Monoclonal antibody analysis of lipopolysaccharide from Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis.

abstract：:Guinea pig and mouse peritoneal macrophages in culture transport glucose by a specific, saturable system with characteristics compatible with facilitated diffusion. Phagocytosis of killed staphylococci or polystyrene latex spheres results in a significant increase in uptake of 2-deoxy-d-glucose. Reciprocal plot analys...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bonventre PF,Mukkada AJ

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit endogenous pyrogens were of about the same molecular size, but showed considerable heterogeneity of their isoelectric points. We attempted to show that this heterogeneity was attributable to variable glycosylation of a single polypeptide chain. When peritoneal exudate cells were stimulated to make pyrogens in t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Murphy PA,Cebula TA,Windle BE

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the nucleotide sequence of the 1.4-kilobase DNA fragment containing the plasminogen activator gene (pla) of Yersinia pestis, which determines both plasminogen activator and coagulase activities of the species. The sequence revealed the presence of a 936-base-pair open reading frame that constitutes ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sodeinde OA,Goguen JD

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection by Shigella flexneri is characterized by infiltration of neutrophils in the intestinal mucosa and by a strong inflammatory reaction. Although neutrophils are constitutively programmed to die by apoptosis, we show that isolated human neutrophils undergo necrosis 2 h after infection with virulent S. flexneri s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： François M,Le Cabec V,Dupont MA,Sansonetti PJ,Maridonneau-Parini I

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plaque assay system for pathogenic rickettsiae, which utilizes primary chick embryo tissue cultures, is described. It proved to be a highly reproducible measure of infectiousness for Rickettsia rickettsi and R. typhi, which were employed in most studies; as well as for R. canada, R. prowazeki, R. sibirica, R. akari,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wike DA,Tallent G,Peacock MG,Ormsbee RA

更新日期：1972-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucins are high-molecular-weight glycoproteins and major constituents of the mucus layer which covers the airway surface. We have studied the interactions between bacteria, mucins, and epithelial cells from the human respiratory tract. Nontypeable strains of Haemophilus influenzae were found to bind to purified airway...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Davies J,Carlstedt I,Nilsson AK,Håkansson A,Sabharwal H,van Alphen L,van Ham M,Svanborg C

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis is a facultative intracellular bacterial pathogen and the causative agent of tularemia. After infection of macrophages, the organism escapes from its phagosome and replicates to high density in the cytosol, but the bacterial factors required for these aspects of virulence are incompletely define...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Long ME,Lindemann SR,Rasmussen JA,Jones BD,Allen LA

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells are considered to be key players in the early innate responses to protozoan infections, primarily indirectly by producing gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) in response to cytokines, like interleukin 12 (IL-12). We demonstrate that live, as well as heat-inactivated, tachyzoites of Neospora caninum,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boysen P,Klevar S,Olsen I,Storset AK

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FcRgamma and interleukin-10 (IL-10) are both required for chronic disease in C57BL/6 mice with Leishmania mexicana parasite infection. FcRgamma is a component of several different FcRs and may be a component of some T-cell receptors. The initial antibody response to L. mexicana is an immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) response,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thomas BN,Buxbaum LU

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the pathological events evoked by infection are commonly described, effective host responses to bacteria and their products should primarily be protective. Heat shock protein (Hsp) expression is upregulated by many stimuli and serves to maintain intracellular protein integrity. The ability of the prototypic supe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Musch MW,Petrof EO,Kojima K,Ren H,McKay DM,Chang EB

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The derivative toxins purified from cultures of proteolytic strains of Clostridium botulinum types A and F were found to have been only partially nicked but were fully activated. Trypsinization of C. botulinum type B derivative toxin at pH 6.0 resulted in simultaneous activation and nicking, whereas at pH 4.5, activat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ohishi I,Sakaguchi G

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae can use porcine transferrin as the sole source of iron. Two proteins with molecular masses of approximately 60 kDa (TfbA) and 110 kDa have been shown to specifically bind porcine transferrin; from the TfbA protein, three isoforms from A. pleuropneumoniae serotypes 1, 5, and 7 have been ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Strutzberg K,von Olleschik L,Franz B,Pyne C,Schmidt MA,Gerlach GF

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enteric pathogen Shigella is one of the leading causes of moderate-to-severe diarrhea and death in young children in developing countries. Transformed cell lines and animal models have been widely used to study Shigella pathogenesis. In addition to altered physiology, transformed cell lines are composed of a singl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ranganathan S,Doucet M,Grassel CL,Delaine-Elias B,Zachos NC,Barry EM

更新日期：2019-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Lack of efficacious vaccines against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection is a limiting factor in the prevention and control of tuberculosis (TB), the leading cause of death from an infectious agent. Improvement or replacement of the BCG vaccine with one that reliably protects all age-groups is urgent. Concerns ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang Y,Li Z,Wu S,Fleming J,Li C,Zhu G,Chen B,Ren B,Wang X,Du B,Li P,Hu P,Yang J,Liu Y,Zhou C,Zhang XE,Bi L,Zhang H,Yang J,Zhang Z

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the mechanisms underlying the eosinophil-mediated inflammation of tropical pulmonary eosinophilia (TPE), bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid, serum, and supernatants from pulmonary and blood leukocytes (WBC) from patients with acute TPE (n = 6) were compared with those obtained from healthy uninfected indivi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： O'Bryan L,Pinkston P,Kumaraswami V,Vijayan V,Yenokida G,Rosenberg HF,Crystal R,Ottesen EA,Nutman TB

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The innate immune system recognizes pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) through pattern recognition receptors (PRR) and transduces downstream signaling to activate the host defense. Here we report that in addition to direct PAMP-PRR interactions, live Candida albicans cells can release soluble factors to ac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cheng SC,Chai LY,Joosten LA,Vecchiarelli A,Hube B,Van Der Meer JW,Kullberg BJ,Netea MG

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hemolysin that appears to be responsible for the zones of beta-hemolysis surrounding colonies of group B streptococci (Streptococcus agalactiae) on blood agar plates has been isolated and partially purified. No soluble hemolysin was detectable in the supernatants of streptococcal cultures grown in several types of m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marchlewicz BA,Duncan JL

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbicidal myeloperoxidase (MPO)-H2O2-chloride system strongly inhibits Escherichia coli DNA synthesis. Also, cell envelopes from MPO-treated E. coli cells lose their ability to interact with hemimethylated DNA sequences of oriC, the chromosomal origin of replication, raising the prospect that suppression of DNA...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosen H,Michel BR,vanDevanter DR,Hughes JP

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous report (Y. Ohmori, S. Hanazawa, S. Amano, T. Miyoshi, K. Hirose, and S. Kitano, infect. Immun. 55:947-954, 1987), we showed that human gingival fibroblasts spontaneously produce thymocyte-activating factor (FTAF), which stimulates mitogen-induced thymocyte proliferation. In the present study, we examined...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hanazawa S,Hirose K,Ohmori Y,Amano S,Kitano S

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:Borrelia burgdorferi elicits a potent cytokine response through activation of multiple signaling receptors on innate immune cells. Spirochetal lipoproteins initiate expression of NF-κB-dependent cytokines primarily via TLR2, whereas type I interferon (IFN) production is induced through the endosomal receptors TLR7 and...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Love AC,Schwartz I,Petzke MM

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae is an obligate human pathogen that causes the common sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea. Gonococcal infections cause significant morbidity, particularly among women, as the organism ascends to the upper reproductive tract, resulting in pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, and inf...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hollander A,Mercante AD,Shafer WM,Cornelissen CN

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial survival in a host is usually dependent on the ability of a pathogen to undergo changes that promote escape from host defense mechanisms. The human-pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans undergoes phenotypic switching in vivo that promotes persistence in tissue. By microarray and real-time PCR analyses, t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jain N,Li L,Hsueh YP,Guerrero A,Heitman J,Goldman DL,Fries BC

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory disease that has been linked to several risk factors, including periodontitis. Identification of new anti-inflammatory compounds to treat arthritis is needed. We had previously demonstrated the beneficial effect of Kava-241, a kavain-derived compound, in the management of P...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huck O,You J,Han X,Cai B,Panek J,Amar S

更新日期：2018-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a frequent colonizer of the upper respiratory tract and a leading cause of bacterial pneumonia. The innate immune system senses pneumococcal cell wall components, toxin, and nucleic acids, which leads to production of inflammatory mediators to initiate and control antibacterial defense. Her...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ruiz-Moreno JS,Hamann L,Jin L,Sander LE,Puzianowska-Kuznicka M,Cambier J,Witzenrath M,Schumann RR,Suttorp N,Opitz B

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:P6, a 16,600-dalton protein present in the outer membranes of both typeable and nontypeable strains, may be an important antigen in immunity to Haemophilus influenzae. The gene encoding P6 of a nontypeable strain of H. influenzae was cloned by using bacteriophage lambda gt11. Four recombinant phages were detected by s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nelson MB,Apicella MA,Murphy TF,Vankeulen H,Spotila LD,Rekosh D

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to bind Congo red (Crb+) is associated with virulence of Shigella flexneri and is encoded by a large, 220-kilobase plasmid. We cloned fragments of this plasmid to isolate the sequences encoding Congo red binding, to determine the degree of conservation of these sequences among S. flexneri strains, and to s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Daskaleros PA,Payne SM

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsia rickettsii and R. australis formed infectious antibody complexes when reacted with homologous convalescent serum. The addition of antiglobulin to these complexes showed neutralization of plaques proportional to the concentration of rickettsial immune serum. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kenyon RH,McManus AT

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that a pneumococcal surface protein A (PspA)-based vaccine containing DNA plasmid encoding the Flt3 ligand (FL) gene (pFL) as a nasal adjuvant prevented nasal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae. In this study, we further investigated the safety and efficacy of this nasal vaccine for the indu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kataoka K,Fujihashi K,Oma K,Fukuyama Y,Hollingshead SK,Sekine S,Kawabata S,Ito HO,Briles DE,Oishi K

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treponema denticola is a cultivable oral spirochete which perturbs the cytoskeleton in cultured cells of oral origin, but intracellular signalling pathways by which it affects actin assembly are largely unknown. As the outer membrane (OM) of Treponema denticola disrupts actin-dependent processes that normally require ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ko KS,Glogauer M,McCulloch CA,Ellen RP

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00