molecular mechanisms of campylobacter infection

... Specificity of TLR signalling The specificity of TLR signalling depends on their cell typespecific expression, the potential for heterodimerization of certain TLRs, and on a group of cytoplasmic ... (NF)-κB or members of the IFN-regulatory factor family [39] A detailed description of TLR signalling is beyond the scope of this article, so the reader is referred to one of the excellent in ... further leukocyte recruitment to the site of injection [55] Thus, aggravation of local inflammatory tissue injury during microbial infection can be a consequence of circulating TLR ligands activating...

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... expression of occludin, ZO-1, and ZO-2 in the caveolar compartment of HBMECs The effect of Tat is dependent on caveolin-1 and its modulation of Ras signaling Drugs of Abuse and Alcohol Abuse of psycho-stimulatory ... independent of the periphery or just reflected infection features outside the brain The introduction of HAART challenged our vision of the brain as an independent sanctuary of HIV infection because ... to inflammatory stimulation [95] Of note, HIV infection of macrophages increased their expression of the CCL2 receptor, CCR2, and CCL2 mediated transmigration of HIV-infected PBMC reduced tight...

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... Disease When hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is suspected, it is the appearance of serum markers of HBV infection that establishes the diagnosis of the disease Of these, HBsAg is considered to ... necessary should the rate of emergence of resistance and the impact of such mutations turn out to be clinically relevant for therapy management Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Resistance HBV is ... and molecular mechanisms of nucleoside resistance Semin Liver Dis 2002;22:23-31 21 Doo E, Liang TJ Molecular anatomy and pathophysiologic implications of drug resistance in hepatitis B virus infection...

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... molecular mechanisms of the enzyme action Most importantly, we want to critically review the evidence that Pin1 would or would not act as a prolyl cis ⁄ trans isomerase Molecular mechanisms of ... et al Molecular mechanisms of Pin1 tPro213 Fig NOESY spectrum of the triply phosphorylated SRSRpT212PpS214LPpT217PPTR peptide of Tau The cis conformation for the Pro219 is below the limit of detection ... 2007 FEBS 5215 Molecular mechanisms of Pin1 G Lippens et al populations, as one of the forms would continuously disappear from the pool of free peptides Structural characterization of the MPM-2...

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... Results and Discussion Effects of cadmium on the survival of Campylobacter jejuni The effects of cadmium ions on the growth of C jejuni were measured at Cd2+ concentrations of 0.05, 0.1, 0.3, 0.5 and ... appeared to enhance the synthesis of aspartate from pyruvate through upregulation of the expression of aspartate ammonia lyase (CJ0087) The upregulation of expression of pAMP ⁄ APP hydrolase encoded ... view that induction of oxidative stress and binding of sulfhydryl groups are mechanisms of cadmium toxicity [44] An important detoxification mechanism is the transformation of metals into organometallic...

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... presence of potentially pathogenic microbes in or on a host), infection (attachment and growth of pathogens and avoidance of host defenses), and disease (often, but not always, the result of activities ... any part of a host organism In general, the type of disease produced by a particular microbe is often a direct consequence of its route of entry into the body The most common sites of entry are ... the skin Ingestion, inhalation, and sexual contact are typical routes of microbial entry Other portals of entry include sites of skin injury (cuts, bites, burns, trauma) along with injection via...

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... and histocompatibility major class I antigens Bacterial Pathogens Neisseria spp Pili Membrane cofactor protein (CD46) Pseudomonas Pili and flagella Asialo-GM1 Lipopolysaccharide Cystic aeruginosa...

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... residues on globosides of the human P blood groups Both of these types of pili have proteins located at the tips of the main pilus unit that are critical to the binding specificity of the whole pilus ... of the organism (polar pili) or distributed more evenly over the surface An individual cell may have pili with a variety of functions Most pili are made up of a major pilin protein subunit (molecular ... immunization with the mannose-binding tip protein (FimH) of type pili prevents experimental E coli bladder infections in mice and monkeys, a trial of this vaccine in humans was not successful E coli...

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... adherence of pathogenic Candida to host tissues These adhesins are expressed under certain environmental conditions (often associated with stress) and are crucial for pathogenesis of fungal infections ... range of host receptors to establish infection (Table 1141) Selective loss of host receptors for a pathogen may confer natural resistance to an otherwise susceptible population For example, 70% of ... Binding of the highly conserved Staphylococcus aureus surface protein clumping factor A (ClfA) to fibrinogen has been implicated in many aspects of pathogenesis The conserved outer-core portion of...

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... pathogens can form biofilms during in vitro growth, and it is increasingly accepted that this mode of growth contributes to microbial virulence and induction of disease Avoidance of Innate Host Defenses ... grow The growth of viral pathogens entering skin or mucosal epithelial cells can be limited by a variety of host genetic factors, including production of interferons, modulation of receptors for ... (dermatophyte infections) remain confined to the cooler, exterior, keratinous layer of the epithelium Many bacterial, fungal, and protozoal species grow in multicellular masses referred to as biofilms...

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... chronic airway-surface infection with P aeruginosa in 80–90% of patients with cystic fibrosis The failure of airway epithelial cells to ingest and promote the removal of P aeruginosa via a properly ... be primarily a manifestation of host defense, resulting in bacterial clearance by both shedding of epithelial cells containing internalized bacteria and initiation of a protective and nonpathogenic ... typhimurium infections and in experimental bladder infections with uropathogenic E coli In the latter system, bacterial pilus– mediated attachment to uroplakins induces exfoliation of the cells...

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... structure of the microbial constituents that elicit inflammation, and detailed knowledge of these structures for bacterial pathogens has contributed greatly to our understanding of molecular mechanisms ... bacteria and by the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans is to elaborate large -molecular- weight surface polysaccharide antigens, often in the form of a capsule that coats the cell surface Most ... frequently found at sites of infection with protozoan or multicellular parasites Successful pathogens, by definition, must avoid being cleared by professional phagocytes One of several antiphagocytic...

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... sequence and thus not bind to TLR5 The result is a lack of efficient host response to infection Bacteria also produce a high proportion of DNA molecules with unmethylated CpG residues that activate ... that are part of the IL-1 receptor (IL-1Rc) family Numerous studies have shown that MyD88-mediated transduction of signals from TLRs and IL-1Rc is critical for innate resistance to infection Mice ... recognition of acylated microbial proteins and peptides The myeloid differentiation factor 88 (MyD88) molecule is a generalized adaptor protein that binds to the cytoplasmic domains of all known...

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... toxin production is one of the best-characterized molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis, while host factors such as IL-1, TNF-α, kinins, inflammatory proteins, products of complement activation, ... processing of the protein toxin by antigen-presenting cells Part of this process involves stimulation of the antigen-presenting cells to produce IL-1 and TNF-α, which have been implicated in many of ... target cells by means of a complex set of proteins referred to as the type III secretion system Loss or inactivation of this virulence system usually greatly reduces the capacity of a bacterial pathogen...

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... the formation of an abscess, probably because of the presence of zwitterionic surface polysaccharides such as the capsular polysaccharide of Bacteroides fragilis The outcome of an infection depends ... symptoms of septic shock The severity of septic shock is associated with the degree of production of host effectors Disease due to intracellular parasitism results from the formation of granulomas, ... further damage due to the progression of inflammation and infection In many chronic infections, degranulation of host inflammatory cells can lead to release of host proteases, elastases, histamines,...

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... variability of the lipopolysaccharide of Yersinia pestis, the cause of plague J Endotoxin Res 12:3, 2006 [PMID: 16420739] Mendes-Giannini MJ et al: Interaction of pathogenic fungi with host cells: Molecular ... in the formation of infectious foci In summary, the molecular mechanisms used by pathogens to colonize, invade, infect, and disrupt the host are numerous and diverse Each phase of the infectious ... and Shigella toxins probably facilitate fecal-oral spread of microbial cells in the high volumes of diarrheal fluid produced during infection The ability to produce phenotypic variants that resist...

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... Bcl-2 of the lung extracts of guinea pigs exposed to air or CS supplemented with A, Immunoblots of caspase 3, PARP, A, Immunoblots of caspase 3, PARP, Bax and Bcl-2 of the lung extracts of guinea ... panel: Immunoblots of the DNP-derivatives of lung proteins of guinea pigs exposed to smoke from 1, and cigaA, Upper panel: Immunoblots of the DNP-derivatives of lung proteins of guinea pigs exposed ... MALDITOF-MS analyses of BSA before and after incubation with p-BSQ or p-BQ at pH 7.4 We observed that incubation of 100 μg of BSA (MW 66,340 Da) with 185 nmoles of p-BQ produced an adduct of MW...

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... analysis of molecular mechanisms of disease is mandatory to form a rational basis for the development of innovative interventional procedures in pneumonia In this review we focus on current molecular ... expression of TLR5 and TLR6 [79] Increased expression as well as membrane localization of TLR3 [95] and TLR4 [70] have been observed after RSV infection of airway epithelial cells The effect of mixed infections ... establishment of knock out models [238-240] In addition to the analysis of host response initiation, the understanding of control mechanisms of local inflammation within the lung (resolution of inflammation,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... identification of a new coronavirus as the causative agent of SARS and of a southern Chinese province as the first area of occurrence, animal species of this area have been speculated to be the origin of ... treatment is of major importance [60] Molecular mechanisms of SARS virus pathogenesis Cytocidal mechanisms Coronaviruses are known to exert their effects by cytocidal and immune-mediated mechanisms ... spikes of the SARS-CoV (Figure 3) Intra- and extracellular proteases often cleave the S protein into S1 and S2 domains, with the cleavage process often increasing infectivity of the virus Molecular...

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... the CD4+ T cells, in which the mechanisms of the establishment and the maintenance of true latency have been well described [64], our knowledge of the molecular mechanisms underlying latency in ... finding of in vivo reactivation of these infected macrophages in response to opportunistic infections is in favor of macrophages as HIV-1 reservoirs [46,47] Finally, resident macrophages of the ... generate a sub population of monocytes permissive to HIV-1 infection with a low level of CD14 receptor and an increase of CD16 receptor (CD14+ CD16++) This population of monocyte may differentiate...

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