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Articles of Significant Interest Selected from This Issue by the Editors
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4189. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Minireviews:

Harry Smith, Christoph M. Tang, and Rachel M. Exley

Effect of Host Lactate on Gonococci and Meningococci: New Concepts on the Role of Metabolites in Pathogenicity
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4190-4198. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Jay L. Mellies, Alex M. S. Barron, and Anna M. Carmona

Enteropathogenic and Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Virulence Gene Regulation
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4199-4210. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Molecular Pathogenesis:

Hanjuan Shao, Richard J. Lamont, and Donald R. Demuth

Autoinducer 2 Is Required for Biofilm Growth of Aggregatibacter (Actinobacillus) actinomycetemcomitans
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4211-4218. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Yefei Zhu, Elizabeth C. Weiss, Michael Otto, Paul D. Fey, Mark S. Smeltzer, and Greg A. Somerville

Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm Metabolism and the Influence of Arginine on Polysaccharide Intercellular Adhesin Synthesis, Biofilm Formation, and Pathogenesis
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4219-4226. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Tomasz Bykowski, Michael E. Woodman, Anne E. Cooley, Catherine A. Brissette, Volker Brade, Reinhard Wallich, Peter Kraiczy, and Brian Stevenson

Coordinated Expression of Borrelia burgdorferi Complement Regulator-Acquiring Surface Proteins during the Lyme Disease Spirochete's Mammal-Tick Infection Cycle
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4227-4236. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Xin Li, Girish Neelakanta, Xianzhong Liu, Deborah S. Beck, Fred S. Kantor, Durland Fish, John F. Anderson, and Erol Fikrig

Role of Outer Surface Protein D in the Borrelia burgdorferi Life Cycle
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4237-4244. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

S. Arjcharoen, C. Wikraiphat, M. Pudla, K. Limposuwan, D. E. Woods, S. Sirisinha, and P. Utaisincharoen

Fate of a Burkholderia pseudomallei Lipopolysaccharide Mutant in the Mouse Macrophage Cell Line RAW 264.7: Possible Role for the O-Antigenic Polysaccharide Moiety of Lipopolysaccharide in Internalization and Intracellular Survival
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4298-4304. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Rupesh Chaturvedi, Mohammad Asim, Nuruddeen D. Lewis, Holly M. Scott Algood, Timothy L. Cover, Preston Y. Kim, and Keith T. Wilson

L-Arginine Availability Regulates Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase-Dependent Host Defense against Helicobacter pylori
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4305-4315. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Melanie M. Pearson and Eric J. Hansen

Identification of Gene Products Involved in Biofilm Production by Moraxella catarrhalis ETSU-9 In Vitro
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4316-4325. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Caroline V. Bamford, J. Christopher Fenno, Howard F. Jenkinson, and David Dymock

The Chymotrypsin-Like Protease Complex of Treponema denticola ATCC 35405 Mediates Fibrinogen Adherence and Degradation
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4364-4372. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

James M. Battisti, Laura S. Smitherman, Kate N. Sappington, Nermi L. Parrow, Rahul Raghavan, and Michael F. Minnick

Transcriptional Regulation of the Heme Binding Protein Gene Family of Bartonella quintana Is Accomplished by a Novel Promoter Element and Iron Response Regulator
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4373-4385. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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

Influence of the Cpx Extracytoplasmic-Stress-Responsive Pathway on Yersinia sp.-Eukaryotic Cell Contact
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4386-4399. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Moritz Hentschke, Konrad Trülzsch, Jürgen Heesemann, Martin Aepfelbacher, and Klaus Ruckdeschel

Serogroup-Related Escape of Yersinia enterocolitica YopE from Degradation by the Ubiquitin-Proteasome Pathway
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4423-4431. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Mark L. Urbanowski, Evan D. Brutinel, and Timothy L. Yahr

Translocation of ExsE into Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells Is Required for Transcriptional Induction of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Type III Secretion System
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4432-4439. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Gang Yue, Jeffrey B. Kaplan, David Furgang, Keith G. Mansfield, and Daniel H. Fine

A Second Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans Autotransporter Adhesin Exhibits Specificity for Buccal Epithelial Cells in Humans and Old World Primates
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4440-4448. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Sophie Brinster, Brunella Posteraro, Hélène Bierne, Adriana Alberti, Samira Makhzami, Maurizio Sanguinetti, and Pascale Serror

Enterococcal Leucine-Rich Repeat-Containing Protein Involved in Virulence and Host Inflammatory Response
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4463-4471. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Nataliya V. Balashova, Diane H. Park, Jigna K. Patel, David H. Figurski, and Scott C. Kachlany

Interaction between Leukotoxin and Cu,Zn Superoxide Dismutase in Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4490-4497. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Joel Bozue, Krishna L. Moody, Christopher K. Cote, Bradley G. Stiles, Arthur M. Friedlander, Susan L. Welkos, and Martha L. Hale

Bacillus anthracis Spores of the bclA Mutant Exhibit Increased Adherence to Epithelial Cells, Fibroblasts, and Endothelial Cells but Not to Macrophages
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4498-4505. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Stephen P. Kidd, Donald Jiang, Michael P. Jennings, and Alastair G. McEwan

Glutathione-Dependent Alcohol Dehydrogenase AdhC Is Required for Defense against Nitrosative Stress in Haemophilus influenzae
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4506-4513. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Lindsey N. Shaw, Ing-Marie Jonsson, Vineet K. Singh, Andrej Tarkowski, and George C. Stewart

Inactivation of traP Has No Effect on the Agr Quorum-Sensing System or Virulence of Staphylococcus aureus
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4519-4527. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Laura H. Tsang, Sonja T. Daily, Elizabeth C. Weiss, and Mark S. Smeltzer

Mutation of traP in Staphylococcus aureus Has No Impact on Expression of agr or Biofilm Formation
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4528-4533. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Rajan P. Adhikari, Staffan Arvidson, and Richard P. Novick

A Nonsense Mutation in agrA Accounts for the Defect in agr Expression and the Avirulence of Staphylococcus aureus 8325-4 traP::kan
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4534-4540. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Jose B. Saenz, Teresa A. Doggett, and David B. Haslam

Identification and Characterization of Small Molecules That Inhibit Intracellular Toxin Transport
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4552-4561. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Stefan Meier, Christiane Goerke, Christiane Wolz, Kati Seidl, Dagmar Homerova, Bettina Schulthess, Jan Kormanec, Brigitte Berger-Bächi, and Markus Bischoff

^B and the ^B-Dependent arlRS and yabJ-spoVG Loci Affect Capsule Formation in Staphylococcus aureus
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4562-4571. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Denisse L. Leyton, Louise M. Adams, Michelle Kelly, Joan Sloan, Marija Tauschek, Roy M. Robins-Browne, and Elizabeth L. Hartland

Contribution of a Novel Gene, rpeA, Encoding a Putative Autotransporter Adhesin to Intestinal Colonization by Rabbit-Specific Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4664-4669. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions:

Johann S. Braun, Olaf Hoffmann, Miriam Schickhaus, Dorette Freyer, Emilie Dagand, Daniela Bermpohl, Tim J. Mitchell, Ingo Bechmann, and Joerg R. Weber

Pneumolysin Causes Neuronal Cell Death through Mitochondrial Damage
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4245-4254. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Rebecca K. Herman, Robert E. Molestina, Anthony P. Sinai, and Daniel K. Howe

The Apicomplexan Pathogen Neospora caninum Inhibits Host Cell Apoptosis in the Absence of Discernible NF-B Activation
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4255-4262. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Daniel E. Voth, Dale Howe, and Robert A. Heinzen

Coxiella burnetii Inhibits Apoptosis in Human THP-1 Cells and Monkey Primary Alveolar Macrophages
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4263-4271. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Henrik Dommisch, Whasun O. Chung, Maryam G. Rohani, David Williams, Minnie Rangarajan, Mike A. Curtis, and Beverly A. Dale

Protease-Activated Receptor 2 Mediates Human Beta-Defensin 2 and CC Chemokine Ligand 20 mRNA Expression in Response to Proteases Secreted by Porphyromonas gingivalis
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4326-4333. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

E. Behling-Kelly, David McClenahan, K. S. Kim, and C. J. Czuprynski

Viable "Haemophilus somnus" Induces Myosin Light-Chain Kinase-Dependent Decrease in Brain Endothelial Cell Monolayer Resistance
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4572-4581. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Bacterial Infections:

Qilong Xu, Sunita V. Seemanaplli, Kristy McShan, and Fang Ting Liang

Increasing the Interaction of Borrelia burgdorferi with Decorin Significantly Reduces the 50 Percent Infectious Dose and Severely Impairs Dissemination
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4272-4281. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Mariano E. Fernandez-Miyakawa, Sameera Sayeed, Derek J. Fisher, Rachael Poon, Vicki Adams, Julian I. Rood, Bruce A. McClane, Julian Saputo, and Francisco A. Uzal

Development and Application of an Oral Challenge Mouse Model for Studying Clostridium perfringens Type D Infection
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4282-4288. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Margaret K. Elliott, David P. Alt, and Richard L. Zuerner

Lesion Formation and Antibody Response Induced by Papillomatous Digital Dermatitis-Associated Spirochetes in a Murine Abscess Model
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4400-4408. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Hilary A. Phelps and Melody N. Neely

SalY of the Streptococcus pyogenes Lantibiotic Locus Is Required for Full Virulence and Intracellular Survival in Macrophages
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4541-4551. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Swapna Asuthkar, Sridhar Velineni, Johannes Stadlmann, Friedrich Altmann, and Manjula Sritharan

Expression and Characterization of an Iron-Regulated Hemin-Binding Protein, HbpA, from Leptospira interrogans Serovar Lai
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4582-4591. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Takahiro Tsuchiya, Eriko Mitsuo, Nahoko Hayashi, Yuuko Hikita, Hiroshi Nakao, Shigeo Yamamoto, Katsushiro Miyamoto, and Hiroshi Tsujibo

Vibrio vulnificus Damages Macrophages during the Early Phase of Infection
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4592-4596. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Tarun Bansal, Derek Englert, Jintae Lee, Manjunath Hegde, Thomas K. Wood, and Arul Jayaraman

Differential Effects of Epinephrine, Norepinephrine, and Indole on Escherichia coli O157:H7 Chemotaxis, Colonization, and Gene Expression
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4597-4607. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Host Response and Inflammation:

Olaf Hoffmann, Cordula Mahrhofer, Nina Rueter, Dorette Freyer, Bettina Bert, Heidrun Fink, and Joerg R. Weber

Pneumococcal Cell Wall-Induced Meningitis Impairs Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4289-4297. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Ellen J. Beswick, Irina V. Pinchuk, Soumita Das, Don W. Powell, and Victor E. Reyes

Expression of the Programmed Death Ligand 1, B7-H1, on Gastric Epithelial Cells after Helicobacter pylori Exposure Promotes Development of CD4⁺ CD25⁺ FoxP3⁺ Regulatory T Cells
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4334-4341. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Manuela Raffatellu, Renato L. Santos, Daniela Chessa, R. Paul Wilson, Sebastian E. Winter, Carlos A. Rossetti, Sara D. Lawhon, Hiutung Chu, Tsang Lau, Charles L. Bevins, L. Garry Adams, and Andreas J. Bäumler

The Capsule Encoding the viaB Locus Reduces Interleukin-17 Expression and Mucosal Innate Responses in the Bovine Intestinal Mucosa during Infection with Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhi
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4342-4350. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Tobias A. Rupprecht, Carsten J. Kirschning, Bernadette Popp, Stefan Kastenbauer, Volker Fingerle, Hans-Walter Pfister, and Uwe Koedel

Borrelia garinii Induces CXCL13 Production in Human Monocytes through Toll-Like Receptor 2
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4351-4356. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Yi-Ying Wu, Hwei-Fang Tsai, We-Cheng Lin, Ping-I Hsu, Chia-Tung Shun, Ming-Shiang Wu, and Ping-Ning Hsu

Upregulation of CCL20 and Recruitment of CCR6⁺ Gastric Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Helicobacter pylori Gastritis
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4357-4363. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Hannah S. W. Lee, Ian C. Boulton, Karen Reddin, Henry Wong, Denise Halliwell, Ofer Mandelboim, Andrew R. Gorringe, and Scott D. Gray-Owen

Neisserial Outer Membrane Vesicles Bind the Coinhibitory Receptor Carcinoembryonic Antigen-Related Cellular Adhesion Molecule 1 and Suppress CD4⁺ T Lymphocyte Function
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4449-4455. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Junzo Hisatsune, Eiki Yamasaki, Masaaki Nakayama, Daisuke Shirasaka, Hisao Kurazono, Yohtaro Katagata, Hiroyasu Inoue, Jiahuai Han, Jan Sap, Kinnosuke Yahiro, Joel Moss, and Toshiya Hirayama

Helicobacter pylori VacA Enhances Prostaglandin E₂ Production through Induction of Cyclooxygenase 2 Expression via a p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase/Activating Transcription Factor 2 Cascade in AZ-521 Cells
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4472-4481. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Nahed Ismail, Emily C. Crossley, Heather L. Stevenson, and David H. Walker

Relative Importance of T-Cell Subsets in Monocytotropic Ehrlichiosis: a Novel Effector Mechanism Involved in Ehrlichia-Induced Immunopathology in Murine Ehrlichiosis
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4608-4620. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Robert R. Müllegger, Terry K. Means, Junghee J. Shin, Marshall Lee, Kathryn L. Jones, Lisa J. Glickstein, Andrew D. Luster, and Allen C. Steere

Chemokine Signatures in the Skin Disorders of Lyme Borreliosis in Europe: Predominance of CXCL9 and CXCL10 in Erythema Migrans and Acrodermatitis and CXCL13 in Lymphocytoma
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4621-4628. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Fungal and Parasitic Infections:

SubbaRao V. Madhunapantula, Rajeshwara N. Achur, and D. Channe Gowda

Developmental Stage- and Cell Cycle Number-Dependent Changes in Characteristics of Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Erythrocyte Adherence to Placental Chondroitin-4-Sulfate Proteoglycan
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4409-4415. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Frans N. J. Kooyman, Erik de Vries, Harm W. Ploeger, and Jos P. M. van Putten

Antibodies Elicited by the Bovine Lungworm, Dictyocaulus viviparus, Cross-React with Platelet-Activating Factor
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4456-4462. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Erqiu Li, Aiping Zhao, Terez Shea-Donohue, and Steven M. Singer

Mast Cell-Mediated Changes in Smooth Muscle Contractility during Mouse Giardiasis
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4514-4518. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Althea A. Capul, Suzanne Hickerson, Tamara Barron, Salvatore J. Turco, and Stephen M. Beverley

Comparisons of Mutants Lacking the Golgi UDP-Galactose or GDP-Mannose Transporters Establish that Phosphoglycans Are Important for Promastigote but Not Amastigote Virulence in Leishmania major
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4629-4637. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Rhea N. Coler, Yasuyuki Goto, Lisa Bogatzki, Vanitha Raman, and Steven G. Reed

Leish-111f, a Recombinant Polyprotein Vaccine That Protects against Visceral Leishmaniasis by Elicitation of CD4⁺ T Cells
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4648-4654. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Tommy Setiawan, Ahmed Metwali, Arthur M. Blum, M. Nedim Ince, Joseph F. Urban, Jr., David E. Elliott, and Joel V. Weinstock

Heligmosomoides polygyrus Promotes Regulatory T-Cell Cytokine Production in the Murine Normal Distal Intestine
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4655-4663. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Microbial Immunity and Vaccines:

Daniel N. Wolfe, Girish S. Kirimanjeswara, Elizabeth M. Goebel, and Eric T. Harvill

Comparative Role of Immunoglobulin A in Protective Immunity against the Bordetellae
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4416-4422. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Ellen Marks, Martina Verolin, Anneli Stensson, and Nils Lycke

Differential CD28 and Inducible Costimulatory Molecule Signaling Requirements for Protective CD4⁺ T-Cell-Mediated Immunity against Genital Tract Chlamydia trachomatis Infection
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4638-4647. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Molecular Genomics:

In Ho Park, Saeyoung Park, Susan K. Hollingshead, and Moon H. Nahm

Genetic Basis for the New Pneumococcal Serotype, 6C
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4482-4489. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Errata:

Elsa M. Laughlin, Joseph D. Miller, Eddie James, Dimitri Fillos, Chris C. Ibegbu, Robert S. Mittler, Rama Akondy, William Kwok, Rafi Ahmed, and Gerald Nepom

Antigen-Specific CD4⁺ T Cells Recognize Epitopes of Protective Antigen following Vaccination with an Anthrax Vaccine
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4670. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Frédéric Poly, Timothy Read, David R. Tribble, Shahida Baqar, Maria Lorenzo, and Patricia Guerry

Genome Sequence of a Clinical Isolate of Campylobacter jejuni from Thailand
Infect. Immun. 2007 75: 4671. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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