Shigella flexneri O-antigen epitopes: chemical and immunochemical analyses reveal that epitopes of type III and group 6 antigens are identical.

abstract：:Coxiella burnetii, the agent of Q fever, enters human monocytes through alpha(v)beta(3) integrin and survives inside host cells. In addition, C. burnetii stimulates the synthesis of inflammatory cytokines including tumor necrosis factor (TNF) by monocytes. We studied the role of the interaction of C. burnetii with THP...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dellacasagrande J,Ghigo E,Hammami SM,Toman R,Raoult D,Capo C,Mege JL

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A C3d-binding glycoprotein was purified from the culture filtrate of Candida albicans by preparative isoelectric focusing. The protein possessed a pI of 3.9 to 4.1 and could inhibit rosetting of EAC3d (sheep erythrocytes conjugated to C3d) by pseudohyphae of C. albicans. When analyzed by polyacrylamide gel electrophor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Saxena A,Calderone R

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we demonstrate the capability of Chlamydia trachomatis to infect cultured human mesothelial cell (MC) monolayers and to induce the production of the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin 1beta (IL-1beta) and IL-8. Seventy-two hours after initial infection, both the procoagulant activity of MC and the act...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van Westreenen M,Pronk A,Diepersloot RJ,de Groot PG,Leguit P

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secretion of aspartic proteases (Saps) has long been recognized as a virulence-associated trait of the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans. In this study, we report that different recombinant Saps, including Sap1, Sap2, Sap3, and Sap6, have differing abilities to induce secretion of proinflammatory cytokines by huma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pietrella D,Rachini A,Pandey N,Schild L,Netea M,Bistoni F,Hube B,Vecchiarelli A

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exohemagglutinin was found in the culture medium of Bacteroides gingivalis 381. Exohemagglutinin was purified 3,150-fold from culture fluid by ultracentrifugation followed by gel filtration on Sepharose CL-4B and by affinity chromatography on arginine-agarose. Examination of the final preparation of exohemagglutinin b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Inoshita E,Amano A,Hanioka T,Tamagawa H,Shizukuishi S,Tsunemitsu A

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural heterogeneity in the structure of the lipid A portion of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) produces differential effects on the innate immune response. Gram-negative bacterial species produce LPS structures that differ from the classic endotoxic LPS structures. These differences include hypoacylation and hypophosphoryl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chilton PM,Hadel DM,To TT,Mitchell TC,Darveau RP

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BCG vaccines are a family of closely related daughter strains of an attenuated isolate of Mycobacterium bovis derived by in vitro passage from 1908 to 1921. During subsequent laboratory propagation of the vaccine strain until its lyophilization in 1961, BCG Pasteur underwent at least seven further genomic mutations. T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Belley A,Alexander D,Di Pietrantonio T,Girard M,Jones J,Schurr E,Liu J,Sherman DR,Behr MA

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that malaria parasites liberate exoantigens which, through a phospholipid component, stimulate mouse macrophages to secrete tumor necrosis factor (TNF), which are toxic to D-galactosamine-sensitized mice, and which therefore might be involved in pathology. Plasmodium yoelii exoantigens detoxif...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bate CA,Taverne J,Playfair JH

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) of Escherichia coli is localized in the periplasm of the bacterial cell. Growth of an LT-producing strain of E. coli in the presence of bile salts, in concentrations within the range found in the human small intestine, caused leakage of LT into the culture medium. This leakage could be...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hunt PD,Hardy SJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the mechanisms underlying the eosinophil-mediated inflammation of tropical pulmonary eosinophilia (TPE), bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid, serum, and supernatants from pulmonary and blood leukocytes (WBC) from patients with acute TPE (n = 6) were compared with those obtained from healthy uninfected indivi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： O'Bryan L,Pinkston P,Kumaraswami V,Vijayan V,Yenokida G,Rosenberg HF,Crystal R,Ottesen EA,Nutman TB

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic, microscopic, and biochemical studies show that virulent Ti (tumor inducing)-plasmid-containing strains of Agrobacterium attach to normal tobacco and carrot tissue culture cells. Kinetic studies showed that virulent strains of A. tumefaciens attach to the plant tissue culture cells in increasing numbers during...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Matthysse AG,Wyman PM,Holmes KV

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis is a gram-negative anaerobic bacterium that is considered the key etiologic agent of chronic periodontitis. Arg- and Lys-gingipain cysteine proteinases produced by P. gingivalis are key virulence factors and are believed to be essential for significant tissue component degradation, leading to ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Andrian E,Grenier D,Rouabhia M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of phagocytosis of Candida albicans by human vascular endothelial cells and subsequent endothelial cell injury were examined in vitro. Both live and killed C. albicans cells were phagocytized by endothelial cells. This organism specifically induced endothelial cell phagocytosis because neither Candida t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Filler SG,Swerdloff JN,Hobbs C,Luckett PM

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular adherence protein (Eap) is a multifunctional Staphylococcus aureus protein and broad-spectrum adhesin for several host matrix and plasma proteins. We investigated the interactions of full-length Eap and five recombinant tandem repeat domains with host proteins by use of surface plasmon resonance (BIA...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hussain M,Haggar A,Peters G,Chhatwal GS,Herrmann M,Flock JI,Sinha B

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania amastigotes are intracellular protozoan parasites of mononuclear phagocytes which reside within parasitophorous vacuoles of phagolysosomal origin. The pH of these compartments was studied with the aim of elucidating strategies used by these microorganisms to evade the microbicidal mechanisms of their host c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Antoine JC,Prina E,Jouanne C,Bongrand P

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported that P388D1 cell line murine macrophages stimulated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans release interleukin-1 (IL-1) inhibitor. The IL-1 inhibitor was purified from conditioned media of P388D1 cells stimulated with A. actinomycetemcomitans LPS for 72 h to homogeneit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nishihara T,Ohsaki Y,Ueda N,Saito N,Mundy GR

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral spirochetes possess many potential virulence factors, including the capacity for tissue invasion and persistence despite a vigorous host immune response. In an attempt to identify treponemal immunoreactive components, sera derived from individuals with advanced periodontal disease were used as a reagent to isolat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heinzerling HF,Olivares M,Burne RA

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that Neisseria gonorrhoeae possesses a very high level of catalase activity, but the regulation of catalase expression has not been investigated extensively. In Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, it has been demonstrated that OxyR is a positive regulator of hydrogen pero...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tseng HJ,McEwan AG,Apicella MA,Jennings MP

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a study of virulence gene regulation in Streptococcus pneumoniae, we have identified a gene encoding a homologue of the staphylococcal catabolite control protein CcpA in the pneumococcal genome sequence. The pneumococcal protein, designated RegM, has significant similarity to members of the LacI/GalR family...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giammarinaro P,Paton JC

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop targeted gene integration in the periodontal pathogen Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, a ColE1-based, spectinomycin-resistant plasmid containing a segment of the leukotoxin gene was electroporated into strain JP2. In all of the stable spectinomycin-resistant transformants that arose, the plasmid had re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kolodrubetz D,Phillips LH,Ezzo PJ,Kraig E

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether lipopolysaccharide (LPS) structures of Campylobacter species are immunologically related to those of 11 other gram-negative organisms, we immunoblotted from polyacrylamide gels the LPS of these strains with immune rabbit serum raised against six Campylobacter jejuni strains and two Campylobacter f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Perez-Perez GI,Hopkins JA,Blaser MJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyolysin (PLO), the hemolytic exotoxin expressed by Arcanobacterium (Actinomyces) pyogenes, is a member of the thiol-activated cytolysin family of bacterial toxins. Insertional inactivation of the plo gene results in loss of expression of PLO with a concomitant loss in hemolytic activity. The plo mutant, PLO-1, has an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jost BH,Songer JG,Billington SJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquitoes are infected with Plasmodium falciparum by taking a blood meal from a gametocyte carrier. Since a mosquito takes a volume of 1 to 2 microl, a blood meal may contain 1 x 10(4) to 3 x 10(4) leukocytes (WBC). The majority of WBC are composed of neutrophils which may phagocytose and kill developing gametes insi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lensen AH,Bolmer-Van de Vegte M,van Gemert GJ,Eling WM,Sauerwein RW

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium causes self-limiting gastroenteritis in humans and a typhoid-like disease in mice that serves as a model for typhoid infections in humans. A critical step in Salmonella pathogenesis is the invasion of enterocytes and M cells of the small intestine via expression of a type III se...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boddicker JD,Jones BD

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the oligosaccharides (OS) of outer membrane lipooligosaccharides (LOS) of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis. OS from the LOS of an individual neisserial strain always eluted from Sephadex G-50S as multiple peaks; the polyacrylamide gel elution profiles were nearly identical to the polyacrylam...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Griffiss JM,O'Brien JP,Yamasaki R,Williams GD,Rice PA,Schneider H

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocarditis was induced in the rabbit by the placement of a polyethylene catheter in the right heart. The catheter was filled with stable L-phase variants of Staphylococcus aureus to determine if the variant form would colonize the damaged endocardium and produce further tissue injury similar to that produced by the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Linnemann CC Jr,Watanakunakorn C,Bakie C

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of dengue-2 antigens was studied in infected monkey kidney cells (LLC MK2) using an indirect, horseradish peroxidase-conjugated immunoglobulin technique. This procedure allowed both light and electron microscopic examination of serial-step sections of individual cells cut in a plane perpendicular to t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cardiff RD,Lund JK

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory cytokines play an important role in human immune responses to malarial disease. However, the role of these mediators in disease pathogenesis, and the relationship between host protection and injury remains unclear. A total of 248 cases of severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria among children aged 3 months t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lyke KE,Burges R,Cissoko Y,Sangare L,Dao M,Diarra I,Kone A,Harley R,Plowe CV,Doumbo OK,Sztein MB

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fractionation of the culture medium showed that Streptococcus salivarius ATCC 25975 secreted a glucosyltransferase (Gtf) that was primer independent. On the basis of this observation, a gene library of S. salivarius chromosomal DNA cloned into lambda L47.1 was screened for a gene(s) coding for such an activity. As a r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Simpson CL,Giffard PM,Jacques NA

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified group A streptococcal peptidoglycan-polysaccharide (PG-PS) fragments were either de-O-acylated, or acetylated and then de-O-acylated to yield N-acetylated PG-PS. Native PG-PS was poorly degraded, N-acetylated PG-PS was extensively degraded, and de-O-acylated PG-PS was only slightly degraded by hen egg white l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stimpson SA,Lerch RA,Cleland DR,Yarnall DP,Clark RL,Cromartie WJ,Schwab JH

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00