Toxin A of Clostridium difficile binds to the human carbohydrate antigens I, X, and Y.

abstract：:Cell wall proteins with sialidase activity are involved in carbohydrate assimilation, adhesion to mucosal surfaces, and biofilm formation. Gardnerella spp. inhabit the human vaginal microbiome and encode up to three sialidase enzymes, two of which are suspected to be cell wall associated. Here we demonstrate that the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kurukulasuriya SP,Patterson MH,Hill JE

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic determinants of the 120-kDa cytotoxin of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae serotype 2 were isolated from a lambda DNA library by a plaque immunoblot technique. Expression of the 120-kDa polypeptide was confirmed by Western immunoblot analysis of infected Escherichia coli cell lysates, which were shown to be ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： MacDonald J,Rycroft AN

更新日期：1992-07-01 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：:Mice infected with various strains of Salmonella enteritidis and S. typhimurium were found to be more sensitive to the cell wall lipopolysaccharide (LPS) extracted from certain strains of Salmonella than noninfected mice. This hypersensitivity was induced by those smooth or rough strains which possessed a polysacchari...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kawakami M,Hara Y,Osawa N

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No effective therapy exists for Cryptosporidium parvum, a coccidial protozoan parasite that causes severe diarrhea in patients with AIDS. The role of microtubules in parasite invasion of host cells was investigated by incubating 10(7) oocysts with a HT 29.74 cell line for 24 h in the presence of microtubule-disrupting...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wiest PM,Johnson JH,Flanigan TP

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified mgrA (rat) as a regulator of autolysis in Staphylococcus aureus. Besides its effect on autolytic activity, we recently found alterations in the expression of regulator and target virulence genes in the mgrA mutant. Northern analysis and transcription fusion assays showed that inactivation...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ingavale S,van Wamel W,Luong TT,Lee CY,Cheung AL

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined apoptotic cell death associated with Shiga-like toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli. Renal cortices from three children with postenteropathic hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) and from mice infected with E. coli O157:H7 and pediatric renal tubular epithelial cells stimulated with Stx and E. coli O...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karpman D,Håkansson A,Perez MT,Isaksson C,Carlemalm E,Caprioli A,Svanborg C

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridomas secreting monoclonal antibodies against an apparent strain-specific cell surface antigen of Neisseria gonorrhoeae were produced. Spleen cells from BALB/c mice immunized with whole gonococci were fused with mouse myeloma cell line Sp2/0, and hybrid cells were selected in culture. One hybridoma that secreted ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nachamkin I,Cannon JG,Mittler RS

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody levels in sera and respiratory secretions and resistance to respiratory infections were examined in mice given live infuenza virus in small-particle (2 mum) aerosols, large-particle (10 mum) aerosols, intraperitoneally, and subcutaneously. After parenteral administration antibody was found primarily in the se...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Scott GH,Sydiskis RJ

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) results from infection by Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli and is the most common cause of acute renal failure in children. We have developed a mouse model of HUS by administering endotoxin-free Stx2 in multiple doses over 7 to 8 days. At sacrifice, moribund animals demonstr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sauter KA,Melton-Celsa AR,Larkin K,Troxell ML,O'Brien AD,Magun BE

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endotoxin-resistant C3H/HeJ mice were used to test the hypothesis that a macrophage product, possibly interleukin-1, might mediate the depression of liver cytochrome P-450-dependent drug metabolism in endotoxin-treated mice. Depression of liver drug metabolism by endotoxin was observed in normal mice (C3H/HeN) but not...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ghezzi P,Saccardo B,Villa P,Rossi V,Bianchi M,Dinarello CA

更新日期：1986-12-01 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：:The genetics of resistance to a naturally occurring respiratory infection caused by Sendai virus was examined in F1, F2, and backcross progeny of resistant C57BL/6J and susceptible DBA/2J mice and in 25 recombinant inbred strains. An intranasal inoculum of 0.1 50% tissue culture infective dose (low dose) of Sendai vir...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brownstein DG

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen consumption by Treponema pallidum was observed to be glucose dependent. Treponemes consumed O2 to a low dissolved O2 concentration of 0.01 mumol of O2 per ml when respiration ceased. A fermentative degradation of glucose occurred during the maintenance of treponemes at 0.01 mumol of O2 per ml. Although the init...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barbieri JT,Cox CD

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have indicated that the ability to bind to fibronectin is a key feature in successful cell invasion by Campylobacter jejuni. Given the spatial distribution of fibronectin and the architecture of the epithelium, this suggests the possibility that C. jejuni cell invasion might preferentially occur at th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Monteville MR,Konkel ME

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7 carries a chromosomal msbB1 and a plasmid-encoded msbB2 gene. We characterized msbB2 function as a homologue of msbB1 by examination of wild-type organisms and mutant strains that lacked functional msbB1, msbB2, and both msbB1 and msbB2. The msbB double-mutant strain generated pentaacyl lipid ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kim SH,Jia W,Bishop RE,Gyles C

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis serotype 2 is a porcine and human pathogen with adhesive and invasive properties. In other streptococci, large surface-associated proteins (>100 kDa) of the MSCRAMM family (microbial surface components recognizing adhesive matrix molecules) are key players in interactions with host tissue. In this s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baums CG,Kaim U,Fulde M,Ramachandran G,Goethe R,Valentin-Weigand P

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera toxin (CT) and related Escherichia coli enterotoxins LTI and LTIIb have a conserved hydrophobic region at the AB(5) interface postulated to be important for toxin assembly. Hydrophobic residue F223 in the A subunit of CT (CTA) as well as residues 174, L77, and T78 in the B subunit of CT (CTB) were replaced ind...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tinker JK,Erbe JL,Hol WG,Holmes RK

更新日期：2003-07-01 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：:The 70-kilobase pYV plasmid of Yersinia enterocolitica encodes a set of proteins called Yops that are produced during infection. To use Y. enterocolitica as a live carrier to present the cholera toxin B (CT-B) subunit to the immune system, we constructed an operon fusion between ctxB and the yop51 gene. This operon fu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sory MP,Hermand P,Vaerman JP,Cornelis GR

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Brucella abortus, a gene encoding a major cell envelope protein, omp2, is duplicated within a short segment of the large chromosomal DNA. Although both genes contain open reading frames, encoding proteins of high identity, expression from only one, omp2b, has been detected in laboratory-grown B. abortus. In the pre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marquis H,Ficht TA

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella enterica serovar Dublin invade osteoblasts and are causative agents of human bone disease. In the present study, we examined the ability of S. aureus and Salmonella serovar Dublin to induce the production of tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) by normal ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alexander EH,Bento JL,Hughes FM Jr,Marriott I,Hudson MC,Bost KL

更新日期：2001-03-01 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：:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), such as β-defensins and cathelicidins, are essential components of innate and adaptive immunity owing to their extensive multifunctional activities. However, their role in fungal infection in vivo remains elusive. In this study, we investigated the protective effect of murine β-defensin ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kolar SS,Baidouri H,Hanlon S,McDermott AM

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) were produced by immunizing mice with a disrupted yeast cell homogenate of Histoplasma capsulatum. MAbs 1 and 2 reacted only with the yeast cell antigens of H. capsulatum and Blastomyces dermatitidis, whereas MAbs 3 and 4 showed broader cross-reactivity. MAb 3 cross-reacted with B. de...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kamel SM,Wheat LJ,Garten ML,Bartlett MS,Tansey MR,Tewari RP

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inoculation of herpes simplex virus on the forehead and/or snout of hairless mice resulted in a significantly lower mortality rate than inoculation of the skin in the lumbosacral area. Latent herpes simplex virus infections were detected in all forehead-inoculated and in 90% of snout-inoculated mice. Phosphonoacetic a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Klein RJ,Friedman-Kien AE,Yellin PB

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo administration of Porphyromonas gingivalis lipopolysaccharide (Pg-LPS) to mice induced apoptosis before a specific immune response. Apoptosis was associated with the expression of immunoglobulin and Ia on B cells and of CD5 and several markers on T cells. Apoptosis peaked in the spleen and lymph nodes on day 2...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Isogai E,Isogal H,Kimura K,Fujii N,Takagi S,Hirose K,Hayashi M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L929 cell populations persistently infected for more than 600 days exhibited cell cycle distributions and generation times similar to those of uninfected cells. The RNA and protein contents of these long-term-infected cells, as determined by flow cytometry and correlated with the cell cycle, were likewise approximatel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baca OG,Crissman HA

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that Neisseria gonorrhoeae possesses a very high level of catalase activity, but the regulation of catalase expression has not been investigated extensively. In Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, it has been demonstrated that OxyR is a positive regulator of hydrogen pero...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tseng HJ,McEwan AG,Apicella MA,Jennings MP

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An Escherichia coli oligonucleotide microarray based on three sequenced genomes was validated for comparative genomic microarray hybridization and used to study the diversity of E. coli O157 isolates from human infections and food and animal sources. Among 26 test strains, 24 (including both Shiga toxin [Stx]-positive...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wu G,Carter B,Mafura M,Liebana E,Woodward MJ,Anjum MF

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00