Involvement of potD in Streptococcus pneumoniae polyamine transport and pathogenesis.

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis has been implicated as an etiologic agent of adult periodontitis. We have previously shown that P. gingivalis can degrade the epithelial cell-cell junction complexes, thus suggesting that this bacterium can invade the underlying connective tissues via a paracellular pathway. However, the preci...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Katz J,Yang QB,Zhang P,Potempa J,Travis J,Michalek SM,Balkovetz DF

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice pretreated intraperitoneally with trehalose-6,6'-dimycolate (cord factor) were protected against an intraperitoneal challenge with Salmonella typhi strain Ty2 or Salmonella typhimurium strain SR 11. The nonspecific resistance to S. typhi and S. typhimurium was still detectable 7 and 14 days, respectively, after a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yarkoni E,Bekierkunst A

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anopheles gambiae is the major African vector of Plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly species of human malaria parasite and the most prevalent in Africa. Several strategies are being developed to limit the global impact of malaria via reducing transmission rates, among which are transmission-blocking vaccines (TBVs)...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lavazec C,Boudin C,Lacroix R,Bonnet S,Diop A,Thiberge S,Boisson B,Tahar R,Bourgouin C

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present investigation we studied the nature of a Shigella flexneri O antigen, the type III antigen. No structural entity has yet been attributed to this antigen. Phenol-water-extracted lipopolysaccharides (LPSs) from all S. flexneri serotypes possessing either group 6 antigen or both type III antigen and group ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carlin NI,Wehler T,Lindberg AA

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis, the causal agent of anthrax, synthesizes two surface layer (S-layer) proteins, EA1 and Sap, which account for 5 to 10% of total protein and are expressed in vivo. A recombinant B. anthracis strain was constructed by integrating into the chromosome a translational fusion harboring the DNA fragments ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mesnage S,Weber-Levy M,Haustant M,Mock M,Fouet A

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae enters cultured human mucosal cells following binding of a distinct gonococcal opacity (Opa) outer membrane protein to cell surface proteoglycan receptors. We examined the route of internalization that is activated by Opa-expressing gonococci (strain VP1). Microscopy of infected Chang epithelial ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Grassmé HU,Ireland RM,van Putten JP

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms linking the immune response to cutaneous and mucosal leishmaniasis (CL and ML, respectively) lesions and the response to treatment are incompletely understood. Our aims were to prospectively assess, by quantitative reverse transcription-PCR, the levels of mRNA for gamma interferon, tumor necrosis factor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Maurer-Cecchini A,Decuypere S,Chappuis F,Alexandrenne C,De Doncker S,Boelaert M,Dujardin JC,Loutan L,Dayer JM,Tulliano G,Arevalo J,Llanos-Cuentas A,Chizzolini C

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each of the four epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like domains of the Plasmodium falciparum sexual-stage antigen Pfs25 has been individually expressed as a yeast-secreted recombinant protein (yEGF1 through yEGF4). All four are recognized by the immune sera of animals and humans vaccinated with TBV25H (the corresponding y...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stowers AW,Keister DB,Muratova O,Kaslow DC

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-2,3-sialyltransferase (Lst) is expressed on the outer membrane of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis and sialylates surface lipooligosaccharide (LOS), facilitating resistance to complement-mediated killing. The enzyme is constitutively expressed from a single gene (lst) and does not undergo antigen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Packiam M,Shell DM,Liu SV,Liu YB,McGee DJ,Srivastava R,Seal S,Rest RF

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemolytic activity of the thermostable direct hemolysin produced by Vibrio parahaemolyticus was inhibited by a ganglioside mixture. The ganglioside component which inhibited the hemolysin was not FM1 ganglioside. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takeda R,Honda T,Sakural J,Otomo N

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous data from our laboratory suggest that the transitional epithelium of the urinary bladder secretes and binds to its surface a glycosaminoglycan. The presence of this substance at the bladder surface markedly reduces the ability of microorganisms to adhere to the mucosa. Furthermore, this glycosaminoglycan can ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Parsons CL,Pollen JJ,Anwar H,Stauffer C,Schmidt JD

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a potent stimulus of cells, yet a target protein for LPS has not been defined. We used two approaches to define LPS-binding sites on cell surfaces: one assay measured binding of LPS-coated erythrocytes (ELPS) to cultured human cells, and a second measured binding of a radiolabeled...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Golenbock DT,Hampton RY,Raetz CR,Wright SD

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella serovars are associated with human diseases that range from mild gastroenteritis to host-disseminated enteric fever. Human infections by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi can lead to typhoid fever, but this serovar does not typically cause disease in mice or other animals. In contrast, S. enterica serovar T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schwan WR,Huang XZ,Hu L,Kopecko DJ

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent epidemiological observations suggest that clinical evolution of Plasmodium falciparum infections might be influenced by the concurrent presence of another Plasmodium species, and such mixed-species infections are now known to occur frequently in residents of most areas of endemicity. We used mice infected with ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Voza T,Vigário AM,Belnoue E,Grüner AC,Deschemin JC,Kayibanda M,Delmas F,Janse CJ,Franke-Fayard B,Waters AP,Landau I,Snounou G,Rénia L

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae infection leads to multifold increases in sialyltransferase, galactosyltransferase, alpha 2-fucosyltransferase, and alpha 3-fucosyltransferase activity of rat liver. Such changes may reflect an increased demand for glycosylation of acute-phase proteins synthesized and secreted by the liver dur...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Canonico PG,Little JS,Powanda MC,Bostian KA,Beisel WR

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi undergoes differential gene expression during transmission from its tick vector to a vertebrate host. The addition of blood to a spirochete culture at 35 degrees C for 48 h had a dramatic effect on gene expression of this organism. Utilizing B. burgdorferi whole genome DNA arrays, we compared the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tokarz R,Anderton JM,Katona LI,Benach JL

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antigenically distinct serotype, type IV, has recently been added to the recognized serotypes of group B streptococci (GBS). We isolated and purified the capsular polysaccharide antigen from a prototype type IV GBS strain. The type IV capsular polysaccharide formed a precipitin line with rabbit antiserum to type IV...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wessels MR,Benedí WJ,Jennings HJ,Michon F,DiFabio JL,Kasper DL

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The T-cell-stimulating activity of staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) is an important factor in the pathogenesis of certain staphylococcal diseases. To investigate the immunologically active domains of the SEB molecule, we have produced truncated fragments of recombinant SEB by C-terminal and N-terminal deletions. The...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Metzroth B,Marx T,Linnig M,Fleischer B

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosomal iroBCDEN gene cluster first described for Salmonella enterica is involved in the uptake of catecholate-type siderophore compounds. An orthologous gene cluster has recently been detected in Escherichia coli strains which cause extraintestinal disease. This E. coli iroBCDEN gene cluster has an impact on ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sorsa LJ,Dufke S,Heesemann J,Schubert S

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantity of membrane-bound and extracellular exotoxin A in four strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa was investigated. In strain PA-103, which is the prototype strain used for toxin production, all of the toxin was released into the growth medium and little toxin remained with the cell envelope. In a virulent strain ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fernandes PB,Cundy KR

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate arthritis-inducing properties of Eubacterium species, which are major residents of the human intestinal flora, cell wall fragments (CWF) of several Eubacterium strains were prepared and tested in an animal model. After a single intraperitoneal injection in the rat, CWF of E. aerofaciens, E. contortum, a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Severijnen AJ,van Kleef R,Hazenberg MP,van de Merwe JP

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen Habs-serotype strains could be classified into 11 groups depending on the characteristic patterns of 2-amino sugar composition; strains of serotypes 2, 5, and 7 had the same pattern, and each other serotype strain had its own distinctive pattern. In our classification, fucosamine and quinovosamine were of imp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suzuki N,Tsunematsu Y,Matsumoto H,Tazaki T

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radioimmunoprecipitation method has been devised which permits the direct identification of those proteins which are both exposed on the cell surface of Haemophilus influenzae type b and accessible to antibody. Both extrinsically and intrinsically radiolabeled cells of this organism were employed as the sources of a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hansen EJ,Frisch CF,Johnston KH

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1984, it has been known that spotted fever group rickettsiosis exists in Japan. We isolated three strains of the causative rickettsiae, designated Katayama, Misaka, and Abe, from patients with the disease and studied the characteristics of the isolates. Nude mice and cyclophosphamide-treated mice died after infe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Okada T,Tange Y,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acute and persistent eosinophil infiltration is observed during Mycobacterium bovis BCG pleural infection in mice. Eosinophil accumulation, lipid body formation, and eotaxin production were significantly reduced in BCG-infected Toll-like receptor-2 (TLR2)-deficient mice compared to wild-type mice. Neutralization of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： D'Avila H,Almeida PE,Roque NR,Castro-Faria-Neto HC,Bozza PT

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens is an anaerobic, Gram-positive bacterium that causes a range of diseases in humans, including lethal gas gangrene. We have recently shown that strains of C. perfringens move across the surface of agar plates by a unique type IV pilus (TFP)-mediated social motility that had not been previously d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rodgers K,Arvidson CG,Melville S

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the secondary infection with Toxoplasma gondii on antibody responses to unrelated antigens was examined in mice. A reinfection with 5 X 10(3) organisms did not affect either primary anti-sheep erythrocyte antibody responses, or anti-dinitrophenol antibody responses to dinitrophenylated keyhole limpet hem...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suzuki Y,Kobayashi A

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piliated Burkholderia (formerly Pseudomonas) cepacia from sputa of cys tic fibrosis patients in Toronto, Canada, were shown earlier to bind to purified mucins and to a protein receptor on epithelial cells via a 22-kDa adhesin located on unique cable pili. However, a second receptor, thought to be lipid in nature, was ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sylvester FA,Sajjan US,Forstner JF

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

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：: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