Contribution of the major and minor subunits to fimbria-mediated adherence of Haemophilus influenzae to human epithelial cells and erythrocytes.

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：:Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) is an important component of the innate immune system. It binds to the arrays of sugars commonly presented by microorganisms and activates the complement system independently of antibody. Despite detailed knowledge of the stereochemical basis of MBL binding, relatively little is known abou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Devyatyarova-Johnson M,Rees IH,Robertson BD,Turner MW,Klein NJ,Jack DL

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated that both Ixodes scapularis saliva and Borrelia burgdorferi antigens modulated lymphokines and monokines in vitro. The studies presented here were designed to delineate the role of I. scapularis and B. burgdorferi in modulation of the host immune response in vivo. Infestation of C3H/...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zeidner N,Mbow ML,Dolan M,Massung R,Baca E,Piesman J

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：:The nucleotide sequences of three previously undescribed Pseudomonas aeruginosa pilin structural genes are presented. Comparisons of deduced pilin primary structure and flanking DNA sequence allowed placement of these and six previously published sequences into one of two groups. Epitope mapping, using overlapping imm...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Castric PA,Deal CD

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-O-methylmannose isolated from Coccidioides immitis was characterized by gas chromatographic comparison of derivatives with those of synthetic 3-O-methylmannose. Gas chromatographic behavior of three derivatives of the natural and synthetic sugars was identical. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Porter JF,Scheer ER,Wheat RW

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of antibody in protection against infection with Cryptococcus neoformans is undefined. In this paper we describe the development of opsonic activity in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of rabbits in response to cryptococcal meningitis. The opsonin appeared to be immunoglobulin G (IgG); the activity was heat stab...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hobbs MM,Perfect JR,Granger DL,Durack DT

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The she gene of Shigella flexneri 2a, which also harbors the internal enterotoxin genes set1A and set1B (F. R. Noriega, GenBank accession no. U35656, 1995) encodes a homolog of the virulence-related immunoglobulin A (IgA) protease-like family of secreted proteins, Tsh, EspC, SepA, and Hap, from an avian pathogenic Esc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rajakumar K,Sasakawa C,Adler B

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a standard regimen of cimetidine on the gastric flora of 20 male volunteers was studied in a double-blind manner and compared with the effects of a standard antacid regimen. Postprandial microbial titers in gastric aspirates were significantly higher at 4, 8, and 16 weeks of therapy in subjects taking an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Snepar R,Poporad GA,Romano JM,Kobasa WD,Kaye D

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrauterine infections lead to serious complications for mother and fetus, including preterm birth, maternal and fetal death, and neurological sequelae in the surviving offspring. Improving maternal and child heath is a global priority. Yet, the development of strategies to prevent and treat pregnancy-related disease...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lowe DE,Robbins JR,Bakardjiev AI

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination against Brucella infections in animals is usually performed by administration of live attenuated smooth B. abortus strain S19 and B. melitensis strain Rev1. They are proven effective vaccines against B. abortus in cattle and against B. melitensis and B. ovis in sheep and goats, respectively. However, both ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Adone R,Ciuchini F,Marianelli C,Tarantino M,Pistoia C,Marcon G,Petrucci P,Francia M,Riccardi G,Pasquali P

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Yersinia enterocolitica gsrA gene is a stress protein gene which was originally identified as essential for protecting cells under both extracellular environmental stress and intracellular stress in macrophages due to phagocytosis. The gsrA gene was shown to be a member of the htrA class of genes and to possess a ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yamamoto T,Hanawa T,Ogata S,Kamiya S

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat-labile enterotoxins from Escherichia coli strains of porcine and human origin polymerize on heating to form high-molecular-weight aggregates, "procoligenoids," analogous to procholeragenoid derived from the cholera enterotoxin. This aggregation is accompanied by loss of biological activity (toxicity). Further hea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Finkelstein RA,Sciortino CV,Rieke LC,Burks MF,Boesman-Finkelstein M

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite that resides in the cytoplasm of its host in a unique membrane-bound vacuole known as the parasitophorous vacuole (PV). The membrane surrounding the parasite is remodeled by the dense granules, secretory organelles that release an array of proteins into the vacuo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rome ME,Beck JR,Turetzky JM,Webster P,Bradley PJ

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While investigating the requirement for phagosomal alkalinization in the host defense against pulmonary aspergillosis, we observed high morbidity of p47(phox)(-/-) mice infected with pH-insensitive Aspergillus nidulans mutants despite a paucity of fungal growth. Fatal infection also resulted from a normally avirulent ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bignell E,Negrete-Urtasun S,Calcagno AM,Arst HN Jr,Rogers T,Haynes K

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moraxella catarrhalis expresses surface receptor proteins that specifically bind host transferrin (Tf) and lactoferrin (Lf) in the first step of the iron acquisition pathway. Acute- and convalescent-phase antisera from a series of patients with M. catarrhalis pulmonary infections were tested against Tf and Lf receptor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yu RH,Bonnah RA,Ainsworth S,Schryvers AB

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yield of infectious Chlamydia trachomatis was analyzed in human (HeLa) and mouse (McCoy) cell lines treated with the human interferon (IFN) subtypes IFN-alpha A and IFN-alpha D, with their hybrids [IFN-alpha AD (BglII), IFN-alpha AD (PvuII), and IFN-alpha DA (BglII)] constructed in vitro from their expression plas...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： de la Maza LM,Peterson EM,Goebel JM,Fennie CW,Czarniecki CW

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piglets suckled by dams that had been vaccinated with K88 antigen were significantly more resistant to deaths caused by neonatal diarrhea after challenge with a large dose of a K88-positive enteropathogenic strain of Escherichia coli than piglets suckled by control dams. The factors most likely to be involved in prote...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rutter JM,Jones GW,Brown GT,Burrows MR,Luther PD

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin type 1 (Stx1) belongs to the Shiga family of bipartite AB toxins that inactivate eukaryotic 60S ribosomes. The A subunit of Stxs are N-glycosidases that share structural and functional features in their catalytic center and in an internal hydrophobic region that shows strong transmembrane propensity. Both ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suhan ML,Hovde CJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The superoxide anion (O2-)-generating activity of guinea pig macrophages stimulated by wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), immune complexes, or phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) was studied after short- and long-term exposures of the cells to muramyl dipeptide (MDP) or lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Neither MDP nor LPS alone induce...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yagawa K,Kaku M,Ichinose Y,Nagao S,Tanaka A,Tomoda A

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein we report an important role for the ferric uptake regulator (Fur) in the resistance of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to the reactive nitrogen species produced by inducible nitric oxide (NO) synthase in an NRAMP1(r) murine model of acute systemic infection. The expression of fur protected Salmonella gr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Husain M,Jones-Carson J,Liu L,Song M,Saah JR,Troxell B,Mendoza M,Hassan H,Vázquez-Torres A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma level of the chemokine CCL3 is elevated in patients with chronic severe schistosomiasis mansoni. We have previously shown that CCL3(-/-) mice with experimental infection showed diminished pathology and worm burden compared to those of wild-type (WT) mice. To elucidate further the role of CC chemokines durin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Souza AL,Souza PR,Pereira CA,Fernandes A,Guabiraba R,Russo RC,Vieira LQ,Corrêa A Jr,Teixeira MM,Negrão-Corrêa D

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：: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：:Minicells are small, anucleate cells resulting from aberrant cell divisions at the polar ends of bacilli. We have isolated minicell-producing mutant strains of Shigella flexneri 2a (MC-I) and Shigella dysenteriae 1 (MC-V) after mutagenesis with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine. Microscopically, broth cultures of M...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gemski P,Griffin DE

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal epithelial cells (IECs), including secretory goblet cells, form essential physiochemical barriers that separate luminal bacteria from underlying immune cells in the intestinal mucosa. IECs are common targets for enteric bacterial pathogens, with hosts responding to these microbes through innate toll-like re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bhinder G,Stahl M,Sham HP,Crowley SM,Morampudi V,Dalwadi U,Ma C,Jacobson K,Vallance BA

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The P2 porin protein is the major outer membrane protein of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae and is a potential target of a protective immune response. Nine monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to P2 were developed by immunizing mice with nontypeable H. influenzae whole organisms. Each MAb reacted exclusively with the homol...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Haase EM,Yi K,Morse GD,Murphy TF

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga-like toxins (SLTs), which are produced by certain strains of Escherichia coli, are composed of enzymatically active A and B subunit multimers responsible for the toxin's binding. We have previously purified large amounts of the SLT-I B subunit by using a hyperexpression vector in Vibrio cholerae under the contro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Acheson DW,De Breucker SA,Jacewicz M,Lincicome LL,Donohue-Rolfe A,Kane AV,Keusch GT

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mouse lacking CD28, a T-cell costimulatory molecule, and STAT6, a transcription factor that mediates interleukin-4 (IL-4) signaling, was developed from parental CD28- and STAT6-deficient mice. STAT6/CD28(-/-) BALB/c mice that were 8 weeks old had a normal phenotype, and IL-4 production was induced following infectio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liu Q,Arseculeratne C,Liu Z,Whitmire J,Grusby MJ,Finkelman FD,Darling TN,Cheever AW,Swearengen J,Urban JF,Gause WC

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A differential-display PCR procedure identified the capsular assembly gene kpsD after Escherichia coli type 1 fimbrial binding to mannose-coated Sepharose beads. Limiting-dilution reverse-transcribed PCRs confirmed down-regulation of the kpsD gene, and Northern blot and lacZ fusion analyses showed down-regulation of t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schwan WR,Beck MT,Hultgren SJ,Pinkner J,Woolever NL,Larson T

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00