Sortase A confers protection against Streptococcus pneumoniae in mice.

abstract：:The reproducibility of an experimental result is a fundamental assumption in science. Yet, results that are merely confirmatory of previous findings are given low priority and can be difficult to publish. Furthermore, the complex and chaotic nature of biological systems imposes limitations on the replicability of scie...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Casadevall A,Fang FC

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subtilase cytotoxin (SubAB) was first isolated from a Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) strain that was responsible for an outbreak of hemolytic-uremic syndrome and is the prototype of a new family of AB(5) cytotoxins. SubAB is a subtilase-like serine protease, and upon uptake by host cells, it is trafficked to ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： May KL,Paton JC,Paton AW

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified nonhemolytic mutants of Listeria monocytogenes that were severely deficient in their ability to invade mammalian nonprofessional phagocytes. These mutants were generated spontaneously or by means of transposon Tn916 mutagenesis. In terms of their extracellular proteins, the noninvasive mutants were defic...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kathariou S,Pine L,George V,Carlone GM,Holloway BP

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present investigation we studied the nature of a Shigella flexneri O antigen, the type III antigen. No structural entity has yet been attributed to this antigen. Phenol-water-extracted lipopolysaccharides (LPSs) from all S. flexneri serotypes possessing either group 6 antigen or both type III antigen and group ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carlin NI,Wehler T,Lindberg AA

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of four monoclonal antibodies was produced against a highly purified pepsin extract of type 5 streptococcal M protein. Three of the four antibodies cross-reacted with purified M proteins from heterologous serotypes and opsonized the respective heterologous organisms. Our studies suggest that monoclonal antibodie...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dale JB,Beachey EH

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of the susceptibility of outbred OF1 and inbred BALB/c, C57BL/6, DBA/2, and CBA mice to heat-stable toxin (STa) of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli was made at different levels of induced secretion. STa was able to elicit fluid accumulation into the intestine of each strain of mice; however, quantitatively ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bertin A

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commercial fluid used for peritoneal lavage in peritonitis and in peritoneal dialysis suppressed the activity of peripheral blood leukocytes as measured by chemiluminescence, phagocytosis, and bacterial killing. Suppression was found to be due to the low pH and high osmolality of the fluid. The pH was adjusted to noni...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Duwe AK,Vas SI,Weatherhead JW

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that infection by Fusobacterium nucleatum strongly induced the expression of both human beta-defensin 2 (HBD-2) and HBD-3 by gingival epithelial cells. The aim of this study was to characterize the pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) and regulatory mechanisms involved in the induction of HBD-2 ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ji S,Shin JE,Kim YS,Oh JE,Min BM,Choi Y

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To look for a possible correlation between the virulence of Rhodococcus equi and its cytokine-inducing capacity, we evaluated intracellular survival and measured cytokine induction by mouse macrophages infected with a virulent strain containing an 85-kb plasmid and expressing VapA (103+), its avirulent plasmid-cured d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giguère S,Prescott JF

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteropathogenic strains of Yersinia enterocolitica harbor a virulence plasmid (70 kilobases) which specifies, at 37 degrees C, a calcium requirement for growth, autoagglutinability, resistance to the bactericidal activity of human serum, and the expression of some outer membrane proteins (OMPs). To map the genes enco...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Balligand G,Laroche Y,Cornelis G

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pig and mouse peritoneal macrophages in culture transport glucose by a specific, saturable system with characteristics compatible with facilitated diffusion. Phagocytosis of killed staphylococci or polystyrene latex spheres results in a significant increase in uptake of 2-deoxy-d-glucose. Reciprocal plot analys...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bonventre PF,Mukkada AJ

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit-specific enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (REPEC) is an attaching and effacing pathogen of young rabbits. Using signature-tagged mutagenesis, we identified several known colonization factors of REPEC as well as a gene predicted to encode a novel autotransporter protein. This novel gene was termed rpeA for REPE...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leyton DL,Adams LM,Kelly M,Sloan J,Tauschek M,Robins-Browne RM,Hartland EL

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pasteurella (Mannheimia) haemolytica leukotoxin (Lkt) causes cell type- and species-specific effects in ruminant leukocytes. Recent studies indicate that P. haemolytica Lkt binds to bovine CD18, the common subunit of all beta2 integrins. We designed experiments with the following objectives: to identify which member o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jeyaseelan S,Hsuan SL,Kannan MS,Walcheck B,Wang JF,Kehrli ME,Lally ET,Sieck GC,Maheswaran SK

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonization of the large bowel of healthy infants by Clostridium difficile was studied. Feces were collected from five breast-fed aand five formula-fed infants throughout the first year of life, and levels of C. difficile were quantitated. Three breast-fed and five formula-fed infants were colonized for periods of be...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stark PL,Lee A,Parsonage BD

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture filtrate proteins from Mycobacterium tuberculosis induce protective immunity in various animal models of tuberculosis. Two molecular mass regions (6 to 10 kDa and 24 to 36 kDa) of short-term culture filtrate are preferentially recognized by Th1 cells in animal models as well as by patients with minimal disease...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosenkrands I,Rasmussen PB,Carnio M,Jacobsen S,Theisen M,Andersen P

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella abortus is a facultative intracellular bacterial pathogen that causes abortion in domestic animals and undulant fever in humans. The mechanism of virulence of Brucella spp. is not fully understood yet. Furthermore, genes that allow Brucella to reach the intracellular niche and to interact with host cells need...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosinha GM,Freitas DA,Miyoshi A,Azevedo V,Campos E,Cravero SL,Rossetti O,Splitter G,Oliveira SC

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of nitric oxide (NO) by activated macrophages is believed to control mycobacterial infection in the murine system. In this study we examined the effect of Mycobacterium bovis BCG infection on the L-arginine-dependent NO pathway in J774.1 murine macrophages. We have confirmed previous results by demonstr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Peteroy-Kelly M,Venketaraman V,Connell ND

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depressed Th1 responses are a prominent feature of human tuberculosis, but an enhanced Th2 response has not been detected in peripheral blood T cells stimulated in vitro with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In disease due to Mycobacterium leprae, Th2 cells predominate in tissue lesions of patients with extensive disease b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lin Y,Zhang M,Hofman FM,Gong J,Barnes PF

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulent and avirulent clones of Leishmania donovani promastigotes were examined for their acid phosphatase activity. The acid phosphatase activity of whole-cell lysates of virulent clones was 1.5 to 2.0 times higher than that of avirulent clones. Pellet fractions (260,000 x g, 30 min) from sonicated promastigotes of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Katakura K,Kobayashi A

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two enteropathogens Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia enterocolitica penetrate eukaryotic cells in vitro through invasin, a surface-exposed protein. In contrast, Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, is unable to enter mammalian cell lines, although the inv gene is present on its chromosome. Altho...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Simonet M,Riot B,Fortineau N,Berche P

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1984, it has been known that spotted fever group rickettsiosis exists in Japan. We isolated three strains of the causative rickettsiae, designated Katayama, Misaka, and Abe, from patients with the disease and studied the characteristics of the isolates. Nude mice and cyclophosphamide-treated mice died after infe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Okada T,Tange Y,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucan-binding protein B (GbpB) from Streptococcus mutans has been shown to induce protective immunity to dental caries in experimental models. Having recently sequenced the gbpB gene, our objective in this study was to identify immunogenic regions within the GbpB sequence for use in subunit vaccines. Potential region...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Smith DJ,King WF,Barnes LA,Peacock Z,Taubman MA

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major research efforts are directed towards the development of a better antimycobacterial vaccine. But progress in the field of tuberculosis vaccine development has been hampered by the lack of human in vitro models to assess vaccine immunogenicity and efficacy. New candidate vaccines will have to be evaluated against...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kampmann B,Tena GN,Mzazi S,Eley B,Young DB,Levin M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring antibodies against [Gal alpha-1,3-Gal] structures (anti-Gal antibodies) are the primary effectors of human hyperacute rejection (HAR) of nonhuman tissue. Unlike most mammals, humans lack a functional alpha-1,3-galactosyltransferase (GalT) gene and produce abundant anti-Gal antibodies, putatively in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Posekany KJ,Pittman HK,Bradfield JF,Haisch CE,Verbanac KM

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urogenital Chlamydia serovars replicating in reproductive epithelium pose a unique challenge to host immunity and vaccine development. Previous studies have shown that CD4 T cells are necessary and sufficient to clear primary Chlamydia muridarum genital tract infections in the mouse model, making a protective CD4 T ce...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Johnson RM,Yu H,Kerr MS,Slaven JE,Karunakaran KP,Brunham RC

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to bacterial superantigens such as staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) leads to the induction of toxic shock syndrome which results in multiorgan failure, including liver damage. In the present study, we investigated the role of CD44 in SEB-induced liver injury. Injection of SEB into d-galactosamine-sensitized...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McKallip RJ,Fisher M,Gunthert U,Szakal AK,Nagarkatti PS,Nagarkatti M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system plays a key role in resistance to cryptococcosis. In the present study, we examined several factors that influence the binding of C3 cleavage fragments to Cryptococcus neoformans. Binding of C3 was determined by using normal human serum supplemented with 125I-labeled C3. Incubation of encapsulate...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozel TR,Pfrommer GS

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of genetic resistance or "trypanotolerance" to infection with Trypanosoma congolense were investigated in two strains of mice. One strain C57BL, is outstandingly resistant to most stabilates of T. congolense and can survive for over 80 days, whereas CFLP, in common with most other strains, generally suc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whitelaw DD,Macaskill JA,Holmes PH,Jennings FW,Urquhart GM

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonhuman primate model for malaria vaccine development allowing reliable, stringent sporozoite challenge and evaluation of both cellular and antibody responses is needed. We therefore constructed a multicomponent, multistage DNA vaccine for the simian malaria species Plasmodium knowlesi including two preerythrocytic...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rogers WO,Baird JK,Kumar A,Tine JA,Weiss W,Aguiar JC,Gowda K,Gwadz R,Kumar S,Gold M,Hoffman SL

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bactericidal and opsonizing effects of normal human serum on six strains of Salmonella typhimurium LT-2 having different lipopolysaccharide (LPS) composition were demonstrated through five indices. Complement activity in the presence of antibody was important for the opsonization of all six strains and for the bac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shaio MF,Rowland H

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00