Normal human B lymphocytes and mononuclear cells respond to the mitogenic and cytokine-stimulatory activities of Borrelia burgdorferi and its lipoprotein OspA.

abstract：:The bacterial pathogen Clostridium difficle synthesizes two high-molecular-weight toxins (A and B), which exhibit toxic effects in vivo and in vitro. Here, we present evidence that the major intracellular targets of these two toxins are the Rho GTPases. Overexpression of RhoA, RhoB, or RhoC GTPases in transfected HeLa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giry M,Popoff MR,von Eichel-Streiber C,Boquet P

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) is a noninvasive food-borne pathogen that colonizes the distal ileum and colon. Proteins encoded in the EHEC locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) pathogenicity island are known to contribute to this pathogen's adherence to epithelial cells and intestinal colonization. The role...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ho TD,Davis BM,Ritchie JM,Waldor MK

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans biofilms are formed through three distinct developmental phases and are associated with high fluconazole (FLU) resistance. In the present study, we used a set of isogenic Candida strains lacking one or more of the drug efflux pumps Cdr1p, Cdr2p, and Mdr1p to determine their role in FLU resistance of b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mukherjee PK,Chandra J,Kuhn DM,Ghannoum MA

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between Klebsiella pneumoniae and the host environment at the site of infection are largely unknown. Pulmonary surfactant serves as an initial point of contact for inhaled bacteria entering the lung and is thought to contain molecular cues that aid colonization and pathogenesis. To gain insight into t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Willsey GG,Ventrone S,Schutz KC,Wallace AM,Ribis JW,Suratt BT,Wargo MJ

更新日期：2018-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Several previous findings have suggested that the cationic nature of lysozyme is a major factor in its bactericidal activity. Since a number of cationic proteins or peptides have been reported to cause membrane damage in bacteria, we investigated the effect of lysozyme on glucose fermentation and intracellular pH and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang YB,Germaine GR

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most oral bacteria tested formed colonies on a chemically defined medium with a chromogenic arylsulfatase substrate. Arylsulfatase activity was, however, restricted to Campylobacter-Wolinella group organisms, including Wolinella recta, a possible periodontopathogen. W. recta was the only arylsulfatase-active species a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wyss C

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin-binding proteins mediate Staphylococcus aureus internalization into nonphagocytic cells in vitro. We have investigated whether fibronectin-binding proteins are virulence factors in the pathogenesis of pneumonia by using S. aureus strain 8325-4 and isogenic mutants in which fibronectin-binding proteins were...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McElroy MC,Cain DJ,Tyrrell C,Foster TJ,Haslett C

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effector mechanisms resulting from alternative complement pathway (ACP) activation cannot act efficiently against Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O3, as indicated by poor C3 to C9 consumption and by survival in EGTA (ethyleneglycoldiaminetetraacetic acid) Mg-serum. These results were not influenced by the lack or pre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wachter E,Brade V

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to further understand Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-lymphocyte interactions, we investigated a chain of events including: (i) EBV binding to human lymphocyte subpopulations; (ii) the earliest appearance of EBV-determined nuclear antigen (EBNA) in the lymphocytes after EBV infection; and (iii) establishment of cont...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Menezes J,Jondal M,Leibold W,Dorval G

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 30-amino-acid peptide corresponding to variable domain IV (VD IV) of the major outer membrane protein of Chlamydia trachomatis serovar E was conjugated to keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) and used to immunize mice. The resulting antisera (anti-KLH-VD IV sera) recognized all 15 serovars of C. trachomatis when assayed ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cheng X,Pal S,de la Maza LM,Peterson EM

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept that relates low virulence of certain alphaviruses to low viremia and efficient vascular clearance of virus was tested in guinea pigs. Previously published studies with hamsters suggested that virulent strains maintain high viremias primarily because they are cleared inefficiently from the blood. In the pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jahrling PB,Heisey GB,Hesse RA

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most Escherichia coli isolates can express type 1 fimbriae with mannose-specific adhesins. These adhesins bind to the oligosaccharide chains of secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA). Thus, in addition to specific antibody activity, secretory IgA possesses a broad reactivity with bacteria expressing type 1 fimbriae. The abs...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Friman V,Adlerberth I,Connell H,Svanborg C,Hanson LA,Wold AE

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, has a complex genome consisting of a linear chromosome and up to 21 linear and circular plasmids. These plasmids encode numerous proteins critical to the spirochete's infectious cycle and many hypothetical proteins whose functions and requirements are unknown....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bestor A,Stewart PE,Jewett MW,Sarkar A,Tilly K,Rosa PA

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of treatment with live or inactivated Shope fibroma virus on host cell deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis were determined. The incorporation of (3)H-thymidine into nuclear DNA was suppressed by both active and inactivated virus, although live virus was more effective. During the early phase of infection...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chan JC,Hodes ME

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonates are at increased risk for bacterial sepsis. We established that the immune-suppressive cytokine interleukin-27 (IL-27) is elevated in neonatal mice. Similarly, human cord blood-derived macrophages express IL-27 genes and secrete more cytokine than macrophages from adults. In the present work, we hypothesized ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Seman BG,Vance JK,Rawson TW,Witt MR,Huckaby AB,Povroznik JM,Bradford SD,Barbier M,Robinson CM

更新日期：2020-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular protozoan Toxoplasma gondii is well known for its skill at invading and living within host cells. New discoveries are now also revealing the astounding ability of the parasite to inject effector proteins into the cytoplasm to seize control of the host cell. This review summarizes recent advances in o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Denkers EY,Bzik DJ,Fox BA,Butcher BA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-malnourished rats had greater numbers of bacteria in their livers and spleens compared with numbers in control rats following a sublethal intraperitoneal dose of Salmonella typhimurium. However, the febrile responses of both groups of rats to infection were similar. The ability to mount a normal febrile respon...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bradley SF,Kauffman CA

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene from Haemophilus influenzae encoding an outer membrane lipoprotein of about 15,000 daltons and which comigrates with the peptidoglycan-associated lipoprotein (PAL) of H. influenzae on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis has been previously reported and designated pcp gene, and its product ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Deich RA,Anilionis A,Fulginiti J,Metcalf BJ,Quataert S,Quinn-Dey T,Zlotnick GW,Green BA

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult murine models of Cryptosporidium infection involving Cryptosporidium muris and C. parvum were used to study immunity to cryptosporidiosis in the mammalian host. Immunocompetent BALB/c or C57BL/6 mice developed a highly patent infection with the RN 66 strain of C. muris but overcame the infection and were immune ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McDonald V,Deer R,Uni S,Iseki M,Bancroft GJ

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) of Escherichia coli is localized in the periplasm of the bacterial cell. Growth of an LT-producing strain of E. coli in the presence of bile salts, in concentrations within the range found in the human small intestine, caused leakage of LT into the culture medium. This leakage could be...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hunt PD,Hardy SJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pattern of meningococcal surface structure expression in different microenvironments following bloodstream invasion in vivo is not known. We used immunohistochemistry to determine the expression of capsule, type IV pili, and PorA by meningococci residing in the skin lesions of children with purpura fulminans. All ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Harrison OB,Robertson BD,Faust SN,Jepson MA,Goldin RD,Levin M,Heyderman RS

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have indicated that the ability to bind to fibronectin is a key feature in successful cell invasion by Campylobacter jejuni. Given the spatial distribution of fibronectin and the architecture of the epithelium, this suggests the possibility that C. jejuni cell invasion might preferentially occur at th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Monteville MR,Konkel ME

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis serotype 2 is a porcine and human pathogen with adhesive and invasive properties. In other streptococci, large surface-associated proteins (>100 kDa) of the MSCRAMM family (microbial surface components recognizing adhesive matrix molecules) are key players in interactions with host tissue. In this s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baums CG,Kaim U,Fulde M,Ramachandran G,Goethe R,Valentin-Weigand P

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used the Salmonella typhi galactose epimerase (galE) mutant strain Ty21a, shown to be a safe, effective, living, attenuated oral typhoid vaccine, as a recipient for a recombinant plasmid containing the gene for production of the nontoxic B subunit of the heat-labile enterotoxin of Escherichia coli. The S. typhi der...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clements JD,El-Morshidy S

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the correlation between the incA I47T mutation in Chlamydia trachomatis and the nonfusogenic phenotype, the incA genes of 25 isolates were sequenced. Four major sequence types were identified. Seven isolates (28%) had the I47T mutation. Isolates representing the four sequence types expressed IncA in the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pannekoek Y,van der Ende A,Eijk PP,van Marle J,de Witte MA,Ossewaarde JM,van den Brule AJ,Morré SA,Dankert J

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When immunocompetent mice are inoculated with Borrelia burgdorferi, they develop acute arthritis and carditis that undergo spontaneous regression despite the persistence of infection. Specific T- and/or B-cell immunity appears to be necessary for resolution of disease manifestations. Humoral immune responses to B. bur...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bockenstedt LK,Barthold S,Deponte K,Marcantonio N,Kantor FS

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although protective immunity in C57BL/6 mice induced by a single dose of the radiation-attenuated schistosome vaccine is believed to be mediated by Th1-type immune responses, we here report that in BALB/c mice protection can also depend upon signaling via the interleukin-4 (IL-4) receptor which conventionally governs ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mountford AP,Hogg KG,Coulson PS,Brombacher F

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene expression and cytokine release of the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta), IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) after infection of human epithelial cells (HEp-2 cells) and polymorphonuclear granulocytes (PMNs) were investigated by using isogenic pairs of Listeria monocytogen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Arnold R,Scheffer J,König B,König W

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When spleen cells derived from C57BL/6 mice immunized with L cells 7 days previously were cocultured with antigenic cells, immune interferon appeared in the culture fluid. We analyzed the tissue distribution of the immune interferon-producing cells (IIPC) which appeared in various lymphoid organs after allogeneic stim...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ito Y,Aoki H,Kimura Y,Takano M,Maeno K,Shimokata K

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of human monocyte-derived macrophages (HMDM) and J774 cells (murine macrophage cell line) with several enteroaggregative and cytodetaching Escherichia coli (EAggEC and CDEC, respectively) strains demonstrated that some strains could induce macrophage cell death accompanied by release of lactate dehydrogenase...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fernandez-Prada C,Tall BD,Elliott SE,Hoover DL,Nataro JP,Venkatesan MM

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00