TY  - JOUR
A1  - Moll, Heidrun
A1  - Mitchell, Graham F.
A1  - McConville, Malcom J.
A1  - Handman, Emanuela
T1  - Evidence for T cell recognition in mice of a purified lipophosphoglycan from Leishmania major
N2  - We have previously reported that a Leishmania major lipophosphoglycan (LPG), given with killed Corynebacterium parvum as an adjuvant, can vaccinate mice against cutaneous leishmaniasis. In order to analyze whetber T cells are able to recognize this important parasite antigen, we have studied both humoral and cellular immune responses to L. major LPG that bad been isolated from promastigotes by sequential solvent extraction and bydrophobic chromatography. The data sbow that immunization of mice with highly purified LPG induced an increase in frequency of L. major-reactive T cells and the production of immunoglobulin G antibodies to LPG. Furthermore, genetically resistant mice infected with L. major were able to develop a specific delayed-type hypersensitivity response in the ear to L. major LPG. These findings strongly suggest that T cells can recognize and respond to glycolipid antigens, in this case a bost-protective Leishmania LPG, even though such antigens appear not to be potent T-cell stimulators in mice.
KW  - Biologie
Y1  - 1989
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-61288
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TY  - JOUR
A1  - Moll, Heidrun
A1  - Scollay, Roland
T1  - L3T4+ T cells promoting susceptibility to murine cutaneous leishmaniasis express the surface marker Ly-24 (Pgp-1)
N2  - No abstract available
KW  - Biologie
Y1  - 1989
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-61275
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TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gilmore, Michael S.
A1  - Cruz-Rodz, Armando L.
A1  - Leimeister-Wächter, Michaela
A1  - Kreft, Jürgen
A1  - Goebel, Werner
T1  - A Bacillus cereus cytolytic determinant, cereolysin AB, which comprises the phospholipase C and sphingomyelinase genes: nucleotide sequence and genetic linkage
N2  - A cloned cytolytic determinant from the genome of Bacillus cereus GP-4 has been characterized at the molecular Ievel. Nucleotide sequence determination revealed the presence of two open reading frames. 8oth open reading frames were found by deletion and complementation analysis to be necessary for expression of the hemolytic phenotype by Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli hosts. The 5' open reading frame was found to be nearly identical to a recently reported phospholipase C gene derived from a mutant B. cereus strain which overexpresses the respective protein, and it conferred a lecithinase-positive phenotype to the B. subtilis host. The 3' open reading frame encoded a sphingomyelinase. The two tandemly encoded activities, phospholipase C and sphingomyelinase, constitute a biologically functional cytolytic determinant of B. cereus termed cereolysin AB.
KW  - Biologie
Y1  - 1989
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-60588
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TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kreft, Jürgen
A1  - Funke, Dorothee
A1  - Haas, Albert
A1  - Lottspeich, Friedrich
A1  - Goebel, Werner
T1  - Production, purification and characterization of hemolysins from Listeria ivanovii and Listeria monocytogenes Sv4b.
N2  - In culture supematants of both Listeria ivanovii and Listeria monocytogenes Sv4b, for the first time a hemolysin of molecular weight 58 kDa was identified, which had all the characteristics of an SH-activated cytolysin, and which was therefore identified as Iisteriolysin 0 (LLO). In the case of L. ivanovii a second major supematant protein of molecular weight 24 kDa co-purified with LLO. However, the function of this protein has to be determined. In culture supematants of L. ivanovii a sphingomyelinase and a Iecithinase activity could be detected, both enzymatic activities together contributing to the pronounced hemolysis caused by L. ivanovii. The N-tenninal amino acid sequences of LLO and the 24 kDa from L. ivanovii are shown.
KW  - Biologie
KW  - Hemolysin
KW  - Listeria
Y1  - 1989
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-60545
ER  -