Immunoglobulin A proteases in gram-negative bacteria isolated from human urinary tract infections.

abstract：:The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor involved in controlling several aspects of immune responses, including the activation and differentiation of specific T cell subsets and antigen-presenting cells, thought to be relevant in the context of experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barroso A,Gualdrón-López M,Esper L,Brant F,Araújo RR,Carneiro MB,Ávila TV,Souza DG,Vieira LQ,Rachid MA,Tanowitz HB,Teixeira MM,Machado FS

更新日期：2016-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The chlamydial cryptic plasmid encodes eight putative open reading frames (ORFs), designated pORF1 to -8. Antibodies raised against these ORF proteins were used to localize the endogenous proteins during chlamydial infection. We found that the pORF5 protein (also known as pgp3) was detected mainly in the cytosol of Ch...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li Z,Chen D,Zhong Y,Wang S,Zhong G

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding a nitric oxide reductase has been identified in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The norB gene product shares significant identity with the nitric oxide reductases in Ralstonia eutropha and Synechocystis sp. and, like those organisms, the gonococcus lacks a norC homolog. The gonococcal norB gene was found to b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Householder TC,Fozo EM,Cardinale JA,Clark VL

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is the etiologic agent of localized aggressive periodontitis, a rapidly progressing oral disease that occurs in adolescents. A. actinomycetemcomitans can also cause systemic disease, including infective endocarditis. In early work on A. actinomycetemcomitans workers concluded that ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Balashova NV,Crosby JA,Al Ghofaily L,Kachlany SC

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of delta-toxin is supposed to be responsible for various pathophysiological effects during infection with Staphylococcus aureus. We compared the effects of delta-toxin with the structurally related bee venom toxin melittin on granulocyte functions and inflammatory mediator release. Delta-toxin and melit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kasimir S,Schönfeld W,Alouf JE,König W

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dialyzable Lawrence-type transfer factor was prepared from the spleen cells of CF1 mice inoculated with Coccidioides immitis- and Candida albicans-killed vaccines and with live Mycobacterium tuberculosis vaccine (BCG). These preparations were shown to transfer antigen-specific cell-mediated immunity to naive mice, as ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rifkind D,Frey JA,Petersen EA,Dinowitz M

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type Bordetella bronchiseptica and a bvg mutant strain were used for invasion and survival experiments in human Caco-2 and A549 epithelial cells. Both bacterial strains were able to enter and persist within the host cells for at least a week. A significant proportion of the bacteria from both B. bronchiseptica st...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schipper H,Krohne GF,Gross R

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoprophylactic effect of chemically inactivated Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A in experimental pseudomonas infections was studied. Exotoxin A toxoids were prepared by Formalin (f-TXD) or glutaraldehyde (g-TXD) treatment. Immunization of mice with three or four doses (10 micrograms each) of f-TXD and the syn...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pavlovskis OR,Edman DC,Leppla SH,Wretlind B,Lewis LR,Martin KE

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the unavailability of a suitable antigen, specific in vitro lymphocyte reactivity has not been investigated in persons who have had systemic blastomycosis. Twelve persons who had recovered from blastomycosis were evaluated, and all were found to exhibit strongly positive and apparently specific in vitro cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bradsher RW,Alford RH

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The obligate intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii can actively infect any nucleated cell type, including cells from the immune system. The rapid transfer of T. gondii from infected dendritic cells to effector natural killer (NK) cells may contribute to the parasite's sequestration and shielding from immune recogni...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sultana MA,Du A,Carow B,Angbjär CM,Weidner JM,Kanatani S,Fuks JM,Muliaditan T,James J,Mansfield IO,Campbell TM,Liu L,Kadri N,Lambert H,Barragan A,Chambers BJ

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous passive antibody transfer experiments have indicated that immunity to a 46-kilodalton membrane glycoprotein (M-2) of Leishmania amazonensis may protect against infection with this parasite. In the studies described in this paper, we investigated the ability of the purified M-2 molecule to elicit a protective ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Champsi J,McMahon-Pratt D

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemin induced germination of Candida albicans blastoconidia when cells grown up to the early exponential phase were shifted from 28 to 37 degrees C (70 to 75% of cells exhibited germ tubes). N-Acetyl-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc), another inducer of myceliation in this fungus, caused a similar effect. The combination of hemi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Casanova M,Cervera AM,Gozalbo D,Martínez JP

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of plasma fibronectin with C1q of the complement system has been demonstrated in the past several years. In addition, the antibody-independent binding of C1q to bacteria, as well as the binding of plasma fibronectin to bacteria, is well documented. This study examines whether the binding of C1q to bact...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sorvillo JM,Pearlstein E

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), which recognizes lipopolysaccharide from Gram-negative bacteria, plays a major role in resistance of mice and humans to Salmonella infection. In chickens, Salmonella may establish a carrier state whereby bacteria are able to persist in the host organism without triggering clinical signs. B...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chaussé AM,Grépinet O,Bottreau E,Le Vern Y,Menanteau P,Trotereau J,Robert V,Wu Z,Kerboeuf D,Beaumont C,Velge P

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:We developed an in vitro model to study the temperature-regulated cytotoxicity and intracellular growth of Mycobacterium haemophilum in cultured human epithelial and endothelial cells. M. haemophilum associated with human epithelial and endothelial cells at similar rates when incubated at 33 and 37 degrees C, but only...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fischer LJ,Quinn FD,White EH,King CH

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid extracts derived from a group A Streptococcus, when preincubated with tumor cells before inoculation, were shown to prevent completely the development of Ehrlich ascites tumor in mice. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kigoshi S

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endothelium is a specific target for Bartonella henselae, and endothelial cell infection represents an important step in the pathogenesis of cat scratch disease and bacillary angiomatosis. Mechanisms of Bartonella-endothelial cell interaction as well as signaling pathways involved in target cell activation were an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fuhrmann O,Arvand M,Göhler A,Schmid M,Krüll M,Hippenstiel S,Seybold J,Dehio C,Suttorp N

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane fluidity of antigen-presenting cells (APCs) has a significant bearing on T-cell-stimulating ability and is dependent on the cholesterol content of the membrane. The relationship, if any, between membrane fluidity and defective cell-mediated immunity in visceral leishmaniasis has been investigated. Systemi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Banerjee S,Ghosh J,Sen S,Guha R,Dhar R,Ghosh M,Datta S,Raychaudhury B,Naskar K,Haldar AK,Lal CS,Pandey K,Das VN,Das P,Roy S

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obligate vacuolar pathogens produce proteins that localize to the host cell-derived membranes of the vacuoles in which they reside, yielding unique organelles that are optimally suited for pathogen survival. Anaplasma phagocytophilum is an obligate vacuolar bacterium that infects neutrophils and causes the emerging an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huang B,Troese MJ,Ye S,Sims JT,Galloway NL,Borjesson DL,Carlyon JA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the sequence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pilin and its quaternary assembly into pilus fibers was studied with a set of site-directed antibody probes and by mapping the specificities of antipilus antisera with peptides. Buried and exposed peptides in assembled pili were identified by competitive i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Forest KT,Bernstein SL,Getzoff ED,So M,Tribbick G,Geysen HM,Deal CD,Tainer JA

更新日期：1996-02-01 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 intraerythrocytic apicomplexan Babesia microti, the primary causative agent of human babesiosis, is a major public health concern in the United States and elsewhere. Apicomplexans utilize a multiprotein complex that includes a type I membrane protein called apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA1) to invade host cells. We...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moitra P,Zheng H,Anantharaman V,Banerjee R,Takeda K,Kozakai Y,Lepore T,Krause PJ,Aravind L,Kumar S

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens type B causes enteritis and enterotoxemia in domestic animals. By definition, these bacteria must produce alpha toxin (CPA), beta toxin (CPB) and epsilon toxin (ETX) although most type B strains also produce perfringolysin O (PFO) and beta2 toxin (CPB2). A recently identified Agr-like quorum-se...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chen J,McClane BA

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified R-28 antigen from an M-protein-poor, R-antigen-rich strain of group A Streptococcus was prepared by sequential treatment of an acid extract of whole cells with ammonium sulfate fractionation and hydroxylapatite (HA) column chromatography. Purified R-28 antigen was eluted only with 0.10 M sodium phosphate, pH ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Johnson RH

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody (MAb) was raised against Shiga toxin 2 (Stx2) of Escherichia coli O157:H7. MAb VTm1.1 belonged to the immunoglobulin G1 subclass and had a kappa light chain, and it could neutralize the cytotoxic activity of Stx2 and variants derived from patient strains but not that of variants derived from anim...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nakao H,Kiyokawa N,Fujimoto J,Yamasaki S,Takeda T

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization of mice with Plasmodium berghei or Plasmodium yoelii synthetic linear peptide chimeras (LPCs) based on the circumsporozoite protein protects against experimental challenge with viable sporozoites. The immunogenicity of LPCs is significantly enhanced by spontaneous polymerization. To better understand the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Silva-Flannery LM,Cabrera-Mora M,Dickherber M,Moreno A

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma arthritidis causes acute polyarthritis in rats and chronic proliferative arthritis in mice. M. arthritidis-induced arthritis serves as a model for arthritis caused by infectious agents and as a model for examining the role of the superantigen MAM (M. arthritidis T-cell mitogen) in the development of autoimm...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tu AH,Clapper B,Schoeb TR,Elgavish A,Zhang J,Liu L,Yu H,Dybvig K

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Lung dendritic cells were identified by immunohistochemistry in lung tissue sections from C57BL/6 mice. Following isolation from the lungs using CD11c magnetic beads, the flow cytometric analysis of I-A(b+) and CD11c(+) cells indicated a mixed population of dendritic cells at different stages of maturation, with most ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gonzalez-Juarrero M,Orme IM

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00