The AraC family transcriptional regulator Rv1931c plays a role in the virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

abstract：:We wished to find a simple, biologically relevant method to evaluate the virulence of dengue viruses for human beings. Since cells of mononuclear phagocyte lineage may be important sites of dengue infection in primates, we evaluated the permissiveness of these cells to dengue virus as a correlate of virus virulence. T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Halstead SB,Tom MC,Elm JL Jr

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Once in the cytoplasm of mammalian cells, Shigella flexneri expresses a motile phenotype caused by polar directional assembly of actin. This process depends on accumulation of IcsA (VirG), a 120-kDa protein with ATPase activity, at the pole of the bacterium opposite to that at which ongoing septation occurs. IcsA is a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： d'Hauteville H,Dufourcq Lagelouse R,Nato F,Sansonetti PJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia species pathogenic to humans have been extensively characterized with respect to type III secretion and its essential role in virulence. This study concerns the twin arginine translocation (Tat) pathway utilized by gram-negative bacteria to secrete folded proteins across the bacterial inner membrane into the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lavander M,Ericsson SK,Bröms JE,Forsberg A

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One- to three-day-old guinea pigs were inoculated intranasally with the chlamydial agent of guinea pig inclusion conjunctivitis. Physical signs of infection included a marked increase in respiration rate on days 5 to 10 of infection and radiographic evidence of pneumonia on day 6. When animals were killed at various t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rank RG,Hough AJ Jr,Jacobs RF,Cohen C,Barron AL

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombospondin-related anonymous protein (TRAP) of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum shares two sequence motifs with other proteins which possess adhesive properties. Recently, findings indicate that TRAP is an antigen which contributes to antisporozoite immunity. We have cloned and expressed the TRAP coding ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Scarselli E,Tolle R,Koita O,Diallo M,Müller HM,Früh K,Doumbo O,Crisanti A,Bujard H

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the alternative sigma factor sigma(B) in Staphylococcus epidermidis was investigated by the construction, complementation, and characterization of a sigB deletion mutant. Electrophoretic analyses confirmed a profound influence of sigma(B) on the expression of exoproteins and cytoplasmic proteins. Detailed ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kies S,Otto M,Vuong C,Götz F

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI), a human neutrophil granule protein, has been shown to bind lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and neutralize LPS-mediated cytokine production in adherent monocytes and the whole-blood system. In this study we investigated the ability of recombinant human BPI (rBPI) to inhibit ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Arditi M,Zhou J,Huang SH,Luckett PM,Marra MN,Kim KS

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a test of endotoxic potency based upon the development of histamine hypersensitivity in mice were compared with the results obtained by testing the same materials for pyrogenicity in rabbits and lethality for chicken embryos (CELD50). The results of the histamine hypersensitization test (HHT) correlated...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bergman RK,Milner KC,Munoz JJ

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop targeted gene integration in the periodontal pathogen Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, a ColE1-based, spectinomycin-resistant plasmid containing a segment of the leukotoxin gene was electroporated into strain JP2. In all of the stable spectinomycin-resistant transformants that arose, the plasmid had re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kolodrubetz D,Phillips LH,Ezzo PJ,Kraig E

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumonic tularemia is a life-threatening disease caused by inhalation of the highly infectious intracellular bacterium Francisella tularensis. The most serious form of the disease associated with the type A strains can be prevented in experimental animals through vaccination with the attenuated live vaccine strain (L...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mara-Koosham G,Hutt JA,Lyons CR,Wu TH

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eib genes of Escherichia coli encode surface-exposed proteins which bind immunoglobulins (Ig) such as the Fc fragment of human IgG (IgG Fc) in a nonimmune manner. The Eib proteins belong to a family which includes YadA of Yersinia, UspA2 of Moraxella, and DsrA of Haemophilus ducreyi. This family of surface-exposed...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sandt CH,Hill CW

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesocricetus auratus (golden hamsters) infected with leishmania developed characteristic B cell immune responses that depended on the infecting species of leishmania. Thus, hamsters infected with viscerotropic leishmania (Leishmania donovani) developed antileishmania antibodies and hypergammaglobulinemia due to polycl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Campos-Neto A,Bunn-Moreno MM

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of translocation of viable Escherichia coli C25 from the gastrointestinal tract to the mesenteric lymph nodes was compared in gnotobiotic mice colonized with only E. coli C25 and in gnotobiotic mice colonized with E. coli C25 plus the whole cecal flora from specific pathogen-free mice. The population lev...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Berg RD,Owens WE

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether an ongoing response to Leishmania major would affect the response to a non-cross-reacting, non-leishmanial antigen, susceptible BALB/c mice and resistant C3H mice were infected with L. major parasites expressing Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase (beta-GAL); this parasite was designated L. major-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chakkalath HR,Siddiqui AA,Shankar AH,Dobson DE,Beverley SM,Titus RG

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovars Typhimurium and Dublin lysed primary bovine alveolar macrophages and immortalized J774.2 macrophage-like cells in the absence of either the morphological changes or DNA fragmentation characteristic of apoptosis. Macrophage lysis was dependent on a subset of caspases and an intact sipB gene...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Watson PR,Gautier AV,Paulin SM,Bland AP,Jones PW,Wallis TS

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility to Coccidioides spp. varies widely in humans and other mammals and also among individuals within a species. Among strains of mice with various susceptibilities, immunohistopathology revealed that C57BL/6 mice were highly susceptible to the disease following intranasal infection, DBA/2n mice were interme...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shubitz LF,Dial SM,Perrill R,Casement R,Galgiani JN

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of which component of lipopolysaccharide, the lipid or the polysaccharide, is mitogenic for mouse B-lymphocytes has been performed. A purified glycolipid derived from a rough mutant of Salmonella minnesota (R595) that does not contain any o-polysaccharide at all is more mitogenic than an intact lipopolysac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosenstreich DL,Nowotny A,Chused T,Mergenhagen SE

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute phase of Chagas' disease is accompanied by immunosuppression. To explore the underlying mechanism(s), we used an in vitro culture system in which the capacities of activated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells to express interleukin-2 receptors (IL-2R) and proliferate are markedly inhibited in the prese...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Beltz LA,Kierszenbaum F,Sztein MB

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 120-kDa rickettsial outer membrane protein (rOmpB) is encoded by a gene with the capacity to encode a protein of approximately 168 kDa. The carboxy-terminal end of the molecule is apparently cleaved to yield 120- and 32-kDa products. Both polypeptides are surface exposed and remain associated with the outer membra...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hackstadt T,Messer R,Cieplak W,Peacock MG

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven antigens of Borrelia hermsii, B. parkeri, and B. turicatae with isoelectric points in the range of 4.4 to 5.0 and molecular masses of 40 to 43 kilodaltons played a role in the relapse phenomenon of relapsing fever. Based upon location of the antigens in the outer envelope, the molecular weight, and Western blot ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kehl KS,Farmer SG,Komorowski RA,Knox KK

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokine gene expression in cells migrating in afferent and efferent intestinal lymph was monitored for extended time periods in individual sheep experimentally infected with the nematode Trichostrongylus colubriformis. Animals from stable selection lines with increased levels of either genetic resistance (R) or susce...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pernthaner A,Cole SA,Morrison L,Hein WR

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population structure of the Bacillus cereus group (52 strains of B. anthracis, B. cereus, and B. thuringiensis) was investigated by sequencing seven gene fragments (rpoB, gyrB, pycA, mdh, mbl, mutS, and plcR). Most of the strains were classifiable into two large subgroups in six housekeeping gene trees but not in ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ko KS,Kim JW,Kim JM,Kim W,Chung SI,Kim IJ,Kook YH

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Science has a critical role to play in addressing humanity's most important challenges in the twenty-first century. However, the contemporary scientific enterprise has developed in ways that prevent it from reaching maximum effectiveness and detract from the appeal of a research career. To be effective, the methodolog...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fang FC,Casadevall A

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown previously that Klebsiella pneumoniae receptors for coliphages T3 and T7 also mediate mannose-inhibitable adherence to human epithelial cells and protect bacteria from phagocytosis and intracellular killing by human polymorphonuclear cells. In this paper we analyze the possible role of such mannose-inhib...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pruzzo C,Valisena S,Satta G

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we demonstrate that the variable antigens present on the surface of Plasmodium knowlesi-infected erythrocytes could not be found on the surface of merozoites. A number of technical problems had to be solved to make such a comparative study possible, including the purification of merozoites by affinity ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hommel M,David PH

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocytes from uninfected, nonimmune mice can be stimulated to proliferate and produce antibody to diverse antigens in culture when exposed to the purified protein derivative of tuberculin or unheated tuberculin culture filtrate. Lymphocytes from numerous inbred strains of mice respond to tuberculin, but no true low...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sultzer BM,Nilsson BS,Kirschenbaum D

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major virulence factor of group A streptococci is M protein, a surface-exposed fibrillar molecule of which there exist more than 80 distinct serological types. Antigenic variability resides largely in the amino-terminal region of M protein, whereas the carboxy-terminal half of the molecule is highly conserved among ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bessen D,Fischetti VA

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin E protects nonimmunized and immunized mice against fatal Diplococcus pneumoniae type I (DpI) infection. A dietary supplementation of 180 mg of dl-alpha-tocopheryl acetate per kg of diet increased survival of nonimmunized mice from 20 to 80% when challenged with 20 organisms, and of mice immunized with 0.5 ng o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heinzerling RH,Tengerdy RP,Wick LL,Lueker DC

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of iron concentration during growth on the physicochemical surface properties of the colonial variants of Neisseria gonorrhoeae has been assessed by aqueous two-phase partitioning in a dextran-polyethyleneglycol system containing positively charged trimethylamino-polyethyleneglycol or hydrophobic polyethyle...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Magnusson KE,Kihlstrom E,Norqvist A,Davies J,Normark S

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pig peritoneal or alveolar macrophages were inoculated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae cells. Extracellular mycoplasms were killed by complement treatment, and the effect of macrophage action on the number of the remaining viable mycoplasmas was observed. The complement killing was to some extent inhibited by the pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Erb P,Bredt W

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00