Anaerobic phagocytosis, killing, and degradation of Streptococcus pneumoniae by human peripheral blood leukocytes.

abstract：:A recombinant 23-kDa protein (rBPI23) derived from human bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) possesses potent endotoxin-neutralizing abilities in vitro and in vivo. Binding of rBPI23 to those endotoxins (lipopolysaccharides [LPSs]) encountered clinically would be a prerequisite for efficacy in decreasin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Appelmelk BJ,An YQ,Thijs BG,MacLaren DM,de Graaff J

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bartonella bacilliformis is the etiologic agent of Oroya fever in humans. Flagellum-mediated motility has been postulated as a major virulence factor for invasion of host cells. To address this hypothesis, we purified and characterized flagella from strain KC584 and then assessed their role in human erythrocyte associ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Scherer DC,DeBuron-Connors I,Minnick MF

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7 causes food and waterborne enteric infections that can result in hemorrhagic colitis and life-threatening hemolytic uremic syndrome. Intimate adherence of the bacteria to intestinal epithelial cells is mediated by intimin, but E. coli O157:H7 also possess several other putative adhesins, inclu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lloyd SJ,Ritchie JM,Rojas-Lopez M,Blumentritt CA,Popov VL,Greenwich JL,Waldor MK,Torres AG

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we examined the binding of Candida albicans synchronized yeast-phase cells to plastic, immobilized amino acids and bovine serum albumin (BSA) and quantified the binding by using an XTT tetrazolium salt assay and absorbance determination. Our results show that C. albicans binds efficiently and specifical...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hawser SP,Islam K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins are abundantly expressed in the infective and intracellular stages of Trypanosoma cruzi and are recognized as antigenic targets by both the humoral and cellular arms of the immune system. Previously, we demonstrated the efficacy of genes encoding GPI-anchored protei...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bhatia V,Sinha M,Luxon B,Garg N

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enterotoxin of Shigella dysenteriae I produces fluid and electrolyte secretion in the rabbit ileum. These present studies were designed to evaluate nonelectrolyte transport in rabbit ileal mucosa exposed to Shigella enterotoxin. Both 10 mM galactose and 5 mM L-alanine absorptions were significantly impaired in ent...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Binder HJ,Whiting DS

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In experimental visceral leishmaniasis, in which the tissue macrophage is the target, in vivo responsiveness to conventional chemotherapy (pentavalent antimony [Sb]) requires a T-cell-dependent mechanism. To determine if this mechanism involves gamma interferon (IFN-gamma)-induced activation and/or specific IFN-gamma-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Murray HW,Delph-Etienne S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resurgence is a major concern after malaria elimination. After the initiation of the elimination program on Aneityum Island in 1991, microscopy showed that Plasmodium falciparum disappeared immediately, whereas P. vivax disappeared from 1996 onward, until P. vivax cases were reported in January 2002. By conducting mal...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kaneko A,Chaves LF,Taleo G,Kalkoa M,Isozumi R,Wickremasinghe R,Perlmann H,Takeo S,Tsuboi T,Tachibana S,Kimura M,Björkman A,Troye-Blomberg M,Tanabe K,Drakeley C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of nosocomial bacterial diarrhea. Glutamine and its stable and highly soluble derivative alanyl-glutamine, have been beneficial in models of intestinal injury. In this study, we extend our work on the mechanisms of Clostridium difficile toxin A (TxA)-induced apoptosis in huma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carneiro BA,Fujii J,Brito GA,Alcantara C,Oriá RB,Lima AA,Obrig T,Guerrant RL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomyces naeslundii and Streptococcus gordonii, oral bacteria that possess Gal/GalNAc- and sialic acid-reactive lectins, respectively, were adherent to immobilized secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) and two IgA1 myeloma proteins but not to two IgA2 myeloma proteins. Apparently, O-linked oligosaccharides at the hinge ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ruhl S,Sandberg AL,Cole MF,Cisar JO

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tetraspanins are a superfamily of transmembrane proteins with diverse functions and can form extended microdomains within the plasma membrane in conjunction with partner proteins, which probably includes receptors for bacterial adhesins. Neisseria meningitidis, the causative agent of meningococcal disease, attache...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Green LR,Monk PN,Partridge LJ,Morris P,Gorringe AR,Read RC

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epitope specificities of 13 hybridomas secreting monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) specific for pertussis toxin (PT) is described. Hybridoma lines were derived by the fusion of spleen cells from mice immunized with native PT, Formalin-detoxified PT, or isolated PT subunits (S1 to S5) with the myeloma line X63-Ag8.653. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lang AB,Ganss MT,Cryz SJ Jr

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study is to evaluate the contribution of mast cells to Helicobacter pylori immunity in a model of vaccine-induced protection. Mast cell-deficient Kitl(Sl)/Kitl(Sl-d) and control mice were immunized with H. pylori sonicate plus cholera toxin and challenged with H. pylori, and the bacterial loads, infla...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ding H,Nedrud JG,Wershil B,Redline RW,Blanchard TG,Czinn SJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Existing evidence suggests that oxidative insults and antioxidant defense mechanisms play a critical role in the host cell response during infection of endothelial cells by Rickettsia rickettsii, the causative agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Heme oxygenase (HO), a rate-limiting enzyme in the pathway for heme ca...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rydkina E,Sahni A,Silverman DJ,Sahni SK

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated outer membranes of Borrelia burgdorferi 297 were utilized to obtain partial amino acid sequence information for a low-molecular-weight, outer membrane-associated polypeptide. Degenerate oligonucleotide primers based upon this information were used to amplify a 100-bp probe for detection of the corresponding f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lahdenne P,Porcella SF,Hagman KE,Akins DR,Popova TG,Cox DL,Katona LI,Radolf JD,Norgard MV

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma musculi produces a chronic infection with a consistently elevated parasitemia in nude mice. Thymic reconstitution of nude mice restores immunity to the infection. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rank RG,Roberts DW,Weidanz WP

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports have demonstrated that Bordetella pertussis has invasive behavior in vivo and in vitro. In this study, we investigated the ability of a virulent strain, avirulent mutants, and mutants deficient in specific virulence factors to enter and survive intracellularly in human macrophages in vitro. Uptake of vi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Friedman RL,Nordensson K,Wilson L,Akporiaye ET,Yocum DE

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three most abundant extracellular proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the 30-, 32-, and 16-kDa major extracellular proteins, are particularly promising vaccine candidates. We have mapped T-cell epitopes of these three proteins in outbred guinea pigs by immunizing the animals with each protein and assaying sple...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lee BY,Horwitz MA

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditions are described for the production of an extracellular cytotoxin or CHO cell-killing factor by Vibrio fluvialis, a recently recognized enteric pathogen. The cell-killing factor was ammonium sulfate precipitable, heat labile, and inactivated by proteases, and had an isoelectric point (estimated by sucrose dens...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wall VW,Kreger AS,Richardson SH

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Live attenuated bacteria hold great promise as multivalent mucosal vaccines against a variety of pathogens. A major challenge of this approach has been the successful delivery of sufficient amounts of vaccine antigens to adequately prime the immune system without overattenuating the live vaccine. Here we used a live a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galen JE,Wang JY,Carrasco JA,Lloyd SA,Mellado-Sanchez G,Diaz-McNair J,Franco O,Buskirk AD,Nataro JP,Pasetti MF

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 120-kDa rickettsial outer membrane protein (rOmpB) is encoded by a gene with the capacity to encode a protein of approximately 168 kDa. The carboxy-terminal end of the molecule is apparently cleaved to yield 120- and 32-kDa products. Both polypeptides are surface exposed and remain associated with the outer membra...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hackstadt T,Messer R,Cieplak W,Peacock MG

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibody MASC1-MR9 of isotype immunoglobulin M was generated in LOU/C rats by immunization with heat-killed Salmonella thompson (serogroup C1, O-antigen 6,7 lipopolysaccharide) bacteria which had been further enriched for O-antigen by coating with homologous lipopolysaccharide. Eight monoclonal antibodies w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nnalue NA,Weintraub A,Lindberg AA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous virus production is a characteristic of chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF) infected and transformed by a nondefective Schmidt-Ruppin subgroup A Rous sarcoma virus. This virus production has been examined with particular attention to the amount of newly budded virus which remained cell-associated, and to the a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Volkmann KR,Morgan HR

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was found that cells of Nocardia asteroides GUH-2 (virulent) were approximately 10 times more virulent than cells of N. asteroides 14759 (intermediate) and greater that 500 times more virulent than N. asteroides 10905 (avirulent) cells when early-stationary-phase cultures suspended in saline were injected intraven...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Beaman BL,Maslan S

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyprotein allergens are a family of structurally homologous molecules from parasitic nematodes which induce specific immunoglobulin E in infected individuals. We show here that both H-2 and non-H-2 factors determine the ability of mice to generate T- and B-cell responses to the filarial polyprotein allergen (Brugia ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Allen JE,Lawrence RA,Maizels RM

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacterial pathogens utilize virulence-associated secretion systems to inject, or translocate, effector proteins into host cells to manipulate cellular processes and promote bacterial replication. However, translocated bacterial products are sensed by nucleotide binding domain and leucine-rich repeat-cont...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zwack EE,Feeley EM,Burton AR,Hu B,Yamamoto M,Kanneganti TD,Bliska JB,Coers J,Brodsky IE

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:While investigating the virulence traits of Staphylococcus aureus adhering to the skin of atopic-dermatitis (AD) patients, we identified a novel open reading frame (ORF) with structural similarity to a superantigen from genome sequence data of an isolate from AD skin. Concurrently, the same ORF was identified in a bov...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Aziz F,Hisatsune J,Yu L,Kajimura J,Sato'o Y,Ono HK,Masuda K,Yamaoka M,Salasia SIO,Nakane A,Ohge H,Kusunoki Y,Sugai M

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome sequencing of the relapsing fever spirochetes Borrelia hermsii and Borrelia turicatae identified three open reading frames (ORFs) on the chromosomes that contained internal, tandemly repeated amino acid sequences that were absent in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. The predicted amino acid sequ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guyard C,Chester EM,Raffel SJ,Schrumpf ME,Policastro PF,Porcella SF,Leong JM,Schwan TG

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface proteins in gram-positive bacteria are frequently required for virulence, and many are attached to the cell wall by sortase enzymes. Bacteria frequently encode more than one sortase enzyme and an even larger number of potential sortase substrates that possess an LPXTG-type cell wall sorting signal. In order to...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Comfort D,Clubb RT

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adherence of Enterococcus faecalis strains to human T24 cells was examined by scanning electron microscopy. Five highly adhesive strains were identified from 30 strains isolated from the urine of patients with urinary tract infections. No efficiently adhesive strains were found among the 30 strains isolated from t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shiono A,Ike Y

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00