Polymeric linear Peptide chimeric vaccine-induced antimalaria immunity is associated with enhanced in vitro antigen loading.

abstract：:Actinlike material was obtained from disrupted Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells by a modification of the method of Hancock and Nikaido (J. Bacteriol. 136:381-390) for isolating outer membrane vesicles. Pelleted membranes were dissolved in Laemmli sample buffer and electrophoresed in parallel lanes with purified rabbit ske...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Berk RS,Moon M,Higbee R,Cramer C,Roher A,Weis M,Hazlett L

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three dominant proteins (41, 48, and 49 kDa) were detected by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) in purified preparations of the extracellular aspartyl proteinase (AP) of Candida albicans. All three proteins bound to the specific carboxyl proteinase ligand, pepstatin A, and were assoc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Morrison CJ,Hurst SF,Bragg SL,Kuykendall RJ,Diaz H,Pohl J,Reiss E

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella abortus is recognized by several Toll-like receptor (TLR)-associated pathways triggering proinflammatory responses that affect both the nature and intensity of the immune response. Previously, we demonstrated that B. abortus-mediated dendritic cell (DC) maturation and control of infection are dependent on the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： de Almeida LA,Macedo GC,Marinho FA,Gomes MT,Corsetti PP,Silva AM,Cassataro J,Giambartolomei GH,Oliveira SC

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histoplasma capsulatum induces a cell-mediated immune response in the lungs and lymphoid organs of mammals. In this study, we analyzed the progression of the cytokine and inflammatory reactions in the lungs of mice infected intranasally with H. capsulatum. We measured cytokine mRNA levels and determined the inflammato...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cain JA,Deepe GS Jr

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of the synthesis of Vi polysaccharide, a major virulence determinant in Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi, is under the control of two regulatory systems, ompR-envZ and rscB-rscC, which respond to changes in osmolarity. Some serotype Typhi strains exhibit overexpression of Vi polysaccharide, which masks cl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Santander J,Wanda SY,Nickerson CA,Curtiss R 3rd

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of translocation of viable Escherichia coli C25 from the gastrointestinal tract to the mesenteric lymph nodes was compared in gnotobiotic mice colonized with only E. coli C25 and in gnotobiotic mice colonized with E. coli C25 plus the whole cecal flora from specific pathogen-free mice. The population lev...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Berg RD,Owens WE

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-mediated immune (CMI) responses and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) have been shown to be essential in acquired protection against Cryptococcus neoformans. Induction of a protective anticryptococcal CMI response includes increases in dendritic cells (DC) and activated CD4(+) T cells in draining lymph node...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bauman SK,Huffnagle GB,Murphy JW

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the first steps in the development of cerebral toxoplasmosis is the penetration of the blood-brain barrier, which is comprised of microvascular endothelial cells. We examined the capacity of human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBMEC) to interact with Toxoplasma gondii. We found that stimulation of HBME...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Däubener W,Spors B,Hucke C,Adam R,Stins M,Kim KS,Schroten H

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The action of injected bacterial lipopolysaccharide upon the uptake of cytophilic antibodies by macrophages was found to be unrelated either to changes in surface charge or to the rate of anaerobic glycolysis of these cells. It is apparently mediated by alterations in the levels of material in the serum which enhances...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tizard IR

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In nature, mixed Borrelia burgdorferi infections are common and possibly can be acquired by either superinfection or coinfection. Superinfection by heterologous B. burgdorferi strains has been established experimentally, although the ability of homologous B. burgdorferi clones to superinfect a host has not been studie...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rogovskyy AS,Bankhead T

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxic shock syndrome-associated staphylococcal and streptococcal exotoxins were tested for an ability to induce the production of tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Staphylococcal enterotoxins B and C1, along with streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin A, all induced TNF production in a dose-dependent manner, with production peak...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fast DJ,Schlievert PM,Nelson RD

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcome of infection is determined by both the quantity and the quality of an induced immune response. In particular, it has been demonstrated for selected pathogens that induction of TH1 or TH2 type helper T-cell subsets determines whether an immune response gives rise to protective immunity or disease-associated...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Westbay TD,Dascher CC,Hsia RC,Zauderer M,Bavoil PM

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory CD8+ T cells are essential for protective immunity against many intracellular pathogens; therefore, stimulation of this population of cells is an important goal of vaccination. We have previously shown that a detoxified derivative of Bacillus anthracis anthrax lethal toxin (LT) can deliver heterologous CD8+ T-c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shaw CA,Starnbach MN

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between human neutrophils and wild-type Bordetella pertussis or mutants expressing altered lipopolysaccharide or lacking virulence factors-pertussis toxin, adenylate cyclase toxin, dermonecrotic toxin, filamentous hemagglutinin (FHA), pertactin, or BrkA-was examined. In the absence of antibodies, the w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weingart CL,Weiss AA

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic strains of Yersinia spp. inject a set of Yop effector proteins into eukaryotic cells by using a plasmid-encoded type III secretion system. In this study, we analyzed the inflammatory response of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) after infection with different Yersinia enterocolitica strains. W...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Denecker G,Tötemeyer S,Mota LJ,Troisfontaines P,Lambermont I,Youta C,Stainier I,Ackermann M,Cornelis GR

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine proteases and serine protease homologs form the second largest gene family in the Drosophila melanogaster genome. Certain genes in the Jonah multigene family encoding serine proteases have been implicated in the fly antiviral immune response. Here, we report the involvement of Jonah66Ci in the Drosophila immune...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yadav S,Eleftherianos I

更新日期：2019-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus faecalis strains are resident intestinal bacteria associated with invasive infections, inflammatory bowel diseases, and colon cancer. Although factors promoting E. faecalis colonization of intestines are not fully known, one implicated pathway is a phosphotransferase system (PTS) in E. faecalis strain OG1...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fan TJ,Goeser L,Naziripour A,Redinbo MR,Hansen JJ

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we examined the binding of Candida albicans synchronized yeast-phase cells to plastic, immobilized amino acids and bovine serum albumin (BSA) and quantified the binding by using an XTT tetrazolium salt assay and absorbance determination. Our results show that C. albicans binds efficiently and specifical...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hawser SP,Islam K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peru-15 is a live attenuated oral vaccine derived from a Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Inaba strain by a series of deletions and modifications, including deletion of the entire CT genetic element. Peru-15 is also a stable, motility-defective strain and is unable to recombine with homologous DNA. We wished to determine whe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cohen MB,Giannella RA,Bean J,Taylor DN,Parker S,Hoeper A,Wowk S,Hawkins J,Kochi SK,Schiff G,Killeen KP

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial factors were analyzed in samples of whole saliva from 31 children, aged 0.8 to 3.8 years. When compared with the adult reference group, the children displayed similar levels of lysozyme, salivary peroxidase, and hypothiocyanite (OSCN-), whereas the amounts of immunoglobulins (isotypes A, G, and M), lacto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tenovuo J,Lehtonen OP,Aaltonen AS,Vilja P,Tuohimaa P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyme disease (LD), the most prevalent tick-borne illness in North America, is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi The long-term survival of B. burgdorferi spirochetes in the mammalian host is achieved though VlsE-mediated antigenic variation. It is mathematically predicted that a highly variable surface antigen prolongs ba...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rogovskyy AS,Gillis DC,Ionov Y,Gerasimov E,Zelikovsky A

更新日期：2016-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which recombinant murine gamma interferon (rMuIFN-gamma) and bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) activate mouse resident splenic macrophages to inhibit the intracellular growth of the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum was examined. Growth inhibition depended on L-arginine metabolism. The growth inhibitory ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lane TE,Wu-Hsieh BA,Howard DH

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) base composition, as measured by guanine plus cytosine (G + C) content, was determined in 17 strains of Sporothrix schenckii and Ceratocystis species. The average G + C content for S. schenckii was 54.7 +/- 0.2 mol%. No strain of Ceratocystis, with the exception of C. minor, gave values for...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mendonça-Hagler LC,Travassos LR,Lloyd KO,Phaff HJ

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcal alpha-toxin was purified from Staphylococcus aureus growth medium using adsorption chromatography on controlled pore glass beads. Elution of alpha-toxin from the unmodified glass surface of the beads with various anions generally followed the chaotropic series. Alpha-toxin, purified by glass bead chroma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cassidy P,Harshman S

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dermotropism of Cryptococcus neoformans SLHA in congenitally athymic (nu/nu) and doubly immunodeficient beige-athymic (bg/bg-nu/nu) mice is described. Both bg/bg-nu/nu and nu/nu mice developed cutaneous cryptococcosis within 7 to 12 days following intravenous challenge with 10(4) encapsulated yeast cells. Macrosco...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Salkowski CA,Balish E

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obligate vacuolar pathogens produce proteins that localize to the host cell-derived membranes of the vacuoles in which they reside, yielding unique organelles that are optimally suited for pathogen survival. Anaplasma phagocytophilum is an obligate vacuolar bacterium that infects neutrophils and causes the emerging an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huang B,Troese MJ,Ye S,Sims JT,Galloway NL,Borjesson DL,Carlyon JA

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Clostridium perfringens type B and type C isolates, which produce beta-toxin (CPB), cause fatal diseases originating in the intestines of humans or livestock. Our previous studies demonstrated that CPB is necessary for type C isolate CN3685 to cause bloody necrotic enteritis in a rabbit ileal loop model and also showe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vidal JE,McClane BA,Saputo J,Parker J,Uzal FA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5) binding site has been predicted to be in the N terminus of the flagellin molecule. In order to better define the interaction between the N-terminal amino acids of Pseudomonas aeruginosa flagellin and TLR5, site-specific mutations were generated between residues 88 and 97 of P. aeruginos...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Verma A,Arora SK,Kuravi SK,Ramphal R

更新日期：2005-12-01 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