPEC E2348/69 has an lpfABCDE gene cluster homologous (about 60% identical at the protein level) to the Salmonella long polar fimbria (LPF) operon. To determine whether this operon is essential for adherence, the lpfABCD(E2)(3) genes wer...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tatsuno I,Mundy R,Frankel G,Chong Y,Phillips AD,Torres AG,Kaper JB

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis has been implicated as an etiologic agent of adult periodontitis. We have previously shown that P. gingivalis can degrade the epithelial cell-cell junction complexes, thus suggesting that this bacterium can invade the underlying connective tissues via a paracellular pathway. However, the preci...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Katz J,Yang QB,Zhang P,Potempa J,Travis J,Michalek SM,Balkovetz DF

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus agalactiae (group B streptococcus [GBS]) is the leading cause of neonatal pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis. An in silico genome analysis indicated that GBS strain NEM316 encodes 35 proteins containing an LPXTG motif which are thought to be covalently linked to the peptidoglycan by an enzyme called sorta...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lalioui L,Pellegrini E,Dramsi S,Baptista M,Bourgeois N,Doucet-Populaire F,Rusniok C,Zouine M,Glaser P,Kunst F,Poyart C,Trieu-Cuot P

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were protected against a lethal infection with Listeria monocytogenes when treated with low doses of an anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (MAb). Injection of anti-CD3 MAb induced rapid production of endogenous tumor necrosis factor (TNF) in the spleens and endogenous gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) in the bloodstreams an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nakane A,Okamoto M,Asano M,Kohanawa M,Minagawa T

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variant enterotoxin gene, referred to as sezA+, has been identified. Staphylococcus aureus FRI1106, a staphylococcal enterotoxin type D producer (Sed+), contained HindIII fragments of 3.8 and 9.4 kilobase pairs (kbp) that hybridized in Southern blot analysis to a probe containing only staphylococcal enterotoxin type...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Soltis MT,Mekalanos JJ,Betley MJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonproteolytic strain of Clostridium botulinum type B produces two toxins of different molecular weight (16S and 12S) that are indistinguishable from the corresponding toxins of a proteolytic strain in molecular weight and construction but differ in potential toxicity, activation ratio, and hemagglutinability. Succe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miyazaki S,Kozaki S,Sakaguchi S,Sakaguchi G

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue macrophages are the obligatory host cells for Leishmania donovani, the causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis. In this study we sought to determine whether activated macrophages, as defined by the functional criterion of tumor cell cytotoxicity, were also able to exert a microbicidal effect on ingested L. do...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Haidaris CG,Bonventre PF

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera toxin (CT) is a potent adjuvant for mucosal vaccination; however, its mechanism of action has not been clarified completely. It is well established that peripheral monocytes differentiate into dendritic cells (DCs) both in vitro and in vivo and that monocytes are the in vivo precursors of mucosal CD103(-) proi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Veglia F,Sciaraffia E,Riccomi A,Pinto D,Negri DR,De Magistris MT,Vendetti S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus fibronectin-binding proteins (FnBPs) play a critical role in S. aureus pathogenesis. FnBPs mediate adhesion to fibronectin and invasion of mammalian cells, including epithelial, endothelial, and fibroblastic cells, by fibronectin bridging to the host cell fibronectin receptor integrin (alpha(5))b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Grundmeier M,Hussain M,Becker P,Heilmann C,Peters G,Sinha B

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) is responsible for the majority of uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTI) and represents the most common bacterial infection in adults. UPEC utilizes a wide range of virulence factors to colonize the host, including the novel repeat-in-toxin (RTX) protein TosA, which is spec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vigil PD,Wiles TJ,Engstrom MD,Prasov L,Mulvey MA,Mobley HL

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:Optimal growth conditions have been established for production of heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) by both porcine and human strains of enterotoxigenic (ENT(+)) Escherichia coli. There were no unusual growth factor requirements, and some strains produced fairly high levels of LT in a basal salts medium containing 0.5% glu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gilligan PH,Robertson DC

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Pullorum is worldwide a poultry pathogen of considerable economic importance, particularly in those countries with a developing poultry industry. In addition to the characteristic high mortality rates among young chicks, one of the features of Salmonella serovar Pullorum infection is that i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wigley P,Berchieri A Jr,Page KL,Smith AL,Barrow PA

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproducibility of an experimental result is a fundamental assumption in science. Yet, results that are merely confirmatory of previous findings are given low priority and can be difficult to publish. Furthermore, the complex and chaotic nature of biological systems imposes limitations on the replicability of scie...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Casadevall A,Fang FC

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-potentiating effect of serum is due to LPS-binding protein (LBP), which facilitates the binding of LPS to CD14 receptors. We observed a remarkable heat sensitivity of recombinant LBP and various sera with respect to both immunoreactivity (measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mészáros K,Aberle S,White M,Parent JB

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus Newman with an insertion mutation in clfB, the gene encoding clumping factor B, only marginally decreased infection rate (P>0.05) in rats with experimental endocarditis. In contrast, clfB complementation on a multicopy plasmid significantly increased infectivity (P<0.05) over the deleted mutants....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Entenza JM,Foster TJ,Ni Eidhin D,Vaudaux P,Francioli P,Moreillon P

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work has demonstrated that the polyketide natural product Aurodox from Streptomyces goldiniensis is able to block the pathogenesis of the murine pathogen Citrobacter rodentium In this work, we aimed to gain a better understanding of the mechanism of action of the compound. We show that Aurodox downregulates the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McHugh RE,O'Boyle N,Connolly JPR,Hoskisson PA,Roe AJ

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the diphtheria toxin phenotype of specially selected isolates of Corynebacterium ulcerans and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis (C. ovis). All produced proteins similar in size and immunological structure to diphtheria toxin. As with diphtheria toxin, they exhibited ADP-ribosylating activity, and their ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wong TP,Groman N

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterial growth inhibitory factor (MycoIF), found in supernatant fluids of mouse spleen cell cultures that have been stimulated in vitro with homologous antigen, inhibited the intracellular multiplication of virulent tubercle bacilli within normal mouse peritoneal macrophages in vitro. Antigenically stimulated H...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cahall DL,Youmans GP

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual 120-kDa alkaline peptidase contained in a trypomastigote soluble fraction (TSF) of Trypanosoma cruzi is associated with the induction of repetitive Ca2+ transients and subsequent invasion by the parasite of a number of mammalian cell lines, including tissue culture L6E2 myoblasts (B. A. Burleigh and N. W. A...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barr SC,Han W,Andrews NW,Lopez JW,Ball BA,Pannabecker TL,Gilmour RF Jr

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoprecipitation of radiolabeled antigens with bovine antisera indicated that many Babesia bigemina and Babesia bovis merozoite proteins contain isolate-common epitopes, while at least 16 B. bigemina and 8 B. bovis proteins contain species-cross-reactive epitopes. One immunogenic, isolate-common, and species-specif...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McElwain TF,Palmer GH,Goff WL,McGuire TC

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detoxified mutants of the Escherichia coli heat-labile toxin (LT) act as mucosal adjuvants to intranasally presented coadministered antigens. Here, we compare the adjuvant activity of a panel of detoxified derivatives of LT, using both intranasal (i.n.) and oral (p.o.) routes of administration. The mutants used as adj...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Douce G,Giannelli V,Pizza M,Lewis D,Everest P,Rappuoli R,Dougan G

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decay-accelerating factor (DAF), a complement regulatory protein, also serves as a receptor for Dr adhesin-bearing Escherichia coli. The repeat three of DAF was shown to be important in Dr adhesin binding and complement regulation. However, Dr adhesins do not bind to red blood cells with the rare polymorphism of DAF, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hasan RJ,Pawelczyk E,Urvil PT,Venkatarajan MS,Goluszko P,Kur J,Selvarangan R,Nowicki S,Braun WA,Nowicki BJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is a commensal microorganism of the human nasopharynx, and yet is also an opportunistic pathogen of the upper and lower respiratory tracts. Host microenvironments influence gene expression patterns, likely critical for NTHi persistence. The host sequesters iron as a mechanism ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Harrison A,Santana EA,Szelestey BR,Newsom DE,White P,Mason KM

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of sortase gene srtA in Streptococcus pneumoniae strain R6 caused the release of beta-galactosidase and neuraminidase A (NanA) from the cell wall into the surrounding medium. Both of these surface proteins contain the LPXTG motif in the C-terminal domain. Complementation with plasmid-borne srtA reversed p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kharat AS,Tomasz A

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface layer proteins (SLPs) are essential for induction of abortion by Campylobacter fetus subsp. fetus in experimentally challenged ewes. These proteins are encoded by multiple sap genes and vary in size and antigenicity. The role of SLP antigenic variation during experimental ovine infection was investigated. Foll...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Grogono-Thomas R,Blaser MJ,Ahmadi M,Newell DG

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular survival of Chlamydia psittaci is in part dependent on the ability of the organism to thwart phagolysosome formation. Circumvention of phagolysosome fusion could be either localized to chlamydia-laden vacuoles or generalized to all phagosomes in the host cell. To determine which of these modes is in oper...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eissenberg LG,Wyrick PB

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exogenous ammonium ions (NH(4) (+)) and amine compounds had a profound influence on the antibacterial activity of the myeloperoxidase-hydrogen peroxide-chloride system against Escherichia coli. The rate of killing increased in the presence of NH(4) (+) and certain guanidino compounds and decreased in the presence of a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thomas EL

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00