Infection and Immunity: 78 (1)

January 2010; Volume 78,Issue 1

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Major Surface Protease of Trypanosomatids: One Size Fits All?
Chaoqun Yao
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Precarious Balance: Th17 Cells in Host Defense
Ariana Peck, Elizabeth D. Mellins

Molecular Pathogenesis

Molecular Pathogenesis
Functional Characterization of Borrelia spielmanii Outer Surface Proteins That Interact with Distinct Members of the Human Factor H Protein Family and with Plasminogen
Annekatrin Seling, Corinna Siegel, Volker Fingerle, Brandon L. Jutras, Catherine A. Brissette, Christine Skerka, Reinhard Wallich, Peter F. Zipfel, Brian Stevenson, Peter Kraiczy
Molecular Pathogenesis
Systematic Analysis of the SsrAB Virulon of Salmonella enterica
Xin Xu, Michael Hensel
Molecular Pathogenesis
Acid Phosphatases Do Not Contribute to the Pathogenesis of Type A Francisella tularensis
Robert Child, Tara D. Wehrly, Dedeke Rockx-Brouwer, David W. Dorward, Jean Celli
Molecular Pathogenesis
The Stability of Cytadherence Proteins in Mycoplasma pneumoniae Requires Activity of the Protein Kinase PrkC
Sebastian R. Schmidl, Katrin Gronau, Claudine Hames, Julia Busse, Dörte Becher, Michael Hecker, Jörg Stülke
Molecular Pathogenesis
CcpA and LacD.1 Affect Temporal Regulation of Streptococcus pyogenes Virulence Genes
Colin C. Kietzman, Michael G. Caparon
Molecular Pathogenesis
A Histidine-to-Arginine Substitution in Panton-Valentine Leukocidin from USA300 Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Does Not Impair Its Leukotoxicity
Timothée Besseyre des Horts, Oana Dumitrescu, Cédric Badiou, Damien Thomas, Yvonne Benito, Jerome Etienne, François Vandenesch, Gerard Lina
Molecular Pathogenesis
Characterization of a Conditional bosR Mutant in Borrelia burgdorferi
Jenny A. Hyde, Dana K. Shaw, Roger Smith, Jerome P. Trzeciakowski, Jon T. Skare
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Molecular Pathogenesis
Characterization of Novel β-Galactosidase Activity That Contributes to Glycoprotein Degradation and Virulence in Streptococcus pneumoniae
Vanessa S. Terra, Karen A. Homer, Susmitha G. Rao, Peter W. Andrew, Hasan Yesilkaya
Molecular Pathogenesis
Quorum Sensing Negatively Regulates Hemolysin Transcriptionally and Posttranslationally in Vibrio cholerae
Amy M. Tsou, Jun Zhu
Molecular Pathogenesis
Characterization of Virulence Plasmid Diversity among Clostridium perfringens Type B Isolates
Sameera Sayeed, Jihong Li, Bruce A. McClane

Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions

Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions
Division of the Salmonella-Containing Vacuole and Depletion of Acidic Lysosomes in Salmonella-Infected Host Cells Are Novel Strategies of Salmonella enterica To Avoid Lysosomes
Sandeepa M. Eswarappa, Vidya Devi Negi, Sangeeta Chakraborty, B. K. Chandrasekhar Sagar, Dipshikha Chakravortty
Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions
Production of Reactive Oxygen Species Is Turned On and Rapidly Shut Down in Epithelial Cells Infected with Chlamydia trachomatis
Gaëlle Boncompain, Benoît Schneider, Cédric Delevoye, Odile Kellermann, Alice Dautry-Varsat, Agathe Subtil
Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions
Burkholderia mallei Cluster 1 Type VI Secretion Mutants Exhibit Growth and Actin Polymerization Defects in RAW 264.7 Murine Macrophages
Mary N. Burtnick, David DeShazer, Vinod Nair, Frank C. Gherardini, Paul J. Brett
Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions
Requirement for Formin-Induced Actin Polymerization during Spread of Shigella flexneri
Jason E. Heindl, Indrani Saran, Chae-ryun Yi, Cammie F. Lesser, Marcia B. Goldberg
Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions
Tetraspanin CD81 Is Required for Listeria monocytogenes Invasion
To Nam Tham, Edith Gouin, Eric Rubinstein, Claude Boucheix, Pascale Cossart, Javier Pizarro-Cerda
Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions
Impairment of Gamma Interferon Signaling in Human Neutrophils Infected with Anaplasma phagocytophilum
Uta Bussmeyer, Arup Sarkar, Kirsten Broszat, Tanja Lüdemann, Sonja Möller, Ger van Zandbergen, Christian Bogdan, Martina Behnen, J. Stephen Dumler, Friederike D. von Loewenich, Werner Solbach, Tamás Laskay
Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions
Human Platelets Recognize a Novel Surface Protein, PadA, on Streptococcus gordonii through a Unique Interaction Involving Fibrinogen Receptor GPIIbIIIa
Helen J. Petersen, Ciara Keane, Howard F. Jenkinson, M. Margaret Vickerman, Amy Jesionowski, Janet C. Waterhouse, Dermot Cox, Steven W. Kerrigan
Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions
Helicobacter pylori Lipopolysaccharides Upregulate Toll-Like Receptor 4 Expression and Proliferation of Gastric Epithelial Cells via the MEK1/2-ERK1/2 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Pathway
Shin-ichi Yokota, Tamaki Okabayashi, Michael Rehli, Nobuhiro Fujii, Ken-ichi Amano
Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions
Identification of a Claudin-4 Residue Important for Mediating the Host Cell Binding and Action of Clostridium perfringens Enterotoxin
Susan L. Robertson, James G. Smedley, Bruce A. McClane
Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions
Mannose Receptor-Dependent Delay in Phagosome Maturation by Mycobacterium avium Glycopeptidolipids
Lindsay Sweet, Prachi P. Singh, Abul K. Azad, Murugesan V. S. Rajaram, Larry S. Schlesinger, Jeffrey S. Schorey

Bacterial Infections

Bacterial Infections
Characterization of the Highly Regulated Antigen BBA05 in the Enzootic Cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi
Haijun Xu, Ming He, Xiujuan Pang, Zao C. Xu, Joseph Piesman, X. Frank Yang
Bacterial Infections
Passage through Ixodes scapularis Ticks Enhances the Virulence of a Weakly Pathogenic Isolate of Borrelia burgdorferi
Sarojini Adusumilli, Carmen J. Booth, Juan Anguita, Erol Fikrig
Bacterial Infections
Absence of Inflammation and Pneumonia during Infection with Nonpigmented Yersinia pestis Reveals a New Role for the pgm Locus in Pathogenesis
Hanni Lee-Lewis, Deborah M. Anderson
Bacterial Infections
A Thiolase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Is Required for Virulence and Production of Androstenedione and Androstadienedione from Cholesterol
Natasha M. Nesbitt, Xinxin Yang, Patricia Fontán, Irina Kolesnikova, Issar Smith, Nicole S. Sampson, Eugenie Dubnau
Bacterial Infections
Effect of MarA-Like Proteins on Antibiotic Resistance and Virulence in Yersinia pestis
Ida M. Lister, Joan Mecsas, Stuart B. Levy
Bacterial Infections
Norepinephrine Augments Salmonella enterica-Induced Enteritis in a Manner Associated with Increased Net Replication but Independent of the Putative Adrenergic Sensor Kinases QseC and QseE
Gillian D. Pullinger, Sonya C. Carnell, Fathima F. Sharaff, Pauline M. van Diemen, Francis Dziva, Eirwen Morgan, Mark Lyte, Primrose P. E. Freestone, Mark P. Stevens
Bacterial Infections
Mouse Macrophages Are Permissive to Motile Legionella Species That Fail To Trigger Pyroptosis
Natalie N. Whitfield, Brenda G. Byrne, Michele S. Swanson
Bacterial Infections
Mouse Strain-Dependent Differences in Susceptibility to Neisseria gonorrhoeae Infection and Induction of Innate Immune Responses
Mathanraj Packiam, Sandra J. Veit, Deborah J. Anderson, Robin R. Ingalls, Ann E. Jerse
Bacterial Infections
The Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhi Vi Capsular Antigen Is Expressed after the Bacterium Enters the Ileal Mucosa
Quynh T. Tran, Gabriel Gomez, Sangeeta Khare, Sara D. Lawhon, Manuela Raffatellu, Andreas J. Bäumler, Dharani Ajithdoss, Soma Dhavala, L. Garry Adams

Host Response and Inflammation

Host Response and Inflammation
Helicobacter pylori Promotes the Production of Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin by Gastric Epithelial Cells and Induces Dendritic Cell-Mediated Inflammatory Th2 Responses
Masahiro Kido, Junya Tanaka, Nobuhiro Aoki, Satoru Iwamoto, Hisayo Nishiura, Tsutomu Chiba, Norihiko Watanabe
Host Response and Inflammation
CD44 Deficiency Is Associated with Enhanced Escherichia coli-Induced Proinflammatory Cytokine and Chemokine Release by Peritoneal Macrophages
Gerritje J. W. van der Windt, Cornelis van ′t Veer, Sandrine Florquin, Tom van der Poll
Host Response and Inflammation
Roles of Capsule and Lipopolysaccharide O Antigen in Interactions of Human Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells and Klebsiella pneumoniae
B. Evrard, D. Balestrino, A. Dosgilbert, J.-L. J. Bouya-Gachancard, N. Charbonnel, C. Forestier, A. Tridon
Host Response and Inflammation
The Effects of PspC on Complement-Mediated Immunity to Streptococcus pneumoniae Vary with Strain Background and Capsular Serotype
Jose Yuste, Suneeta Khandavilli, Naadir Ansari, Kairya Muttardi, Laura Ismail, C. Hyams, Jeffrey Weiser, Timothy Mitchell, Jeremy S. Brown
Host Response and Inflammation
Mycobacterium leprae Actively Modulates the Cytokine Response in Naïve Human Monocytes
Daniel Sinsimer, Dorothy Fallows, Blas Peixoto, James Krahenbuhl, Gilla Kaplan, Claudia Manca
Host Response and Inflammation
CXCL10 Production by Human Monocytes in Response to Leishmania braziliensis Infection
Diego A. Vargas-Inchaustegui, Alison E. Hogg, Gianfranco Tulliano, Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas, Jorge Arevalo, Janice J. Endsley, Lynn Soong
Host Response and Inflammation
Superantigenic Staphylococcus aureus Stimulates Production of Interleukin-17 from Memory but Not Naive T Cells
Ulrika Islander, Annica Andersson, Erika Lindberg, Ingegerd Adlerberth, Agnes E. Wold, Anna Rudin
Host Response and Inflammation
Bacillus anthracis Capsule Activates Caspase-1 and Induces Interleukin-1β Release from Differentiated THP-1 and Human Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells
Min-Hee Cho, Hae-Jeong Ahn, Hyun-Joon Ha, Jungchan Park, Jeong-Hoon Chun, Bong-Su Kim, Hee-Bok Oh, Gi-eun Rhie
Host Response and Inflammation
Host Chemokine and Cytokine Response in the Endocervix within the First Developmental Cycle of Chlamydia muridarum
Roger G. Rank, H. Marie Lacy, Anna Goodwin, James Sikes, Judy Whittimore, Priscilla B. Wyrick, Uma M. Nagarajan

Fungal and Parasitic Infections

Fungal and Parasitic Infections
Localization of Phosphatidylinositol (3,4,5)-Trisphosphate to Phagosomes in Entamoeba histolytica Achieved Using Glutathione S-Transferase- and Green Fluorescent Protein-Tagged Lipid Biosensors
Yevgeniya A. Byekova, Rhonda R. Powell, Brenda H. Welter, Lesly A. Temesvari
Fungal and Parasitic Infections
Localization and Developmental Regulation of a Dispersed Gene Family 1 Protein in Trypanosoma cruzi
Noelia Lander, Carolina Bernal, Nardy Diez, Néstor Añez, Roberto Docampo, José Luis Ramírez
Fungal and Parasitic Infections
Polyfunctional T Lymphocytes Are in the Peripheral Blood of Donors Naturally Immune to Coccidioidomycosis and Are Not Induced by Dendritic Cells
Lance Nesbit, Suzanne M. Johnson, Demosthenes Pappagianis, Neil M. Ampel
Fungal and Parasitic Infections
Candida albicans Releases Soluble Factors That Potentiate Cytokine Production by Human Cells through a Protease-Activated Receptor 1- and 2-Independent Pathway
Shih-Chin Cheng, Louis Y. A. Chai, Leo A. B. Joosten, Anna Vecchiarelli, Bernhard Hube, Jos W. Van Der Meer, Bart Jan Kullberg, Mihai G. Netea
Fungal and Parasitic Infections
Improved Survival of Mice Deficient in Secretory Immunoglobulin M following Systemic Infection with Cryptococcus neoformans
Krishanthi S. Subramaniam, Kausik Datta, Matthew S. Marks, Liise-anne Pirofski
Fungal and Parasitic Infections
A Novel Functional Variant in the Stem Cell Growth Factor Promoter Protects against Severe Malarial Anemia
Collins Ouma, Christopher C. Keller, Gregory C. Davenport, Tom Were, Stephen Konah, Michael F. Otieno, James B. Hittner, John M. Vulule, Jeremy Martinson, John M. Ong'echa, Robert E. Ferrell, Douglas J. Perkins
Fungal and Parasitic Infections
Neither Mosquito Saliva nor Immunity to Saliva Has a Detectable Effect on the Infectivity of Plasmodium Sporozoites Injected into Mice
Chahnaz Kebaier, Tatiana Voza, Jerome Vanderberg

Microbial Immunity and Vaccines

Open Access

Microbial Immunity and Vaccines
Prime-Boost Immunization with Adenoviral and Modified Vaccinia Virus Ankara Vectors Enhances the Durability and Polyfunctionality of Protective Malaria CD8⁺ T-Cell Responses
Arturo Reyes-Sandoval, Tamara Berthoud, Nicola Alder, Loredana Siani, Sarah C. Gilbert, Alfredo Nicosia, Stefano Colloca, Riccardo Cortese, Adrian V. S. Hill
Microbial Immunity and Vaccines
The Presence of CD14 Overcomes Evasion of Innate Immune Responses by Virulent Francisella tularensis in Human Dendritic Cells In Vitro and Pulmonary Cells In Vivo
Jennifer C. Chase, Catharine M. Bosio
Microbial Immunity and Vaccines
Discordant Brucella melitensis Antigens Yield Cognate CD8⁺ T Cells In Vivo
Marina A. Durward, Jerome Harms, Diogo M. Magnani, Linda Eskra, Gary A. Splitter
Microbial Immunity and Vaccines
An Orally Applicable Shiga Toxin Neutralizer Functions in the Intestine To Inhibit the Intracellular Transport of the Toxin
Miho Watanabe-Takahashi, Toshio Sato, Taeko Dohi, Noriko Noguchi, Fumi Kano, Masayuki Murata, Takashi Hamabata, Yasuhiro Natori, Kiyotaka Nishikawa
Microbial Immunity and Vaccines
Development of Immunoglobulin M Memory to Both a T-Cell-Independent and a T-Cell-Dependent Antigen following Infection with Vibrio cholerae O1 in Bangladesh
Emily A. Kendall, Abdullah A. Tarique, Azim Hossain, Mohammad Murshid Alam, Mohammad Arifuzzaman, Nayeema Akhtar, Fahima Chowdhury, Ashraful I. Khan, Regina C. LaRocque, Jason B. Harris, Edward T. Ryan, Firdausi Qadri, Stephen B. Calderwood
Microbial Immunity and Vaccines
Genetic Fusions of Heat-Labile (LT) and Heat-Stable (ST) Toxoids of Porcine Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Elicit Neutralizing Anti-LT and Anti-STa antibodies
Weiping Zhang, Chengxian Zhang, David H. Francis, Ying Fang, David Knudsen, James P. Nataro, Donald C. Robertson
Microbial Immunity and Vaccines
Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium trxA Mutants Are Protective against Virulent Challenge and Induce Less Inflammation than the Live-Attenuated Vaccine Strain SL3261
S. E. Peters, G. K. Paterson, E. S. D. Bandularatne, H. C. Northen, S. Pleasance, C. Willers, J. Wang, A. K. Foote, F. Constantino-Casas, T. J. Scase, B. A. Blacklaws, C. E. Bryant, P. Mastroeni, I. G. Charles, D. J. Maskell
Open Access

Microbial Immunity and Vaccines
A New Generation of Stable, Nonantibiotic, Low-Copy-Number Plasmids Improves Immune Responses to Foreign Antigens in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi Live Vectors
James E. Galen, Jin Yuan Wang, Magaly Chinchilla, Christopher Vindurampulle, Jeffrey E. Vogel, Haim Levy, William C. Blackwelder, Marcela F. Pasetti, Myron M. Levine
Microbial Immunity and Vaccines
Virulence, Inflammatory Potential, and Adaptive Immunity Induced by Shigella flexneri msbB Mutants
Ryan T. Ranallo, Robert W. Kaminski, Tonia George, Alexis A. Kordis, Qing Chen, Kathleen Szabo, Malabi M. Venkatesan
Microbial Immunity and Vaccines
Toward the Rational Design of a Malaria Vaccine Construct Using the MSP3 Family as an Example: Contribution of Immunogenicity Studies in Models
Lena-Juliette Daher, Corine G. Demanga, Eric Prieur, Jean-Louis Pérignon, Hasnaa Bouharoun-Tayoun, Pierre Druilhe
Microbial Immunity and Vaccines
Toward the Rational Design of a Malaria Vaccine Construct Using the MSP3 Family as an Example: Contribution of Antigenicity Studies in Humans
Corine G. Demanga, Lena-Juliette Daher, Eric Prieur, Catherine Blanc, Jean-Louis Pérignon, Hasnaa Bouharoun-Tayoun, Pierre Druilhe
Microbial Immunity and Vaccines
A Monoclonal Immunoglobulin G Antibody Directed against an Immunodominant Linear Epitope on the Ricin A Chain Confers Systemic and Mucosal Immunity to Ricin
Lori M. Neal, Joanne O'Hara, Robert N. Brey, Nicholas J. Mantis

Author's Correction

Author's Correction
Relative Contributions of Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF Sortase-Encoding Genes, srtA and bps (srtC), to Biofilm Formation and a Murine Model of Urinary Tract Infection
Kelvin D. Kemp, Kavindra V. Singh, Sreedhar R. Nallapareddy, Barbara E. Murray

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