Production of Biologically Active Substances by Two Strains of Vibrio cholerae.

abstract：:The antibacterial properties of lysozyme were investigated with oral microorganisms representing the seven serotypes (a through g) of Streptococcus mutans, Veillonella alcalescens, and the virulent (V) and avirulent (AV) strains of Actinomyces viscosus T14. Growth of bacteria in defined medium was monitored spectropho...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Iacono VJ,MacKay BJ,DiRienzo S,Pollock JJ

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans, a major pathogen of dental caries, is considered one of the causative agents of infective endocarditis (IE). Recently, bacterial DNA encoding 120-kDa cell surface collagen-binding proteins (CBPs) has frequently been detected from S. mutans-positive IE patients. In addition, some of the CBP-positi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Otsugu M,Nomura R,Matayoshi S,Teramoto N,Nakano K

更新日期：2017-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface coat of Trypanosoma brucei, formed by about 10(7) molecules of the membrane-form variant surface glycoprotein (mfVSG) per cell, is generally considered to constitute a barrier against the access of antibodies directed to invariant surface proteins. The recent characterization of two invariant surface glyco...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ziegelbauer K,Overath P

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was performed to determine whether Histoplasma capsulatum (yeast phase) is able to activate the alternative complement pathway. H. capsulatum yeasts were shown to consume C3 in C4-deficient guinea pig serum. Immunoelectrophoretic conversion of alternative pathway component factor B confirmed that C3 ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ratnoff WD,Pepple JM,Winkelstein JA

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannan (MAN) extracted from Candida albicans 20A was investigated for its potential as an antigen in the detection of cell-mediated immunity (CMI) in vivo and in vitro and for its ability to modulate CMI when administered intravenously (i.v.). CBA/J mice were either immunized as adults by the cutaneous inoculation of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Domer JE,Garner RE,Befidi-Mengue RN

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccine antigen-specific antibody-secreting cell (ASC) responses in peripheral blood of healthy adult volunteers were studied after oral immunization with a prototype enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) vaccine by means of the enzyme-linked immunospot technique. Three doses of vaccine consisting of formalin-killed...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wennerås C,Svennerholm AM,Ahrén C,Czerkinsky C

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), interleukin 8 (IL-8), IL-6, IL-1 alpha, and IL-1 beta produced during the immune and inflammatory responses to bacterial stimuli have been reported to interact with polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Elbim C,Bailly S,Chollet-Martin S,Hakim J,Gougerot-Pocidalo MA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis, proliferative typhlitis, and colitis were characterized in young adult and older SCID/NCr mice naturally infected with Helicobacter hepaticus. Liver lesions consisted of Kupffer, Ito, and oval cell hyperplasia along with multifocal to coalescing coagulative hepatocyte necrosis. Numerous Warthin-Starry-posit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li X,Fox JG,Whary MT,Yan L,Shames B,Zhao Z

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cysteine-containing peptide motif, EWSPCSVTCG, is found highly conserved in the circumsporozoite protein (CSP) and the thrombospondin-related anonymous protein (TRAP) of all the Plasmodium species analyzed so far and has been shown to be crucially involved in the sporozoite invasion of hepatocytes. We have recently ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bharadwaj A,Sharma P,Joshi SK,Singh B,Chauhan VS

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the biological properties of a novel staphylococcal enterotoxin (SE)-like toxin type P (SElP). SElP induced a substantial proliferative response and the production of cytokines interleukin-2, gamma interferon, tumor necrosis factor alpha, and interleukin-4 from human T cells when administered at a conc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Omoe K,Imanishi K,Hu DL,Kato H,Fugane Y,Abe Y,Hamaoka S,Watanabe Y,Nakane A,Uchiyama T,Shinagawa K

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillary angiomatosis (BA), one of the many clinical manifestations resulting from infection with the facultative intracellular bacterium Bartonella henselae, is characterized by angiogenic lesions. Macrophages have been identified as important effector cells contributing to the angiogenic process during B. henselae ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McCord AM,Burgess AW,Whaley MJ,Anderson BE

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The superoxide anion (O2-)-generating activity of guinea pig macrophages stimulated by wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), immune complexes, or phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) was studied after short- and long-term exposures of the cells to muramyl dipeptide (MDP) or lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Neither MDP nor LPS alone induce...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yagawa K,Kaku M,Ichinose Y,Nagao S,Tanaka A,Tomoda A

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the specific role of transmembrane tumor necrosis factor (tmTNF) in protective and pathological responses against the gastrointestinal helminth Trichinella spiralis, we compared the immune responses of TNF-alpha/lymphotoxin alpha (LTalpha)(-/-) mice expressing noncleavable transgenic tmTNF to those of TNF-alp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ierna MX,Scales HE,Mueller C,Lawrence CE

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family of high-molecular-weight (HMW) surface-exposed proteins important in the attachment of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) to human epithelial cells was previously identified (J. W. St. Geme III, S. Falkow, and S. J. Barenkamp, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90:2875-2879, 1993). In the present investigation...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bakaletz LO,Barenkamp SJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the enteric pathogen Vibrio cholerae, expression of the major virulence factors is controlled by the hierarchical expression of several regulatory proteins comprising the ToxR regulon. In this study, we demonstrate that disruption of the fadD gene encoding a long-chain fatty acyl coenzyme A ligase has marked effect...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ray S,Chatterjee E,Chatterjee A,Paul K,Chowdhury R

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subunits of a proline-rich coccidioidal antigen (Ag2/PRA) of Coccidioides immitis were analyzed by comparison as vaccines in mice. The optimal dose of plasmid vaccine encoding full-length Ag2/PRA was determined to be between 10 and 100 microg. Mice vaccinated with plasmids encoding amino acids (aa) 1 to 106 were as pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Peng T,Shubitz L,Simons J,Perrill R,Orsborn KI,Galgiani JN

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae is the causative bacteria of the diarrheal disease cholera, but it also persists in aquatic environments, where it displays an expression profile that is distinct from that during infection. Upon entry into the host, a tightly regulated circuit coordinates the induction of two major virulence factors: ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hay AJ,Yang M,Xia X,Liu Z,Hammons J,Fenical W,Zhu J

更新日期：2016-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni is a microaerobic bacterium that produces an acute, self-limiting, watery or bloody diarrhea in humans. Little is known about how C. jejuni causes disease or even what specific capabilities it requires for survival in vivo. The enzyme, superoxide dismutase (SOD), which catalyzes the breakdown of s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pesci EC,Cottle DL,Pickett CL

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adherence of Enterococcus faecalis strains to human T24 cells was examined by scanning electron microscopy. Five highly adhesive strains were identified from 30 strains isolated from the urine of patients with urinary tract infections. No efficiently adhesive strains were found among the 30 strains isolated from t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shiono A,Ike Y

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella abortus endotoxin preparations, containing approximately 5 to 6% protein, induce strong immune and adjuvant immunoglobulin G (IgG) responses as compared with Escherichia coli endotoxin preparations, with equivalent amounts of protein, which induce responses in which IgM antibody predominates. Using an enzyme-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kurtz RS,Berman DT

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteine proteases, including Arg-gingipain of Porphyromonas gingivalis, have been implicated as important virulence factors in periodontal diseases. These enzymes are also involved in the hemagglutinating activity of the organisms. In order to determine the role of proteases in the colonization of the gingival margin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tokuda M,Duncan M,Cho MI,Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:El Tor and non-O1 strains of Vibrio cholerae were analyzed to determine whether synthesis of secreted hemolysin was influenced by the concentration of iron in the medium. Synthesis of hemolysin was found to be iron regulated in both El Tor and non-O1 isolates. Increased levels of hemolytic activity were detected in su...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stoebner JA,Payne SM

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila multiplied rapidly in guinea pig and rat alveolar macrophages but failed to grow when phagocytic activity was inhibited by pretreatment with 0.5 or 1.0 microgram of cytochalasin D per ml. Attachment was not inhibited by cytochalasin D. No extracellular multiplication occurred when L. pneumophila...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Elliott JA,Winn WC Jr

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since melanin is considered a virulence factor in Cryptococcus neoformans, its suppression at 37 degrees C has been perplexing. We now show an opposite thermal regulation of superoxide dismutase (SOD), consistent with a compensatory mechanism. Moreover, we demonstrate normal SOD and catalase levels in albino, oxygen-s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jacobson ES,Jenkins ND,Todd JM

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum antibody response to proteins encoded by the virulence-associated plasmid of Shigella flexneri was determined in monkeys challenged with virulent S. flexneri serotype 2a. With water-extractable antigen in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, a significant increase in antibody titer against proteins from a p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Oaks EV,Hale TL,Formal SB

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular cysteine protease from Streptococcus pyogenes is a virulence factor that plays a significant role in host-pathogen interaction. Streptococcal protease is expressed as an inactive 40-kDa precursor that is autocatalytically converted into a 28-kDa mature (active) enzyme. Replacement of the single cyste...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Matsuka YV,Pillai S,Gubba S,Musser JM,Olmsted SB

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we tested the in vitro and in vivo anti-Cryptococcus neoformans activity of an antilaminarin (anti-beta-glucan) monoclonal antibody (MAb 2G8) (immunoglobulin G2b) which was previously shown to inhibit the growth of beta-glucan-exposing Candida albicans cells. Here we show that MAb 2G8 binds to the cell w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rachini A,Pietrella D,Lupo P,Torosantucci A,Chiani P,Bromuro C,Proietti C,Bistoni F,Cassone A,Vecchiarelli A

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of Candida albicans strain WO-1 and related strains switch frequently and reversibly between a white-colony-forming unit (white phase) and a gray-colony-forming unit (opaque phase). Cells in the budding white phase exhibit the usual smooth round phenotype observed in other C. albicans strains, but cells in the b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Anderson J,Cundiff L,Schnars B,Gao MX,Mackenzie I,Soll DR

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports from our laboratory have shown that 7 days after infection of C3HeB/FeJ mice with an attenuated strain of Salmonella typhimurium, there is profound suppression of responses to B- and T-cell mitogens and suppression of the capacity of spleen cells to mount a primary, in vitro plaque-forming-cell (PFC) ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huang D,Schwacha MG,Eisenstein TK

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo induction of colony-stimulating activity (CSA) by N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanine-D-isoglutamine has been demonstrated recently. In this study we increased our understanding of this property by testing muramyl peptides of several structures and activities for their capacity to induce CSA in vivo. A comparison of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galelli A,Lefrancier P,Chedid L

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00