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Articles of Significant Interest Selected from This Issue by the Editors
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3687. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Minireviews:

Per Klemm, Viktoria Hancock, and Mark A. Schembri

Mellowing Out: Adaptation to Commensalism by Escherichia coli Asymptomatic Bacteriuria Strain 83972
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3688-3695. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Molecular Pathogenesis:

Warren L. Simmons and Kevin Dybvig

Biofilms Protect Mycoplasma pulmonis Cells from Lytic Effects of Complement and Gramicidin
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3696-3699. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nadine E. Van Alst, Kristin F. Picardo, Barbara H. Iglewski, and Constantine G. Haidaris

Nitrate Sensing and Metabolism Modulate Motility, Biofilm Formation, and Virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3780-3790. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hideki Hara, Ikuo Kawamura, Takamasa Nomura, Takanari Tominaga, Kohsuke Tsuchiya, and Masao Mitsuyama

Cytolysin-Dependent Escape of the Bacterium from the Phagosome Is Required but Not Sufficient for Induction of the Th1 Immune Response against Listeria monocytogenes Infection: Distinct Role of Listeriolysin O Determined by Cytolysin Gene Replacement
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3791-3801. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dominique Leduc, Nathalie Beaufort, Sophie de Bentzmann, Jean-Claude Rousselle, Abdelkader Namane, Michel Chignard, and Dominique Pidard

The Pseudomonas aeruginosa LasB Metalloproteinase Regulates the Human Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator Receptor through Domain-Specific Endoproteolysis
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3848-3858. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Frédéric Poly, Cheryl Ewing, Scarlett Goon, Thomas E. Hickey, David Rockabrand, Gary Majam, Lanfong Lee, Julie Phan, Nicholas J. Savarino, and Patricia Guerry

Heterogeneity of a Campylobacter jejuni Protein That Is Secreted through the Flagellar Filament
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3859-3867. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gesa K. A. Meyer, Anne Neetz, Gudrun Brandes, Dimitrios Tsikas, Joseph H. Butterfield, Ingo Just, and Ralf Gerhard

Clostridium difficile Toxins A and B Directly Stimulate Human Mast Cells
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3868-3876. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jonas Pettersson, Merry E. Schrumpf, Sandra J. Raffel, Stephen F. Porcella, Cyril Guyard, Kevin Lawrence, Frank C. Gherardini, and Tom G. Schwan

Purine Salvage Pathways among Borrelia Species
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3877-3884. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marina Harper, John D. Boyce, Andrew D. Cox, Frank St. Michael, Ian W. Wilkie, P. J. Blackall, and Ben Adler

Pasteurella multocida Expresses Two Lipopolysaccharide Glycoforms Simultaneously, but Only a Single Form Is Required for Virulence: Identification of Two Acceptor-Specific Heptosyl I Transferases
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3885-3893. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John Weaver, Tae Jin Kang, Kimberly W. Raines, Guan-Liang Cao, Stephen Hibbs, Pei Tsai, Les Baillie, Gerald M. Rosen, and Alan S. Cross

Protective Role of Bacillus anthracis Exosporium in Macrophage-Mediated Killing by Nitric Oxide
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3894-3901. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel P. MacEachran, Siying Ye, Jennifer M. Bomberger, Deborah A. Hogan, Agnieszka Swiatecka-Urban, Bruce A. Stanton, and George A. O'Toole

The Pseudomonas aeruginosa Secreted Protein PA2934 Decreases Apical Membrane Expression of the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3902-3912. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Katrin E. Carlsson, Junfa Liu, Petra J. Edqvist, and Matthew S. Francis

Extracytoplasmic-Stress-Responsive Pathways Modulate Type III Secretion in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3913-3924. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Song-Ze Ding, Yutaka Minohara, Xue Jun Fan, Jide Wang, Victor E. Reyes, Janak Patel, Bernadette Dirden-Kramer, Istvan Boldogh, Peter B. Ernst, and Sheila E. Crowe

Helicobacter pylori Infection Induces Oxidative Stress and Programmed Cell Death in Human Gastric Epithelial Cells
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4030-4039. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Olivia D. Schneider, Alison A. Weiss, and William E. Miller

Pertussis Toxin Utilizes Proximal Components of the T-Cell Receptor Complex To Initiate Signal Transduction Events in T Cells
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4040-4049. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paola Caro-Hernández, Luis Fernández-Lago, María-Jesús de Miguel, Ana I. Martín-Martín, Axel Cloeckaert, María-Jesús Grilló, and Nieves Vizcaíno

Role of the Omp25/Omp31 Family in Outer Membrane Properties and Virulence of Brucella ovis
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4050-4061. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christa H. Chatfield and Nicholas P. Cianciotto

The Secreted Pyomelanin Pigment of Legionella pneumophila Confers Ferric Reductase Activity
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4062-4070. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sanjay Ram, Jutamas Ngampasutadol, Andrew D. Cox, Anna M. Blom, Lisa A. Lewis, Frank St. Michael, Jacek Stupak, Sunita Gulati, and Peter A. Rice

Heptose I Glycan Substitutions on Neisseria gonorrhoeae Lipooligosaccharide Influence C4b-Binding Protein Binding and Serum Resistance
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4071-4081. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ping Chen, John O. Cisar, Sonja Hess, Jenny T. C. Ho, and Kai P. Leung

Amended Description of the Genes for Synthesis of Actinomyces naeslundii T14V Type 1 Fimbriae and Associated Adhesin
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4181-4185. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions:

Vanessa C. Coimbra, Denise Yamamoto, Ketna G. Khusal, Vanessa Diniz Atayde, Maria Cecília Fernandes, Renato A. Mortara, Nobuko Yoshida, Maria Julia M. Alves, and Michel Rabinovitch

Enucleated L929 Cells Support Invasion, Differentiation, and Multiplication of Trypanosoma cruzi Parasites
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3700-3706. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jose Rey-Ladino, Xiaozhou Jiang, Brent R. Gabel, Caixia Shen, and Robert C. Brunham

Survival of Chlamydia muridarum within Dendritic Cells
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3707-3714. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kevin Hybiske and Richard S. Stephens

Mechanisms of Chlamydia trachomatis Entry into Nonphagocytic Cells
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3925-3934. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. Sasha Tait, Monique Dalton, Blandine Geny, Felice D'Agnillo, Michel R. Popoff, and Esther M. Sternberg

The Large Clostridial Toxins from Clostridium sordellii and C. difficile Repress Glucocorticoid Receptor Activity
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3935-3940. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lisa R. Quin, Chinwendu Onwubiko, Quincy C. Moore, Megumi Fujioka Mills, Larry S. McDaniel, and Stephanie Carmicle

Factor H Binding to PspC of Streptococcus pneumoniae Increases Adherence to Human Cell Lines In Vitro and Enhances Invasion of Mouse Lungs In Vivo
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4082-4087. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tim Schmitter, Stefan Pils, Stephanie Weibel, Franziska Agerer, Lisa Peterson, Alexander Buntru, Kathrin Kopp, and Christof R. Hauck

Opa Proteins of Pathogenic Neisseriae Initiate Src Kinase-Dependent or Lipid Raft-Mediated Uptake via Distinct Human Carcinoembryonic Antigen-Related Cell Adhesion Molecule Isoforms
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4116-4126. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Leah E. Cole, Kari Ann Shirey, Eileen Barry, Araceli Santiago, Prasad Rallabhandi, Karen L. Elkins, Adam C. Puche, Suzanne M. Michalek, and Stefanie N. Vogel

Toll-Like Receptor 2-Mediated Signaling Requirements for Francisella tularensis Live Vaccine Strain Infection of Murine Macrophages
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4127-4137. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bacterial Infections:

J. Andy Schaber, W. Jeffrey Triffo, Sang Jin Suh, Jeffrey W. Oliver, Mary Catherine Hastert, John A. Griswold, Manfred Auer, Abdul N. Hamood, and Kendra P. Rumbaugh

Pseudomonas aeruginosa Forms Biofilms in Acute Infection Independent of Cell-to-Cell Signaling
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3715-3721. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Udai P. Singh, Shailesh Singh, Rajesh Singh, Russell K. Karls, Frederick D. Quinn, Morris E. Potter, and James W. Lillard, Jr.

Influence of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis on Colitis Development and Specific Immune Responses during Disease
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3722-3728. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark F. Oellerich, Christoph A. Jacobi, Sandra Freund, Katy Niedung, Alexandra Bach, Jürgen Heesemann, and Konrad Trülzsch

Yersinia enterocolitica Infection of Mice Reveals Clonal Invasion and Abscess Formation
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3802-3811. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Erin C. Hagan and Harry L. T. Mobley

Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Outer Membrane Antigens Expressed during Urinary Tract Infection
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3941-3949. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susan M. Paulin, Aparna Jagannathan, June Campbell, Timothy S. Wallis, and Mark P. Stevens

Net Replication of Salmonella enterica Serovars Typhimurium and Choleraesuis in Porcine Intestinal Mucosa and Nodes Is Associated with Their Differential Virulence
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3950-3960. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Firdausi Qadri, Amit Saha, Tanvir Ahmed, Abdullah Al Tarique, Yasmin Ara Begum, and Ann-Mari Svennerholm

Disease Burden Due to Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in the First 2 Years of Life in an Urban Community in Bangladesh
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3961-3968. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Magali Leroy, Howard Cabral, Marisol Figueira, Valérie Bouchet, Heather Huot, Sanjay Ram, Stephen I. Pelton, and Richard Goldstein

Multiple Consecutive Lavage Samplings Reveal Greater Burden of Disease and Provide Direct Access to the Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae Biofilm in Experimental Otitis Media
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4158-4172. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Host Response and Inflammation:

Kaushik Chakrabarty, Wenxin Wu, J. Leland Booth, Elizabeth S. Duggan, Nancy N. Nagle, K. Mark Coggeshall, and Jordan P. Metcalf

Human Lung Innate Immune Response to Bacillus anthracis Spore Infection
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3729-3738. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

W. Joost Wiersinga, Catharina W. Wieland, Gerritje J. W. van der Windt, Anita de Boer, Sandrine Florquin, Arjen Dondorp, Nicholas P. Day, Sharon J. Peacock, and Tom van der Poll

Endogenous Interleukin-18 Improves the Early Antimicrobial Host Response in Severe Melioidosis
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3739-3746. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susan M. Williams, Yu-Ting Chen, Tessa M. Andermann, J. Elliot Carter, David J. McGee, and Karen M. Ottemann

Helicobacter pylori Chemotaxis Modulates Inflammation and Bacterium-Gastric Epithelium Interactions in Infected Mice
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3747-3757. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Megan Gentry, Joanna Taormina, Richard B. Pyles, Linsey Yeager, Michelle Kirtley, Vsevolod L. Popov, Gary Klimpel, and Tonyia Eaves-Pyles

Role of Primary Human Alveolar Epithelial Cells in Host Defense against Francisella tularensis Infection
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3969-3978. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Egídio Torrado, Sarojini Adusumilli, Alexandra G. Fraga, Pamela L. C. Small, António G. Castro, and Jorge Pedrosa

Mycolactone-Mediated Inhibition of Tumor Necrosis Factor Production by Macrophages Infected with Mycobacterium ulcerans Has Implications for the Control of Infection
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3979-3988. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jens Martin Herrmann, John Bernardo, Heidi J. Long, Kurt Seetoo, Mary E. McMenamin, Eraldo L. Batista, Jr., Thomas E. Van Dyke, and Elizabeth R. Simons

Sequential Chemotactic and Phagocytic Activation of Human Polymorphonuclear Neutrophils
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3989-3998. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martin A. Taubman, Xiaozhe Han, Karen B. LaRosa, Sigmund S. Socransky, and Daniel J. Smith

Periodontal Bacterial DNA Suppresses the Immune Response to Mutans Streptococcal Glucosyltransferase
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4088-4096. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anna-Carin Lundell, Kerstin Andersson, Elisabet Josefsson, Alexander Steinkasserer, and Anna Rudin

Soluble CD14 and CD83 from Human Neonatal Antigen-Presenting Cells Are Inducible by Commensal Bacteria and Suppress Allergen-Induced Human Neonatal Th2 Differentiation
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4097-4104. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Fungal and Parasitic Infections:

Mehdi Labaied, Anke Harupa, Ronald F. Dumpit, Isabelle Coppens, Sebastian A. Mikolajczak, and Stefan H. I. Kappe

Plasmodium yoelii Sporozoites with Simultaneous Deletion of P52 and P36 Are Completely Attenuated and Confer Sterile Immunity against Infection
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3758-3768. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mohamed D. Abd Alla, Gary L. White, Tyson B. Rogers, Max E. Cary, David W. Carey, and Jonathan I. Ravdin

Adherence-Inhibitory Intestinal Immunoglobulin A Antibody Response in Baboons Elicited by Use of a Synthetic Intranasal Lectin-Based Amebiasis Subunit Vaccine
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3812-3822. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

F. Janaina Soares Rocha, Ulrike Schleicher, Jochen Mattner, Gottfried Alber, and Christian Bogdan

Cytokines, Signaling Pathways, and Effector Molecules Required for the Control of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis in Mice
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3823-3832. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Melissa Hollifield, Elsa Bou Ghanem, Willem J. S. de Villiers, and Beth A. Garvy

Scavenger Receptor A Dampens Induction of Inflammation in Response to the Fungal Pathogen Pneumocystis carinii
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3999-4005. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dhammika H. M. L. P. Navarathna, Kenneth W. Nickerson, Gerald E. Duhamel, Thomas R. Jerrels, and Thomas M. Petro

Exogenous Farnesol Interferes with the Normal Progression of Cytokine Expression during Candidiasis in a Mouse Model
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4006-4011. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Leyla Akman-Anderson, Martin Olivier, and Shirley Luckhart

Induction of Nitric Oxide Synthase and Activation of Signaling Proteins in Anopheles Mosquitoes by the Malaria Pigment, Hemozoin
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4012-4019. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Immunity and Vaccines:

Magaly Chinchilla, Marcela F. Pasetti, Sandra Medina-Moreno, Jin Yuan Wang, Oscar G. Gomez-Duarte, Rick Stout, Myron M. Levine, and James E. Galen

Enhanced Immunity to Plasmodium falciparum Circumsporozoite Protein (PfCSP) by Using Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi Expressing PfCSP and a PfCSP-Encoding DNA Vaccine in a Heterologous Prime-Boost Strategy
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3769-3779. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Yan Ge and Yasuko Rikihisa

Surface-Exposed Proteins of Ehrlichia chaffeensis
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3833-3841. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Sandra Kuenzle, Hans-Christian von Büdingen, Mirjam Meier, Melanie D. Harrer, Eduard Urich, Burkhard Becher, and Norbert Goebels

Pathogen Specificity and Autoimmunity Are Distinct Features of Antigen-Driven Immune Responses in Neuroborreliosis
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 3842-3847. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anna U. Bielinska, Katarzyna W. Janczak, Jeffrey J. Landers, Paul Makidon, Laurie E. Sower, Johnny W. Peterson, and James R. Baker, Jr.

Mucosal Immunization with a Novel Nanoemulsion-Based Recombinant Anthrax Protective Antigen Vaccine Protects against Bacillus anthracis Spore Challenge
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4020-4029. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Katarina Radosevic, Catharina W. Wieland, Ariane Rodriguez, Gerrit Jan Weverling, Ratna Mintardjo, Gert Gillissen, Ronald Vogels, Yasir A. W. Skeiky, David M. Hone, Jerald C. Sadoff, Tom van der Poll, Menzo Havenga, and Jaap Goudsmit

Protective Immune Responses to a Recombinant Adenovirus Type 35 Tuberculosis Vaccine in Two Mouse Strains: CD4 and CD8 T-Cell Epitope Mapping and Role of Gamma Interferon
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4105-4115. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Johanna K. Hansen, Karen P. Demick, John M. Mansfield, and Katrina T. Forest

Conserved Regions from Neisseria gonorrhoeae Pilin Are Immunosilent and Not Immunosuppressive
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4138-4147. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David N. Harland, Karen Chu, Ashraful Haque, Michelle Nelson, Nicola J. Walker, Mitali Sarkar-Tyson, Timothy P. Atkins, Benjamin Moore, Katherine A. Brown, Gregory Bancroft, Richard W. Titball, and Helen S. Atkins

Identification of a LolC Homologue in Burkholderia pseudomallei, a Novel Protective Antigen for Melioidosis
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4173-4180. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Molecular Genomics:

Oliver Goldmann, Maren von Köckritz-Blickwede, Claudia Höltje, Gursharan S. Chhatwal, Robert Geffers, and Eva Medina

Transcriptome Analysis of Murine Macrophages in Response to Infection with Streptococcus pyogenes Reveals an Unusual Activation Program
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4148-4157. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Errata:

Jianguo Liu, Gautam Malkani, Xiaoyan Shi, Mark Meyer, Susana Cunningham-Runddles, Xiaojing Ma, and Zhong Sheng Sun

The Circadian Clock Period 2 Gene Regulates Gamma Interferon Production of NK Cells in Host Response to Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Endotoxic Shock
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4186. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jamie Findlow, Stephen Taylor, Audun Aase, Rachel Horton, Robert Heyderman, Jo Southern, Nick Andrews, Rita Barchha, Ewan Harrison, Ann Lowe, Emma Boxer, Charlotte Heaton, Paul Balmer, Ed Kaczmarski, Philipp Oster, Andrew Gorringe, Ray Borrow, and Elizabeth Miller

Comparison and Correlation of Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup B Immunologic Assay Results and Human Antibody Responses following Three Doses of the Norwegian Meningococcal Outer Membrane Vesicle Vaccine MenBvac
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4187. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shew-Meei Sheu, Bor-Shyang Sheu, Hsiao-Bai Yang, Huan-Yao Lei, and Jiunn-Jong Wu

Anti-Lewis X Antibody Promotes Helicobacter pylori Adhesion to Gastric Epithelial Cells
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4188. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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