Fibronectin-facilitated invasion of T84 eukaryotic cells by Campylobacter jejuni occurs preferentially at the basolateral cell surface.

abstract：:Alveolar bone resorption can be induced in specific-pathogen-free mice by oral infection with Porphyromonas gingivalis (P. J. Baker, R. T. Evans, and D. C. Roopenian, Arch. Oral Biol. 39:1035-1040, 1994). Here we used a mouse strain, C57BL/6J, which is relatively resistant to P. gingivalis-induced bone loss to examine...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baker PJ,DuFour L,Dixon M,Roopenian DC

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloid differentiation protein 88 (MyD88) is a general adaptor for the signaling cascade through receptors of the Toll/IL-1R family. When infected with Leishmania major parasites, MyD88-deficient mice displayed a dramatically enhanced parasite burden in their tissues similar to that found in susceptible BALB/c mice. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Debus A,Gläsner J,Röllinghoff M,Gessner A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient utilization of heme as an iron (Fe) source by Bordetella avium requires bhuR, an Fe-regulated gene which encodes an outer membrane heme receptor. Upstream of bhuR is a 507-bp open reading frame, hereby designated rhuI (for regulator of heme uptake), which codes for a 19-kDa polypeptide. Whereas the 19-kDa po...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kirby AE,Metzger DJ,Murphy ER,Connell TD

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male ICR Swiss mice (2 to 3 months old) were fed Candida albicans in their drinking water for 3 days, followed by no treatment, antibiotics in their drinking water (daily), or immunosuppressants given by intraperitoneal injection (two to three times weekly) over a 3- to 4-week period. The organs of animals were proces...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ekenna O,Sherertz RJ

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis forms communities with antecedent oral biofilm constituent streptococci. P. gingivalis major fimbriae bind to glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) present on the streptococcal surface, and this interaction plays an important role in P. gingivalis colonization. This study identified...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nagata H,Iwasaki M,Maeda K,Kuboniwa M,Hashino E,Toe M,Minamino N,Kuwahara H,Shizukuishi S

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Broth culture supernatants from Tox+ Helicobacter pylori strains induce vacuolation of HeLa cells in vitro and contain VacA in concentrations that are higher than those found in supernatants from Tox- H. pylori strains. To investigate the basis for this phenomenon, we analyzed the transcription of the vacuolating cyto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Forsyth MH,Atherton JC,Blaser MJ,Cover TL

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to develop a new system for the analysis of capsular biosynthetic pathways we have explored the possibility of expressing type 3 capsular polysaccharide (CPS) from the pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae in Lactococcus lactis, an unencapsulated lactic acid bacterium being developed as a vaccine delivery vehicle...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gilbert C,Robinson K,Le Page RW,Wells JM

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：:Acute lethality was induced in rabbits by the sequential injection of Propionibacterium acnes and lipopolysaccharide (LPS). P. acnes induced the infiltration of inflammatory cells into the liver lobules during the early phase, and LPS in the late phase caused death in association with pathological changes mimicking he...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ikeda N,Mukaida N,Kaneko S,Fujioka N,Su S,Nariuchi H,Unoura M,Harada K,Nakanuma Y,Kobayashi K

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:l-Arginine (1 M) eluted measles virus adsorbed on monkey erythrocytes without affecting the infectious and hemagglutinating activities of the virus. This phenomenon was also observed for encephalomyocarditis virus and Newcastle disease virus. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lebon P,Protat A,Moline P

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental infections of mice with the African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei lead to a profound state of T-cell unresponsiveness in the lymph node cell (LNC) compartment. This suppression is mediated by macrophage-like cells which inhibit interleukin 2 (IL-2) secretion and down-regulate IL-2 receptor expression (M....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Darji A,Beschin A,Sileghem M,Heremans H,Brys L,De Baetselier P

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that chinchillas infected with a multiply passaged laboratory strain of influenza A/NWS/33 (H1N1) develop negative middle-ear pressure; polymorphonuclear leukocyte oxidative, bactericidal, and chemotactic dysfunction; and increased susceptibility to pneumococcal otitis media. Because influenza...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giebink GS,Wright PF

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local passive immunization with monoclonal antibodies (Mc Ab) to Streptococcus mutans was attempted as an alternative approach to active systemic immunization. We prepared an immunoglobulin G class Mc Ab to the cell surface protein determinant of streptococcal antigen I/II and applied it repeatedly to the teeth of rhe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lehner T,Caldwell J,Smith R

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attempts were made to isolate an antigen(s) from Candida albicans suitable for detecting hypersensitivity in a murine model of candidiasis. Using footpad reactivity in cutaneously infected animals as the assay, comparisons were made of two commercial extracts and cell wall and cytoplasmic preparations made in the labo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Domer JE,Moser SA

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both idiopathic and infectious forms of colitis disrupt normal intestinal epithelial cell (IEC) proliferation and differentiation, although the mechanisms involved remain unclear. Recently, we demonstrated that infection by the attaching and effacing murine pathogen Citrobacter rodentium leads to a significant reducti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chan JM,Bhinder G,Sham HP,Ryz N,Huang T,Bergstrom KS,Vallance BA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEF) grown in vitro with purified staphylococcal exfoliative toxin (ET) increased the concanavalin A (Con A) agglutinability of MEF 3.5-fold over control cells. Possible explanations for this phenomenon were investigated. ET lacked proteolytic activity on denatured casein. Con A,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rogolsky M,Wiley BB,Keyhani M,Glasgow LA

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal DNA from a uropathogenic strain of Escherichia coli was partially digested with the restriction enzyme EcoRI. The partial digests were ligated into a cosmid containing an ampicillin-resistant determinant and packaged into lambda phage particles. An ampicillin-resistant transductant of E. coli HB101 was fou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clegg S

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focuses on the interaction of the three components of the Bacillus cereus Nhe enterotoxin with particular emphasis on the functional roles of NheB and NheC. The results demonstrated that both NheB and NheC were able to bind to Vero cells directly while NheA lacked this ability. It was also shown that Nhe-in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lindbäck T,Hardy SP,Dietrich R,Sødring M,Didier A,Moravek M,Fagerlund A,Bock S,Nielsen C,Casteel M,Granum PE,Märtlbauer E

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas' disease, may induce antibodies and T cells reactive with self antigens (autoimmunity). Because autoimmunity is generally thought to develop during the chronic phase of infection, one hypothesis is that autoimmunity develops only after long-term, low-level stimulat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leon JS,Godsel LM,Wang K,Engman DM

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptolysin-O (SLO) is a thiol-activated, membrane-damaging protein toxin of Mr 69,000 that is produced by most strains of beta-hemolytic group A streptococci. Native, primarily water-soluble toxin molecules bind to cholesterol-containing target membranes to assemble into supramolecular curved rod structures (25 to 1...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bhakdi S,Tranum-Jensen J,Sziegoleit A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, is transmitted by ticks. During transmission from the tick to the host, spirochetes are delivered with tick saliva, which contains the salivary protein Salp15. Salp15 has been shown to protect spirochetes against B. burgdorferi-specific antibodies. We now show that Salp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schuijt TJ,Hovius JW,van Burgel ND,Ramamoorthi N,Fikrig E,van Dam AP

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous bacterial pathogens use type III secretion systems (T3SSs) or T4SSs to inject or translocate virulence proteins into eukaryotic cells. Several different reporter systems have been developed to measure the translocation of these proteins. In this study, a peptide tag-based reporter system was developed and use...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Garcia JT,Ferracci F,Jackson MW,Joseph SS,Pattis I,Plano LR,Fischer W,Plano GV

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella spp. are gram-negative intracellular pathogens that survive and multiply within phagocytic cells of their hosts. Smooth organisms present O polysaccharides (OPS) on their surface. These OPS help the bacteria avoid the bactericidal action of serum. The wboA gene, coding for the enzyme glycosyltransferase, is e...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fernandez-Prada CM,Nikolich M,Vemulapalli R,Sriranganathan N,Boyle SM,Schurig GG,Hadfield TL,Hoover DL

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucosal exposure to Escherichia coli elicits an inflammatory response in the urinary tract. Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is secreted into the urine, and polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNLs) are recruited to the site of infection. This study analyzed the ability of mucosally administered bacterial components to activate IL-6 a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Linder H,Engberg I,Hoschützky H,Mattsby-Baltzer I,Svanborg C

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Archived sera (collected in 1946) from acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and untreated scarlet fever and/or pharyngitis patients were reacted with streptococcal M protein, cardiac myosin, and cardiac tropomyosin. Except for very low levels to tropomyosin, antibodies to other antigens were not elevated in the sera of ARF pat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jones KF,Whitehead SS,Cunningham MW,Fischetti VA

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EspG is a conserved protein encoded by the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) of attaching and effacing (A/E) pathogens, including enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli and Citrobacter rodentium. EspG is delivered into infected host cells by a type III secretion system. The role of EspG in virulenc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hardwidge PR,Deng W,Vallance BA,Rodriguez-Escudero I,Cid VJ,Molina M,Finlay BB

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbred strain 2 guinea pigs were vaccinated with Mycobacterium bovis BCG or were left unvaccinated and challenged 6 weeks later by the respiratory route with virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis. By using a double rosette assay with isotype-specific antibody-coated ox and uncoated rabbit erythrocytes, the proportions o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bartow RA,McMurray DN

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UV-inactivated Sendai virus is mitogenic for murine splenocytes, whereas infectious Sendai virus kills spleen cells in vitro. The isolated hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) and fusion (F) glycoproteins of Sendai virus are also mitogenic for cultured mouse spleen cells. A mixture of these glycoproteins (1 microgram/well...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kizaka S,Goodman-Snitkoff G,McSharry JJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) is a prominent, food-borne cause of diarrhea, bloody diarrhea, and the hemolytic uremic syndrome in industrialized countries. Most strains of EHEC carry the locus for enterocyte effacement (LEE) pathogenicity island, but a proportion of isolates from patients with severe disea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leyton DL,Sloan J,Hill RE,Doughty S,Hartland EL

更新日期：2003-11-01 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