Chemical composition and biological activity of the Yersinia pestis envelope substance.

abstract：:Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, autoaggregates within a few minutes of cessation of shaking when grown at 28 degrees C. To identify the autoaggregation factor of Y. pestis, we performed mariner-based transposon mutagenesis. Autoaggregation-defective mutants from three different pools were identified, e...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Felek S,Muszyński A,Carlson RW,Tsang TM,Hinnebusch BJ,Krukonis ES

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) trigger the systemic release of both cytokines and catecholamines. Cytokines are known to be capable of eliciting a stress hormone response in vivo. The present study sought insight into the effect of noradrenaline on LPS-induced release of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF) and inte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van der Poll T,Jansen J,Endert E,Sauerwein HP,van Deventer SJ

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis serovar E, the leading bacterial agent responsible for sexually transmitted diseases, is required to invade genital epithelial cells for its growth and survival, yet little is known about the adhesin-receptor interactions promoting its entry. In contrast, much has been published on the heparan su...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Davis CH,Raulston JE,Wyrick PB

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, native cells of Streptococcus mutans VA-29R and Streptococcus rattus FA-1 displayed significantly higher aminopeptidase activity than did cells of Streptococcus cricetus AHT or Streptococcus sobrinus 6715 toward the nitroanilide derivatives of leucine, alanine, methionine, arginine, and lysine. These di...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cowman RA,Baron SS

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis infections can lead to severe chronic complications, including trachoma, ectopic pregnancy, and infertility. The only effective approach to disease control is vaccination. The goal of this work was to identify new potential vaccine candidates through a proteomics approach. We constructed a protei...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cruz-Fisher MI,Cheng C,Sun G,Pal S,Teng A,Molina DM,Kayala MA,Vigil A,Baldi P,Felgner PL,Liang X,de la Maza LM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cyclophosphamide (CY) treatment on acute murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) infection were studied to explore the potential usefulness of MCMV as a means of detecting immune dysfunction and to identify host defense mechanisms important for protection against MCMV. Conditions found optimal for enhancing MCMV ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Selgrade MK,Daniels MJ,Hu PC,Miller FJ,Graham JA

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model of invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in rats was used to compare the net in vivo and in vitro multiplication rates of this bacterium. In both the blood of rats and in vitro cultures (fresh rat blood or enriched broth) there was an exponential increase in the number of CFU per milliliter with calcu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rubin LG

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The NikR protein is a nickel-dependent regulatory protein which is a member of the ribbon-helix-helix family of transcriptional regulators. The gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori expresses a NikR ortholog, which was previously shown to mediate regulation of metal metabolism and urease expression, but the mechanism g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ernst FD,Kuipers EJ,Heijens A,Sarwari R,Stoof J,Penn CW,Kusters JG,van Vliet AH

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis has been implicated as an etiologic agent of adult periodontitis. We have previously shown that P. gingivalis can degrade the epithelial cell-cell junction complexes, thus suggesting that this bacterium can invade the underlying connective tissues via a paracellular pathway. However, the preci...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Katz J,Yang QB,Zhang P,Potempa J,Travis J,Michalek SM,Balkovetz DF

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently reported Bacillus anthracis attenuated live vaccine strains efficiently expressing recombinant protective antigen (rPA) and have shown a direct correlation between the level of rPA secreted by these cells and efficacy (S. Cohen, I. Mendelson, Z. Altboum, D. Kobiler, E. Elhanany, T. Bino, M. Leitner, I...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gat O,Inbar I,Aloni-Grinstein R,Zahavy E,Kronman C,Mendelson I,Cohen S,Velan B,Shafferman A

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolates of Thermoplasma acidophilum were divided into serological groups based on immunodiffusion studies of solubilized-membrane preparations. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bohlool BB,Brock TD

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), a tryptophan-degrading enzyme, is inducible by various interferons (IFNs). IDO-mediated tryptophan degradation, but not the formation of IDO-catalyzed tryptophan metabolites, has been suggested as a mechanism for the antiparasitic action of IFN-gamma. To determine whether the IFN-gam...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Habara-Ohkubo A,Shirahata T,Takikawa O,Yoshida R

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of the endospore-forming, gram-positive bacterium Bacillus anthracis to survive in activated macrophages is key to its germination and survival. In a previous publication, we discovered that exposure of primary murine macrophages to B. anthracis endospores upregulated NOS 2 concomitant with an .NO-dependen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weaver J,Kang TJ,Raines KW,Cao GL,Hibbs S,Tsai P,Baillie L,Rosen GM,Cross AS

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 9.5-kilobase plasmid of Yersinia pestis determines plasminogen activator, coagulase, pesticin, and pesticin immunity activities. We have mapped and cloned the loci encoding these activities and demonstrated that both plasminogen activator and coagulase were determined by the same gene, designated pla. The primary ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sodeinde OA,Goguen JD

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the importance of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and adhesin as major antigens in vaccination against rabbit enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC)-like E. coli O103 infection, we used two nonpathogenic wild-type strains to immunize rabbits at weaning. One of these strains (C127) harbors the O103 LPS but does not ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Milon A,Esslinger J,Camguilhem R

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three monoclonal antibodies (MAbs), all of the immunoglobulin G1 subclass, were raised against Cryptococcus neoformans by using the technique of cyclophosphamide ablation of B-cell responses against shared epitopes of the cross-reactive fungus Trichosporon beigelii. MAb 3C2 was reactive against the encapsulated and no...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hamilton AJ,Jeavons L,Hobby P,Hay RJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The action of injected bacterial lipopolysaccharide upon the uptake of cytophilic antibodies by macrophages was found to be unrelated either to changes in surface charge or to the rate of anaerobic glycolysis of these cells. It is apparently mediated by alterations in the levels of material in the serum which enhances...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tizard IR

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was performed to examine whether Porphyromonas gingivalis fimbriae induce specifically a protein kinase-mediated phosphorylated protein that is involved in the mechanism of signal transduction. The fimbriae induced a 68-kDa phosphorylated protein (pp68) in a dose-dependent manner in mouse peritoneal ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Murakami Y,Hanazawa S,Watanabe A,Naganuma K,Iwasaka H,Kawakami K,Kitano S

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to determine the sequence of events in the microenvironment of the intestinal tract that culminate in the symptoms of cholera and to attempt to define more clearly the mechanisms involved in antibacterial immunity. The extent to which mucus occurs in the normal intestine of rabbits and the ap...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schrank GD,Verwey WF

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic medium capable of supporting growth of Vibrio parahaemolyticus is described. Growth yields and generation times were comparable to growth in a complex medium, although Kanagawa hemolysin was undetectable in the synthetic medium. Upon the addition of single amino acids to this synthetic medium, only D-trypt...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cherwonogrodzky JW,Clark AG

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defining the pattern of lymphokine production associated with Brucella abortus is critical for advancing the development of B. abortus as a vaccine carrier. In the present study we investigated the ability of heat-inactivated B. abortus or lipopolysaccharide from B. abortus to induce lymphokine production from purifie...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zaitseva MB,Golding H,Betts M,Yamauchi A,Bloom ET,Butler LE,Stevan L,Golding B

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific pathogen-free guinea pigs were infected via the respiratory route with viable, attenuated Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra and maintained on purified isocaloric diets. The control diet contained 30% protein (ovalbumin) and 50 ppm of added zinc (50 micrograms/g), the low protein diet contained 10% protein and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McMurray DN,Carlomagno MA,Cumberland PA

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exoantigens of Plasmodium vivax-parasitized erythrocytes stimulated macrophages to secrete tumor necrosis factor, and antisera raised against the exoantigens inhibited this secretion. The antisera also inhibited the activity of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium yoelii exoantigens, and conversely, antisera against t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bate CA,Taverne J,Karunaweera ND,Mendis KN,Kwiatkowski D,Playfair JH

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of tolerance to Escherichia coli endotoxin on the phagocytic and bactericidal activity of the hepatic reticuloendothelial system against viable E. coli were examined using ex vivo perfused rat livers. Livers were isolated from control and endotoxin-tolerant rats and perfused with a medium containing 5% hom...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ruggiero G,Andreana A,Utili R,Galante D

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 111 children from Bangui, Central African Republic, was surveyed for enteric Campylobacter infections from birth to the age of 2 years; stools were examined biweekly in these children until 6 months of age and at least four times per year thereafter until 2 years of age and after each diarrheal episode. Bl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Martin PM,Mathiot J,Ipero J,Kirimat M,Georges AJ,Georges-Courbot MC

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunochemically identical components were isolated from water-soluble phases of five Staphylococcus aureus strains by affinity chromatography on fibrinogen-linked Sepharose 4B. The elution was performed with 1 M MgCl2. The component could be isolated from sonicated preparations of whole cells, cell walls, and extrace...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Espersen F,Clemmensen I,Barkholt V

更新日期：1985-09-01 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：:Inbred BALB/c mice were either immunized with Triton X-100-extracted antigens of blood-stage Plasmodium yoelii or infected with P. yoelii and cured in three successive schedules. Whereas the immunized BALB/c became only partially protected from subsequent challenge infection with blood-stage P. yoelii, the convalescen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kironde FA,Kumar A,Nayak AR,Kraikov JL

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of hamster tracheal rings in organ culture to virulent Mycoplasma pneumoniae organisms leads to alterations in macromolecular biosynthesis and metabolic activity of the respiratory epithelial cells. Avirulent organisms derived from the same parent strain do not produce these effects. During the course of infe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hu PC,Collier AM,Baseman JB

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella spp. are gram-negative intracellular pathogens that survive and multiply within phagocytic cells of their hosts. Smooth organisms present O polysaccharides (OPS) on their surface. These OPS help the bacteria avoid the bactericidal action of serum. The wboA gene, coding for the enzyme glycosyltransferase, is e...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fernandez-Prada CM,Nikolich M,Vemulapalli R,Sriranganathan N,Boyle SM,Schurig GG,Hadfield TL,Hoover DL

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00