Activation of the Nlrp1b inflammasome by reduction of cytosolic ATP.

abstract：:An "immunogenic" ribonucleic acid (Im-RNA) has been extracted from peritoneal exudate (PE) cells of rats that were immunized with sheep erythrocytes (SRBC). Following multiple phenol extractions and deoxyribonuclease treatment, the material obtained from PE cells was eluted from diethylaminoethyl-cellulose at 0.55 M N...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Archer SJ,Wust CJ

更新日期：1973-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly purified protein antigens are usually poor immunogens; in practice, adjuvants are needed to obtain satisfactory immune responses. Plasmodium yoelii 19-kDa merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP1(19)) is a weak antigen, but mice vaccinated with this antigen in strong adjuvants can survive an otherwise lethal parasite ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ogun SA,Dumon-Seignovert L,Marchand JB,Holder AA,Hill F

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic medium capable of supporting growth of Vibrio parahaemolyticus is described. Growth yields and generation times were comparable to growth in a complex medium, although Kanagawa hemolysin was undetectable in the synthetic medium. Upon the addition of single amino acids to this synthetic medium, only D-trypt...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cherwonogrodzky JW,Clark AG

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the identification and characterization of two zinc uptake systems, ZurAM and ZinABC, in the intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. Transcription of both operons was zinc responsive and regulated by the zinc-sensing repressor Zur. Deletion of either zurAM or zinA had no detectable effect on grow...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Corbett D,Wang J,Schuler S,Lopez-Castejon G,Glenn S,Brough D,Andrew PW,Cavet JS,Roberts IS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have suggested that the Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAK pilus adhesin moiety resides in an epithelial cell-binding domain located in the C-terminal region of the PAK pilin structural protein. Synthetic peptides Ac17red (a synthetic peptide with a sequence identical to that of PAK pilin residues 128 to 144,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Irvin RT,Doig P,Lee KK,Sastry PA,Paranchych W,Todd T,Hodges RS

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using microarray technology, we studied the early differential expression of 3,528 genes in human meningothelial cells in response to meningococcal challenge. Thirty-two genes were up-regulated, and four were down-regulated. Those up-regulated included the tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin-6 (IL-6), and IL-8 (b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wells DB,Tighe PJ,Wooldridge KG,Robinson K,Ala' Aldeen DA

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine septicemic Escherichia coli 31A agglutinates bovine, rabbit, and human erythrocytes and adheres in vitro to the brush border of bovine or ovine intestinal epithelial cells and to the human colon carcinoma Caco-2 cell line. The adhesion and hemagglutination of E. coli 31A are mediated by a chromosome-encoded fim...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bertin Y,Girardeau JP,Darfeuille-Michaud A,Contrepois M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella spp. and Shigella spp. are responsible for millions of cases of enteric disease each year worldwide. While these pathogens have evolved distinct strategies for interacting with the human intestinal epithelium, they both induce significant proinflammatory responses that result in massive transepithelial migr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mumy KL,Bien JD,Pazos MA,Gronert K,Hurley BP,McCormick BA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight chlamydial isolates of ovine origin were tested in a plaque reduction system using homologous and heterologous rooster antisera. The eight isolates could be separated into two separate immunotypes. Type 1 included isolates associated with ovine abortion and one agent recovered from the feces of an apparently nor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schachter J,Banks J,Sugg N,Sung M,Storz J,Meyer KF

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with mycobacterial species, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has long been implicated in the etiopathology of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) on the basis of clinical and pathological similarities between tuberculosis and RA. Despite evidence of immune responses to mycobacterial antigens in RA patient synovia...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kempsell KE,Cox CJ,McColm AA,Bagshaw JA,Reece R,Veale DJ,Emery P,Isaacs JD,Gaston JS,Crowe JS

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were conducted in which rhesus monkeys were infected with mumps virus by inoculation into the parotid gland. Virus was isolated from buccal swab specimens from animals up to 6 days after inoculation. Immunofluorescence staining for mumps antigen was positive, and infectious virus was recovered from tissue ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Flanagan TD,Andrada JA,Barron AL,Witebsky E

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of inhibitors of cell wall biosynthesis to exponential-phase cultures of Streptococcus mutans may do one of three things, depending on the concentrations used: (i) prevent cell division at a time coincident with the onset of chromosome replication, (ii) prevent cell division later in the cell cycle coinci...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kral TA,Daneo-Moore L

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an emerging cause of diarrheal illness. Clinical data suggest that diarrhea caused by EAEC is predominantly secretory in nature, but the responsible enterotoxin has not been described. Work from our laboratories has implicated a ca. 108-kDa protein as a heat-labile enteroto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eslava C,Navarro-García F,Czeczulin JR,Henderson IR,Cravioto A,Nataro JP

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic resistance to lethal infection with Rickettsia tsutsugamushi was studied in over 30 inbred strains, inbred hybrids, and outbred stocks of mice. Inbred mice infected intraperitoneally with the Gilliam strain of R. tsutsugamushi showed three patterns of response: susceptible (A/HeJ, C3H/HeDub, C3H/HeJ, C3H/HeN, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Groves MG,Osterman JV

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subtilase cytotoxin (SubAB), which is produced by certain strains of Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC), causes the 78-kDa glucose-regulated protein (GRP78/BiP) cleavage, followed by induction of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, leading to caspase-dependent apoptosis via mitochondrial membrane damage by Bax/Bak...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yahiro K,Satoh M,Morinaga N,Tsutsuki H,Ogura K,Nagasawa S,Nomura F,Moss J,Noda M

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal ICR mice were infected intravenously, intraperitoneally, or aerogenically with Pasteurella multocida strains isolated from a turkey (S68), calf (V90), or rabbit (J20) lung. Both the turkey and calf isolates were highly virulent for mice and multiplied logarithmically in the lungs, liver, and spleen, resulting i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Collins FM,Niederbuhl CJ,Campbell SG

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetoplastid membrane protein 11 (KMP-11) from Leishmania donovani is an abundant 11-kDa surface membrane glycoprotein. Lymph node cells from mice of six different H-2 haplotypes immunized with KMP-11 or with L. donovani promastigotes were stimulated to proliferate in vitro KMP-11. Primed purified T cells required an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tolson DL,Jardim A,Schnur LF,Stebeck C,Tuckey C,Beecroft RP,Teh HS,Olafson RW,Pearson TW

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A secreted nuclease, SsnA, was identified in the virulent Streptococcus suis isolate SX332 and subsequently in each of the type strains of capsular serotypes 1 through 9. Screening of 258 porcine clinical isolates from surface (nasal mucosa or palatine tonsil) or internal (joint, brain or other internal organ) locatio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fontaine MC,Perez-Casal J,Willson PJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied seven strains of group G streptococci isolated from clinically severe bacteremic infections in six intravenous drug abusers. These group G strains multiplied luxuriantly in fresh human blood. On electron microscopy, they exhibited surface fibrillae similar to those observed in M-protein-rich group A strepto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bisno AL,Craven DE,McCabe WR

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that cytotoxic necrotizing factor 1 (CNF1) contributes to Escherichia coli K1 invasion of human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBMEC) and interacts with the receptor on the surface of HBMEC. CNF1 is the cytoplasmic protein, and it remains incompletely understood how CNF1 is secreted across...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yu H,Kim KS

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila organisms are able to infect and multiply within the ciliated protozoan Tetrahymena pyriformis. This ability may be associated with virulence, because an attenuated strain of L. pneumophila fails to multiply within this protozoan, whereas a virulent strain increases 10,000-fold in number when co...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fields BS,Barbaree JM,Shotts EB Jr,Feeley JC,Morrill WE,Sanden GN,Dykstra MJ

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid DNA from two strains of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli harboring genes encoding coli surface antigen 4 (CS4) and from seven Indian enterotoxigenic E. coli isolates cross-hybridized at low stringency but not at high stringency with two polynucleotide probes derived from the colonization factor antigen I (CFA/...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sommerfelt H,Grewal HM,Svennerholm AM,Gaastra W,Flood PR,Viboud G,Bhan MK

更新日期：1992-09-01 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：:Toxin B from Clostridium difficile is cytopathic in vitro for various types of cells, including polymorphonuclear cells, lymphocytes, and monocytes. Since intestine lamina propria is rich in macrophages, we studied the effect of toxin B on human monocytes and on human macrophages generated in vitro by long-term cultur...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Siffert JC,Baldacini O,Kuhry JG,Wachsmann D,Benabdelmoumene S,Faradji A,Monteil H,Poindron P

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that a member of the 70-kDa heat shock protein (Hsp70) family is a major target of the humoral immune response during Leishmania donovani infection. A recombinant fusion protein was recognized by sera from 92% (35 of 38) of patients with visceral leishmaniasis, including representatives from each of the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wallace GR,Ball AE,MacFarlane J,el Safi SH,Miles MA,Kelly JM

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an intracellular protozoan parasite, Toxoplasma gondii is likely to exploit proteases for host cell invasion, acquisition of nutrients, avoidance of host protective responses, escape from the parasitophorous vacuole, differentiation, and other activities. T. gondii serine protease inhibitor 1 (TgPI1) is the most ab...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pszenny V,Davis PH,Zhou XW,Hunter CA,Carruthers VB,Roos DS

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention has recently been focused on immunoglobulin A1 (IgA1) protease production as a possible virulence factor of bacteria implicated in meningitis and gonorrhea. This report demonstrates that suspected principal etiological agents in destructive periodontal disease include bacteria capable of degrading IgA1, IgA2...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kilian M

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin class-specific antibodies were measured by a solid-phase radioimmunoassay in serum, bronchoalveolar washings (BAW), lung cell lysates, and spleen cell lysates in germfree mice after intranasal (i.n.) and intraperitoneal (i.p.) primary and secondary 10(5), 10(4), and 10(3) mean tissue culture infective d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Charlton D,Blandford G

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A murine immunoglobulin G monoclonal antibody (MAb) raised against outer membrane vesicles of Moraxella catarrhalis 035E was shown to bind to a surface-exposed epitope of a major outer membrane protein of this organism. This outer membrane protein, which had an apparent molecular weight of approximately 80,000 in sodi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Helminen ME,Maciver I,Latimer JL,Cope LD,McCracken GH Jr,Hansen EJ

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi undergoes differential gene expression during transmission from its tick vector to a vertebrate host. The addition of blood to a spirochete culture at 35 degrees C for 48 h had a dramatic effect on gene expression of this organism. Utilizing B. burgdorferi whole genome DNA arrays, we compared the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tokarz R,Anderton JM,Katona LI,Benach JL

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00