Isolation and characterization of the Streptococcus mutans gtfD gene, coding for primer-dependent soluble glucan synthesis.

abstract：:The DNA oligomer 5'-d(TGCGGCCTCTCAGTCCCGCACTTTCATCTTCC)-3' specifically recognizes Haemophilus influenzae 16S rRNA. We report here the use of this oligonucleotide, with a fluorescein label tagged on its 5' end, as a probe for the in situ detection of nonencapsulated nontypeable H. influenzae in sections of adenoid tis...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Forsgren J,Samuelson A,Ahlin A,Jonasson J,Rynnel-Dagöö B,Lindberg A

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many vaccines containing somatic and secreted antigens of Pseudomonas aeruginosa have been reported. The vaccines containing lipopolysaccharide have been found to provide type-specific protection, but the endotoxin content of these vaccines does not make it feasible to use them in patients who are already debilitated....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fernandes PB,Kim C,Cundy KR,Haung NN

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bactericidal activity and binding of a 57,000-dalton cationic antimicrobial neutrophil granule protein (CAP57) are determined by the presence on bacteria of O-antigen polysaccharide chains and the availability of negatively charged groups in the lipid A region, the inner core region, or both regions of lipopolysacchar...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Farley MM,Shafer WM,Spitznagel JK

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma level of the chemokine CCL3 is elevated in patients with chronic severe schistosomiasis mansoni. We have previously shown that CCL3(-/-) mice with experimental infection showed diminished pathology and worm burden compared to those of wild-type (WT) mice. To elucidate further the role of CC chemokines durin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Souza AL,Souza PR,Pereira CA,Fernandes A,Guabiraba R,Russo RC,Vieira LQ,Corrêa A Jr,Teixeira MM,Negrão-Corrêa D

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outer membrane porin genes of Salmonella typhimurium, including ompC, ompF, and tppB, are regulated by the products of ompB, a two-component regulatory locus encoding OmpR and EnvZ. S. typhimurium ompR mutants are attenuated in mice, but to date no one has studied the intracellular trafficking of S. typhimurium porin-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mills SD,Ruschkowski SR,Stein MA,Finlay BB

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified cell walls representing a wide variety in teichoic acid and peptidoglycan structure prepared from eight different gram-positive bacterial species induced the production of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and interleukin-6 from human monocytes in the presence of 10% plasma or serum. Significant amounts...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heumann D,Barras C,Severin A,Glauser MP,Tomasz A

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 9.5-kilobase plasmid of Yersinia pestis determines plasminogen activator, coagulase, pesticin, and pesticin immunity activities. We have mapped and cloned the loci encoding these activities and demonstrated that both plasminogen activator and coagulase were determined by the same gene, designated pla. The primary ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sodeinde OA,Goguen JD

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial infection with group B Streptococcus (GBS) represents a prominent threat to neonates and fetuses in the Western world, causing severe organ damage and even death. To improve current therapeutic strategies and to investigate new approaches, an appropriate in vivo model to study the immune response of a human ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ernst W,Zimara N,Hanses F,Männel DN,Seelbach-Göbel B,Wege AK

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, controls protein expression patterns during its tick-mammal infection cycle. Earlier studies demonstrated that B. burgdorferi synthesizes 4,5-dihydroxy-2,3-pentanedione (autoinducer-2 [AI-2]) and responds to AI-2 by measurably changing production of several infection-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Arnold WK,Savage CR,Antonicello AD,Stevenson B

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Staphylococcus aureus repeat (STAR) element is a sequence identified in two intergenic regions in S. aureus. The element is found in 13 to 21 copies in individual S. aureus strains, and elements in the homologous intergenic location are variable in length. The element sequence consists of several small and unusual...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cramton SE,Schnell NF,Götz F,Brückner R

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) frequently occurs in patients with respiratory disease and is particularly prevalent in patients with cystic fibrosis. GER is a condition in which the duodenogastric contents of the stomach leak into the esophagus, in many cases resulting in aspiration into the respiratory tract. As such,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Legendre C,Reen FJ,Woods DF,Mooij MJ,Adams C,O'Gara F

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell surface proteins SspA and SspB in Streptococcus gordonii and SpaP in Streptococcus mutans are members of the antigen I/II family of polypeptides produced by oral streptococci. These proteins are adhesins and mediate species-specific binding of cells to a variety of host and bacterial receptors. Here we show that ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Love RM,McMillan MD,Jenkinson HF

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrate is a ubiquitous compound and can be utilized by many bacterial species, including enteric pathogens, as a carbon and energy source. Genes involved in citrate utilization have been extensively studied in some enteric bacteria, such as Klebsiella pneumoniae; however, their role in pathogenesis is still not clear...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liu M,Hao G,Li Z,Zhou Y,Garcia-Sillas R,Li J,Wang H,Kan B,Zhu J

更新日期：2019-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A family of high-molecular-weight (HMW) surface-exposed proteins important in the attachment of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) to human epithelial cells was previously identified (J. W. St. Geme III, S. Falkow, and S. J. Barenkamp, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90:2875-2879, 1993). In the present investigation...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bakaletz LO,Barenkamp SJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modification of three or four of the five histidine residues in the toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (TSST-1) with diethylpyrocarbonate did not inhibit the precipitin reaction of the modified TSST-1 with polyvalent antisera to the toxin. Monoclonal antibody 7T did not react with the modified TSST-1, but monoclonal antibod...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kokan-Moore NP,Bergdoll MS

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokine gene expression in cells migrating in afferent and efferent intestinal lymph was monitored for extended time periods in individual sheep experimentally infected with the nematode Trichostrongylus colubriformis. Animals from stable selection lines with increased levels of either genetic resistance (R) or susce...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pernthaner A,Cole SA,Morrison L,Hein WR

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In its canonical role the reverse transcriptase telomerase recovers the telomeric repeats that are lost during DNA replication. Other locations and activities have been recently described for the telomerase protein subunit TERT in mammalian cells. In the present work, using biochemistry, molecular biology, and electro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Campelo R,Díaz Lozano I,Figarella K,Osuna A,Ramírez JL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica causes amebic dysentery and amebic liver abscess, diseases associated with significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. E. histolytica infection appears to involve the initial attachment of amebic trophozoites to intestinal epithelial cells, followed by lysis of these cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Seydel KB,Li E,Swanson PE,Stanley SL Jr

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell wall complex has been isolated by gentle methods from both the medium supernatant fluid and whole organisms of Neissieria meningitidis cultures. The two types of preparations have been shown to be essentially identical on the basis of chemical composition, electron microscopy, and polyacrylamide gel electrophor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zollinger WD,Kasper DL,Veltri BJ,Artenstein MS

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural immunoperoxidase studies were done in spinal cords of mice infected with wild type vesicular stomatitis virus or its temperature-sensitive (ts) mutant G31. Infected neurons showed subplasmalemmal staining of viral antigen and staining of viral particles budding from the neuronal membrane in wild-type v...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dal Canto MC,Rabinowitz SG,Johnson TC,Hughes JV

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which bacterial heat-stable enterotoxins (ST I STA) cause diarrhea in humans and animals has been linked to the activation of an intestinal membrane-bound guanylate cyclase. Guanylin, a recently discovered rat intestinal peptide, is homologous in structure to ST I and can activate guanylate cyclase pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carpick BW,Gariépy J

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of macrophages was assessed in strains of mice inoculated intraperitoneally with 1,000 times the 50% lethal dose of Rickettsia akari. Macrophages from mice resistant to R. akari infection (C3H/HeN, C57BL/10J, and BALB/cN) were nonspecifically tumoricidal 2 to 4 days after rickettsial inoculation. Moreover, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nacy CA,Meltzer MS

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the cloning, molecular characterization, and purification of functionally active recombinant glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) from the human bloodfluke Schistosoma japonicum. The GAPDH homolog from the related species Schistosoma mansoni has shown correlation of antibody titer to resistance t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Waine GJ,Becker M,Yang W,Kalinna B,McManus DP

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the amounts of specific anti-class 1 outer membrane protein antibodies in sera from 25 patients during the course of systemic meningococcal disease, using purified class 1 protein as the sensitizing antigen in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The class 1 protein was obtained from a variant of s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guttormsen HK,Wetzler LM,Solberg CO

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (CMC) are selectively unable to clear the yeast Candida, which results in persistent debilitating infections affecting the skin, nails, and mucous membranes. The underlying defect is unknown. Recent animal studies highlighted the importance of type 1 cytokines in protect...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lilic D,Gravenor I,Robson N,Lammas DA,Drysdale P,Calvert JE,Cant AJ,Abinun M

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies against Ureaplasma urealyticum serotype 4 were produced by immunizing BALB/c mice with whole-cell antigens of the U. urealyticum serotype 4 reference strain. Ten monoclonal antibodies differentiated into two groups were found: one group included five monoclonal antibodies recognizing a band in im...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cheng X,Naessens A,Lauwers S

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most Campylobacter jejuni strains are sensitive and most Campylobacter fetus strains are resistant to the bactericidal activity in normal human serum. We purified lipopolysaccharides from Campylobacter strains to determine whether their composition and structure relate to serum susceptibility. The lipopolysaccharide o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Perez Perez GI,Blaser MJ

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEF) grown in vitro with purified staphylococcal exfoliative toxin (ET) increased the concanavalin A (Con A) agglutinability of MEF 3.5-fold over control cells. Possible explanations for this phenomenon were investigated. ET lacked proteolytic activity on denatured casein. Con A,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rogolsky M,Wiley BB,Keyhani M,Glasgow LA

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides, such as defensins or cathelicidins, are effector substances of the innate immune system and are thought to have antimicrobial properties that contribute to host defense. The evidence that vertebrate antimicrobial peptides contribute to innate immunity in vivo is based on their expression patter...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bals R,Weiner DJ,Moscioni AD,Meegalla RL,Wilson JM

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytotoxigenic Clostridium difficile strain that fails to produce toxin A but causes hemorrhage and bloody fluid accumulation in ligated ileal loops of rabbits and hemorrhage and diarrhea in hamsters is described. The lack of reaction of DNA from this strain in hybridization studies with a toxin A gene-specific 4.5-k...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Borriello SP,Wren BW,Hyde S,Seddon SV,Sibbons P,Krishna MM,Tabaqchali S,Manek S,Price AB

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00