abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is a pathogen of increasing medical importance with a propensity to be multidrug resistant, thereby making treatment challenging. Little is known of virulence traits in A. baumannii. To identify virulence factors and potential drug targets, random transposon (Tn) mutants derived from the A. bau...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Russo TA,Luke NR,Beanan JM,Olson R,Sauberan SL,MacDonald U,Schultz LW,Umland TC,Campagnari AA

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ExoU is a potent effector protein that causes rapid host cell death upon injection by the type III secretion system of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The N-terminal half of ExoU contains a patatin-like phospholipase A(2) (PLA(2)) domain that requires the host cell cofactor superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) for activation, while ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Veesenmeyer JL,Howell H,Halavaty AS,Ahrens S,Anderson WF,Hauser AR

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni is the leading cause of infectious gastroenteritis in industrialized nations. Its ability to enter and survive within nonphagocytic cells is thought to be very important for pathogenesis. However, little is known about the C. jejuni determinants that mediate these processes. Through an extensive t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Novik V,Hofreuter D,Galán JE

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attenuated Yersinia pestis pgm strains, such as KIM5, lack the siderophore yersiniabactin. Strain KIM5 does not induce significant pneumonia when delivered intranasally. In this study, mice were found to develop pneumonia after intranasal challenge with strain KIM5 when they were injected intraperitoneally with iron d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galván EM,Nair MK,Chen H,Del Piero F,Schifferli DM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm formation by the periodontal pathogen Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is dependent upon autoinducer-2 (AI-2)-mediated quorum sensing. However, the components that link the detection of the AI-2 signal to downstream gene expression have not been determined. One potential regulator is the QseBC two-compone...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Novak EA,Shao H,Daep CA,Demuth DR

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease pathogen, dramatically alters its protein profile when it is transmitted between ticks and mammals. Several differentially expressed proteins have been shown to be critical for the enzootic cycle of B. burgdorferi. In this study, we demonstrated that expression of the surface lip...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Xu H,He M,He JJ,Yang XF

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement-containing immune complexes can be presented to phagocytes by human erythrocytes bearing complement receptor 1 (CR1). Although this has long been assumed to be a mechanism by which humans are able to protect themselves from "extracellular" bacteria such as pneumococci, there is little direct evidence. In th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li J,Wang JP,Ghiran I,Cerny A,Szalai AJ,Briles DE,Finberg RW

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi is a protozoan parasite that causes human Chagas' disease, a leading source of congestive heart failure in Central and South America. CD8+ T cells are critical for control of T. cruzi infection, and CD8+ T cells recognizing the immunodominant trans-sialidase gene-encoded peptide TSKB20 (ANYKFTLV) acc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Martin DL,Murali-Krishna K,Tarleton RL

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:Blastomyces dermatitidis is a thermally induced dimorphic fungus capable of causing lung and systemic infections in immunocompetent animal hosts. With the publication of genomic sequences from three different strains of B. dermatitidis and the development of RNA interference as a gene-silencing tool, it has become pos...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Krajaejun T,Wüthrich M,Gauthier GM,Warner TF,Sullivan TD,Klein BS

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HT29MTXE12 (E12) cell line harbors an adherent mucus layer, providing a novel technique to model mucosal infection in vitro. In this study, we have characterized the interaction of Campylobacter jejuni with the E12 cell line and exploited its unique mucus layer to examine the potential efficacy of probiotic treatm...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alemka A,Clyne M,Shanahan F,Tompkins T,Corcionivoschi N,Bourke B

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella infections continue to cause substantial morbidity and mortality throughout the world. However, recent discoveries and new paradigms promise to lead to novel strategies to diagnose, treat, and prevent Salmonella infections. This review provides an update of the Salmonella field based on oral presentations g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Andrews-Polymenis HL,Bäumler AJ,McCormick BA,Fang FC

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrobacter rodentium, a murine model pathogen for enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, colonizes the surface of intestinal epithelial cells and causes mucosal inflammation. This bacterium is an ideal model for investigating pathogen-host immune interactions in the gut. It is well known that gene transcripts for Th1 cyt...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shiomi H,Masuda A,Nishiumi S,Nishida M,Takagawa T,Shiomi Y,Kutsumi H,Blumberg RS,Azuma T,Yoshida M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly recognized Fic family virulence proteins may be important in many bacterial pathogens. To relate cellular mechanisms to pathogenesis and immune protection, we studied the cytotoxicity of the Histophilus somni immunoglobulin-binding protein A (IbpA) direct repeat 2 Fic domain (DR2/Fic) for natural host target cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zekarias B,Mattoo S,Worby C,Lehmann J,Rosenbusch RF,Corbeil LB

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron acquisition from the host is an important step in the pathogenic process. While Yersinia pestis has multiple iron transporters, the yersiniabactin (Ybt) siderophore-dependent system plays a major role in iron acquisition in vitro and in vivo. In this study, we determined that the Ybt system is required for the us...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fetherston JD,Kirillina O,Bobrov AG,Paulley JT,Perry RD

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obligate vacuolar pathogens produce proteins that localize to the host cell-derived membranes of the vacuoles in which they reside, yielding unique organelles that are optimally suited for pathogen survival. Anaplasma phagocytophilum is an obligate vacuolar bacterium that infects neutrophils and causes the emerging an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huang B,Troese MJ,Ye S,Sims JT,Galloway NL,Borjesson DL,Carlyon JA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy-associated malaria is a severe clinical syndrome associated with the sequestration of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes in the placenta. Placental binding is mediated by VAR2CSA, a member of the large and diverse P. falciparum erythrocyte membrane 1 (PfEMP1) protein family. To better understand if ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Avril M,Cartwright MM,Hathaway MJ,Hommel M,Elliott SR,Williamson K,Narum DL,Duffy PE,Fried M,Beeson JG,Smith JD

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization with live Plasmodium sporozoites under chloroquine prophylaxis (Spz plus CQ) induces sterile immunity against sporozoite challenge in rodents and, more importantly, in humans. Full protection is obtained with substantially fewer parasites than with the classic immunization with radiation-attenuated sporoz...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mauduit M,Tewari R,Depinay N,Kayibanda M,Lallemand E,Chavatte JM,Snounou G,Rénia L,Grüner AC

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hookworm glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are critical for parasite blood feeding and survival and represent potential targets for vaccination. Three cDNAs, each encoding a full-length GST protein from the human hookworm Necator americanus (and designated Na-GST-1, Na-GST-2, and Na-GST-3, respectively) were isolated ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhan B,Perally S,Brophy PM,Xue J,Goud G,Liu S,Deumic V,de Oliveira LM,Bethony J,Bottazzi ME,Jiang D,Gillespie P,Xiao SH,Gupta R,Loukas A,Ranjit N,Lustigman S,Oksov Y,Hotez P

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe pediatric malaria is an important risk factor for developing disseminated infections with nontyphoidal Salmonella serotypes (NTS). While recent animal studies on this subject are lacking, early work suggests that an increased risk for developing systemic NTS infection during malaria is caused by hemolytic anemi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Roux CM,Butler BP,Chau JY,Paixao TA,Cheung KW,Santos RL,Luckhart S,Tsolis RM

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adherence to fibrinogen and fibronectin plays a crucial role in Staphylococcus aureus experimental endocarditis. Previous genetic studies have shown that infection and carriage isolates do not systematically differ in their virulence-related genes, including genes conferring adherence, such as clfA and fnbA. We set ou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ythier M,Entenza JM,Bille J,Vandenesch F,Bes M,Moreillon P,Sakwinska O

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus equi is the causative agent of strangles, the most frequently diagnosed infectious disease of horses worldwide. The disease is characterized by abscessation and swelling of the lymph nodes of the head and neck, which can literally strangle the horse to death. S. equi produces four recently acquired phage...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Paillot R,Robinson C,Steward K,Wright N,Jourdan T,Butcher N,Heather Z,Waller AS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very little is known about the host response to chlamydial genital infection in the male, particularly about the nature of the local response in the urethra. In this study, the pathological and immunologic responses to urethral infection of the male guinea pig with Chlamydia caviae (Chlamydophila caviae) were characte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang Y,Nagarajan U,Hennings L,Bowlin AK,Rank RG

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) is the leading cause of urinary tract infections (UTIs). A murine UTI model has revealed an infection cascade whereby UPEC undergoes cycles of invasion of the bladder epithelium, intracellular proliferation in polysaccharide-containing biofilm-like masses called intracellular bact...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Anderson GG,Goller CC,Justice S,Hultgren SJ,Seed PC

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an important opportunistic pathogen of humans, exploits epithelial damage to establish infection. We have rigorously explored the role of N-glycoproteins and heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) in P. aeruginosa-mediated attachment and subsequent downstream events at the apical (AP) and basola...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bucior I,Mostov K,Engel JN

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoke exposure increases the risk of pulmonary and invasive infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, the most commonly isolated organism from patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Despite this association, the mechanisms by which cigarette smoke exposure diminishes host defense against S. pneumon...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Phipps JC,Aronoff DM,Curtis JL,Goel D,O'Brien E,Mancuso P

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, autoaggregates within a few minutes of cessation of shaking when grown at 28 degrees C. To identify the autoaggregation factor of Y. pestis, we performed mariner-based transposon mutagenesis. Autoaggregation-defective mutants from three different pools were identified, e...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Felek S,Muszyński A,Carlson RW,Tsang TM,Hinnebusch BJ,Krukonis ES

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of translational research, which aims to facilitate the application of basic scientific discoveries in clinical and community settings, is currently in vogue. While there are powerful forces driving this trend, support for translational research must be accompanied by a robust investment in basic science, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fang FC,Casadevall A

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosoma mansoni eggs produced by adult worms in the mesenteric vasculature become trapped in the liver, where they induce granulomatous lesions and strong immune responses. Infected individuals suffer from intestinal schistosomiasis (INT) in 90% of cases, whereas the remaining 10% present with severe hepatosplenic...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Manivannan B,Rawson P,Jordan TW,Secor WE,La Flamme AC

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that cytotoxic necrotizing factor 1 (CNF1) contributes to Escherichia coli K1 invasion of human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBMEC) and interacts with the receptor on the surface of HBMEC. CNF1 is the cytoplasmic protein, and it remains incompletely understood how CNF1 is secreted across...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yu H,Kim KS

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The important veterinary pathogen Clostridium perfringens type B is unique for producing the two most lethal C. perfringens toxins, i.e., epsilon-toxin and beta-toxin. Our recent study (K. Miyamoto, J. Li, S. Sayeed, S. Akimoto, and B. A. McClane, J. Bacteriol. 190:7178-7188, 2008) showed that most, if not all, type B...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sayeed S,Li J,McClane BA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The innate immune system recognizes pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) through pattern recognition receptors (PRR) and transduces downstream signaling to activate the host defense. Here we report that in addition to direct PAMP-PRR interactions, live Candida albicans cells can release soluble factors to ac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cheng SC,Chai LY,Joosten LA,Vecchiarelli A,Hube B,Van Der Meer JW,Kullberg BJ,Netea MG

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dispersed gene family 1 (DGF-1) is the fifth largest gene family in the Trypanosoma cruzi genome, with over 500 members (11). Many of the predicted DGF-1 protein products have several transmembrane domains and N-glycosylation and phosphorylation sites and were thought to localize in the plasma membrane. Here, we r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lander N,Bernal C,Diez N,Añez N,Docampo R,Ramírez JL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is an intracellular bacterial pathogen that invades epithelial cells by subverting two cellular receptors, E-cadherin and Met. We recently identified type II phosphatidylinositol 4-kinases alpha and beta (PI4KIIalpha and PI4KIIbeta) as being required for bacterial entry downstream of Met. In thi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tham TN,Gouin E,Rubinstein E,Boucheix C,Cossart P,Pizarro-Cerda J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella spp. are intracellular bacteria that cause the most frequent zoonosis in the world. Although recent work has advanced the field of Brucella vaccine development, there remains no safe human vaccine. In order to produce a safe and effective human vaccine, the immune response to Brucella spp. requires greater un...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Durward MA,Harms J,Magnani DM,Eskra L,Splitter GA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Q fever is a zoonotic disease of worldwide significance caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium Coxiella burnetii. Humans with Q fever may experience an acute flu-like illness and pneumonia and/or chronic hepatitis or endocarditis. Various markers demonstrate significant phylogenetic separation between and clus...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Russell-Lodrigue KE,Andoh M,Poels MW,Shive HR,Weeks BR,Zhang GQ,Tersteeg C,Masegi T,Hotta A,Yamaguchi T,Fukushi H,Hirai K,McMurray DN,Samuel JE

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depletion of dendritic cells (DC) in secondary lymphoid organs is a hallmark of sepsis-induced immune dysfunction. In this setting, we investigated if Toll-like receptor (TLR)-dependent signaling might modulate the maturation process and the survival of DC. Using a model of sublethal polymicrobial sepsis induced by ce...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pène F,Courtine E,Ouaaz F,Zuber B,Sauneuf B,Sirgo G,Rousseau C,Toubiana J,Balloy V,Chignard M,Mira JP,Chiche JD

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolysis is a common microbial virulence mechanism that enables the destruction of host tissue and evasion from host defense mechanisms. Antimicrobial peptides, also known as host defense peptides, are effector molecules of the innate immunity that demonstrate a broad range of antimicrobial and immunoregulatory act...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gutner M,Chaushu S,Balter D,Bachrach G

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the in vivo physiology and metabolism of Streptococcus pneumoniae is limited, even though pneumococci rely on efficient acquisition and metabolism of the host nutrients for growth and survival. Because the nutrient-limited, hypoxic host tissues favor mixed-acid fermentation, we studied the role of the pne...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yesilkaya H,Spissu F,Carvalho SM,Terra VS,Homer KA,Benisty R,Porat N,Neves AR,Andrew PW

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study is to evaluate the contribution of mast cells to Helicobacter pylori immunity in a model of vaccine-induced protection. Mast cell-deficient Kitl(Sl)/Kitl(Sl-d) and control mice were immunized with H. pylori sonicate plus cholera toxin and challenged with H. pylori, and the bacterial loads, infla...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ding H,Nedrud JG,Wershil B,Redline RW,Blanchard TG,Czinn SJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00