The Treponema denticola surface protease dentilisin degrades interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta), IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor alpha.

abstract：:A clone expressing a 58-kDa protein reactive with human convalescent-phase serum was isolated from a recombinant library of Ehrlichia chaffeensis, the etiologic agent of human ehrlichiosis. Sequencing identified two open reading frames, one encoding a 10.3-kDa polypeptide consisting of 94 amino acids and another encod...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sumner JW,Sims KG,Jones DC,Anderson BE

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonococci do not readily cause disseminated infection in mice. To simulate some of the conditions leading to disseminated gonococcal infection in women, we suspended gonococci in mucin plus hemoglobin and studied the development of gonococcal bacteremia. The mucin-hemoglobin mixture was used because the menstruum appe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Corbeil LB,Wunderlich AC,Corbeil RR,McCutchan JA,Ito JI Jr,Braude AI

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The innate immune response to Pneumocystis infection is not well understood. In this study, normal C57BL/6 mouse alveolar macrophages were found to respond to Pneumocystis murina organisms through Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2), leading to the nuclear translocation of NF-kappaB and the production of proinflammatory cytok...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang C,Wang SH,Lasbury ME,Tschang D,Liao CP,Durant PJ,Lee CH

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilus somnus causes pneumonia, reproductive failure, infectious myocarditis, thrombotic meningoencephalitis, and other diseases in cattle. Although vasculitis is commonly seen as a result of systemic H. somnus infections, the pathogenesis of vascular damage is poorly characterized. In this study, we demonstrated...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sylte MJ,Corbeil LB,Inzana TJ,Czuprynski CJ

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Archived sera (collected in 1946) from acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and untreated scarlet fever and/or pharyngitis patients were reacted with streptococcal M protein, cardiac myosin, and cardiac tropomyosin. Except for very low levels to tropomyosin, antibodies to other antigens were not elevated in the sera of ARF pat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jones KF,Whitehead SS,Cunningham MW,Fischetti VA

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have suggested that interleukin-4 (IL-4) has a protective effect in host defense to Borrelia burgdorferi infection, both in limiting the severity of arthritis and in controlling spirochete numbers in tissues, and a mapping study revealed suggestive linkage to a cluster of genes on mouse chromosome 11,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Potter MR,Noben-Trauth N,Weis JH,Teuscher C,Weis JJ

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A battery of lymphoid and nonlymphoid cells was examined for susceptibility to lysis by natural killer cells of chickens. Several susceptible targets were recognized, and most susceptible among these were cells of line LSCC-RP9, derived from a lymphoid tumor induced by Rous-associated virus 2. The natural killer react...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sharma JM,Okazaki W

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defensins are antibiotic peptides expressed in human and animal myeloid and epithelial cells. Due to the limited availability of natural peptides, the properties of human epithelial defensins have not been studied. We assayed the microbicidal activity of recombinant human intestinal defensin 5 (rHD-5) in the presence ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Porter EM,van Dam E,Valore EV,Ganz T

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA microarrays provide an opportunity to combine the principles of signature-tagged mutagenesis (STM) with microarray technology to identify potentially important bacterial virulence genes. The scope of DNA microarrays allows for less laborious screening on a much larger scale than possible by STM alone. We have adap...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chan K,Kim CC,Falkow S

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two-component regulatory system, GraRS, appears to be involved in staphylococcal responses to cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAPs). However, the mechanism(s) by which GraRS is induced, regulated, and modulated remain undefined. In this study, we used two well-characterized MRSA strains (Mu50 and COL) and their r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yang SJ,Bayer AS,Mishra NN,Meehl M,Ledala N,Yeaman MR,Xiong YQ,Cheung AL

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method was developed to study the adhesion of Streptococcus pneumoniae to human pharyngeal epithelial cells. Epithelial cells from healthy persons, pneumococcal strains from patients with otitis media, meningitis, or septicemia, and pneumococcal cells from the nasopharynx of healthy carriers were used. Adhesion was ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Andersson B,Eriksson B,Falsen E,Fogh A,Hanson LA,Nylén O,Peterson H,Svanborg Edén C

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytolethal distending toxins (CDT) constitute an emerging heterogeneous family of bacterial toxins whose common biological property is to inhibit the proliferation of cells in culture by blocking their cycle at G2/M phase. In this study, we investigated the molecular mechanisms underlying the block caused by CDT from ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Comayras C,Tasca C,Pérès SY,Ducommun B,Oswald E,De Rycke J

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two glucosyltransferase genes from Streptococcus mutans GS-5, gtfB and gtfC, have been previously isolated and sequenced in this laboratory. In the present communication a third gtf gene, gtfD, was isolated and characterized. Isolation of the gene involved a novel procedure utilizing the integration plasmid pVA891. A ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hanada N,Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attenuated Yersinia pestis pgm strains, such as KIM5, lack the siderophore yersiniabactin. Strain KIM5 does not induce significant pneumonia when delivered intranasally. In this study, mice were found to develop pneumonia after intranasal challenge with strain KIM5 when they were injected intraperitoneally with iron d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galván EM,Nair MK,Chen H,Del Piero F,Schifferli DM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When immunocompetent mice are inoculated with Borrelia burgdorferi, they develop acute arthritis and carditis that undergo spontaneous regression despite the persistence of infection. Specific T- and/or B-cell immunity appears to be necessary for resolution of disease manifestations. Humoral immune responses to B. bur...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bockenstedt LK,Barthold S,Deponte K,Marcantonio N,Kantor FS

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular protozoan Toxoplasma gondii is well known for its skill at invading and living within host cells. New discoveries are now also revealing the astounding ability of the parasite to inject effector proteins into the cytoplasm to seize control of the host cell. This review summarizes recent advances in o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Denkers EY,Bzik DJ,Fox BA,Butcher BA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although certain helminth infections preferentially induce type 2 T-cell responses, the immunological mechanisms responsible for type 2 T-cell polarization remain unclear. In the present study, we investigated the effects of excretory-secretory (ES) antigen from the nematode Nippostrongylus brasiliensis on cytokine pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Uchikawa R,Matsuda S,Arizono N

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-NMDA receptor (NMDAR) autoantibodies have been postulated to play a role in the pathogenesis of NMDAR hypofunction, which contributes to the etiology of psychotic symptoms. Toxoplasma gondii is a pathogen implicated in psychiatric disorders and associated with elevation of NMDAR autoantibodies. However, it remain...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li Y,Viscidi RP,Kannan G,McFarland R,Pletnikov MV,Severance EG,Yolken RH,Xiao J

更新日期：2018-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Black melanin-like pigments are produced by several neurotropic fungi, including Cryptococcus neoformans. Pigment production is associated with virulence. In media containing phenolic substrates such as L-dopa, C. neoformans cells become black as a result of pigment accumulation. Pigmented and nonpigmented C. neoforma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang Y,Aisen P,Casadevall A

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Merozoite surface protein 2 (MSP2) is an abundant glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored protein of Plasmodium falciparum, which is a potential component of a malaria vaccine. As all forms of MSP2 can be categorized into two allelic families, a vaccine containing two representative forms of MSP2 may overcome the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Adda CG,MacRaild CA,Reiling L,Wycherley K,Boyle MJ,Kienzle V,Masendycz P,Foley M,Beeson JG,Norton RS,Anders RF

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chlamydial inclusion occupies a unique niche within the eukaryotic cell that does not interact with endocytic compartments but instead is fusogenic with a subset of sphingomyelin-containing exocytic vesicles. The Chlamydia trachomatis inclusion acquires these distinctive properties by as early as 2 h postinfection...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Scidmore MA,Fischer ER,Hackstadt T

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies have been generated to the unique distal sugar epitopes on the oligosaccharide haptens of the glycopeptidolipid antigens of clinically prominent members of the Mycobacterium avium serocomplex. Thus, antibodies are described that recognize the distal O-acetyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl residue of the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rivoire B,Ranchoff BJ,Chatterjee D,Gaylord H,Tsang AY,Kolk AH,Aspinall GO,Brennan PJ

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the spleen in hepatic amoebiasis in hamsters was studied. In hamsters receiving an intrahepatic inoculation of 10(5) trophozoites of axenic Entamoeba histolytica at 7 or 14 days postsplenectomy, the mean weight of metastatic foci increased significantly when compared with sham-splenectomized or intact cont...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ghadirian E,Meerovitch E

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehrlichia chaffeensis is a recently isolated minute gram-negative obligatory intracellular bacterium of monocytes/macrophages and is the etiologic agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis. It is not known how macrophages respond when they encounter ehrlichiae in terms of cytokine production. In this study, we examined cy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lee EH,Rikihisa Y

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditions for the release of streptococcal type 12 M protein from whole cells by cyanogen bromide are described; they demonstrated that methionine is not essential to the structural arrangements which account for some of its immunological and biological properties. The released M protein was separated from other prot...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vosti KL,Williams WK

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enterotoxin produced by Bacteroides fragilis was purified to homogeneity and characterized as to its biological activity and basic molecular properties. Toxin preparations were prepared by growing B. fragilis VPI 13784 in brain heart infusion broth to early stationary phase, immediately precipitating the culture su...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Van Tassell RL,Lyerly DM,Wilkins TD

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we demonstrate the capability of Chlamydia trachomatis to infect cultured human mesothelial cell (MC) monolayers and to induce the production of the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin 1beta (IL-1beta) and IL-8. Seventy-two hours after initial infection, both the procoagulant activity of MC and the act...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van Westreenen M,Pronk A,Diepersloot RJ,de Groot PG,Leguit P

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Haemophilus ducreyi 35000HP genome encodes a homolog of the CpxRA two-component cell envelope stress response system originally characterized in Escherichia coli. CpxR, the cytoplasmic response regulator, was shown previously to be involved in repression of the expression of the lspB-lspA2 operon (M. Labandeira-Re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Labandeira-Rey M,Brautigam CA,Hansen EJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae causes infections and fatal disease in marine animals and in humans. Highly hemolytic strains produce damselysin (Dly) and plasmid-encoded HlyA (HlyA(pl)). These hemolysins are encoded by plasmid pPHDD1 and contribute to hemolysis and virulence for fish and mice. In this study, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rivas AJ,Balado M,Lemos ML,Osorio CR

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were vaccinated with plasmid DNA (pDNA) encoding antigen 85A (Ag85A), Ag85B, or PstS-3 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis either in saline or formulated for intramuscular injections in VC1052:DPyPE (aminopropyl-dimethyl-myristoleyloxy-propanaminium bromide-diphytanoylphosphatidyl-ethanolamine) (Vaxfectin; Vical, Inc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： D'Souza S,Rosseels V,Denis O,Tanghe A,De Smet N,Jurion F,Palfliet K,Castiglioni N,Vanonckelen A,Wheeler C,Huygen K

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00