Enhancement of anthrax lethal toxin cytotoxicity: a subset of monoclonal antibodies against protective antigen increases lethal toxin-mediated killing of murine macrophages.

abstract：:Numerous studies have reported that asialo-GM(1), gangliotetraosylceramide, or moieties serve as epithelial cell receptors for Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Usually this interaction is confirmed with antibodies to asialo-GM(1). However, few, if any, of these reports have evaluated the binding of fresh clinical isolates of P...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schroeder TH,Zaidi T,Pier GB

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of Bacillus anthracis toxin production in culture and its lethal activity in rats, mice, and guinea pigs were investigated. Lethal toxin activity was produced in vitro throughout exponential growth at essentially identical rates in both encapsulated virulent and nonencapsulated avirulent strains. The two ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ezzell JW,Ivins BE,Leppla SH

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility to the lethal toxicity of endotoxin in mice pretreated with emulsified trehalose-6,6'-dimycolate was enhanced by (i) increasing the oil concentration while keeping the Tween concentration constant; and (ii) decreasing the Tween concentration, while keeping the oil concentration constant. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yarkoni E,Rapp HJ

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies were raised against a bactericidal protein fraction that was purified from an extract of bovine neutrophil granules and that was previously shown (A. Savoini, R. Marzari, L. Dolzani, D. Serranò, G. Graziosi, R. Gennaro, and D. Romeo, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 26:405-407, 1984) to inhibit bact...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marzari R,Scaggiante B,Skerlavaj B,Bittolo M,Gennaro R,Romeo D

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal protective immunity against babesial infection is postulated to require both complement-fixing and opsonizing antibodies in addition to gamma interferon (IFN-gamma)-mediated macrophage activation. The rhoptry-associated protein 1 (RAP-1) of Babesia bigemina induces partial protective immunity and is a candidat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brown WC,McElwain TF,Palmer GH,Chantler SE,Estes DM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera enterotoxin and the related heat-labile enterotoxins of Escherichia coli enter their target cells through noncoated vesicles, but how the toxins are processed intracellularly and how they get to their targeted enzyme, adenylate cyclase, remain to be defined. Brefeldin A, an inhibitor of the trans-Golgi network...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Donta ST,Beristain S,Tomicic TK

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of a vaccine is essential for the elimination of malaria. However, despite many years of effort, a successful vaccine has not been achieved. Most subunit vaccine candidates tested in clinical trials have provided limited efficacy, and thus attenuated whole-parasite vaccines are now receiving close scru...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Raja AI,Cai Y,Reiman JM,Groves P,Chakravarty S,McPhun V,Doolan DL,Cockburn I,Hoffman SL,Stanisic DI,Good MF

更新日期：2016-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Subtilase cytotoxin (SubAB) was first isolated from a Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) strain that was responsible for an outbreak of hemolytic-uremic syndrome and is the prototype of a new family of AB(5) cytotoxins. SubAB is a subtilase-like serine protease, and upon uptake by host cells, it is trafficked to ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： May KL,Paton JC,Paton AW

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies showed that Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A (PA toxin) catalyzes nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)-dependent inhibition of protein synthesis in a rabbit reticulocyte lysate and transfer of radioactivity from [14C]adenine-labeled NAD to a protein having the same molecular weight as elongation f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Iglewski BH,Liu PV,Kabat D

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in regulating the growth of Mycobacterium avium in Mycobacterium bovis BCG-resistant and -susceptible congenic mice was evaluated. Restraint was used to activate the HPA axis, which resulted in an increase in the level of corticosterone in the plasma. Activatio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brown DH,Sheridan J,Pearl D,Zwilling BS

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human gamma delta T cells are known to respond at high frequencies to pathogenic mycobacteria. Here we show that opportunistic strains of mycobacteria share with pathogenic mycobacteria the ability to trigger at high frequencies human V gamma 9V delta 2 T-cell-receptor-positive T lymphocytes. Stimulating ligands were ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Häcker G,Kromer S,Heeg K,Ivanyi J,Wagner H,Pfeffer K

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pestis KIM5 was found to be cytotoxic for the IC21 and P388D1 mouse macrophage cell lines, as well as for resident peritoneal macrophages from C57BL/6 mice. Affected cells phagocytosed KIM5 inefficiently, became spherical, detached readily from culture dishes, and retained 51Cr poorly. The cytotoxic effect wa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Goguen JD,Walker WS,Hatch TP,Yother J

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly-N-acetyl-glucosamine (PNAG) is a staphylococcal surface polysaccharide influencing biofilm formation that is also under investigation for its vaccine potential. Antibodies that bind to PNAG with either low (<15%) or high (>90%) levels of acetate are superior at opsonic and protective activity compared with antibo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cerca N,Jefferson KK,Maira-Litrán T,Pier DB,Kelly-Quintos C,Goldmann DA,Azeredo J,Pier GB

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When inoculated orally, Escherichia coli strain 1056 caused acute enteritis in 7 of 22 weanling hamsters. E. coli strain 1056 was isolated from the ileum of a hamster with proliferative ileitis. It was lactose negative, nonmotile, and anaerogenic. By electron microscopy and indirect fluorescent-antibody techniques, E....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Frisk CS,Wagner JE,Owens DR

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently determined that passive transfer of serum directed against a synthetic peptide called LB1 or a recombinant fusion protein immunogen [LPD-LB1(f)(2,1,3)] could prevent otitis media after challenge with a homologous nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) isolate. NTHI residing in the nasopharynx was rapidl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kennedy BJ,Novotny LA,Jurcisek JA,Lobet Y,Bakaletz LO

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group A streptococcal cell walls inhibited phagocytosis of polystyrene latex particles by rat peritoneal macrophages in vitro. This inhibition was not accompanied by a measurable loss of cell viability. Group D streptococcal cell walls were relatively ineffective in altering phagocytosis. The effectiveness of group A ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Smialowicz RJ,Schwab JH

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study determined the role of crl in the production of curli by, the hemagglutination activity of, and fibronectin binding by avian pathogenic Escherichia coli chi 7122. Curli, an extracellular structure that binds fibronectin, was recently described (A. Olsén, A. Jonsson, and S. Normark, Nature [London] 338:652-6...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Provence DL,Curtiss R 3rd

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined 205 enterotoxigenic strains of Escherichia coli for colonization factor antigens (CFA) I and II, using an immunodiffusion technique with specific antisera. A total of 36 strains of serogroups O63, O78, O114, O128, and O153 and 1 rough strain possessed CFA/I and gave a single precipitin line; 47 strains of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cravioto A,Scotland SM,Rowe B

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis remains a leading killer worldwide, and new approaches for its treatment and prevention are urgently needed. This effort will benefit greatly from a better understanding of gene regulation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, particularly with respect to this pathogen's response to its host environment. We exam...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Purkayastha A,McCue LA,McDonough KA

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an Escherichia coli strain of human origin, ampicillin resistance and heat-stable enterotoxin activity were shown by EcoRI restriction endonuclease and genetic analysis to be in an 80-megadalton plasmid. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stieglitz H,Fonseca R,Olarte J,Kupersztoch-Portnoy YM

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans produces several enzymes which metabolize sucrose. Three glucosyltransferase genes (gtfB, gtfC, and gtfD) and a single fructosyltransferase gene (ftf) encode enzymes which are important in formation of exopolysaccharides. Mutants of S. mutans V403 carrying single and multiple mutations of the gtfB...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Munro C,Michalek SM,Macrina FL

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of our study was to characterize the properties of the interaction of pertussis toxin with human polymorphonuclear leukocytes for the modulation of leukotriene generation and metabolism. The cells were stimulated with either the Ca ionophore A23187, opsonized zymosan, or the bacterial peptide formyl-methio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hensler T,Raulf M,Megret F,Alouf JE,König W

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two Escherichia coli strains (B/M 369 and C-35) belonging to enteropathogenic serogroup O86 were isolated from patients with infantile diarrhea and studied with respect to their cellular adherence properties. Both strains exhibited adherence (Ad+) to HEp-2 and HeLa cell monolayers in vitro and expressed mannose-resist...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pal R,Ghose AC

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modification of three or four of the five histidine residues in the toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (TSST-1) with diethylpyrocarbonate did not inhibit the precipitin reaction of the modified TSST-1 with polyvalent antisera to the toxin. Monoclonal antibody 7T did not react with the modified TSST-1, but monoclonal antibod...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kokan-Moore NP,Bergdoll MS

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two distinct types of granulomas were produced in the draining lymph nodes by immunizing guinea pigs with Mycobacterium bovis BCG or Mycobacterium leprae, as reported earlier (Narayanan et al., J. Pathol. 134:253-265, 1981). In the BCG-induced granuloma there is successful containment, killing, and degradation of the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mathew RC,Katayama I,Gupta SK,Curtis J,Turk JL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While several diseases associated with Chlamydia psittaci infection have been reported in Phascolarctos cinereus (koala), it is still unclear whether one or more chlamydial strains are responsible. In this study, we provide evidence, obtained by restriction enzyme and gene probe analysis, that two quite distinct strai...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Girjes AA,Hugall AF,Timms P,Lavin MF

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective immunity against pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is characterized by the formation in the lungs of granulomas consisting of macrophages and activated T cells producing tumor necrosis factor alpha and gamma interferon, both required for the activation of the phagocytes. In 90% of immunocompetent humans, this res...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kaplan G,Post FA,Moreira AL,Wainwright H,Kreiswirth BN,Tanverdi M,Mathema B,Ramaswamy SV,Walther G,Steyn LM,Barry CE 3rd,Bekker LG

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteroides fragilis with enterotoxin-like activity (BFEL) was isolated from the feces of 24- to 48-h-old lambs with acute diarrheal disease on three different sheep ranches in the Northern Rocky Mountain region of the United States. The lamb intestinal loop test was used to enrich for the bacterium before its initial...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Myers LL,Firehammer BD,Shoop DS,Border MM

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[1-(14)C]acetate is incorporated into lipids more rapidly by liver from Aeromonas salmonicida-infected trout than by normal trout liver, both in vitro and in vivo. The increase was, in general, about twofold to less than threefold. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shieh HS

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis is a major etiologic agent of periodontitis, a chronic inflammatory disease that ultimately results in the loss of the supporting tissues of the teeth. Previous work has demonstrated the usefulness of avirulent Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strains as antigen delivery systems for pro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozarov E,Miyashita N,Burks J,Cerveny K,Brown TA,McArthur WP,Progulske-Fox A

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00