Inhibition of endotoxin-induced activation of human monocytes by human lipoproteins.

abstract：:Haemophilus influenzae is a commensal and opportunistic pathogen of the human airways. A number of surface molecules contribute to colonization of the airways by H. influenzae, such as adhesins, including structures found in the lipooligosaccharide (LOS). A human bronchiolar xenograft model was employed to investigate...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Swords WE,Chance DL,Cohn LA,Shao J,Apicella MA,Smith AL

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared a cryptococcal culture filtrate antigen referred to as CneF with chemically defined cryptococcal antigen fractions isolated by Cherniak and co-workers by using double immunodiffusion gels, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, immunoblots, and footpad reactivity of immunized mice. The three previously descri...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Murphy JW,Mosley RL,Cherniak R,Reyes GH,Kozel TR,Reiss E

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the pH of the gingival crevice increases from below neutrality in health to above pH 8 in disease, we decided to investigate the effect of environmental pH on the growth and enzyme activity of Bacteroides gingivalis W50. Cells were grown in a chemostat under hemin-excess conditions over a range of pH values; sta...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McDermid AS,McKee AS,Marsh PD

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice immunized subcutaneously with heat-killed Escherichia coli were protected from pyelonephritis produced by the intravenous route, but there was little or no protection from ascending infection. No significant protection from ascending or hematogenous pyelonephritis was demonstrated when immunization was accomplish...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Montgomerie JZ,Kalmanson GM,Hubert EG,Guze LB

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of mice with the murine sarcoma virus (Moloney) markedly suppressed the humoral antibody response to sheep erythrocyte antigen injected 10 days after infection, when tumor size was maximal, and on day 26, when primary tumors had partially regressed. Humoral antibody response was also inhibited when antigen w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chan SP,Hook WA,Turner W,Chirigos MA

更新日期：1970-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenically variant Chlamydia trachomatis major outer membrane protein (MOMP) is a target of antibody-mediated neutralization in vitro, and it is an important protein for designing a subunit vaccine. Knowledge of MOMP T-cell determinants will be essential to elicit rapid and strong immune responses following an ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ishizaki M,Allen JE,Beatty PR,Stephens RS

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacteriophage 782, a phage highly related to the beta family of corynebacteriophages but lacking a tox allele, was isolated from a nontoxinogenic clinical isolate of Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Phage 782 exhibits beta immunity but has a wider host range than beta, forming plaques on strains of C. ulcerans and C...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cianciotto N,Groman N

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for stimulating sensitized lymphocytes by inactivated herpes simplex virus was established by using cultures of washed whole blood cells. The development of the immune response of herpes simplex virus-infected guinea pigs was examined at different times in the 4-month period after infection. Humoral and cellu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Scriba M

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-seven bacterial strains representing four different group C streptococcal species were tested for binding of human and bovine immunoglobulin G (IgG) subclasses. Specific binding sites for IgG were found in all bacterial species studied. The four species included differed, however, in their capacities to interact...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Myhre EB,Kronvall G

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For pathogens to survive in the human oral cavity, they must identify a suitable niche in the complex multispecies biofilm that exists on oral tissues. The periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis adheres to Streptococcus gordonii by interacting with a specific region of the streptococcal SspB polypeptide, design...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Demuth DR,Irvine DC,Costerton JW,Cook GS,Lamont RJ

更新日期：2001-09-01 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：:Exoenzyme S (ExoS), an ADP-ribosylating enzyme produced by the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, is directly translocated into eukaryotic cells by bacterial contact. Within the cell, ExoS ADP-ribosylates the cell signaling protein Ras and causes inhibition of DNA synthesis and alterations in cytoskeletal ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Olson JC,Fraylick JE,McGuffie EM,Dolan KM,Yahr TL,Frank DW,Vincent TS

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:We tested the hypothesis that the intensity of specific antichlamydial T cell-mediated immunity in the genital tract of female guinea pigs infected intravaginally with the chlamydial agent of guinea pig inclusion conjunctivitis would determine the resistance or susceptibility to reinfection after a primary chlamydial ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Igietseme JU,Rank RG

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit-specific enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (REPEC) is an attaching and effacing pathogen of young rabbits. Using signature-tagged mutagenesis, we identified several known colonization factors of REPEC as well as a gene predicted to encode a novel autotransporter protein. This novel gene was termed rpeA for REPE...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leyton DL,Adams LM,Kelly M,Sloan J,Tauschek M,Robins-Browne RM,Hartland EL

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here on the isolation of isogenic strains of Aeromonas hydrophila AB3 deleted for a segment of the aerolysin gene. All aer mutants obtained lacked the 49-kilodalton aerolysin gene product and were neither hemolytic for blood erythrocytes nor cytotoxic for Chinese hamster ovary tissue culture cells. One such ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chakraborty T,Huhle B,Hof H,Bergbauer H,Goebel W

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was shown in this work that the infectivity of metacyclic forms of Trypanosoma cruzi was affected upon interaction with the monoclonal antibody (10D8), which reacts with a carbohydrate epitope of the 35- and 50-kilodalton (kDa) surface glycoconjugates. The invasion of Vero cells by metacyclic forms of strains Tulah...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yoshida N,Mortara RA,Araguth MF,Gonzalez JC,Russo M

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were protected against a lethal infection with Listeria monocytogenes when treated with low doses of an anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (MAb). Injection of anti-CD3 MAb induced rapid production of endogenous tumor necrosis factor (TNF) in the spleens and endogenous gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) in the bloodstreams an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nakane A,Okamoto M,Asano M,Kohanawa M,Minagawa T

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibition by Mycoplasma dispar of ciliary activity of organ cultures of bovine fetal trachea was found to be dependent on the presence of serum in the maintenance medium. Inhibitory activity was unaffected by catalase and no toxic substance was demonstrated in organ culture supernatant fluid. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Howard CJ,Thomas LH

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the diphtheria toxin phenotype of specially selected isolates of Corynebacterium ulcerans and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis (C. ovis). All produced proteins similar in size and immunological structure to diphtheria toxin. As with diphtheria toxin, they exhibited ADP-ribosylating activity, and their ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wong TP,Groman N

更新日期：1984-03-01 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：:The Salmonella dublin virulence plasmid mediates systemic infection in mice and cattle. Here, we analyze the interaction between wild-type and plasmid-cured Salmonella strains with phagocytes in vitro and in vivo. The intracellular recovery of S. dublin from murine peritoneal and bovine alveolar macrophages cultured i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guilloteau LA,Wallis TS,Gautier AV,MacIntyre S,Platt DJ,Lax AJ

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A peptidoglycan layer of Treponema pallidum kazan was isolated by solubilization of whole cells with 1% warm sodium dodecyl sulfate and subsequent digestion of an insoluble residue with proteases. Electron microscopy revealed that the peptidoglycan was isolated as a single-layered sacculus of less than 5 nm in thickne...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Umemoto T,Ota T,Sagawa H,Kato K,Takada H,Tsujimoto M,Kawasaki A,Ogawa T,Harada K,Kotani S

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hallmarks of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) infection are formation of attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions on mucosal surfaces and actin-rich pedestals on cultured cells, both of which are dependent on the type III secretion system effector Tir. Following translocation into cultured cells and clustering...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Crepin VF,Habibzay M,Glegola-Madejska I,Guenot M,Collins JW,Frankel G

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were vaccinated with 300 micrograms of BCG cell walls (BCG-CW) in oil-in-water emulsion intravenously or with a high or low dose of living BCG by inhalation (BCG-HD or BCG-LD, respectively). The consequences of vaccination were evaluated in terms of the growth of BCG in the lungs and spleen, lung and spleen weigh...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lefford MJ

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of human clinical isolates of Yersinia enterocolitica to interact with HEp-2 cells was found to vary considerably between the serotypes O:3, O:8, and O:9. Although all three serotypes adhered initially to the cell surface, regardless of incubation temperature of the bacterial inoculum or presence of the 40...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lassen J,Kapperud G

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 60-kilodalton (kDa) immunodominant antigen of Legionella pneumophila is a heat shock protein (HSP) of the GroEL class of HSPs. The gene (htpB) coding the 60-kDa protein was localized to a 3.2-kilobase DNA fragment of L. pneumophila cloned into pUC19 (pSH16) (P. S. Hoffman, C. A. Butler, and F. D. Quinn, Infect. Immu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hoffman PS,Houston L,Butler CA

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Bacteroides fragilis that produce a ca. 20-kDa heat-labile protein toxin (termed B. fragilis toxin [BFT]) have been associated with diarrheal disease of animals and humans. BFT alters the morphology of intestinal epithelial cells both in vitro and in vivo and stimulates secretion in ligated intestinal segme...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Franco AA,Mundy LM,Trucksis M,Wu S,Kaper JB,Sears CL

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous investigations have shown that 70-kDa heat shock protein (Hsp70) homologs interact tightly with hydrophobic proteins and functionally assist proteins in membranous organelles and environments. One such protein is the Chlamydia trachomatis Hsp70 that is associated with isolated outer membrane complexes of infe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Raulston JE,Davis CH,Paul TR,Hobbs JD,Wyrick PB

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice orally immunized with Salmonella dublin EL23, a nonreverting, aromatic-dependent, histidine-requiring mutant transformed with a plasmid which carries a gene that codes for production of the B subunit of the heat-labile toxin (LT-B) of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, or with purified LT-B alone were compared for...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bost KL,Clements JD

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00