Characterization of the Ers regulon of Enterococcus faecalis.

abstract：:Virulent Treponema pallidum organisms, extracted from infected rabbit testes, were subjected to velocity sedimentation in discontinuous gradients of Hypaque, a high density, low viscosity material. After centrifugation of extracts at 20 C for 45 min at 100,000 x g, treponemes separated into two distinct bands based up...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baseman JB,Nichols JC,Rumpp JW,Hayes NS

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective immunity against Toxoplasma gondii is known to be mediated mainly by T lymphocytes and gamma interferon (IFN-gamma). The contribution of CD4(+) and CD8(+) T-lymphocyte subsets to protective immune responses against T. gondii infection, triggered by a GRA1 (p24) DNA vaccine, was assessed in this study. In vi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Scorza T,D'Souza S,Laloup M,Dewit J,De Braekeleer J,Verschueren H,Vercammen M,Huygen K,Jongert E

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial pathogen Clostridium difficle synthesizes two high-molecular-weight toxins (A and B), which exhibit toxic effects in vivo and in vitro. Here, we present evidence that the major intracellular targets of these two toxins are the Rho GTPases. Overexpression of RhoA, RhoB, or RhoC GTPases in transfected HeLa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giry M,Popoff MR,von Eichel-Streiber C,Boquet P

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro studies have shown that enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strains are capable of invading cultured epithelial cells derived from the human ileum and colon. Two separate invasion loci (tia and tib) have previously been isolated from the classical ETEC strain H10407. The tia locus has been shown to direct...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mammarappallil JG,Elsinghorst EA

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：:To test the importance of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and adhesin as major antigens in vaccination against rabbit enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC)-like E. coli O103 infection, we used two nonpathogenic wild-type strains to immunize rabbits at weaning. One of these strains (C127) harbors the O103 LPS but does not ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Milon A,Esslinger J,Camguilhem R

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro, Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin (CPE) binds to human ileal epithelium and induces morphological damage concurrently with reduced short-circuit current, transepithelial resistance, and net water absorption. CPE also binds to the human colon in vitro but causes only slight morphological and transport chang...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fernández Miyakawa ME,Pistone Creydt V,Uzal FA,McClane BA,Ibarra C

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enterotoxic factor isolated from cultures of Salmonella yielded reproducible results in the suckling mouse model in contrast to other animal models. The enterotoxin appears to possess properties similar to both the heat-stable and heat-labile enterotoxins of Escherichia coli. Preliminary results indicate that the t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Koupal LR,Deibel RH

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, a causative agent of Lyme borreliosis, is a zoonotic pathogen that survives in nutrient-limited environments within a tick, prior to transmission to its mammalian host. Survival under these prolonged nutrient-limited conditions is thought to be similar to survival during stationary phase, which i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fazzino L,Tilly K,Dulebohn DP,Rosa PA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attachment and ingestion of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis by two epithelial cell lines were enhanced by soluble fibronectin (FN). Peptide blocking of the FN attachment protein (FAP-P) inhibited the internalization of M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis. Disruption of FAP-P expression significantly reduced a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Secott TE,Lin TL,Wu CC

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella spp. are gram-negative intracellular pathogens that survive and multiply within phagocytic cells of their hosts. Smooth organisms present O polysaccharides (OPS) on their surface. These OPS help the bacteria avoid the bactericidal action of serum. The wboA gene, coding for the enzyme glycosyltransferase, is e...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fernandez-Prada CM,Nikolich M,Vemulapalli R,Sriranganathan N,Boyle SM,Schurig GG,Hadfield TL,Hoover DL

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pestis is a highly pathogenic Gram-negative organism and the causative agent of bubonic and pneumonic plague. Y. pestis is capable of causing major epidemics; thus, there is a need for vaccine targets and a greater understanding of the role of these targets in pathogenesis. Two prime Y. pestis vaccine candida...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weening EH,Cathelyn JS,Kaufman G,Lawrenz MB,Price P,Goldman WE,Miller VL

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice with a null deletion mutation in the gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) receptor gene were used to study the role of IFN-gamma responsiveness during experimental pulmonary cryptococcosis. Cryptococcus neoformans was inoculated intratracheally into mice lacking the IFN-gamma receptor gene (IFN-gammaR-/-) and into contro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chen GH,McDonald RA,Wells JC,Huffnagle GB,Lukacs NW,Toews GB

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis, a causative agent of whooping cough, expresses BrkA, which confers serum resistance, but the closely related human pathogen that also causes whooping cough, Bordetella parapertussis, does not. Interestingly, B. parapertussis, but not B. pertussis, produces an O antigen, a factor shown in other mo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Goebel EM,Wolfe DN,Elder K,Stibitz S,Harvill ET

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated a possible cause-and-effect relationship between sensitization against Actinomyces viscosus Nyl and destructive periodontal disease in RIC-Sprague-Dawley rats. Germfree rats (66) were either immunized with A. viscosus Nyl (day 20) or orally infected with A. viscosus Nyl (days 38 and 39) or both. We mea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Burckhardt JJ,Gaegauf-Zollinger R,Schmid R,Guggenheim B

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody was used to characterize a 135-kDa surface-located membrane protein (Lmp1) generally present in Mycoplasma hominis strains. The monoclonal antibody, 552, was applied to identify the corresponding gene in an expression library of M. hominis PG21 DNA. The M. hominis PG21 lmp1 gene was sequenced, an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ladefoged SA,Birkelund S,Hauge S,Brock B,Jensen LT,Christiansen G

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of a standard bacterial vaccine (SBV) affords some protection against influenza infection in mice if given 4 to 5 h before inoculation of the virus. This effect was enhanced by repeated injections of SBV 7 and 14 days earlier, as measured by the length of survival, mortality rate, development of gross p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Degré M,Dahl H

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fimbriae are colonization factors of the human pathogen Haemophilus influenzae in that they mediate bacterial adherence to human eukaryotic cells. The contribution of the major (HifA) and putative minor (HifD and HifE) subunits of H. influenzae fimbriae to fimbria-specific adherence was studied by using mutants that w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van Ham SM,van Alphen L,Mooi FR,van Putten JP

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial passage of Cryptococcus neoformans in mice increases virulence relative to the nonpassaged line. Postpassaged lines showed no difference in the expression of most known virulence factors, with the exception that the more virulent lines had smaller capsules in vitro. These data imply that other mechanisms of vir...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McClelland EE,Perrine WT,Potts WK,Casadevall A

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms for acquisition of iron by Haemophilus influenzae and their role in pathogenesis are not known. Heme and nonheme sources of iron were evaluated for their effect on growth of type b and nontypable strains of H. influenzae in an iron-restricted, defined medium. All 13 strains acquired iron from heme, hemo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pidcock KA,Wooten JA,Daley BA,Stull TL

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumolysin is an important virulence factor of Streptococcus pneumoniae, interacting with the membranes of host cells to elicit a multitude of inflammatory responses. We used cDNA microarrays to identify genes which are responsive to S. pneumoniae in a pneumolysin-dependent and -independent fashion. The THP-1 human m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rogers PD,Thornton J,Barker KS,McDaniel DO,Sacks GS,Swiatlo E,McDaniel LS

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two enteropathogenic strains of Escherichia coli (EEC) differed from a nonenteropathogenic strain of E. coli (NEEC) in their association with porcine small intestinal epithelium. The EEC characteristically were found along villi from tip to base and contiguous to the brush border. They were not in crypts. In contrast,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bertschinger HU,Moon HW,Whipp SC

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A ruthenium red-staining capsule was observed on two pathogenic strains, but not on one nonpathogenic strain of Mycoplasma gallisepticum. The capsule appeared to mediate cytadsorption of mycoplasmas to the chicken tracheal epithelium without evidence of membrane fusion. No relationship was seen between the presence of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tajima M,Yagihashi T,Miki Y

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genomic library of meningococcal DNA from a clinical isolate of Neisseria meningitidis was constructed in the expression vector lambda gt11. Outer membrane complex was prepared from the same strain and used to immunize rabbits to raise polyclonal anti-outer membrane complex serum. The amplified library was probed wi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barlow AK,Heckels JE,Clarke IN

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After aerosol deposition of Serratia marcescens in mice, initial delayed pulmonary clearance was followed between 4 and 24 hr later by progressive elimination. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Southern PM,Pierce AK,Sanford JP

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the Vwa+ phenotype of Yersinia pestis in vitro is known to reflect maximum induction of virulence (or V and W antigens) at 37 degrees C with concomitant restriction of cell division. Both phenomena are potentiated by 20 mM Mg2+ and prevented by cultivation at 26 or 37 degrees C with 2.5 mM Ca2+. We have ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Perry RD,Brubaker RR

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet microbicidal proteins (PMPs) are small, cationic peptides which possess potent microbicidal activities against common bloodstream pathogens, such as Staphylococcus aureus. We previously showed that S. aureus strains exhibiting resistance to thrombin-induced PMP (tPMP-1) in vitro have an enhanced capacity to c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bayer AS,Prasad R,Chandra J,Koul A,Smriti M,Varma A,Skurray RA,Firth N,Brown MH,Koo SP,Yeaman MR

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protection by surface antigen TF1.17 of Tritrichomonas foetus was investigated because it reacted with a monoclonal antibody which immobilized and mediated complement killing of the organism and prevented adherence to vaginal epithelial cells. This monoclonal antibody was used to demonstrate conservation of the antige...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： BonDurant RH,Corbeil RR,Corbeil LB

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies showed that Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A (PA toxin) catalyzes nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)-dependent inhibition of protein synthesis in a rabbit reticulocyte lysate and transfer of radioactivity from [14C]adenine-labeled NAD to a protein having the same molecular weight as elongation f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Iglewski BH,Liu PV,Kabat D

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mouse model of Lyme borreliosis, the host immune response during infection with Borrelia burgdorferi results in the remission of carditis and arthritis, as well as global reduction of spirochete numbers in tissues, without elimination of infection. These events were recapitulated by passive transfer of immune s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barthold SW,Hodzic E,Tunev S,Feng S

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00