Regulation of marA, soxS, rob, acrAB and micF in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium.

abstract：:The use of continuous free-flow electrophoresis for the purification of extracted lipopolysaccharides ( LPSs ) was investigated. Commercial (nucleic acid contaminated) LPS preparations, isolated by the hot phenol-water method of Westphal from Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli 0111: B4, were analyzed. Continu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kuwae T,Kurata M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No systematic study on serotyping of Enterococcus faecalis has been reported since 1964 when M.E. Sharpe conducted serotyping of group D streptococcus in U.K. So, we attempted to re-evaluate serotyping of E. faecalis. For this purpose, we received 42 Sharpe's strains and first examined for their biochemical characteri...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Maekawa S,Yoshioka M,Kumamoto Y

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method for the separation and identification of Bacteroides fragilis from other Bacteroides species through the use of oxgall-impregnated filter paper disks is described. As in the antibiotic sensitivity test, filter paper disks containing defined amounts of bile salt were placed on a lawn of bacterial cells ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamazaki E,Sugimoto K,Niwano K,Okada J

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 8-year-old girl with meningococcal meningitis lacked serum complement activity. The seventh component of complement (C7) could not be detected in her serum by either functional or immunochemical analysis. The levels of the other components were within the normal range. Her serum complement activity was restored by ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Miyake T,Ohta K,Kawamori J,Hirao T,Akagaki Y,Inai S

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to sequence the central part of the coding region of the Clostridium tyrobutyricum fiagellin gene to improve the immunoenzymatic counting of cells after milk filtration. The coding region was amplified by PCR, and the amplified products were cloned. A DNA sequence analysis of positive clo...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Arnold F,Bédouet L,Batina P,Robreau G

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis spp. are opportunistic fungal pathogens that are closely associated with severe pneumonia and pulmonary complications in patients with impaired immunity. In this study, the antigenic epitopes of the gene encoding the 55 kDa antigen fragment of Pneumocystis (p55), which may play an important role in Pneumo...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fan H,Guo JY,Ma SL,Zhang N,An CL

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological activities of lipopolysaccharide-like substance (LLS) extracted from Leptospira interrogans serovar canicola strain Moulton by the hot phenol-water method were studied in mice. The addition of 12.5 micrograms/ml or more of LLS fraction increased the incorporation of [3H]thymidine into in vitro cultured ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shimizu T,Matsusaka E,Takayanagi K,Masuzawa T,Iwamoto Y,Morita T,Mifuchi I,Yanagihara Y

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was done to determine the molecular epidemiology of rabies virus (RV) in Vietnam. The nucleoprotein (N) and glycoprotein (G) genes of RVs were amplified from the brains of ten rabid dogs of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The nucleotide sequences of these genes were compared with those of other Asian stra...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamagata J,Ahmed K,Khawplod P,Mannen K,Xuyen DK,Loi HH,Dung NV,Nishizono A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An oral delivery system based on ApxIIA#5-expressed on Saccharomyces cerevisiae was studied for its potential to induce immune responses in mice. Murine bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (DCs) stimulated in vitro with ApxIIA#5-expressed on S. cerevisiae upregulated the expression of maturation and activation markers...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shin MK,Lee WJ,Jung MH,Cha SB,Shin SW,Yoo A,Kim DH,Yoo HS

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum samples were collected from 938 pigs of 24 farms in Hokkaido, Kagoshima, and Okinawa prefectures in Japan in 2001-2005. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used for the detection of antibodies to LipL32 antigen which is common to Leptospira interrogans. Samples positive in ELISA were then investigated ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Naito M,Sakoda Y,Kamikawa T,Nitta Y,Hirose K,Sakashita M,Kurokawa S,Kida H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia have been isolated with increasing frequency from the airways of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, usually following P. aeruginosa infections, but their adherence to human epithelial respiratory cells has never been investigated. In this study, various S. maltophilia strains were ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： De Vidipó LA,De Marques EA,Puchelle E,Plotkowski MC

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serological typing scheme of Bacillus cereus has been developed by immunochemical analyses of flagellar antigen using an agglutination method. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the classification of flagellar serotype of Bacillus cereus had greater sensitivity. 10-500 times, than that of agglutination me...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Murakami T,Hiraoka K,Mikami T,Matsumoto T,Katagiri S,Suzuki M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corilagin and tellimagrandin I are polyphenols isolated from the extract of Arctostaphylos uvaursi and Rosa canina L. (rose red), respectively. We have reported that corilagin and tellimagrandin I remarkably reduced the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of beta-lactams in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aure...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shiota S,Shimizu M,Sugiyama J,Morita Y,Mizushima T,Tsuchiya T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylcellulose-elicited peritoneal macrophages from BALB/c mice were cultivated in vitro and inoculated with dengue virus (DV). At intervals thereafter portions of the culture fluids were taken and titrated for viral infectivity. Extracts from Ascaris suum and Parascaris equorum, either crude or Sephadex G-100 fracti...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Wiharta AS,Hotta H,Hotta S,Matsumura T,Sujudi,Tsuji M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen strains of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) isolated from wild ducks in Japan were placed into 4 distinct antigenic groups on the basis of their reactivities to 8 monoclonal antibodies against the HN molecule of NDV in hemagglutination inhibition tests. The NDV strains of duck origin were antigenically distinct ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kawamura M,Nagata-Matsubara K,Nerome K,Yamane N,Kida H,Kodama H,Izawa H,Mikami T

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Live attenuated bacteria can be used as a carrier for the delivery of foreign antigens to a host's immune system. The N-terminal domain of SipB, a translocon protein of the type III secretion system of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, is required for secretion and outer membrane localization. In the present st...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Jang JI,Kim JS,Eom JS,Kim HG,Kim BH,Lim S,Bang IS,Park YK

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The slime-producing Staphylococcus epidermidis strain sensu strictu CNS23 was transformed by protoplast transformation with the plasmid pTV1 which carries transposon Tn 917. Using this transposon mutagenesis system we obtained the Tn917-inserted mutant CT512, which has lost the ability to produce slime. A single inser...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Grüter L,Feucht H,Mempel M,Laufs R

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of 33 compounds of L-alanine analogues over a wide range of concentrations to initiate germination of Bacillus subtilis spores was determined, and the inhibitory activity against L-alanine-initiated germination was determined for the above compounds and 22 of their D- and DL-isomers. Nineteen L-isomers wer...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yasuda Y,Tochikubo K

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pea cyv1 gene is a yet-to-be-identified recessive resistance gene that inhibits the infection of clover yellow vein virus (ClYVV). Previous studies confirmed that the cell-to-cell movement of ClYVV is inhibited in cyv1-carrying pea plants; however, the effect of cyv1 on viral replication remains unknown. In this s...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Taninaka Y,Nakahara KS,Hagiwara-Komoda Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to elucidate the molecular characteristics of Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus in Okinawa, 23 strains of JE virus isolated in a 25-year span were sequenced for the 240 nucleotides of the C-preM junction region and 111 nucleotides of the E gene region and compared with those of reference strains isolated in ma...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ma SP,Arakaki S,Makino Y,Fukunaga T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production from murine resident peritoneal macrophages (M phi) of a soluble factor, which was capable of enhancing the antigen-presenting (AP) function of dendritic cells (DC), was examined. The supernatants of peritoneal M phi (M phi sup) were prepared by culturing peritoneal M phi with particles, i.e., zymosan A...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Miyazaki H,Ito A,Osawa T

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed the antigen capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) systems for quantification of Borna disease virus (BDV) major antigens, p40 and p24. Using these ELISAs, we quantified the two proteins in various BDV-infected materials, including the cell lysates and culture supernatants as well as the homoge...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Watanabe M,Zhong Q,Kobayashi T,Kamitani W,Tomonaga K,Ikuta K

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the extent of genetic diversity of Salmonella choleraesuis subspecies choleraesuis serovar Infantis and whether environmental isolates were similar or identical to human isolates, a total of 110 isolates from humans, broiler samples, egg production facilities, riverwater, sewage, and chicken meat were ana...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Murakami K,Horikawa K,Otsuki K

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the effect of heat-stable enterotoxin produced by Yersinia enterocolitica (Y. enterocolitica ST) on cyclic nucleotide levels in the intestines of 6-day-old mice and in cultured cell line cells. The concentration of cyclic guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic GMP) in homogenates of the intestines increas...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Inoue T,Okamoto K,Moriyama T,Takahashi T,Shimizu K,Miyama A

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exocellular proteases produced by Vibrio fluvialis, V. furnissii, V. metschnikovii and V. campbellii were characterized and compared to those of V. mimicus protease (VMP) and V. vulnificus protease (VVP). These proteases possessed both elastolytic and hemagglutinating abilities and were identified, except that of V. m...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Alam M,Miyoshi S,Shinoda S

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attempts were made to study the pathogenicity of some strains of Bacteroides fragilis group in the rat intra-abdominal abscess model. Multiple intraabdominal abscesses were produced in 50 to 70% of animals when an inoculum containing 10(9) CFU/ml of any of the five species of Bacteroides fragilis group was injected. R...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Jotwani R,Gupta U,Watanabe K,Ueno K

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reversed passive latex agglutination (RPLA) assay for detecting Clostridium difficile toxin A is presented. Purified monoclonal antibody (mAb 37B5) was used for latex sensitization. The culture supernatants of 93 strains of C. difficile were tested by RPLA assay and the results compared with those of a commercially ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Toma C,Nakamura S,Kamiya S,Nakasone N,Iwanaga M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoantibodies to myeloperoxidase (MPO) are a subset of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA, MPO-ANCA) detected in the sera of some patients with primary systemic vasculitis. The titer of MPO-ANCA does not always reflect disease activity and this inconsistency may be attributable to differences in epitopic spec...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Suzuki K,Kobayashi S,Yamazaki K,Gondo M,Tomizawa K,Arimura Y,Nakabayashi K,Ozaki S,Yoshida M,Yoshida T,Tsusaka N,Muso E,Okazaki T,Hashimoto H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene upstream from fimA, the gene encoding fimbrilin, on the chromosome of Porphyromonas gingivalis was sequenced and shown to be the gene encoding an outer membrane protein in this organism based on homology and biochemical analyses. Therefore, the gene (formerly ORF5) was designated pgmA, the P. gingivalis outer m...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hongo H,Osano E,Ozeki M,Onoe T,Watanabe K,Honda O,Tani H,Nakamura H,Yoshimura F

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ICR mice were immunized with sheep red blood cells (sRBC). Both adenosine deaminase (ADA) and purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) activities in spleen lymphocytes increased faster than the serum antibody titer and reached a peak one week after the immunization. ADA activity increased significantly in T lymphocytes b...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kurashige S,Akuzawa Y,Yoshida T,Teshima C,Kodama K,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00