Analysis of the phospholipase C gene of Clostridium perfringens KZ1340 isolated from Antarctic soil.

abstract：:Thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) is an anaphylatoxin-inactivating enzyme generated by proteolytic cleavage of its zymogen, and is the same enzyme as that first designated by our group as procarboxypeptidase R (proCPR). TAFI in plasma is presumed to influence vascular disease in its role as a fibrinol...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Akatsu H,Ishiguro M,Ogawa N,Kanesaka T,Okada N,Yamamoto T,Campbell W,Okada H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measles vaccines are highly effective and safe; however, the mechanism(s) underlying their attenuation has not been well understood. In this study, type I IFNs (IFN-α and IFN-β) induction in macaques infected with measles virus (MV) strains was examined. Type I IFNs were not induced in macaques infected with wild-type...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Van Nguyen N,Kato SI,Nagata K,Takeuchi K

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method was performed for rapid and sensitive detection of pathogenic Vibrio trachuri isolated from cultured Japanese horse mackerel. A set of primers was selected from the base sequence of the Pst I fragment of T9210 chromosomal DNA and used for PCR detection of T9210. This PCR specif...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Iwamoto Y,Suzuki Y,Kurita A,Watanabe Y,Shimizu T,Ohgami H,Yanagihara Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A few yeast mannans free from protein and phosphorus showed pyrogenic activity in rabbits although the extent of this activity was considerably lower than that of the bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS). The pyrogenic activity was not abolished by treatment with sodium deoxycholate. This result showed that the mannans...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nagase T,Mikami T,Suzuki S,Suzuki M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although most influenza vaccines are produced in eggs, new types of vaccines must be developed. In this study, the immunogenicity and safety of a baculovirus-expressed hemagglutinin (HA) of H1N1 influenza virus (Korea/01/2009; designated "HA-Bac-K") was compared with those of a commercially available baculovirus-expre...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Na HN,Kim KH,Song MK,Park HL,Lee EY,Shim SH,Park S,Nam JH

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of MHC-restricted T and B cell interactions in antibody response was studied with IgM-inducible B hybridomas and antigen-specific helper T cell clones. B hybridomas were prepared by fusion between splenic B cells from (CBA/N (H-2k) X BALB/c (H-2d)) F1 (NBF1) male mice and a B lymphoma cell line, M12.4.5....

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yoshikubo T,Kimoto M,Kishimoto T

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine B cell mitogens such as bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), butanol-extracted water soluble adjuvant (Bu-WSA), dextran sulfate (DS), synthetic muramyl dipeptide (MDP), and its analog MDP-Lys (L18) do not show any mitogenic ability in vitro on human peripheral blood lymphocytes or mixed cell populations of purif...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nitta T,Konno-Ejiri H,Okumura S,Ozawa A,Nakano M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dialyzable factors (DF) were prepared from ribosomal fractions of several organisms including rough mutants of Salmonella typhimurium LT2, salmonella species of different serogroups, other enteric bacteria and gram-positive organisms, and tested for their immunogenicity against S. typhimurium infection in mice. All of...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kita E,Yasui K,Yasui K,Matsuda Y,Matsuda K,Kashiba S

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The standard products of V(D)J recombination of immunoglobulin and T cell receptor genes are two kinds of DNA junction, a coding joint and a signal joint. TCR delta V-D and D-D signal joints in adult mouse thymocytes were sequenced following PCR amplification. We observed differential nucleotide insertions at the V de...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kanari Y,Muto M,Yamagishi H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An emetic toxin cereulide, produced by Bacillus cereus, causes emetic food poisonings, but a method for quantitative measurement of cereulide has not been well established. A current detection method is a bioassay method using the HEp-2 cell vacuolation test, but it was unable to measure an accurate concentration. We ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kawamura-Sato K,Hirama Y,Agata N,Ito H,Torii K,Takeno A,Hasegawa T,Shimomura Y,Ohta M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 207 strains of Bordetella bronchiseptica isolated from pigs in 1978 and 1979 were tested for drug resistance and for the properties of their R plasmids. Apart from intrinsic resistance to spectinomycin, single (sulfadimethoxine), double (sulfadimethoxine and streptomycin), andt riple (sulfadimethoxine, stre...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shimizu M,Kuninori K,Inoue M,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacterial strain with affinity to Candida albicans was successfully obtained from a natural environment. An uncovered Petri dish containing a suspension of heat-killed C. albicans cells was allowed to stand in a laboratory for several days. Some bacteria which had adhered to the candidal cells were tested for their ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Seki K,Kobayashi K,Tomiya Y,Sakurada J,Murai M,Usui A,Masuda S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated a filamentous bacteriophage, VfO4K68, from the pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain belonging to 04:K68 serovar. The VfO4K68 DNA lacked a 1,893-bp fragment present in that of the distinctive region of f237, a filamentous phage isolated from a pandemic 03:K6 strain (Nasu, H. et al., J. Clin. Microbiol., ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Chan B,Miyamoto H,Taniguchi H,Yoshida S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prepared polyclonal antibody specific to Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Using this antibody, we developed a latex agglutination test (LAT) for detecting the organism in respiratory exudates as rapid diagnosis of M. pneumoniae infection. Further, LAT was compared with DNA-probe test (DP) which was the only commercially avai...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Masayoshi T,Hirai Y,Kanemasa Y

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptone-yeast extract (PY) medium containing 0.035% ferric ammonium citrate as an indicator, 0.05% sulfite as a substrate, 0.05% cysteine as a reducer and 0.5% glucose was found to be suitable for observing the sulfite reduction test. The effect of added cysteine on the test was suppressed by the addition of glucose. ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kawabata N

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One- and two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) was performed on immunoprecipitates formed between anti-human T-cell xeno-antiserum (ATS) and cell-surface glycoproteins of human lymphocytes, that had been radioiodinated by lactoperoxidase and purified on a Lentil lectin-coupled Sepharose 4B column. ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fujimoto J,Ishii Y,Kon S,Matsuura A,Kikuchi K

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural studies were carried out on an O-antigenic polysaccharide moiety derived from Porphyromonas circumdentaria NCTC 12469, a reference strain of Porphyromonas species. The polysaccharide chain was composed of D-glucose, D-galactose, N-acetyl-D-glucosamine, and N-acetyl-D-galactosamine in a molar ratio of 1:2:1:...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Matsuo K,Isogai E,Araki Y

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Us3 is a serine-threonine protein kinase that is encoded by herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1). In experimental animal models of HSV infection, peripheral and intracranial inoculations can be used to study viral pathogenicity in peripheral sites (e.g., eyes and vagina) and central nervous systems (CNSs), respectively. In ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Koyanagi N,Imai T,Arii J,Kato A,Kawaguchi Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triosephosphate isomerase (TPI; EC 5. 3. 1. 1) displayed on the cell surface of Staphylococcus aureus acts as an adhesion molecule that binds to the capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans, a fungal pathogen. This study investigated the function of TPI on the cell surface of S. aureus and its interactions with biological s...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Furuya H,Ikeda R

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal intraepithelial T cells (IELs) expressing either gammadelta TCR or alphabeta TCR have been proposed to play an important role in the regulation of intestinal epithelia by producing cytokines that directly influence the adjoining intestinal epithelial cell (IEC) functions. To illuminate this issue, we utiliz...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kohyama M,Hachimura S,Nanno M,Ishikawa H,Kaminogawa S

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chemotaxonomic study was carried out with a new serotyping scheme comprising 35 O-antigen groups of Vibrio fluvialis on the basis of the sugar composition of the polysaccharide portion of their lipopolysaccharide (LPS). A previously developed rapid method of preparing samples for compositional sugar analysis was emp...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Iguchi T,Kondo S,Hisatsune K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mouse model for the study of postexposure prophylaxis of rabies was established. Mice injected intramuscularly with a street strain of rabies virus were significantly protected from death by five daily 0.2-ml doses of inactivated rabies vaccine of chick embryo cell culture origin initiated immediately or 3 hr after ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Mifune K,Shichijo A,Makino Y,Takeuchi E,Yamada A,Sakamoto K

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A leukocidin was isolated and purified from autolysates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain 158 by a combination of procedures such as column chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex A-50, gel filtration on Sephadex G-100, and zone electrophoresis on pevikon. The purified preparation showed a single band in each experiment using ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hirayama T,Kato I,Matsuda F,Noda M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, 12 patients with fever of undetermined origin, anemia and icterus were diagnosed with hemoplasma infection by light microscopy, transmission electron microscopy examination and PCR assay after being excluded from other usual febrile diseases. Complement receptor type I (CR1, CD35) expression on t...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Congbin Y,Aibin L,Congli Y,Juan X,Lanjun B,Weiping Z,Zhibiao Y,Xiuguo H

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distribution of indigenous lactobacilli in the gastrointestinal tracts of rats was investigated at the species level. The indigenous lactobacilli isolated from conventional rats were divided into three groups, Lactobacillus acidophilus and its related strains, L. fermentum, and L. murini. Localization of the Lactobaci...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Watanabe T,Morotomi M,Suegara N,Kawai Y,Mutai M

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fcgamma receptor (R) IIB, a low-affinity FcR for IgG, inhibits B cell Ag R (BCR)-mediated activation when these two receptors are cross-linked by Ag and IgG-containing immune complexs (ICs). We found deletion polymorphisms in the promoter region of fcgr2b in NC/Nga mice, a model for human atopic dermatitis. NC/Nga mic...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sakai T,Kogiso M,Mitsuya K,Komatsu T,Yamamoto S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) an arthropod-borne Alphavirus is responsible for chikungunya fever and joint pain etc. Arthralgia is a major symptom; some patients recover early while others suffer for a very long time. Epidemiology and molecular characterization of three whole-genome sequences of CHIKV have been carried ou...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Khan N,Bhat R,Jain V,Raghuvendara B S,Patel AK,Ray P

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the effect of heat-stable enterotoxin produced by Yersinia enterocolitica (Y. enterocolitica ST) on cyclic nucleotide levels in the intestines of 6-day-old mice and in cultured cell line cells. The concentration of cyclic guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic GMP) in homogenates of the intestines increas...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Inoue T,Okamoto K,Moriyama T,Takahashi T,Shimizu K,Miyama A

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of brown rice, containing fourfold as much dietary fiber as polished rice, on the human fecal microflora were determined. Significantly increased numbers of Bifidobacterium adolescentis and Enterococcus faecalis were observed during the brown rice intake, whereas the total counts and the numbers of bactero...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Benno Y,Endo K,Miyoshi H,Okuda T,Koishi H,Mitsuoka T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleic acid fraction from cells of 6 species of bacterium and 2 kinds of vertebrate, calf and salmon, was extracted and purified by the same procedures as described previously. When the spleen cells from BALB/c mice were incubated with the nucleic acid fraction from either of the bacteria, natural killer (NK) act...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamamoto S,Yamamoto T,Shimada S,Kuramoto E,Yano O,Kataoka T,Tokunaga T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00