Abstract:
:A specific mistranslation mechanism for the replication of an infectious protein is described. The feedback mechanism requires the infectious agent to induce concerted frameshifts during the translation of a cellular gene. Each module of the tandem repeat region of the gene encoding the prion protein (PrP) associated with scrapie infectivity contains multiple sites of potential ribosomal frameshifting. It is proposed that some aberrant variants of PrP containing frameshifted peptides within the octapeptide repeat region of the protein backbone are able to replicate and cause scrapie by interfering with the translation and simultaneous translocation of nascent PrP molecules into the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum. The model provides a plausible explanation for the behaviour of host-adapted scrapie strains as well as the aetiology of scrapie-like diseases. The hypothesis that a mistranslated PrP is the scrapie agent can also explain discrepancies between the published amino acid sequence of PrP and the sequence deduced from the gene.
journal_name
Microb Pathogjournal_title
Microbial pathogenesisauthors
Wills PRdoi
10.1016/0882-4010(89)90098-3subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1989-04-01 00:00:00pages
235-49issue
4eissn
0882-4010issn
1096-1208pii
0882-4010(89)90098-3journal_volume
6pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract::Animals nurtured with a high-concentrate diet for a more extended period can cause subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA). In this study, twelve mid-lactating goats were separated into two groups (n = 6): a high concentrate diet (HC) control and a high concentrate with buffer (HCB) treatment group. Rumen fistula was install...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.micpath.2018.05.045
更新日期:2018-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Vibrio cholerae elaborates zonula occludens toxin (Zot), a protein that increases the permeability of small intestinal mucosa by opening intercellular tight junctions. The zot gene is located, together with the genes encoding CT and Ace enterotoxins, within the genome of V. cholerae filamentous phage CTXsmall ef, Cyri...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/mpat.1999.0312
更新日期:1999-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::An mdaB mutant strain in a quinone reductase (MdaB) of Helicobacter hepaticus type strain ATCC51449 was constructed by insertional mutagenesis, and the MdaB protein was purified and compared to the Helicobacter pylori enzyme. While wild type H. hepaticus cells could tolerate 6% O(2) for growth, the mdaB strain was cle...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.micpath.2006.08.005
更新日期:2008-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Aeromonas hydrophila is one of the main causative agent of high mortality and significative economic losses in aquaculture and has become increasingly resistant to conventional antibiotics. One feasible alternative to control and treat it is the use of essential oils. This study aimed to evaluate A. hydrophila suscept...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.micpath.2016.07.002
更新日期:2016-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Ehrlichia risticii, the causative agent of Potomac horse fever, is an obligate intracellular rickettsial organism. To understand the role of 55 and 51 kilodalton immunodominant antigens of E. risticii in strain variation, their genes from the 25-D and 90-12 strains were cloned, sequenced, and expressed in E. coli. Seq...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/mpat.1998.0208
更新日期:1998-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Up to 28-fold differences in vacA expression in Helicobacter pylori strains grown in vitro were demonstrated by real time quantitative RT-PCR. These large differences in expression were unrelated to putative -35 and -10 motifs or to other untranslated sequences upstream of the ATG start site. The lack of correlation b...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.micpath.2004.06.003
更新日期:2004-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Listeriosis is a serious infection linked to the consumption of food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Outbreaks and mortality rates associated with this infection make it a significant public health concern. As biocontrol agents, probiotics such as Lactobacillus plantarum had been of interest for the promotio...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.micpath.2019.103744
更新日期:2019-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Like most microorganisms, Neisseria gonorrhoeae alters gene expression in response to iron availability. The ferric uptake regulator Fur has been shown to be involved in controlling this response, but the extent of this involvement remains unknown. It is known that in addition to working directly to repress gene expre...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.micpath.2008.12.003
更新日期:2009-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The live oral typhoid vaccine Ty21a has proved to confer protection against the disease at least as effectively as killed parenteral vaccines, whereas killed oral vaccines have not been protective in field trials. This prompted us to compare the immune response of subjects vaccinated either with live oral, killed oral...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0882-4010(91)90072-i
更新日期:1991-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Edwardsiella tarda poses a threat to human health and has resulted in enormous economic losses in aquaculture. Low temperatures are usually applied to contain the growth of this microorganism. In this study, stable isotope labelling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC) was used to conduct comparative proteomic quant...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.micpath.2018.09.006
更新日期:2018-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::A DNA fragment from Bordetella pertussis, encoding the fim2 fimbrial subunit gene with adjacent sequences, was used as a probe for the detection of homologous sequences in chromosomal DNA of Bordetella avium. A 1.8 kb Sa1I-PstI fragment from the genome of B. avium, which hybridized with the probe, was isolated and seq...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/mpat.1993.1071
更新日期:1993-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Elimination of pathogenic microorganisms in the liver may be an important effector mechanism in host defenses. In this paper we describe the adhesion, invasion and multiplication of Salmonella typhimurium in a murine embryonic hepatocyte cell line (ATCC TIB-73). Monolayers of hepatocytes treated with recombinant IFN g...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/mpat.1996.0065
更新日期:1996-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Upon oxygen shift-down, Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex bacteria can induce a genetic program characterized by halted duplication, which is called Non-replicating persistence (NRP). During this phase, at least 48 genes, collectively named Dormancy survival regulator (DosR) regulon, are important for the long-term s...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.micpath.2013.04.012
更新日期:2013-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most frequent types of nosocomial and community acquired infections in humans. Management of multidrug-resistant Enterococci UTI due to the limited therapeutic options is a great challenge for physicians and clinical microbiologists. The role of bacterial biofilms ...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.micpath.2017.05.014
更新日期:2017-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Coccidiosis, caused by various species of genus Eimeria, is a major parasitic disease in chicken. The increasing resistance of these parasites to currently used anticoccidial drugs has stimulated the search for new methods of control. As part of this effort, a study was designed to see the anticoccidial effect of diff...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.micpath.2017.01.053
更新日期:2017-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To determine the frequency of occurrence of Mycoplasma genitalium infection in the peritoneal fluid of infertile women as compared to fertile women. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We have selected 162 infertile women aged 22-40 years as study subject and 162 women posted for elective caesarean section, were taken as ...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.micpath.2019.02.006
更新日期:2019-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Siderophores are low molecular weight molecules that allow bacteria to acquire iron from host cell proteins. 2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid (DHBA) is the only known siderophore produced by the intracellular pathogen Brucella abortus. Here its role in virulence was assessed by evaluating the ability of a mutant with a disru...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/mpat.2002.0500
更新日期:2002-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::The gene (ystB) encoding the novel subtype of the heat-stable enterotoxin (Y-STb) was cloned from the chromosome of a clinical isolate of Yersinia enterocolitica 84-50 (serotype O:5, biotype 1A) and the nucleotide sequence was determined. The ystB contained 216 base pairs that encoded a protein of 71 amino acid residu...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/mpat.1997.0146
更新日期:1997-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Enteropathogenic strains of Yersinia enterocolitica harbor a virulence plasmid (pYVe plasmid) of 70 kilobases (kb) which specifies, at 37 degrees C, a calcium requirement for growth, autoagglutinability, resistance to the bactericidal activity of human serum, and the expression of outer membrane proteins (OMP). Some m...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0882-4010(86)90067-7
更新日期:1986-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Lmof2365_2117 is a Listeria monocytogenes putative cell wall surface anchor protein with a conserved domain found in collagen binding proteins. We constructed a deletion mutation in lmof2365_2117 in serotype 4b strain F2365, evaluated its virulence, and determined its ability to adhere and invade colonic epithelial ce...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.micpath.2015.12.012
更新日期:2016-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens are currently causing serious problems globally in the medical setting. Improper and extensive usage of antibiotics results in a selective pressure supporting the rise of antibiotic-resistant microbes. Many key cellular bacterial components, including enzymes and small noncoding RNA...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.micpath.2018.01.043
更新日期:2018-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The exfoliative toxin produced by Staphylococcus hyicus strain 1289D-88 was purified as a single protein of approximately 30 kDa. Extracellular proteins of S. hyicus grown under small scale fermentation conditions were precipitated with ammonium sulfate. Separation of proteins was performed by hydrophobic interaction ...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/mpat.1996.0097
更新日期:1997-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::A variant of Vero toxin 2 (VT2), or Shiga-like toxin II (SLT-II) was purified from a cloned strain of Escherichia coli carrying a gene that encodes SLT-IIva, which is most closely related to SLT-IIv (VT2vp, VTe) in its nucleotide sequence. The purified SLT-IIva showed a slight difference from the purified SLT-IIv (VT2...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/mpat.1993.1089
更新日期:1993-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Using whole bacteria, rather than extracted, purified DNA samples, we amplified the papE gene sequences from 63 Escherichia coli isolates belonging to O serogroups O1, O2 and O6. These isolates were from collections separated temporally as well as geographically: from four cities in the US and one in Sweden. PCR ampli...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/mpat.1996.0033
更新日期:1996-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Visfatin plays an important role in regulation of inflammatory cytokines. However, the role of visfatin under bacterial stress condition is not fully explored yet. Therefore, the present study was conducted for the better understanding of the regulation mechanism of visfatin on the production of inflammatory cytokines...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.micpath.2018.02.002
更新日期:2018-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The effects of depleting CD4+ and CD8+ T cells on macrophage recruitment have been analyzed for bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) populations from mice with primary or secondary influenza pneumonia. Macrophages were characterized by both the capacity to engulf latex particles and the expression of mRNA for a 65 kD heat sho...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/mpat.1993.1008
更新日期:1993-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::A. baumannii has been considered as Priority-I as suggested by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the most critical pathogenic microorganism for causing nosocomial infection in imunno-compromised hospital-acquired patients due to multi-drug resistance (MDR). In the current study, we utilized "Computer-aided ligan...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.micpath.2020.104205
更新日期:2020-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::This study was undertaken to determine the genotypic distribution of Chinese M. bovis strains and their similarity to isolates from other countries. Two multilocus sequence typing (MLST) schemes (MLST-1 and MLST-2) and pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) were used to compare 44 Chinese strains and the M. bovis typ...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.micpath.2017.08.029
更新日期:2017-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Bovine mastitis is one of the most costly and prevalent disease affecting dairy cows worldwide. It was reported that Staphylococcus aureus could internalize into bovine mammary epithelial cells (bMEC) and induce mastitis. Some short chain fatty acids (SCFA) have shown to suppress S. aureus invasion into bMEC and regul...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.micpath.2017.03.030
更新日期:2017-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::We analyzed here the complete genome sequences of a highly virulent Flavobacterium columnare Pf1 strain isolated in our laboratory. The complete genome consists of a 3,171,081 bp circular DNA with 2784 predicted protein-coding genes. Among these, 286 genes were predicted as antibiotic resistance genes, including 32 RN...
journal_title:Microbial pathogenesis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.micpath.2017.08.035
更新日期:2017-10-01 00:00:00