The Hha protein as a modulator of expression of virulence factors in Escherichia coli.

abstract：:We have previously shown that Bacillus anthracis lethal toxin represses glucocorticoid receptor (GR) transactivation. We now report that repression of GR activity also occurs with the large clostridial toxins produced by Clostridium sordellii and C. difficile. This was demonstrated using a transient transfection assay...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tait AS,Dalton M,Geny B,D'Agnillo F,Popoff MR,Sternberg EM

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae, the pathogen that causes cholera, also survives in aqueous reservoirs, probably in the form of biofilms. Quorum sensing negatively regulates V. cholerae biofilm formation through HapR, whose expression is induced at a high cell density. In this study, we show that the concentration of the quorum-sensi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liu Z,Stirling FR,Zhu J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously undescribed, immunoreactive, membranous spherule outer wall (SOW) fraction produced by Coccidioides immitis (strains 634 and 735) grown in culture was isolated. Both this fraction and intact spherules were reactive with sera from coccidioidomycosis patients, as demonstrated by immunofluorescence microscop...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cole GT,Seshan KR,Franco M,Bukownik E,Sun SH,Hearn VM

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recombinant protective antigen (rPA) of Bacillus anthracis is a promising anthrax vaccine. We compared serum immunoglobulin G levels and toxin-neutralizing antibody titers in rabbits following delivery of various doses of vaccine by microneedle-based intradermal (i.d.) delivery or intramuscular (i.m.) injection us...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mikszta JA,Dekker JP 3rd,Harvey NG,Dean CH,Brittingham JM,Huang J,Sullivan VJ,Dyas B,Roy CJ,Ulrich RG

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthrax lethal toxin (LeTx), consisting of protective antigen (PA) and lethal factor (LF), rapidly kills primary mouse macrophages and macrophage-like cell lines such as RAW 264.7. LF is translocated by PA into the cytosol of target cells, where it acts as a metalloprotease to cleave mitogen-activated protein kinase k...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tang G,Leppla SH

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type Vibrio cholerae of both El Tor and classical biotypes (strains N16961 and 395, respectively) and nonmotile mutant derivatives with and without flagellar structures were characterized in three different animal models: (i) the rabbit ileal loop, (ii) the removable intestinal tie adult rabbit diarrhea (RITARD) ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Richardson K

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of mice with the murine sarcoma virus (Moloney) markedly suppressed the humoral antibody response to sheep erythrocyte antigen injected 10 days after infection, when tumor size was maximal, and on day 26, when primary tumors had partially regressed. Humoral antibody response was also inhibited when antigen w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chan SP,Hook WA,Turner W,Chirigos MA

更新日期：1970-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In its canonical role the reverse transcriptase telomerase recovers the telomeric repeats that are lost during DNA replication. Other locations and activities have been recently described for the telomerase protein subunit TERT in mammalian cells. In the present work, using biochemistry, molecular biology, and electro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Campelo R,Díaz Lozano I,Figarella K,Osuna A,Ramírez JL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium piliforme induces enterohepatic disease in many domestic and laboratory animal species. Susceptibility to infection is known to vary with the immune status and strain of the host, but little is known about specific immune mechanisms that regulate this disease. To evaluate host control of C. piliforme infec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Van Andel RA,Hook RR Jr,Franklin CL,Besch-Williford CL,Riley LK

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria infection treatment vaccine (ITV) is a promising strategy to induce homologous and heterologous protective immunity against the blood stage of the parasite. However, the underlying mechanism of protection remains largely unknown. Here, we found that a malaria-specific antibody (Ab) could mediate the protective...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liu T,Lu X,Zhao C,Fu X,Zhao T,Xu W

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI), a human neutrophil granule protein, has been shown to bind lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and neutralize LPS-mediated cytokine production in adherent monocytes and the whole-blood system. In this study we investigated the ability of recombinant human BPI (rBPI) to inhibit ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Arditi M,Zhou J,Huang SH,Luckett PM,Marra MN,Kim KS

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimally manipulated nasal secretions, an accessible form of airway surface fluid, were tested against indigenous and added bacteria by using CFU assays. Antimicrobial activity was found to vary between donors and with different target bacteria and was markedly diminished by dilution of the airway secretions. Donor-t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cole AM,Dewan P,Ganz T

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproducibility of an experimental result is a fundamental assumption in science. Yet, results that are merely confirmatory of previous findings are given low priority and can be difficult to publish. Furthermore, the complex and chaotic nature of biological systems imposes limitations on the replicability of scie...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Casadevall A,Fang FC

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of nosocomial bacterial diarrhea. Glutamine and its stable and highly soluble derivative alanyl-glutamine, have been beneficial in models of intestinal injury. In this study, we extend our work on the mechanisms of Clostridium difficile toxin A (TxA)-induced apoptosis in huma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carneiro BA,Fujii J,Brito GA,Alcantara C,Oriá RB,Lima AA,Obrig T,Guerrant RL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a Plasmodium chabaudi infection in interleukin-10 (IL-10) knockout mice, there is greater parasite sequestration, more severe cerebral edema, and a high frequency of cerebral hemorrhage compared with infection of C57BL/6 mice. Anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha treatment ameliorated both cerebral edema and hemorr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sanni LA,Jarra W,Li C,Langhorne J

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies against hepatitis B surface antigen were found to be restricted to subclasses IgG1 and IgG3 in serum samples of 17 individuals. Quantitative determinations showed that in 10 samples the minor serum subclass IgG3 contained more antibodies than the predominant subclass IgG1. Ranges of c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Morell A,Roth-Wicky B,Skvaril F

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization of New Zealand White rabbits with purified visna virus elicited antibody activity demonstrated by passive hemagglutination (PHA), complement fixation (CF), and indirect immunofluorescent tests. The antibody activities of hyperimmune sera and Sephadex G-200 fractions of the sera were studied. It was found ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karl SC,Thormar H

更新日期：1971-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-specific T-cell responses and histopathological changes were studied in mice experimentally inoculated with Borrelia burgdorferi B31. Inbred mice with different H-2 haplotypes and/or different genetic backgrounds were inoculated with B. burgdorferi organisms and tested for antigen-specific T-cell responses in ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schaible UE,Kramer MD,Justus CW,Museteanu C,Simon MM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto is the major causative agent of Lyme disease in the United States, while B. garinii and B. afzelii are more prevalent in Europe. The highly complex genome of B. burgdorferi is comprised of a linear chromosome and a large number of variably sized linear and circular plasmids. Many pla...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chan K,Casjens S,Parveen N

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：:The virulence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae for chicken embryos can be modified in a predictable manner by the addition of microbial siderophores to the inoculum. "Meningobactin" and "gonobactin," siderophores isolated from iron-limited cultures of meningococci and gonococci, respectively, enhance the virulence of the rela...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Finkelstein RA,Yancey RJ

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heparin-binding hemagglutinin (HBHA) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a surface-expressed adhesin that can affect binding to host cells via a unique, methylated, carboxyl-terminal, lysine-, alanine-, and proline-rich repeat region. It has been implicated in extrapulmonary dissemination of M. tuberculosis from the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Parra M,Pickett T,Delogu G,Dheenadhayalan V,Debrie AS,Locht C,Brennan MJ

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans NIH 409 was cultured in a defined medium containing D-[1-13C]xylose (Xyl), D-[1-13C]mannose (Man), or D-[1-13C]mannitol as the sole carbon source. The distribution of 13C in the Man, Xyl, glucuronic acid (GlcA), and O-acetyl constituents of native and de-O-acetylated glucuronoxylomannan (GXM) w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cherniak R,O'Neill EB,Sheng S

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is one of the most potent trigger substances for monocytes and macrophages causing secretion of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and other inflammatory mediators. The nature of the nuclear factors involved in human TNF-alpha gene regulation is still unknown. Nuclear factor kappa B (NF-k...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takashiba S,Van Dyke TE,Shapira L,Amar S

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary antibody response of BALB/c splenocytes to sheep erythrocytes in vitro was suppressed by infection with Friend leukemia virus (FLV), with the response capacity decreasing with increasing duration of infection. The acquisition of normal antibody responses was amplified by macrophage-produced antibody respon...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Butler RC,Frier JM,Chapekar MS,Graham MO,Friedman H

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fasciola hepatica is a prevalent helminth parasite of livestock. Infection results in polarization of the host's immune response and generation of type 2 helper (Th2) immune responses, which are known to be inhibitory to Th1 responses. Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) is a bacterial disease of economic and zoonotic importanc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Flynn RJ,Mannion C,Golden O,Hacariz O,Mulcahy G

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：:Various invasive pathogens attach to host tissues via the extracellular matrix component laminin, the major glycoprotein found within basement membranes. Previous investigations identified the laminin-binding adhesin Tp0751 within the spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum. In the current study, Tp0751 was shown to a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cameron CE,Brouwer NL,Tisch LM,Kuroiwa JM

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organ cultures of adult hamster trachea were used to evaluate the cytotoxic potential of cell fractions of Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Cytoplasm was essentially devoid of activity, whereas viable cells and membrane preparations, at a level of 25 mug of protein per ml, induced necrosis. Damage, as revealed by light and elec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gabridge MG,Johnson CK,Cameron AM

更新日期：1974-11-01 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