Oral treponemes and their outer membrane extracts activate human gingival epithelial cells through toll-like receptor 2.

abstract：:Pathogens produce virulence factors that interact directly with host molecules, but in many cases the host targets are unknown. The genetic and molecular identification of these orphan targets is often not feasible with mammalian experimental models. However, a substantial number of known targets are molecules and pat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Darby C,Falkow S

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Yersinia enterocolitica gsrA gene is a stress protein gene which was originally identified as essential for protecting cells under both extracellular environmental stress and intracellular stress in macrophages due to phagocytosis. The gsrA gene was shown to be a member of the htrA class of genes and to possess a ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yamamoto T,Hanawa T,Ogata S,Kamiya S

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a leading cause of hospital-acquired pneumonia and chronic lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. Iron is essential for bacterial growth, and P. aeruginosa expresses multiple iron uptake systems, whose role in lung infection deserves further investigation. P. aeruginosa Fe(3+) uptake sy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Minandri F,Imperi F,Frangipani E,Bonchi C,Visaggio D,Facchini M,Pasquali P,Bragonzi A,Visca P

更新日期：2016-07-21 00:00:00

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：:The ability of hemagglutinating and poorly hemagglutinating strains of the gastroduodenal pathogen Helicobacter pylori to bind 125I-radiolabelled laminin was quantitated in a liquid phase assay. Although all strains bound laminin, some hemagglutinating strains were good binders of laminin (maximum of 31% binding), whe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Valkonen KH,Wadström T,Moran AP

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified group A streptococcal peptidoglycan-polysaccharide (PG-PS) fragments were either de-O-acylated, or acetylated and then de-O-acylated to yield N-acetylated PG-PS. Native PG-PS was poorly degraded, N-acetylated PG-PS was extensively degraded, and de-O-acylated PG-PS was only slightly degraded by hen egg white l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stimpson SA,Lerch RA,Cleland DR,Yarnall DP,Clark RL,Cromartie WJ,Schwab JH

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of the gene encoding the antiphagocytic M protein (emm) of the group A streptococci has been shown to be regulated by CO2 (M. G. Caparon, R. T. Geist, J. Perez-Casal, and J. R. Scott, J. Bacteriol. 174:5693-5701, 1992). We tested the influence of additional environmental growth conditions on emm expressi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McIver KS,Heath AS,Scott JR

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyprotein allergens are a family of structurally homologous molecules from parasitic nematodes which induce specific immunoglobulin E in infected individuals. We show here that both H-2 and non-H-2 factors determine the ability of mice to generate T- and B-cell responses to the filarial polyprotein allergen (Brugia ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Allen JE,Lawrence RA,Maizels RM

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces boulardii is a nonpathogenic yeast used in the treatment of Clostridium difficile diarrhea and colitis. We have reported that S. boulardii inhibits C. difficile toxin A enteritis in rats by releasing a 54-kDa protease which digests the toxin A molecule and its brush border membrane (BBM) receptor (I. Cas...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Castagliuolo I,Riegler MF,Valenick L,LaMont JT,Pothoulakis C

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) is a major etiologic agent of nontyphoid salmonellosis in the United States. S. Enteritidis persistently and silently colonizes the intestinal and reproductive tract of laying hens, resulting in contaminated poultry products. The consumption of contaminated poul...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McKelvey JA,Yang M,Jiang Y,Zhang S

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although certain helminth infections preferentially induce type 2 T-cell responses, the immunological mechanisms responsible for type 2 T-cell polarization remain unclear. In the present study, we investigated the effects of excretory-secretory (ES) antigen from the nematode Nippostrongylus brasiliensis on cytokine pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Uchikawa R,Matsuda S,Arizono N

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human pathogen enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 has two histidine sensor kinases, QseC and QseE, which respond to the mammalian adrenergic hormones epinephrine and norepinephrine by increasing their autophosphorylation. Although QseC and QseE are present in nonpathogenic strains of E. coli, EHEC e...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Njoroge J,Sperandio V

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A complex of trehalose-6, 6'-dimycolate (cord factor) and methylated bovine serum albumin was prepared, and its effect on the toxicity of cord factor in mice was studied. Either the active immunization with cord factor-methylated bovine serum albumin complex or the passive transfer of sera of rabbits vaccinated with t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kato M

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is currently accepted that malaria-parasitized red blood cells (pRBC) are eliminated, like senescent erythrocytes, phagocytically by macrophages in the red pulp of the spleen. Here, however, we show that self-healing Plasmodium chabaudi malaria activates spleen closure in C57BL/6 mice. Confocal laser scanning micro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Krücken J,Mehnert LI,Dkhil MA,El-Khadragy M,Benten WP,Mossmann H,Wunderlich F

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were conducted in which rhesus monkeys were infected with mumps virus by inoculation into the parotid gland. Virus was isolated from buccal swab specimens from animals up to 6 days after inoculation. Immunofluorescence staining for mumps antigen was positive, and infectious virus was recovered from tissue ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Flanagan TD,Andrada JA,Barron AL,Witebsky E

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis continues to ravage humanity, killing 2 million people yearly. Most cases occur in areas of the world to which the disease is endemic, where almost everyone is vaccinated early in life with Mycobacterium bovis BCG, the currently available vaccine against tuberculosis. Thus, while more-potent vaccines are ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Horwitz MA,Harth G,Dillon BJ,Maslesa-Galic S

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The leading malaria vaccine candidate, RTS,S, based on the Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein (CSP), will likely be the first publicly adopted malaria vaccine. However, this and other subunit vaccines, such as virus-vectored thrombospondin-related adhesive protein (TRAP), provide only intermediate to low l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bauza K,Atcheson E,Malinauskas T,Blagborough AM,Reyes-Sandoval A

更新日期：2015-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the identification of a surface-exposed, highly conserved, immunogenic nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) protein, which elicits cross-reactive bactericidal antibodies against NTHi. The protein was extracted from NTHi strain P860295 with KSCN and purified; it migrated as a single band on a sodium d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zagursky RJ,Ooi P,Jones KF,Fiske MJ,Smith RP,Green BA

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammalian hosts, Leishmania sp. parasites are obligatory intracellular organisms that invade macrophages and dendritic cells (DC), where they reside in endocytic organelles termed parasitophorous vacuoles (PV). Most of the present knowledge of the characteristics of PV harboring Leishmania sp. is derived from studi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Körner U,Fuss V,Steigerwald J,Moll H

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-mediated immunity is pivotal in host resistance to Blastomyces dermatitidis infection. Immunization of mice with the WI-1 adhesin enhances resistance against experimental pulmonary infection but elicits features of a mixed T-helper-cell immune response. Immune mice acquire delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) but ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wüthrich M,Finkel-Jiminez BE,Klein BS

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：: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：:In this study, a novel recombinant attenuated Yersinia pseudotuberculosis PB1+ strain (χ10069) engineered with ΔyopK ΔyopJ Δasd triple mutations was used to deliver a Y. pestis fusion protein, YopE amino acid 1 to 138-LcrV (YopENt138-LcrV), to Swiss Webster mice as a protective antigen against infections by yersiniae....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Singh AK,Curtiss R 3rd,Sun W

更新日期：2019-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis serotype 2 is a porcine and human pathogen with adhesive and invasive properties. In other streptococci, large surface-associated proteins (>100 kDa) of the MSCRAMM family (microbial surface components recognizing adhesive matrix molecules) are key players in interactions with host tissue. In this s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baums CG,Kaim U,Fulde M,Ramachandran G,Goethe R,Valentin-Weigand P

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The route of pathogen inoculation by needle has been shown to influence the outcome of infection. Employing needle inoculation of the obligately intracellular parasite Leishmania major, which is transmitted in nature following intradermal (i.d.) deposition of parasites by the bite of an infected sand fly, we identifie...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ribeiro-Gomes FL,Roma EH,Carneiro MB,Doria NA,Sacks DL,Peters NC

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies to the capsular polysaccharide of Cryptococcus neoformans produce distinct capsular reactions and have biological activities that are determined by serotype specificity. In the present study, polyclonal rabbit anticapsular antibodies were cross-absorbed to produce serotype specificities similar t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： MacGill TC,MacGill RS,Kozel TR

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six strains of Rickettsia rickettsii from Montana and North Carolina were examined in an effort to identify rickettsial constituents associated with virulence. Fever responses, scrotal reactions, and mortalities of male guinea pigs inoculated intraperitoneally with 1,000 PFU of rickettsial strains revealed that the tw...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Anacker RL,Philip RN,Williams JC,List RH,Mann RE

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic Yersinia species utilize a type III secretion system (T3SS) to translocate effectors called Yersinia outer proteins (Yops) into infected host cells. Previous studies demonstrated a role for effector Yops in the inhibition of caspase-1-mediated cell death and secretion of interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) in naïv...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lilo S,Zheng Y,Bliska JB

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals are predisposed to recurrent oral candidiasis, and, although it has been assumed that this is because of deficient mucosal immune responses, this has not been properly established. The present study aimed to compare the concentrations and secretion rates of immun...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Coogan MM,Sweet SP,Challacombe SJ

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytosis of unopsonized Salmonella typhimurium 395, MR-10, opsonized Salmonella typhimurium 395 MS, and Staphylococcus epidermidis by rabbit polymorphonuclear leukocytes was inhibited by heparin at concentrations as low as 0.5 U/ml. Inhibition was dose dependent and nearly complete at 20 U/ml. Provided that hepari...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Victor M,Weiss J,Elsbach P

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00