Mitogenic stimulation of murine spleen cells: relation to susceptibility to Salmonella infection.

abstract：:The influences of Neisseria gonorrhoeae protein IB content and bilayer composition of liposomes and protein content of iscoms on immunogenicity were investigated. Changes in the protein content of liposomes did not influence the immunoglobulin G response, whereas the response was lowered when the amount of protein in ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kersten GF,van de Put AM,Teerlink T,Beuvery EC,Crommelin DJ

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastomyces dermatitidis is a thermally induced dimorphic fungus capable of causing lung and systemic infections in immunocompetent animal hosts. With the publication of genomic sequences from three different strains of B. dermatitidis and the development of RNA interference as a gene-silencing tool, it has become pos...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Krajaejun T,Wüthrich M,Gauthier GM,Warner TF,Sullivan TD,Klein BS

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding the cytotoxic enterotoxin (Act) from Aeromonas hydrophila was hyperexpressed with the pET, pTRX, and pGEX vector systems. Maximum toxin yield was obtained with the pTRX vector. Approximately 40 to 60% of Act was in a soluble form with the pTRX and pET vector systems. The toxin protein was purified to h...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ferguson MR,Xu XJ,Houston CW,Peterson JW,Coppenhaver DH,Popov VL,Chopra AK

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:The protective efficacy of Mycobacterium bovis BCG can be markedly augmented by stable integration of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomic region RD1. BCG complemented with RD1 (BCG::RD1) encodes nine additional proteins. Among them, 10-kDa culture filtrate protein (CFP-10) and ESAT-6 (6-kDa early secreted antigenic tar...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Demangel C,Brodin P,Cockle PJ,Brosch R,Majlessi L,Leclerc C,Cole ST

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals are predisposed to recurrent oral candidiasis, and, although it has been assumed that this is because of deficient mucosal immune responses, this has not been properly established. The present study aimed to compare the concentrations and secretion rates of immun...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Coogan MM,Sweet SP,Challacombe SJ

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of the innate immune system depends on its ability to mount an appropriate response to diverse infections and damaging agents. Key components of this system are pattern recognition receptors that detect pathogen-associated and damage-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs and DAMPs). Nlrp1b is a pattern rec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liao KC,Mogridge J

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligosaccharides (OSs) related to the pneumococcal type 14 capsular polysaccharide (Pn14PS) were studied for their ability to inhibit the binding between anti-PS14 antisera and native PS14. A synthetic tetrasaccharide corresponding to the repeating unit of the Pn14PS, a hexasaccharide mimic, and an octasaccharide frag...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mawas F,Niggemann J,Jones C,Corbel MJ,Kamerling JP,Vliegenthart JF

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To ascertain the effects of selective impairment of the fixed macrophage compartment on host defense, rabbit anti-rat Kupffer cell serum was raised and tested for its ability to depress phagocytosis and to serve as an immunosuppressant. The ability of the anti-Kupffer cell serum (AKS) to depress intravascular clearanc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pisano JC,di Luzio NR

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of the chromosomal DNA flanking the Actinomyces naeslundii (formerly A. viscosus) T14V type 1 fimbrial structural subunit gene (fimP) was determined. Six open reading frames (ORFs), in the order 5' ORF3, ORF2, ORF1,fimP, ORF4, ORF5, ORF6 3', were identified. ORF1 encoded a protein of 408 amino ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yeung MK,Ragsdale PA

更新日期：1997-07-01 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：:The effects of an ornithine-containing lipid [alpha-N-(3-acyloxyacyl)-ornithine (Orn-L)] or a serine-containing lipid [alpha-N-(3-acyloxyacyl)-serine (Ser-L)] from Flavobacterium meningosepticum on lethal endotoxemia in mice were examined. When 500 micrograms of Orn-L was intravenously administered 1 h before intraven...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kawai Y,Kaneda K,Morisawa Y,Akagawa K

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this research was to determine whether gram-negative bacteria frequently isolated from periodontally diseased sites contained polyclonal B-cell activators. Polyclonal B-cell activation, which results in nonspecific activation of multiple B-cell clones was analyzed by a hemolysis-in-gel assay designed ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bick PH,Carpenter AB,Holdeman LV,Miller GA,Ranney RR,Palcanis KG,Tew JG

更新日期：1981-10-01 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：:A recombinant plasmid designated pAW305, containing a 6-kilobase insert of Treponema pallidum DNA, directed the expression of a 38-kilodalton (kDa) treponemal antigen in Escherichia coli. The 38-kDa antigen copurified with the outer membrane fraction of the E. coli cell envelope after treatment with nonionic detergent...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fehniger TE,Radolf JD,Walfield AM,Cunningham TM,Miller JN,Lovett MA

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of inhibitors of cell wall biosynthesis to exponential-phase cultures of Streptococcus mutans may do one of three things, depending on the concentrations used: (i) prevent cell division at a time coincident with the onset of chromosome replication, (ii) prevent cell division later in the cell cycle coinci...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kral TA,Daneo-Moore L

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates constitute a great clinical challenge. One important resistance mechanism in K. pneumoniae is the metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs), which require zinc for their function. Thus, zinc chelation could be a strategy to resensitize K. pneumoniae to β-lactams. However, the pote...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karadottir H,Coorens M,Liu Z,Wang Y,Agerberth B,Giske CG,Bergman P

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and convenient method was developed for the preparation of Streptococcus pneumoniae type 14 polysaccharide (Pn14PS)-tetanus toxoid (TT) conjugate vaccines, using terminally linked Pn14PS fragments of different lengths. Native Pn14PS was simultaneously depolymerized and activated for conjugation by partial N-d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Laferriere CA,Sood RK,de Muys JM,Michon F,Jennings HJ

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma interferon, an immune lymphokine that protects mouse macrophages against infection by several parasites, was ineffective against Mycobacterium lepraemurium. On the contrary, it significantly stimulated multiplication of M. lepraemurium in the macrophages. Simultaneous treatment of macrophages with gamma interfer...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mor N,Goren MB,Crowle AJ

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies secreted by six hybridomas and recognizing antigenic sites on glycoproteins gC, gAB, gD, gE, and gF of herpes simplex virus type 2 were examined for their ability to protect BALB/c mice from lethal infection by the virus. Administration of monoclonal antibodies to individual glycoproteins intrape...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Balachandran N,Bacchetti S,Rawls WE

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans is one of the best-known biofilm-forming organisms associated with humans. We investigated the role of the sortase gene (srtA) in monospecies biofilm formation and observed that inactivation of srtA caused a decrease in biofilm formation. Genes encoding three putative sortase-dependent proteins we...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lévesque CM,Voronejskaia E,Huang YC,Mair RW,Ellen RP,Cvitkovitch DG

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular multiplication of virulent Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 was inhibited by human monocyte-derived macrophages activated by a glycoprotein extract of Klebsiella pneumoniae, RU 41.740. Macrophage cultures were infected with L. pneumophila in the presence of immune antibodies on day 7 of culture. Extrac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rajagopalan P,Dournon E,Vildé JL,Pocidalo JJ

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II heat-labile enterotoxin (LT-II) from Escherichia coli 41 was purified and compared with prototype LT-II encoded by genes from E. coli SA53. Both toxins were oligomeric proteins consisting of polypeptides A (Mr, 28,000) and B (Mr, 11,800). The A polypeptides were cleaved by trypsin into fragments A1 (Mr, 21,000...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guth BE,Twiddy EM,Trabulsi LR,Holmes RK

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endotoxin-resistant C3H/HeJ mice were used to test the hypothesis that a macrophage product, possibly interleukin-1, might mediate the depression of liver cytochrome P-450-dependent drug metabolism in endotoxin-treated mice. Depression of liver drug metabolism by endotoxin was observed in normal mice (C3H/HeN) but not...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ghezzi P,Saccardo B,Villa P,Rossi V,Bianchi M,Dinarello CA

更新日期：1986-12-01 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：:Cultured mammalian cells extend the time of survival of Treponema pallidum (Nichols strain). Various parameters that have been previously shown to enhance treponemal survival in vitro were examined for influences on the interaction of T. pallidum with cultured cells. With cells derived from normal rabbit testes, the t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fitzgerald TJ,Johnson RC,Sykes JA,Miller JN

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relapsing fever (RF) is a spirochetal infection characterized by periods of sickness with fever at time of high bacteremia that alternate with afebrile periods of relative well being during low bacteremia. Patients with epidemic RF who are doing relatively well have extraordinarily high levels of interleukin-10 (IL-10...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Londoño D,Marques A,Hornung RL,Cadavid D

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Once in the cytoplasm of mammalian cells, Shigella flexneri expresses a motile phenotype caused by polar directional assembly of actin. This process depends on accumulation of IcsA (VirG), a 120-kDa protein with ATPase activity, at the pole of the bacterium opposite to that at which ongoing septation occurs. IcsA is a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： d'Hauteville H,Dufourcq Lagelouse R,Nato F,Sansonetti PJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Shigella flexneri a 220-kilobase plasmid encodes the ability to invade nonprofessional phagocytes by a mechanism similar to phagocytosis. In this report, the continuous macrophage cell line J774 was used to study the intracellular fate of both invasive and noninvasive strains. pWR100, the virulence plasmid of S. fl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clerc PL,Ryter A,Mounier J,Sansonetti PJ

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial heat shock proteins (HSP) are dominant antigens for the host immune response. Because of the high sequence homology between mammalian and microbial HSP, their value as component of a subunit vaccine has been the subject of controversy. Previous work from this laboratory, however, demonstrated for the first t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Noll A,AutenriethIB

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00