An Iron-Regulated Autolysin Remodels the Cell Wall To Facilitate Heme Acquisition in Staphylococcus lugdunensis.

abstract：:The yield of infectious Chlamydia trachomatis was analyzed in human (HeLa) and mouse (McCoy) cell lines treated with the human interferon (IFN) subtypes IFN-alpha A and IFN-alpha D, with their hybrids [IFN-alpha AD (BglII), IFN-alpha AD (PvuII), and IFN-alpha DA (BglII)] constructed in vitro from their expression plas...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： de la Maza LM,Peterson EM,Goebel JM,Fennie CW,Czarniecki CW

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute lethality was induced in rabbits by the sequential injection of Propionibacterium acnes and lipopolysaccharide (LPS). P. acnes induced the infiltration of inflammatory cells into the liver lobules during the early phase, and LPS in the late phase caused death in association with pathological changes mimicking he...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ikeda N,Mukaida N,Kaneko S,Fujioka N,Su S,Nariuchi H,Unoura M,Harada K,Nakanuma Y,Kobayashi K

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosome-activated mouse peritoneal macrophages phagocytized and digested Trypanosoma brucei in vitro and in vivo, but in the absence of specific antiserum and complement the degree of phagocytosis was minimal. Ultrastructurally, the parasites attached to the macrophage by their flagella, and ingestion proceeded fl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stevens DR,Moulton JE

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice given Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli via the respiratory route succumbed much sooner to infection than mice given 1,000 times more bacilli via the intravenous route. Vaccination provided increased protection to an M. tuberculosis challenge infection; however, mice infected via the respiratory route remained m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： North RJ,LaCourse R,Ryan L

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite that resides in the cytoplasm of its host in a unique membrane-bound vacuole known as the parasitophorous vacuole (PV). The membrane surrounding the parasite is remodeled by the dense granules, secretory organelles that release an array of proteins into the vacuo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rome ME,Beck JR,Turetzky JM,Webster P,Bradley PJ

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resequencing estA3, an allele of the methanol-soluble heat-stable enterotoxin of Escherichia coli showed that the proline triplet 19 is in fact an alanine codon; thus, estA alleles 3 and 4 were shown to be identical. Resequencing has also shown that the carboxy terminus of another allele, estA2, is not the previously ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guzman-Verduzco LM,Kupersztoch YM

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although often considered a strict human pathogen, Streptococcus pneumoniae has been reported to infect and cause pneumonia in horses, although the pathology appears restricted compared to that of human infections. Here we report on the molecular characterization of a group of S. pneumoniae isolates obtained from hors...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whatmore AM,King SJ,Doherty NC,Sturgeon D,Chanter N,Dowson CG

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to ascertain if Cryptococcus neoformans components can induce interleukin-6 (IL-6) production, we stimulated human whole blood with purified capsular products. Their potencies in stimulating IL-6 release were mannoproteins > galactoxylomannan = glucuronoxylomannan > alpha(1-3)glucan. IL-6 production was tumor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Delfino D,Cianci L,Lupis E,Celeste A,Petrelli ML,Curró F,Cusumano V,Teti G

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the recent bioterrorism-related outbreaks, inhalational anthrax had a 45% mortality in spite of appropriate antimicrobial therapy, underscoring the need for better adjuvant therapies. The variable latency between exposure and development of disease suggests an important role for the host's innate immune respons...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gold JA,Hoshino Y,Hoshino S,Jones MB,Nolan A,Weiden MD

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose metabolism and respiration of Candida albicans were compared under conditions which permitted either maximal filamentous or maximal yeast growth. Changes in metabolism were monitored by comparing the quantities of ethanol produced, CO2 evolved, and oxygen consumed. Filamenting cultures produced more ethanol an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Land GA,McDonald WC,Stjernholm RL,Friedman L

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the cell wall-anchored fibronectin-binding proteins SpsD and SpsL from the canine commensal and pathogen Staphylococcus pseudintermedius for their role in promoting bacterial invasion of canine progenitor epidermal keratinocytes (CPEK). Invasion was examined by the gentamicin protection ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pietrocola G,Gianotti V,Richards A,Nobile G,Geoghegan JA,Rindi S,Monk IR,Bordt AS,Foster TJ,Fitzgerald JR,Speziale P

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subunits of a proline-rich coccidioidal antigen (Ag2/PRA) of Coccidioides immitis were analyzed by comparison as vaccines in mice. The optimal dose of plasmid vaccine encoding full-length Ag2/PRA was determined to be between 10 and 100 microg. Mice vaccinated with plasmids encoding amino acids (aa) 1 to 106 were as pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Peng T,Shubitz L,Simons J,Perrill R,Orsborn KI,Galgiani JN

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-mediated immunity plays an important role in immunity to the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans. However, the antigen specificity of the T-cell response to C. neoformans remains largely unknown. In this study, we used two approaches to determine the antigen specificity of the T-cell response to C. neoforma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lindell DM,Ballinger MN,McDonald RA,Toews GB,Huffnagle GB

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is a food-borne pathogen with a low infectious dose that colonizes the colon in humans and can cause severe clinical manifestations such as hemolytic-uremic syndrome. The urease enzyme, encoded in the STEC chromosome, has been demonstrated to act as a virulence factor in o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Steyert SR,Kaper JB

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our knowledge of pathogenesis has benefited from a better understanding of the roles of specific virulence factors in disease. To determine the role of the virulence factor ZapA, a 54-kDa metalloproteinase of Proteus mirabilis, in prostatitis, rats were infected with either wild-type (WT) P. mirabilis or its isogenic ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Phan V,Belas R,Gilmore BF,Ceri H

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyamines such as putrescine, spermidine, and cadaverine are small, polycationic molecules that are required for optimal growth in all cells. The intracellular concentrations of these molecules are maintained by de novo synthesis and transport pathways. The human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae possesses a putative...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ware D,Jiang Y,Lin W,Swiatlo E

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the murine model of urinary tract infections (UTI), cystitis by uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) occurs through an intimate relationship with the bladder superficial umbrella cell entailing cycles of adherence, invasion, intracellular bacterial community (IBC) formation, and dispersal (fluxing) from the intrac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wright KJ,Seed PC,Hultgren SJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extracellular cytolysin produced by Vibrio metschnikovii was purified by acid precipitation, phenyl-Sepharose CL-4B chromatography, and rechromatography on a phenyl-Sepharose CL-4B column and high-performance liquid chromatography on a Mono Q (anion-exchange) column. The purified cytolysin had a molecular weight of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miyake M,Honda T,Miwatani T

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Lyme disease agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, is able to persistently infect humans and animals for months or years in the presence of an active immune response. It is not known how the organisms survive immune attack in the mammalian host. vlsE, a gene localized near one end of linear plasmid lp28-1 and encoding a su...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang JR,Norris SJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of sortase gene srtA in Streptococcus pneumoniae strain R6 caused the release of beta-galactosidase and neuraminidase A (NanA) from the cell wall into the surrounding medium. Both of these surface proteins contain the LPXTG motif in the C-terminal domain. Complementation with plasmid-borne srtA reversed p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kharat AS,Tomasz A

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An impressive change in the epidemiology and severity of invasive group A streptococcal infections occurred in the 1980s, and the incidence of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome cases continues to rise. The reason for the resurgence of severe invasive cases remains a mystery-has there been a change in the pathogen or ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Basma H,Norrby-Teglund A,Guedez Y,McGeer A,Low DE,El-Ahmedy O,Schwartz B,Kotb M

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, the natural resistance-associated macrophage protein 1 gene, Nramp1, plays a major role in resistance to mycobacterial infections. Chesapeake Bay striped bass (Morone saxatilis) is currently experiencing an epizootic of mycobacteriosis that threatens the health of this ecologically and economically importa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Burge EJ,Gauthier DT,Ottinger CA,Van Veld PA

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae strains typically express both smooth lipopolysaccharide (LPS) with O antigen molecules and capsule polysaccharide (K antigen) on the surface. A single mutation in a gene that codes for a UDP galacturonate 4-epimerase (uge) renders a strain with the O-:K- phenotype (lack of capsule and LPS withou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Regué M,Hita B,Piqué N,Izquierdo L,Merino S,Fresno S,Benedí VJ,Tomás JM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized outer membrane proteins (OMPs) from selected Campylobacter jejuni, C. coli, and C. fetus strains by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2DGE), using isoelectric focusing and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), and by immunoblotting with immune rabbit serum. The flage...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dunn BE,Blaser MJ,Snyder EL

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans SUNY 465, the invasion prototype strain, enters epithelial cells by an actin-dependent mechanism, escapes from the host cell vacuole, and spreads intracellularly and to adjacent epithelial cells via intercellular protrusions. Internalized organisms also egress from host cells into ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Meyer DH,Rose JE,Lippmann JE,Fives-Taylor PM

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improvement of antibody responses to polysaccharides through their linkage to proteins is thought to be mediated by protein-specific T helper (Th) cells. To investigate whether the carrier protein of a conjugate could be substituted by a Th epitope, Streptococcus pneumoniae type 17F polysaccharide (PS) was bromoacetyl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： de Velasco EA,Merkus D,Anderton S,Verheul AF,Lizzio EF,Van der Zee R,Van Eden W,Hoffman T,Verhoef J,Snippe H

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic DNA fingerprint analysis was performed on 39 Staphylococcus aureus and 28 Enterococcus faecalis endophthalmitis isolates collected from multiple clinical centers. Among 21 S. aureus genomic DNA fingerprint patterns identified, five clonotypes were recovered from multiple unrelated patients and accounted for 58...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Booth MC,Hatter KL,Miller D,Davis J,Kowalski R,Parke DW,Chodosh J,Jett BD,Callegan MC,Penland R,Gilmore MS

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male ICR Swiss mice (2 to 3 months old) were fed Candida albicans in their drinking water for 3 days, followed by no treatment, antibiotics in their drinking water (daily), or immunosuppressants given by intraperitoneal injection (two to three times weekly) over a 3- to 4-week period. The organs of animals were proces...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ekenna O,Sherertz RJ

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) has four loci, lic-1 to lic-3 and lgtC, that generate phase-variable lipooligosaccharide (LOS) structures. lic-1, which is required for the expression of phosphorylcholine (ChoP), is the best characterized and is associated with an enhanced ability of H. influenzae to persist ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tong HH,Blue LE,James MA,Chen YP,DeMaria TF

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD14, the leukocyte receptor for lipopolysaccharide (LPS), is important in the response of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) to infection with gram-negative bacteria. The level of CD14 on the PMN surface increases after exposure to some inflammatory stimuli such as N-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (fMLP...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rodeberg DA,Morris RE,Babcock GF

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00