Identification of plasmid-encoded mannose-resistant hemagglutinin and HEp-2 and HeLa cell adherence factors of two diarrheagenic Escherichia coli strains belonging to an enteropathogenic serogroup.

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae infections of the lung are associated with significant damage to the alveolar epithelium. Host phagocytes and pneumolysin, a cytolytic toxin of S. pneumoniae, are believed to contribute to this cellular damage, yet experiments in which these elements are absent demonstrate the presence of an a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Duane PG,Rubins JB,Weisel HR,Janoff EN

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is one of the pathogens most frequently isolated in device-related infections. S. aureus is equipped with surface-associated proteins promoting specific binding to matrix molecules. Clumping factor A (ClfA, encoded by clfA) mediates adhesion to fibrinogen. Whereas the contribution of ClfA to path...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wolz C,Goerke C,Landmann R,Zimmerli W,Fluckiger U

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemolysins of Serpulina hyodysenteriae are active at 27 to 40 degrees C and pH 3 to 9 and are unaffected by enzymatic inhibitors. Pore formation was demonstrated by the inhibition of hemolysis with molecules of 2.0 to 2.3 nm in diameter and the release of 86rubidium from erythrocytes without hemoglobin release aft...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hyatt DR,Joens LA

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Randomly bred guinea pigs were infected with Listeria monocytogenes using the intracardial, intravenous and intraperitoneal routes of infection. Doses of Listeria ranged from 5 to 1,000 x the 50% lethal dose based on the 50% lethal dose for intracardially injected Listeria. A complete necropsy was performed on all ani...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dustoor M,Croft W,Fulton A,Blazkovec A

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serotype-specific polysaccharide of Streptococcus mutans AHT (serotype a) was shown to be loosely associated with the cell surface of this organism. The antigen was extracted from whole cells by boiling in sodium acetate buffer, pH 4.0, for 10 min. The purified product was found to be a diheteroglycan of galactose...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Craig RA,Riege DH,Bleiweis AS

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma hyorhinis organisms were fractionated into lipid, carbohydrate, and protein fractions by chemical and physiochemical procedures. When all fractions were tested for complement fixation and inhibition of growth inhibition activity, only the protein fractions possessed activity. Thus, it appears that the major...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barden JA,Prescott B

更新日期：1973-06-01 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：:Both Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus pneumoniae are widely thought to rapidly die outside the human host, losing infectivity following desiccation in the environment. However, to date, all literature investigating the infectivity of desiccated streptococci has used broth-grown, planktonic populations. In this...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marks LR,Reddinger RM,Hakansson AP

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migration of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans across the endothelial cell layer is considered a prerequisite for the invasion of multiple organs occurring in systemic candidiasis. We developed an experimental system in which C. albicans migrates from a luminal compartment across a monolayer of bovine aortic endoth...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zink S,Nass T,Rösen P,Ernst JF

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that two surface-exposed high-molecular-weight proteins, HMW1 and HMW2, expressed by a prototypic strain of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) mediate attachment to human epithelial cells. These proteins are members of a family of highly immunogenic proteins common to most nontypeable Hae...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barenkam SJ,St Geme JW 3rd

更新日期：1996-08-01 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：:Pathogenic leptospires have the ability to survive and disseminate to multiple organs after penetrating the host. Several pathogens, including spirochetes, have been shown to express surface proteins that interact with the extracellular matrix (ECM). This adhesin-mediated binding process seems to be a crucial step in ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barbosa AS,Abreu PA,Neves FO,Atzingen MV,Watanabe MM,Vieira ML,Morais ZM,Vasconcellos SA,Nascimento AL

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Haemophilus ducreyi 35000HP genome encodes a homolog of the CpxRA two-component cell envelope stress response system originally characterized in Escherichia coli. CpxR, the cytoplasmic response regulator, was shown previously to be involved in repression of the expression of the lspB-lspA2 operon (M. Labandeira-Re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Labandeira-Rey M,Brautigam CA,Hansen EJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tick saliva has potent immunomodulatory properties. In arthropod-borne diseases, this effect is largely used by microorganisms to increase their pathogenicity and to evade host immune responses. We show that in Lyme borreliosis, tick salivary gland extract and a tick saliva protein, Salp15, inhibit in vitro keratinocy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marchal C,Schramm F,Kern A,Luft BJ,Yang X,Schuijt TJ,Hovius JW,Jaulhac B,Boulanger N

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of C57BL/6 mice with the third-stage larvae of Brugia pahangi results in a rapid expansion of NK1.1(+) T cells in the spleen and draining lymph nodes. NK T cells produced interleukin-4 in the spleen within 24 h of infection, and these cells were CD4(-). ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Balmer P,Devaney E

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T lymphocyte subpopulations in the peripheral blood of children with congenital cytomegalovirus infections and in controls were enumerated with monoclonal antibodies. Infants of less than 1 year of age with symptomatic infections showed significant increases in the proportion of suppressor cells and decreases in the r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pass RF,Roper MA,August AM

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages encode several Toll-like receptors (TLRs) that recognize bacterial components, such as lipoproteins (TLR2) or lipopolysaccharides (TLR4), and activate multiple signaling pathways. Activation of transcription factor NF-kappaB by TLR2 or TLR4 signaling promotes proinflammatory and cell survival responses. Al...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang Y,Bliska JB

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of the intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes to activate the alternative pathway of human complement was examined. Incubation of L. monocytogenes with human serum in optimal conditions (20% Mg2+EGTA [ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid]-chelated serum) consumed (3...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Croize J,Arvieux J,Berche P,Colomb MG

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The derivative toxins purified from cultures of proteolytic strains of Clostridium botulinum types A and F were found to have been only partially nicked but were fully activated. Trypsinization of C. botulinum type B derivative toxin at pH 6.0 resulted in simultaneous activation and nicking, whereas at pH 4.5, activat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ohishi I,Sakaguchi G

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AMA-1 of Plasmodium falciparum is a promising candidate antigen in malaria vaccine development. In this study, we have mapped the immunodominant T-cell determinants in this antigen by using synthetic peptides. From the amphipathic scores, 17 putative T-cell determinants were identified. Nine of the 17 peptides complem...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lal AA,Hughes MA,Oliveira DA,Nelson C,Bloland PB,Oloo AJ,Hawley WE,Hightower AW,Nahlen BL,Udhayakumar V

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dispersed gene family 1 (DGF-1) is the fifth largest gene family in the Trypanosoma cruzi genome, with over 500 members (11). Many of the predicted DGF-1 protein products have several transmembrane domains and N-glycosylation and phosphorylation sites and were thought to localize in the plasma membrane. Here, we r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lander N,Bernal C,Diez N,Añez N,Docampo R,Ramírez JL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little data are available regarding L-form phagocyte interactions. Due to difficulty with more conventional methods, a serum-free technique of surface phagocytosis employing cellulose ester micropore filters, fluorochrome staining, and reflecting fluorescence microscopy was developed. Intracellular localization of L-f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Harwick HJ,Barajas L,Montgomerie JZ,Kalmanson GM,Guze LB

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans is surrounded by an antiphagocytic polysaccharide capsule whose primary constituent is glucuronoxylomannan (GXM). Three prominent structural features of GXM are single xylosyl and glucuronosyl side chains and O acetylation of the mannose backbone. Isogenic pairs of O-acetyl-positive and O-acety...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozel TR,Levitz SM,Dromer F,Gates MA,Thorkildson P,Janbon G

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minicells are small, anucleate cells resulting from aberrant cell divisions at the polar ends of bacilli. We have isolated minicell-producing mutant strains of Shigella flexneri 2a (MC-I) and Shigella dysenteriae 1 (MC-V) after mutagenesis with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine. Microscopically, broth cultures of M...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gemski P,Griffin DE

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor involved in controlling several aspects of immune responses, including the activation and differentiation of specific T cell subsets and antigen-presenting cells, thought to be relevant in the context of experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barroso A,Gualdrón-López M,Esper L,Brant F,Araújo RR,Carneiro MB,Ávila TV,Souza DG,Vieira LQ,Rachid MA,Tanowitz HB,Teixeira MM,Machado FS

更新日期：2016-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological response to endotoxin mediated through the Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)-MD-2 receptor complex is directly related to lipid A structure or configuration. Endotoxin structure may also influence activation of the MyD88-dependent and -independent signaling pathways of TLR4. To address this possibility, human...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zughaier SM,Zimmer SM,Datta A,Carlson RW,Stephens DS

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to define the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) sensitivity of aged mice in terms of lethality and cytokine production and to determine down-regulating responses of corticosterone and interleukin 10 (IL-10). The 50% lethal doses of LPS in young (6- to 7-week-old) and aged (98- to 102-week-old) mice were...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tateda K,Matsumoto T,Miyazaki S,Yamaguchi K

更新日期：1996-03-01 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：:Salmonella infection can cause gastroenteritis in healthy individuals or a serious, systemic infection in immunocompromised patients and has a global impact. CD4 Th1 cells represent the main lymphocyte population that participates in bacterial clearance during both primary and secondary infections in mice of the H-2b ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Labuda JC,Depew CE,Pham OH,Benoun JM,Ramirez NA,McSorley SJ

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparisons of the course of coccidioidomycosis in two strains of inbred mice established that BALB/c mice are significantly more susceptible to pulmonary infection with Coccidioides immitis than are DBA/2 mice. The susceptibility of BALB/c mice does not reside in their inability to mount a delayed-type hypersensitivi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cox RA,Kennell W,Boncyk L,Murphy JW

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00