Antibody-independent interaction of the first component of complement with Gram-negative bacteria.

abstract：:A parasitic protozoan, Leishmania mexicana amazonensis, was previously made resistant to tunicamycin (J.A. Kink and K.-P. Chang, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84:1253-1257, 1987). In the present study, six different tunicamycin-resistant variants were biologically and biochemically compared with their parental wild type ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kink JA,Chang KP

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preexisting antivector immunity can severely compromise the ability of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium live vaccines to induce protective CD8 T-cell frequencies after type III secretion system-mediated heterologous protein translocation in orally immunized mice. To circumvent this problem, we injected CpG DNA ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Berchtold C,Panthel K,Jellbauer S,Köhn B,Roider E,Partilla M,Heesemann J,Endres S,Bourquin C,Rüssmann H

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute phase of Chagas' disease is accompanied by immunosuppression. To explore the underlying mechanism(s), we used an in vitro culture system in which the capacities of activated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells to express interleukin-2 receptors (IL-2R) and proliferate are markedly inhibited in the prese...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Beltz LA,Kierszenbaum F,Sztein MB

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrobacter rodentium, an attaching-effacing bacterial pathogen, establishes an acute infection of the murine colonic epithelium and induces a mild colitis in immunocompetent mice. This study describes the role of T-cell subsets and B lymphocytes in immunity to C. rodentium. C57Bl/6 mice orally infected with C. rodent...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Simmons CP,Clare S,Ghaem-Maghami M,Uren TK,Rankin J,Huett A,Goldin R,Lewis DJ,MacDonald TT,Strugnell RA,Frankel G,Dougan G

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lectin with strong hemagglutinating activity toward erythrocytes of several animal species was isolated from an 18-h culture supernatant of a diarrheagenic strain, V2, of non-O1 Vibrio cholerae. The hemagglutinin (HA) was purified free of lipopolysaccharide by salt fractionation followed by gel filtration, hydrophob...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Banerjee KK,Ghosh AN,Dutta-Roy K,Pal SC,Ghose AC

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We undertook a morphological and immunochemical comparison of purified outer membrane antigens from oral and nonoral isolates of Bacteroides asaccharolyticus. Electron micrographs of thin sections of whole bacteria revealed a compact, electron-dense capsule external to the outer membrane of oral strains. A loose, web-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mansheim BJ,Coleman SE

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Alexander hepatoma cell line, PLC/PRF/5, was studied for evidence of hepatitis B virus markers and alpha-fetoprotein. Only hepatitis B surface antigen and alpha-fetoprotein were detected. Induction experiments with 5-iodo-2'-deoxyuridine and inoculation of chimpanzees with whole cells or tissue culture fluid did n...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Daemer RJ,Feinstone SM,Alexander JJ,Tully JG,London WT,Wong DC,Purcell RH

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, has a unique segmented genome consisting of numerous linear and circular plasmids and a linear chromosome. Many of these genetic elements have been found to encode factors critical for B. burgdorferi to complete the infectious cycle. However, several plasmi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dulebohn DP,Bestor A,Rosa PA

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bactericidal activity of guinea pig and human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) against a smooth-intermediate strain (45/0) and a rough strain (45/20) of Brucella abortus has been examined. After incubation for 120 min, guinea pig PMNs incubated with either the smooth strain 45/0 or the rough strain 45/20 exhibi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kreutzer DL,Dreyfus LA,Robertson DC

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of protein kinase C (PKC) activation on the cyclic GMP response to heat-stable enterotoxin (STa) in a colonic carcinoma intestinal epithelial cell line, T84 cells. Our results demonstrate that the active phorbol ester analog, phorbol dibutyrate, but not the inactive alpha-phorbol dibutyrate, act...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weikel CS,Spann CL,Chambers CP,Crane JK,Linden J,Hewlett EL

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of type-specific antigen (that covalently associated with the cell wall peptidoglycan and that released extracellularly) synthesized by virulent and avirulent strains of type III group B streptococci was quantitated and compared. Additionally, the effect of the physiological age of the cells and the influenc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yeung MK,Mattingly SJ

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival of macrophage microbicidal activity is a prerequisite for invasive disease caused by the enteric pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. Flavohemoglobins, such as those of Escherichia coli, Salmonella, and yeast, play vital roles in protection of these microorganisms in vitro from nitric oxide (NO) ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stevanin TM,Poole RK,Demoncheaux EA,Read RC

更新日期：2002-08-01 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：:We have identified a Crp/Fnr-like transcriptional regulator of Streptococcus pyogenes that when inactivated attenuates virulence. The gene, named srv for streptococcal regulator of virulence, encodes a 240-amino-acid protein with 53% amino acid similarity to PrfA, a transcriptional activator of virulence in Listeria m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Reid SD,Montgomery AG,Musser JM

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of free muramyl tripeptide phosphatidylethanolamide (MTPPE) or liposome-encapsulated MTPPE (LE-MTPPE) in a twofold-lower dose at 24 h before bacterial inoculation resulted in clearance of intravenously inoculated Klebsiella pneumoniae by tissue macrophages, whereas in control mice, bacteria were not eff...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Melissen PM,van Vianen W,Bakker-Woudenberg IA

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) is a major metabolic end product detected in deep periodontal pockets that is produced by resident periodontopathic microbiota associated with the progression of periodontitis. Treponema denticola, a member of the subgingival biofilm at disease sites, produces cystalysin, an enzyme that catabo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chu L,Dong Z,Xu X,Cochran DL,Ebersole JL

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty percent of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates contain pilus islet 1, coding for a pilus composed of the backbone subunit RrgB and two ancillary proteins, RrgA and RrgC. RrgA is the major determinant of in vitro adhesion associated with pilus 1, is protective in vivo in mouse models, and exists in two variants (c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moschioni M,Emolo C,Biagini M,Maccari S,Pansegrau W,Donati C,Hilleringmann M,Ferlenghi I,Ruggiero P,Sinisi A,Pizza M,Norais N,Barocchi MA,Masignani V

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:We examined the association of Herpesvirus saimiri with lymphocyte subsets and the functional integrity and distribution of these populations in owl monkeys with chronic, disease-free infections, in uninoculated, control animals, and in one monkey with H. saimiri-induced lymphoma. The lymphocyte subpopulations examine...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Neubauer RH,Dunn FE,Rabin H

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a murine respiratory infection model, we have demonstrated previously that infection with Bordetella pertussis or immunization with a whole-cell pertussis vaccine induced antigen-specific Th1 cells, which conferred a high level of protection against aerosol challenge. In contrast, immunization with an acellular ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mahon BP,Ryan MS,Griffin F,Mills KH

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of interleukin-8 (IL-8) in vitro has been suggested to correlate with the reactogenicity of Vibrio cholerae vaccine candidates. V. cholerae vaccine candidate 638, a hemagglutinin protease/hap-defective strain, was recently reported to be well tolerated in human volunteers, suggesting a role for Hap in re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhou X,Gao DQ,Michalski J,Benitez JA,Kaper JB

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work (P. Castric, F. J. Cassels, and R. W. Carlson, J. Biol. Chem. 276:26479-26485, 2001) has shown the Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1244 pilin glycan to be covalently bound to a serine residue. N-terminal sequencing of pilin fragments produced from endopeptidase treatment and identified by reaction with a glycan-s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Comer JE,Marshall MA,Blanch VJ,Deal CD,Castric P

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotype b-specific polysaccharide antigen (SPA) of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans Y4 consists of D-fucose and L-rhamnose. To clarify the role of SPA in phagocytosis of the organism by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs), monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against SPA and SPA-defective mutants, which were constr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yamaguchi N,Kawasaki M,Yamashita Y,Nakashima K,Koga T

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conidia ingested by resident macrophages had an enhanced percentage of transformation to yeast cells compared with those in culture medium without macrophages. The yeast cells subsequently grew intracellularly by budding. Macrophages treated with cytokines from antigen-stimulated spleen cells from immunized mice signi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cano LE,Brummer E,Stevens DA,Restrepo A

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) binding protein (LBP) is an acute-phase protein that enhances the responsiveness of immune cells to LPS by virtue of its capacity to transfer LPS to CD14. To determine the role of LBP in the innate immune response to peritonitis, LBP gene-deficient (LBP(-/-)) and normal wild-type mice were int...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Knapp S,de Vos AF,Florquin S,Golenbock DT,van der Poll T

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of whether Mycobacterium tuberculosis resides within a relatively impermeable membrane-bound vacuole or is free within the cytoplasm within its host cell is central to an understanding of the immunobiology of this intracellular parasite but is a matter of controversy. To explore this issue, we assessed the a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clemens DL,Lee BY,Horwitz MA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most oral bacteria tested formed colonies on a chemically defined medium with a chromogenic arylsulfatase substrate. Arylsulfatase activity was, however, restricted to Campylobacter-Wolinella group organisms, including Wolinella recta, a possible periodontopathogen. W. recta was the only arylsulfatase-active species a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wyss C

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed hha derivatives from both a clinical uropathogenic Escherichia coli isolate (strain FVL4) and a wild E. coli strain causing bovine diarrhea (strain CCB21) and analyzed the effect of the hha allele on the expression of the different virulence factors exhibited by these strains. Expression of hemolysin an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mouriño M,Madrid C,Balsalobre C,Prenafeta A,Muñoa F,Blanco J,Blanco M,Blanco JE,Juarez A

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria meningitidis is a major cause of sepsis and meningitis but is also a common commensal, present in the nasopharynx of between 8 and 20% of healthy individuals. During carriage, the bacterium is found on the surface of the nasopharyngeal epithelium and in deeper tissues, while to develop disease the meningococ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sutherland TC,Quattroni P,Exley RM,Tang CM

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel immunobiologically active fraction was prepared from a phenol-water extract of Prevotella intermedia ATCC 25611 by Sephadex G-100 column chromatography. The fraction consisted mainly of carbohydrate and protein and was devoid of fatty acid. The fraction showed high-molecular-weight bands (10,000 to 12,000) on ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Iki K,Kawahara K,Sawamura S,Arakaki R,Sakuta T,Sugiyama A,Tamura H,Sueda T,Hamada S,Takada H

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00