Effects of Clostridium difficile toxin B on human monocytes and macrophages: possible relationship with cytoskeletal rearrangement.

abstract：:Toll-like receptors 2 and 4 (TLR2 and TLR4) have been found to transduce signals of peptidoglycan (PGN) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS), respectively, for NF-kappa B activation. However, little is known about the expression and regulation of the TLR2 gene in monocytes/macrophages in response to the two typical bacterial ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liu Y,Wang Y,Yamakuchi M,Isowaki S,Nagata E,Kanmura Y,Kitajima I,Maruyama I

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane and soluble fractions of Mycoplasma pneumoniae, M. pulmonis, and M. laidlawii B were prepared by hypotonic lysis of whole cells. The membranes of M. pneumoniae and M. laidlawii B contained, as percentage of dry weight: 34 to 37% protein, 59 to 61% lipid, 3 to 4% carbohydrate as hexose, and 0.2% ribonucleic ac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pollack JD,Somerson NL,Senterfit LB

更新日期：1970-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic oligosaccharides derived from the capsular polysaccharide (PRP) of Haemophilus influenzae type b were conjugated to carrier proteins via a thioether linkage. Conjugates were made of trimeric and tetrameric ribose-ribitol-phosphate and tetanus toxoid or diphtheria toxin. All conjugates elicited anti-PRP antib...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Peeters CC,Evenberg D,Hoogerhout P,Käyhty H,Saarinen L,van Boeckel CA,van der Marel GA,van Boom JH,Poolman JT

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two distinct and complementary pathways, one mediated by perforin and the other dependent upon CD95 (Fas), effect cell-mediated cytotoxicity. We examined the relative roles of these pathways in host defenses against the intracellular bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes by using murine listeriosis as a model syst...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jensen ER,Glass AA,Clark WR,Wing EJ,Miller JF,Gregory SH

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three open reading frames (ORFs) were identified by a genome walking strategy in the genomes of serotype M49 group A streptococcal (GAS) strains CS101 and 591. These ORFs were located between the mga core regulon and the dipeptide permease operon. The deduced amino acid (aa) sequences contained signature sequences ind...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Elsner A,Kreikemeyer B,Braun-Kiewnick A,Spellerberg B,Buttaro BA,Podbielski A

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the heavy (H)- and light (L)-chain variable (V) region nucleotide and translated amino acid sequences of the human immunoglobulin M(kappa) monoclonal antibody (MAb) 5E1, which is specific for the polysaccharide capsule of Escherichia coli K1 and Neisseria meningitidis group B (poly[alpha(2-->8)-N-acetyln...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Azmi FH,Lucas AH,Raff HV,Granoff DM

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia cenocepacia strain K56-2 typically has rough colony morphology on agar medium; however, shiny colony variants (shv) can appear spontaneously. These shv all had a minimum of 50% reduction in biomass formation and were generally avirulent in an alfalfa seedling infection model. Three shv-K56-2 S15, K56-2 S7...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bernier SP,Nguyen DT,Sokol PA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three parameters of rotavirus infection, i.e., clinical disease, viral antigen in infected intestines, and infectious virus in feces, were assessed in infant mice nursed by mothers with or without preexisting rotavirus antibody. Diarrhea was the only consistent sign of clinical disease, and its course followed that of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Little LM,Shadduck JA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of INT407 cells with various clinical isolates of Campylobacter jejuni resulted in secretion of interleukin-8 (IL-8) at levels ranging from 96 to 554 pg/ml at 24 h. The strains which produced the highest levels of IL-8 secretion were 81-176 and BT44. Induction of IL-8 secretion required live cells of 81-176...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hickey TE,Baqar S,Bourgeois AL,Ewing CP,Guerry P

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in molecular composition of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) between serum-sensitive (S) clinical isolates of Escherichia coli and serum-resistant (R) clones derived by serial passage in serum were demonstrated to determine sensitivity or resistance to killing by normal human serum (NHS). LPS from R clones had a ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Porat R,Johns MA,McCabe WR

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the role of the hepatobiliary system in the early pathogenesis of Salmonella enteritidis infection was investigated in a rat model. Intravenous (i.v.) challenge with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) has previously been shown to enhance the translocation of normal gut flora. We first confirmed that LPS can simil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Islam AF,Moss ND,Dai Y,Smith MS,Collins AM,Jackson GD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the widely held belief that gastric acid serves as a barrier to bacterial pathogens, there are almost no experimental data to support this hypothesis. We have developed a mouse model to quantify the effectiveness of gastric acid in mediating resistance to infection with ingested bacteria. Mice that were consti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tennant SM,Hartland EL,Phumoonna T,Lyras D,Rood JI,Robins-Browne RM,van Driel IR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whooping cough results from infection of the respiratory tract with Bordetella pertussis, and the secreted adenylate cyclase toxin (ACT) is essential for the bacterium to establish infection. Despite extensive study of the mechanism of ACT cytotoxicity and its effects over a range of concentrations in vitro, ACT has n...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eby JC,Gray MC,Warfel JM,Paddock CD,Jones TF,Day SR,Bowden J,Poulter MD,Donato GM,Merkel TJ,Hewlett EL

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigens shared between Streptococcus pyogenes and heart tissue may play an important role in autoimmune cardiac injury associated with acute rheumatic fever. Antiheart/antistreptococcal antibodies found in the disease react with antigens of S. pyogenes, including M protein and a 60-kDa antigen distinct from M protein...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barnett LA,Cunningham MW

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) remains an enormous global health problem, and a new vaccine against TB more potent than the current inadequate vaccine, Mycobacterium bovis BCG, is urgently needed. We describe a recombinant BCG vaccine (rBCG30) expressing and secreting the 30-kDa major secretory protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Horwitz MA,Harth G

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is an important human pathogen that causes gastritis and is strongly associated with gastric ulcers, gastric adenocarcinomas, and mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphomas. In response to H. pylori, interleukin-8 (IL-8) is secreted from host cells to attract components of the innate and adaptive ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Torok AM,Bouton AH,Goldberg JB

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasopharyngeal colonization is a necessary first step in the pathogenesis of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Using isolates containing defined mutations in the S. pneumoniae capsule locus, we found that expression of the capsular polysaccharide is essential for colonization by the type 2 strain D39 and the type 3 strains A6...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Magee AD,Yother J

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubercle bacilli failed to grow in iron-void media enriched with solutions of iron-containing transferrin (Tr) or ferritin (F) because these substances do not provide the bacilli with iron, which is essential for their growth. Animal serum and macrophages possessed no iron carrier with an ability to satisfy the need o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Golden CA,Kochan I,Spriggs DR

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A parasitic protozoan, Leishmania mexicana amazonensis, was previously made resistant to tunicamycin (J.A. Kink and K.-P. Chang, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84:1253-1257, 1987). In the present study, six different tunicamycin-resistant variants were biologically and biochemically compared with their parental wild type ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kink JA,Chang KP

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal ICR mice were infected intravenously, intraperitoneally, or aerogenically with Pasteurella multocida strains isolated from a turkey (S68), calf (V90), or rabbit (J20) lung. Both the turkey and calf isolates were highly virulent for mice and multiplied logarithmically in the lungs, liver, and spleen, resulting i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Collins FM,Niederbuhl CJ,Campbell SG

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Killing of Salmonella minnesota and Salmonella typhimurium S and R strains in serum of nonimmune humans and guinea pigs was drastically reduced in the selective absence of C1q, C1r, Ca2+, C4, or C2, the components of the classical complement pathway. Binding of C1 and C1q to the S form and six different core-deficient...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clas F,Loos M

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exohemagglutinin was found in the culture medium of Bacteroides gingivalis 381. Exohemagglutinin was purified 3,150-fold from culture fluid by ultracentrifugation followed by gel filtration on Sepharose CL-4B and by affinity chromatography on arginine-agarose. Examination of the final preparation of exohemagglutinin b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Inoshita E,Amano A,Hanioka T,Tamagawa H,Shizukuishi S,Tsunemitsu A

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intact tissues are relatively resistant to Pseudomonas aeruginosa-induced disease, and injury predisposes tissue to infection. Intact epithelia contain polarized cells that have distinct apical and basolateral membranes with unique lipids and proteins. In this study, the role of cell polarity in epithelial cell suscep...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fleiszig SM,Evans DJ,Do N,Vallas V,Shin S,Mostov KE

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 54-kDa extracellular metalloprotease ZapA is an important virulence factor of uropathogenic Proteus mirabilis. While ZapA has the ability to degrade host immunoglobulins (Igs), the dramatic attenuation of virulence in ZapA mutants suggests that this enzyme may have a broader spectrum of activity. This hypothesis w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Belas R,Manos J,Suvanasuthi R

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Broth culture supernatants from Tox+ Helicobacter pylori strains induce vacuolation of HeLa cells in vitro and contain VacA in concentrations that are higher than those found in supernatants from Tox- H. pylori strains. To investigate the basis for this phenomenon, we analyzed the transcription of the vacuolating cyto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Forsyth MH,Atherton JC,Blaser MJ,Cover TL

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracytoplasmic proteins were released from Serpulina (Treponema) hyodysenteriae (strain B204) by treatment of whole cells with a nonionic detergent (Tween 20). Centrifugation of the Tween 20-released proteins at 100,000 x g sedimented 10 major extracytoplasmic proteins with approximate molecular masses of 44, 43.5, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gabe JD,Chang RJ,Slomiany R,Andrews WH,McCaman MT

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cronobacter sakazakii is an opportunistic pathogen that causes neonatal meningitis and necrotizing enterocolitis. Its interaction with intestinal epithelium is important in the pathogenesis of enteric infections. In this study, we investigated the involvement of the inv gene in the virulence of C. sakazakii ATCC 29544...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chandrapala D,Kim K,Choi Y,Senevirathne A,Kang DH,Ryu S,Kim KP

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attachment of Fusobacterium nucleatum to various oral surfaces is mediated by several adhesins anchored on its outer surface. Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) were prepared and used to identify the putative galactose-binding adhesin of F. nucleatum PK1594. Four unique MAbs, 8G7, 26B9, 28G11, and 29D4, were isolated on the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shaniztki B,Hurwitz D,Smorodinsky N,Ganeshkumar N,Weiss EI

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenic role of staphylococcal coagulase and clumping factor was investigated in the rat model of endocarditis. The coagulase-producing and clumping factor-producing parent strain Staphylococcus aureus Newman and a series of mutants defective in either coagulase, clumping factor, or both were tested for their a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moreillon P,Entenza JM,Francioli P,McDevitt D,Foster TJ,François P,Vaudaux P

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subtilase cytotoxin (SubAB) was first isolated from a Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) strain that was responsible for an outbreak of hemolytic-uremic syndrome and is the prototype of a new family of AB(5) cytotoxins. SubAB is a subtilase-like serine protease, and upon uptake by host cells, it is trafficked to ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： May KL,Paton JC,Paton AW

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00