The Pneumococcal Surface Proteins PspA and PspC Sequester Host C4-Binding Protein To Inactivate Complement C4b on the Bacterial Surface.

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of heat-stable enterotoxin produced by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli 18D has been revised. Amino acids originally assigned to positions 11 and 18, i.e., Tyr and Asn, respectively, were found to occupy positions 18 and 11, respectively. Thus all heat-stable enterotoxins composed of 18 amino a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thompson MR,Giannella RA

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-mediated immunity is critical in host resistance against the pathogenic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum. To explore the role of L3T4+ T cells in protection of mice against H. capsulatum infection, we examined the effect of in vivo treatment with anti-L3T4 monoclonal antibody (MAb) GK1.5 on the course of murine diss...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gomez AM,Bullock WE,Taylor CL,Deepe GS Jr

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sonicated preparations of capsulated Haemophilus influenzae type b, two of its spontaneous mutants, one containing patches of capsules (class I variant) and the other noncapsulated (class II variant), and a noncapsulated strain of H. influenzae type d were analyzed by crossed-immunoelectrophoresis using unadsorbed ant...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Buckmire FL

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis, a periodontopathic bacterium, is known to invade oral epithelial cells in periodontal lesions, although the mechanism is unclear. In the present study, goat polyclonal anti-intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (anti-ICAM-1) antibody inhibited the invasion of P. gingivalis into KB cells (human or...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tamai R,Asai Y,Ogawa T

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposon Tn916 was used to insertionally inactivate a coaggregation-relevant locus of Streptococcus gordonii DL1 (Challis). One mutant (F11) was isolated that lost the ability to coaggregate with the streptococcal partners of DL1 but retained the ability to coaggregate with partners belonging to other genera. A prob...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whittaker CJ,Clemans DL,Kolenbrander PE

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minor salivary glands of the oral mucosa in healthy monkeys (Macaca fascicularis and Macaca mulatta) contain organized structural units suitable for recognizing and processing antigens. A previous study of M. fascicularis monkeys provided experimental evidence of retrograde access of oral antigens deep into the minor ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nair PN,Schroeder HE

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immune response (fluorescent antibody to membrane antigen) was detected in guinea pigs inoculated with varicella-zoster virus (VZV) adapted to guinea pig embryonic cells, including the Oka vaccine strain, even when inoculation was by an external route, i.e., nasal or corneal. Live or UV-inactivated virus having the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Matsunaga Y,Yamanishi K,Takahashi M

更新日期：1982-08-01 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：:L929 cell populations persistently infected for more than 600 days exhibited cell cycle distributions and generation times similar to those of uninfected cells. The RNA and protein contents of these long-term-infected cells, as determined by flow cytometry and correlated with the cell cycle, were likewise approximatel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baca OG,Crissman HA

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the influence of staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 and streptococcal erythrogenic (pyrogenic) toxin A (ETA) on intact and digitonin-permeabilized human polymorphonuclear granulocytes (PMNs). As was shown by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography analysis, toxic shock syndrome toxin ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hensler T,Köller M,Geoffroy C,Alouf JE,König W

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organ cultures of adult hamster trachea were used to evaluate the cytotoxic potential of cell fractions of Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Cytoplasm was essentially devoid of activity, whereas viable cells and membrane preparations, at a level of 25 mug of protein per ml, induced necrosis. Damage, as revealed by light and elec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gabridge MG,Johnson CK,Cameron AM

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas' disease, may induce antibodies and T cells reactive with self antigens (autoimmunity). Because autoimmunity is generally thought to develop during the chronic phase of infection, one hypothesis is that autoimmunity develops only after long-term, low-level stimulat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leon JS,Godsel LM,Wang K,Engman DM

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma genitalium is a sexually transmitted pathogen associated with several acute and chronic reproductive tract disease syndromes in men and women. To evaluate the suitability of a pig-tailed macaque model of M. genitalium infection, we inoculated a pilot animal with M. genitalium strain G37 in the uterine cervi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wood GE,Iverson-Cabral SL,Patton DL,Cummings PK,Cosgrove Sweeney YT,Totten PA

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains are responsible for causing hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), and systemic administration of Shiga toxin (Stx)-specific human monoclonal antibodies (HuMAbs) is considered a promising approach for prevention or treatment of the disease in children. The goal of the pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sheoran AS,Chapman S,Singh P,Donohue-Rolfe A,Tzipori S

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antiserum, C16, was raised in cattle against freeze-thawed extracts of sporozoites of Theileria parva (Muguga). This antiserum, which neutralizes sporozoite infectivity in vitro, identified theileria-specific antigens having approximate molecular masses of 105, 90, 85, 69, 67, 52, 47, and 43 kilodaltons (kDa) on We...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Iams KP,Hall R,Webster P,Musoke AJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amebic erythrophagocytosis is characteristic of invasive amebiasis, and mutants deficient in erythrocyte ingestion are avirulent. We sought to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying erythrocyte phagocytosis by Entamoeba histolytica. Following adherence to amebae, erythrocytes became round and crenulated, and p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boettner DR,Huston CD,Sullivan JA,Petri WA Jr

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis has a unique family of PE-PGRS proteins with conserved N-terminal domains (PE) containing site-specific proline-glutamine residues and polymorphic GC-rich repetitive sequences (PGRS). Tuberculosis (TB) patients produce antibodies against some such proteins, but it is not clear whether these ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Koh KW,Soh SE,Seah GT

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:Penetration of the intestinal mucosa at areas of Peyer's patches is an important first step for Salmonella typhimurium to produce lethal systemic disease in mice. However, mutations in genes that are important for intestinal invasion result in only moderately decreased virulence of S. typhimurium for mice. Here we rep...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bäumler AJ,Tsolis RM,Valentine PJ,Ficht TA,Heffron F

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathepsin G (CatG) is a serine protease found in the azurophilic granules of monocytes that is known to have antimicrobial properties, but its role in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is unknown. We found that M. tuberculosis infection of human THP-1 monocytic cells induced the down-regulation of CatG mRNA express...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rivera-Marrero CA,Stewart J,Shafer WM,Roman J

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Harvard caries-resistant rats (CR) monoassociated with cariogenic Streptococcus faecalis (SF) for 150 days developed early high levels of specific SF serum agglutinins, moderate levels of salivary antibody, and little or no caries activity. Harvard caries-susceptible (CS) SF-monoassociated rats developed serum antibod...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Peri BA,Wagner M

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cyclophosphamide (CY) treatment on acute murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) infection were studied to explore the potential usefulness of MCMV as a means of detecting immune dysfunction and to identify host defense mechanisms important for protection against MCMV. Conditions found optimal for enhancing MCMV ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Selgrade MK,Daniels MJ,Hu PC,Miller FJ,Graham JA

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five mutagens were used to induce mutants of Candida albicans. Ultraviolet light, N-nitroso-N'-methyl-N-nitrosoguanidine, and N-nitroso-N-methylurethane were effective mutagens which induced stable auxotrophs. N-nitroso-N-methylurethane produced the largest number and variety of mutants. Nitrous acid and hydroxylamine...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Savage N,Balish E

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies found that normal human serum (NHS) contains an immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody that mediates initiation of the classical complement pathway by nonencapsulated Cryptococcus neoformans. The present study used an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with whole nonencapsulated yeast cells as solid-phase ant...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Keller RG,Pfrommer GS,Kozel TR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unique permissiveness of A/J mouse macrophages for replication of Legionella pneumophila is caused by a deficiency in the Nod-like receptor (NLR) protein and intracellular sensor for L. pneumophila flagellin (Naip5). The signaling pathways and proteins activated by Naip5 sensing in macrophages were investigated. T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fortier A,Doiron K,Saleh M,Grinstein S,Gros P

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gram-negative bacterium nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) is the predominant pathogen in chronic otitis media with effusion and, with Streptococcus pneumoniae and Moraxella catarrhalis, is a causative agent of acute otitis media. To identify potential virulence determinants, bacterial gene expression was m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mason KM,Munson RS Jr,Bakaletz LO

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protection against infection with virulent blood (trypomastigote) forms of Trypanosoma cruzi was accomplished in mice by immunization with culture (mainly epimastigote) forms killed by treatment with sodium perchlorate. Sodium chloride, used instead of sodium perchlorate, with all other conditions kept the same, faile...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kierszenbaum F,Budzko DB

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of gamma-delta T cells in host resistance to Chlamydia trachomatis was characterized by using a murine model of pneumonia caused by the mouse pneumonitis agent (MoPn), murine C. trachomatis. At days 3 and 7 after infection, gamma-delta T-cell-deficient knockout mice had significantly higher levels of MoPn in ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Williams DM,Grubbs BG,Kelly K,Pack E,Rank RG

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that two surface-exposed high-molecular-weight proteins, HMW1 and HMW2, expressed by a prototypic strain of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) mediate attachment to human epithelial cells. These proteins are members of a family of highly immunogenic proteins common to most nontypeable Hae...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barenkam SJ,St Geme JW 3rd

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans, a major pathogen of dental caries, is considered one of the causative agents of infective endocarditis (IE). Recently, bacterial DNA encoding 120-kDa cell surface collagen-binding proteins (CBPs) has frequently been detected from S. mutans-positive IE patients. In addition, some of the CBP-positi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Otsugu M,Nomura R,Matayoshi S,Teramoto N,Nakano K

更新日期：2017-11-17 00:00:00