Killing of Escherichia coli by mononuclear phagocytes and neutrophils stimulated in vitro with beta-1,3-D-polyglucose derivatives.

abstract：:The ability of 33 compounds of L-alanine analogues over a wide range of concentrations to initiate germination of Bacillus subtilis spores was determined, and the inhibitory activity against L-alanine-initiated germination was determined for the above compounds and 22 of their D- and DL-isomers. Nineteen L-isomers wer...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yasuda Y,Tochikubo K

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The NfxC-type mutant of Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces the MexEF-OprN efflux pump and down-regulates expression of the quorum-sensing-dependent efflux pump MexAB-OprM and production of virulence factors in the presence of an active transcriptional regulator, MexT. Consequently, these cells are resistant to chloramphe...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Uwate M,Ichise YK,Shirai A,Omasa T,Nakae T,Maseda H

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasmids R401 and Rtsl belong to the same incompatibility group, IncT. The nucleotide sequence of the basic replicon of R401 consisting of 1,857 base pairs was determined and compared with that of mini-Rtsl previously reported. The mini-R401 was found to be composed of two clusters of direct repeated sequences fla...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tabuchi A

更新日期：1985-01-01 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 8-year-old girl with meningococcal meningitis lacked serum complement activity. The seventh component of complement (C7) could not be detected in her serum by either functional or immunochemical analysis. The levels of the other components were within the normal range. Her serum complement activity was restored by ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Miyake T,Ohta K,Kawamori J,Hirao T,Akagaki Y,Inai S

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisense amino acids are amino acids which can be translated from the corresponding anti-codons of a sense amino acid. Antisense peptides encoded by the noncoding DNA strand have a tendency to interact with each other. We have demonstrated that antisense peptide sequences are present intramolecularly, and these may c...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Imai M,Okada N,Okada H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular heterogeneity of the extracellular deoxyribonuclease (DNase) in group A streptococci was demonstrated in 42 clinical isolates. Although polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic patterns of the extracellular DNase of all the isolates were heterogeneous, they could be divided into five main patterns with respect to ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Miyakawa Y,Yamada T,Shitara M,Fukazawa Y

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen temperature-sensitive mutants of Sendai virus were isolated from mutagenized stocks (10 mutants, designated numerically) and persistently infected cultures (6 mutants, designated alphabetically). Based on complementation tests, virion-associated activities, thermal inactivation, and viral RNA and hemadsorbing ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Adachi A,Kanda T,Shibuta H

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periapical lesions are induced by bacterial infection of the dental pulp and result in destruction of the surrounding alveolar bone. Although various immunological studies concerning periapical bone resorption have been reported, the role of cytokines in the formation of periapical lesions remains unclear. In this stu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Oseko F,Yamamoto T,Akamatsu Y,Kanamura N,Iwakura Y,Imanishi J,Kita M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid method to determine the allelic variants of the sheep PrP gene was developed. DNA samples from 128 Suffolk sheep (39 rams and 89 ewes) were screened by using polymerase chain reactions and dot-blot hybridization with 32P-labeled nine allele-specific oligonucleotide probes corresponding to the polymorphic PrP c...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ishiguro N,Shinagawa M,Onoe S,Yamanouchi K,Saito T

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found a halophilic vibrio in B bile from a 75-year-old female patient with chronic cholecystitis, and examined its biochemical characteristics. The organisms are gram-negative short rods or comma shaped, with some ring forms. They have a single polar flagellum, but not capsule. The strains can grow in peptone water...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Konishi K,Yamagishi T,Sakamoto K

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep-seated trichosporonosis caused by Trichosporon asahii has a high mortality rate and a very poor prognosis. New species-specific oligonucleotide primers for T. asahii were developed from a sequence analysis of rRNA genes that included the internal transcribed spacer regions. A nested PCR assay with specific primer...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sugita T,Nakajima M,Ikeda R,Niki Y,Matsushima T,Shinoda T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are two types of carboxypeptidases present in human blood, carboxypeptidase N (CPN) and arginine carboxypeptidase (CPR). CPR is generated during coagulation from a precursor (proCPR) which can be converted to the active form by trypsin in vitro. Since it is difficult to distinguish the two types of carboxypeptid...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Guo X,Morioka A,Kaneko Y,Okada N,Obata K,Nomura T,Campbell W,Okada H

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate cellular components incorporated into the rabies virion, monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) were screened based on their reactivity with additional virion components. Two of the MAbs we prepared recognized a virion-associated 21 kDa polypeptide (referred to as VAP21) from a BHK-21 cell. Since the MAbs precipi...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sagara J,Tochikura TS,Yamamoto T,Tsukita S,Tsukita S,Kawai A

更新日期：1997-01-01 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 effect of fatty acids on Mycobacterium smegmatis was examined in vitro at pH 5.0 to 7.0 to determine the role of fatty acids in the intracellular killing of mycobacteria. Unsaturated fatty acids showed strong bactericidal activity in low concentrations (0.005 to 0.02 mM), whereas saturated fatty acids, except for ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kanetsuna F

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phage TP1, induced from Vibrio parahaemolyticus K-20 pilot strain by mitomycin C, exhibited a unique hexagonal head with knob-like projections which covered the whole capsid and a noncontractile tail. The appearance of this phage was very similar to those of phages VP3 and VP6, isolated from seawater. The host range o...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Koga T,Kawata T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the heat resistance and the range of growth temperature o gram-negative rods to find one of the bacterial factors governing their infectivity in exogenous and endogenous infections in predisposed patients. Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, serratia marcescens, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Acinetobacte...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tsuji A,Kaneko Y,Takahashi K,Ogawa M,Goto S

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4-year (1996-2000) survey of rotavirus infection involving 2,218 diarrheal fecal specimens of children collected from five regions of Japan was conducted. A total of 642 (28.9%) specimens were found to be rotavirus positive. A changed prevalence pattern of rotavirus G serotype was found with an increase of G9 and G2...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Zhou Y,Li L,Okitsu S,Maneekarn N,Ushijima H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from 3,158 individuals living in northern Egypt were tested for the presence of antibodies against human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) by the newly developed particle agglutination (PA) test. Ten sera gave a positive reaction in the PA test. Eight of these sera were examined further by Western blotting and...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： el-Farrash MA,Badr MF,Hawas SA,el-Nashar NM,Imai J,Komoda H,Hinuma Y

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) non-structural protein 5A (NS5A) is a multifunctional protein that is involved in the HCV life cycle and pathogenesis. In this study, a host protein(s) interacting with NS5A by tandem affinity purification were searched for with the aim of elucidating the role of NS5A. An NS5A-interacting prote...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Chen M,Gan X,Yoshino K,Kitakawa M,Shoji I,Deng L,Hotta H

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the simple and rapid detection/identification of major pathogenic fungal species such as Candida albicans, C. tropicalis, C. parapsilosis, C. glabrata and Aspergillus fumigatus, common primers for these species and specific primers for each species, designed on the basis on the genomic nucleotide sequences of the ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kanbe T,Arishima T,Horii T,Kikuchi A

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the results of a phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNA and the presence of sphingoglycolipid in cellular lipids of the type strains, transfer of "Rhizomonas" suberifaciens, Blastomonas natatoria and Erythromonas ursincola to the genus Sphingomonas as Sphingomonas suberifaciens (van Bruggen et al 1990) comb. nov.,...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yabuuchi E,Kosako Y,Naka T,Suzuki S,Yano I

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli isolates from calves with diarrhea (1 day to 8 weeks old, 140 individuals) were surveyed for the three immunologically distinct fimbrial adhesins FY, 31A, and K99. Of a total of 1,370 strains isolated, 96 (7.0%), 34 (2.5%), 75 (5.5%), and 13 (0.9%) were identified as FY+, 31A+, FY+.31A+, and K99+, res...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shimizu M,Sakano T,Yamamoto J,Kitajima K

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the epidemiology of viral acute respiratory infections (ARIs), 305 human parainfluenza virus types 1 (HPIV1), 154 HPIV2 and 574 HPIV3 strains were isolated from 16,962 nasopharyngeal swabs obtained between 2002 and 2011 at pediatric clinics in Yamagata, Japan. The total isolation frequency for HPIV1-3 was 6...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Mizuta K,Abiko C,Aoki Y,Ikeda T,Itagaki T,Katsushima F,Katsushima Y,Matsuzaki Y,Noda M,Kimura H,Ahiko T

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunoelectron microscopic study was performed to determine the distribution of antigenic components on particles of Chlamydia psittaci and infected cells using a number of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs). Of three anti-lipopolysaccharide (LPS) antibodies (4D5, A2 and 4G5), two antibodies (4D5 and A2) reacted with the...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ando S,Takashima I,Hashimoto N

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Absorption of a pooled human gamma globulin preparation with acetone-treated measles virus-infected cells removed all antibodies to measles virus antigens except a portion of the antibody to the fusion (F) protein. The residual anti-F antibody had hemolysis-inhibiting and virus-neutralizing activities, inhibited sprea...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sato TA,Kohama T,Sugiura A

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron microscopy of Triton X-100-treated whole cells of an oral treponeme, Treponema sp. strain E-21, revealed that six cytoplasmic fibrils (CFs) helically wound as a bundle in the cytoplasm. The CFs were isolated and purified by disruption and solubilization of the cells followed by CsCl density gradient centrifug...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Masuda K,Kawata T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with typhoid fever presenting to the Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital during the period 1975-1998 were retrospectively investigated. All cases were diagnosed by a positive culture for Salmonella typhi in either of their clinical specimens. Of the total number of 130 patients, 57% contracted the disease ab...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hoshino Y,Masuda G,Negishi M,Ajisawa A,Imamura A,Hachimori K,Takayama N,Yamaguchi T,Kimura M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00