Peptidase activity of dipeptidyl aminopeptidase IV produced by Porphyromonas gingivalis is important but not sufficient for virulence.

abstract：:A protease was purified from a strain of Vibrio vulnificus isolated from the blood of a septicemic human. The vibrio was cultured in bacto peptone-yeast extract medium, and the protease was purified by a purification procedure including ultrafiltration of the culture supernatant with an Amicon YM 5 membrane, diethylam...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Miyoshi N,Shimizu C,Miyoshi S,Shinoda S

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of brown rice, containing fourfold as much dietary fiber as polished rice, on the human fecal microflora were determined. Significantly increased numbers of Bifidobacterium adolescentis and Enterococcus faecalis were observed during the brown rice intake, whereas the total counts and the numbers of bactero...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Benno Y,Endo K,Miyoshi H,Okuda T,Koishi H,Mitsuoka T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) is an anaphylatoxin-inactivating enzyme generated by proteolytic cleavage of its zymogen, and is the same enzyme as that first designated by our group as procarboxypeptidase R (proCPR). TAFI in plasma is presumed to influence vascular disease in its role as a fibrinol...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Akatsu H,Ishiguro M,Ogawa N,Kanesaka T,Okada N,Yamamoto T,Campbell W,Okada H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of glucose dehydrogenase present in resting spores of Bacillus subtilis varied strikingly with the conditions for disrupting the spores by sonic treatment, namely, the time and strength of sonication, and the type and pH of the solution used for suspending the spores. When the resting spores were sonicate...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tochikubo K,Yasuda Y

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin is known to be an important factor in colonization by Staphylococcus aureus of host tissues as well as other extracellular matrix proteins such as collagen and laminin. We investigated the effect of fibronectin on the phagocytosis of the S. aureus Cowan I strain by macrophages and of coagulase-negative sta...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shinji H,Sakurada J,Seki K,Murai M,Masuda S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genospecies Borrelia afzelii was isolated from a patient of Lyme disease in Hokkaido, Japan, for the first time, by culturing the minced erythema lesion in BSK II medium. Two analytical methods, rRNA gene restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using the specific primer ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakao M,Miyamoto K,Fukunaga M,Hashimoto Y,Takahashi H

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A few yeast mannans free from protein and phosphorus showed pyrogenic activity in rabbits although the extent of this activity was considerably lower than that of the bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS). The pyrogenic activity was not abolished by treatment with sodium deoxycholate. This result showed that the mannans...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nagase T,Mikami T,Suzuki S,Suzuki M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antiserum against a fraction enriched for scrapie-associated fibrils (SAF), was examined for its effects on scrapie incubation period by inoculating mice either intraperitoneally or intracerebrally with various dilutions of the serum mixed with scrapie-infected mouse brain homogenate. After intraperitoneal inoculat...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ito M,Shinagawa M,Doi S,Sasaki S,Isomura H,Takahashi K,Goto H,Sato G

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred and twenty-five breast milk samples were examined for the occurrence of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) by cell culture method. Virus was isolated from the milk in 1 of 177 samples collected within 6 days after delivery, 2 of 115 samples collected during the period of 7 days to 1 month after delivery, 10 of...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hotsubo T,Nagata N,Shimada M,Yoshida K,Fujinaga K,Chiba S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro effect of the heat-labile toxin (HLT) of Bordetella parapertussis on HeLa, baby hamster kidney (BHK), chinese hamster ovary (CHO), myeloma (Pa-NS-1), human embryonic lung (HEL-R66) cells, erythrocytes, adipocytes and lymphocytes from guinea pigs, mice or rats, or aortic smooth muscle cells from pigs or gu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Endoh M,Nagai M,Ueda T,Yoshida Y,Nakase Y

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon stimulated gene 15 (ISG15), an ubiquitin cross-reactive protein, can conjugate to target proteins. Unlike ubiquitination, protein modification by ISG15 does not target protein for degradation, but enhances the cellular response to interferon (IFN), which plays a key role in antiviral responses. In this stud...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yang L,Zhang LY,Wang C,Wang B,Wang XM,Zeng SM

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenic formula and chemical structure of capsular polysaccharide (CPS) of Cryptococcus albidus var. albidus (C. albidus) were studied in relation to those of C. neoformans var. neoformans serotype A (C. neoformans A). The results of slide agglutination tests with factor sera and reciprocal adsorption experiment...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ikeda R,Matsuyama H,Nishikawa A,Shinoda T,Fukazawa Y

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A human T cell hybridoma clone, F5, producing high levels of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) was established by the emetine-actinomycin D selection method. This clone produced two species of MIF which were separated on a Phenyl Sepharose column. We purified MIF-2 (the more hydrophobic species of the two) ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hirose S,Ooki S,Higuchi M,Osawa T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection affects approximately 170 million people worldwide. HCV infection is a major global health problem as it can be complicated with liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. So far, there is no vaccine available and the non-specific, interferon (IFN)-based treatments now in u...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Aly HH,Shimotohno K,Hijikata M,Seya T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of hemagglutinin (HA) activity in a membrane fraction of Bacteroides gingivalis was examined using various compounds. Leupeptin and anti-pain inhibited the HA activity at nM order. This potency was lost when the aldehyde group of leupeptin was converted to an alcohol moiety. Irreversible protease inhibitors...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nishikata M,Yoshimura F,Nodasaka Y

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct stimulations of murine B lymphocytes with synthetic lipid A analogs and synthetic muramyl dipeptide (MDP) derivatives were studied using a limiting dilution assay system. Synthetic lipid A analogs, GLA-27 and GLA-40, when conjugated with bovine serum albumin (BSA) had the ability to induce B cell clonal expansi...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Saito-Taki T,Nakano M,Kiso M,Hasegawa A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of Listeria monocytogenes contamination in raw milk from farm bulk tanks and silage was investigated monthly at 20 dairy farms in Aomori prefecture, Japan, from January to July in 1989. Listeria sp. was isolated from one sample (5%) of raw milk collected in May, but L. monocytogenes was not isolated from...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Takai S,Orii F,Yasuda K,Inoue S,Tsubaki S

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protective role of neutrophils on intranasal infection of influenza virus was investigated in 3 strains of tumor-bearing mice with neutrophilic leukocytosis. In vitro multiplication of influenza virus was inhibited by neutrophils from both normal and tumor-bearing mice, and the inhibitory effect of neutrophils was...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fujisawa H

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extract of Candida albicans isolated from a patient with typical mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MCLS) can produce coronary arteritis in a mouse when injected intraperitoneally. An unusual feature of this arteritis is that it is granulomatous, shows no fibrinoid change and is confined to the coronary arteries. T...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Murata H

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TtT/M-87 cell is a macrophage cell line established from thyrotropic pituitary tumor tissues in mouse. In this paper, we report the immunological properties of M-87 cells as a model of tumor-associated macrophage. Contrasting with resident peritoneal macrophages, M-87 cells constitutively secreted small but significan...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Mitsuishi T,Akuzawa Y,Sato S,Rui J,Kodama K,Inoue K,Kurashige S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I was incubated with monolayers of cells derived from several portions of mouse kidney, and found to be ingested by all types of the renal cells. Intracellular localization of S. aureus was determined by resistance of intracellular cocci against lysostaphin digestion and confirmed by electr...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Murai M,Usui A,Seki K,Sakurada J,Masuda S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four N-acetylchito-oligosaccharides, from tetra-N-acetylchitotetraose (NACOS-4) to hepta-N-acetylchitoheptaose (NACOS-7), were found to increase the number of peritoneal exudate cells (PEC) in male BALB/c mice after 3 hr intraperitoneal administration of 50 mg/kg of each oligosaccharide. The number of attracted cells,...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Suzuki K,Tokoro A,Okawa Y,Suzuki S,Suzuki M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B lymphocytes express multiple TLRs that regulate their cytokine production.We investigated the effect of TLR4 and TLR9 activation on receptor activator of NF‐kB ligand (RANKL) expression by rat spleen B cells. Splenocytes or purified spleen B cells from Rowett rats were cultured with TLR4 ligand Escherichia coli LPS ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yu X,Lin J,Yu Q,Kawai T,Taubman MA,Han X

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of LV in two different species, CD-1 mice, without a genetic disposition for diabetes, and BB rats prone to T1D were examined. Male CD-1 mice that had been exposed to LV in utero developed a type 2-like diabetes with increased blood glucose, insulin levels and epididymal fat at the age of 10-15 weeks. Comb...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Holmberg R,Klitz W,Blixt M,Berggren PO,Juntti-Berggren L,Niklasson B

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) infection generally provokes antibody responses to the viral envelope glycoprotein. Two major regions of gp120, the third variable (V3) domain and the CD4-binding site, have been identified as neutralization targets. The precise mechanism of HIV-1 neutralization by antibodie...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Harada S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell division-related gene A (cdrA) of Helicobacter pylori is dispensable in vivo and unique in having a repressive role on cell division and long-term survival. To clarify its role, comparisons of the wildtype HPK5 and isogenic cdrA-disrupted mutant HPKT510 were examined by ultrastructural morphology, PBP profile...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Takeuchi H,Nakazawa T,Okamoto T,Shirai M,Kimoto M,Nishioka M,Con SA,Morimoto N,Sugiura T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of B cell tolerance were studied in an attempt to learn whether B cells rendered tolerant are present in the immune system in a potentially responsive form. The author tested the in vitro anti-trinitrophenyl (TNP) antibody-forming cell (anti-TNP AFC) response to TNP-immunogens and polyclonal B cell acti...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Uchiyama T

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hg- and Cd-spores of Bacillus megaterium QM B1551 were produced in Schaeffer's medium containing mercuric chloride and cadmium chloride respectively. Metals were added to the medium at 9 hr of incubation (Stage V) to give a final concentration of 50 microM. It was found by electron microscopic and biochemical studies ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Imagawa M,Ichikawa T,Kondo M

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No systematic study on serotyping of Enterococcus faecalis has been reported since 1964 when M.E. Sharpe conducted serotyping of group D streptococcus in U.K. So, we attempted to re-evaluate serotyping of E. faecalis. For this purpose, we received 42 Sharpe's strains and first examined for their biochemical characteri...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Maekawa S,Yoshioka M,Kumamoto Y

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A VeraCode-allele-specific primer extension (ASPE) method was applied to the detection and genotyping of human papillomavirus (HPV)-DNA. Oligonucleotide primers containing HPV-type-specific L1 sequences were annealed to HPV-DNA amplified by PGMY-PCR, followed by ASPE to label the DNA with biotinylated nucleotides. The...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kitamura-Muramatsu Y,Kusumoto-Matsuo R,Kondo K,Mori S,Saito S,Tsukahara Y,Kukimoto I

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00