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  • 1
    ISSN: 1546-1696
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: [Auszug] We have shown that bacteria injected intravenously into live animals entered and replicated in solid tumors and metastases. The tumor-specific amplification process was visualized in real time using luciferase-catalyzed luminescence and green fluorescent protein fluorescence, which revealed the ...
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1546-1696
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: [Auszug] Eukaryotic expression vectors can be delivered to macrophages using attenuated self-destructing Listeria monocytogenes. L. monocytogenes cells are preferentially lysed in the host cell macrophage cytosol by the production of a Pacta-dependent Listeria-specific phage lysin. Efficient expression of ...
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    FEMS immunology and medical microbiology 27 (2000), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1574-695X
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: On the basis of attenuated intracellular bacteria, we have developed two delivery systems for either heterologous proteins or DNA vaccine vectors. The first system utilizes attenuated strains of Gram-negative bacteria which are engineered to secrete heterologous antigens via the α-hemolysin secretion system of Escherichia coli. The second system is based on attenuated suicide strains of Listeria monocytogenes, which are used for the direct delivery of eukaryotic antigen expression vectors into professional antigen presenting cells (APC) like macrophages in vitro as well as in vivo.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1574-6968
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: We describe a new procedure allowing the generation and detection of immunogenic antigens from Helicobacter pylori via the hemolysin secretion apparatus of Escherichia coli. The gene (or gene fragment) encoding the H. pylori protein (or protein domain) is inserted in-frame into a residual portion of the hemolysin gene (hlyA), encoding the HlyA secretion signal (HlyAs). These fusion proteins are secreted efficiently by E. coli. This new approach allows the identification of immunodominant antigens by using sera derived from H. pylori-infected patients suffering from different gastroduodenal pathologies. Three immunodominant antigens bearing the ureB (urease B-subunit), flaA (flagellin A-subunit), and an unknown ORF (HP0888) encoding an E. coli FecE analogous protein fused to hlyAs were identified and characterized.
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1574-695X
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Dendritic cells (DCs) are major antigen-presenting cells of the immune system, which need to be activated in order to initiate an immune response. Here, we describe the immunostimulatory effects on human monocyte-derived DCs observed upon infection with Listeria monocytogenes or after treatment with listerial lipoteichoic acid (LTA) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS), respectively. All stimuli caused upregulation of costimulatory molecules, induced T-cell proliferative responses and secretion of cytokines in vitro. Infection of DCs with L. monocytogenes induced release of interleukin (IL)-12 and IL-18. In contrast treatment with purified listerial LTA yielded high levels of IL-18 release, but only minimal IL-12 production. Treatment of DCs with LPS conversely induced significant amounts of IL-12 production, but no IL-18. The release of both stimulating cytokines IL-12 and IL-18 upon infection with entire bacteria suggests that attenuated strains of L. monocytogenes may be a valuable tool for subunit vaccine delivery.
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 234 (1992), S. 155-163 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Keywords: Escherichia coli haemolysin ; Secretion of haemolysin ; Topology and function of HlyD
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary A topological model for HlyD is proposed that is based on results obtained with gene fusions of lacZ and phoA to hlyD. Active H1yD-LacZ fusion proteins were only generated when lacZ was fused to hlyD. within the first 180 by (60 amino acids). H1yD-PhoA proteins exhibiting alkaline phosphatase (AP) activity were obtained when phoA was inserted into hlyD. between nucleotides 262 (behind amino acid position 87) and 1405 (behind amino acid position 468, only 10 amino acids away from the C-terminus of HlyD Active insertions of phoA into the middle region of hlyD. were not observed on in vivo transposition but such fusions exhibiting AP activity could be constructed by in vitro techniques. A fusion protein that carried the PhoA part close to the C-terminal end of HlyD proved to be the most stable HlyD-PhoA fusion protein. In contrast to the other, rather unstable, HlyD-PhoA+ fusions, no proteolytic degradation product of this HlyD-PhoA protein was observed and nearly all the alkaline phosphatase activity was membrane bound. Protease accessibility and cell fractionation experiments indicated that the alkaline phosphatase moiety of this fusion protein was located in the periplasm as for all other HlyD-PhoA+ proteins. These data and computer-assisted predictions suggest a topological model for HlyD with the N-terminal 60 amino acids located in the cytoplasm, a single transmembrane segment from amino acids 60 to 80 and a large periplasmic region extending from amino acid 80 to the C-terminus. Neither the HlyD fusion proteins obtained nor a mutant HlyD protein that had lost the last 10 amino acids from the C-terminus of HlyD exhibited translocator activity for HlyA or other reporter proteins carrying the HlyA signal sequence. The C-terminal 10 amino acids of HlyD showed significant similarity with the corresponding sequences of other HlyD-related proteins involved in protein secretion.
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 232 (1992), S. 40-48 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Keywords: E. coli haemolysin ; Secretion of haemolysin ; Topology and function of HlyB
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary The topology of HlyB, a protein located in the inner membrane of Escherichia coli and involved in the secretion of α-haemolysin (HlyA), was determined by the generation of HlyB-PhoA and HlyB-LacZ fusion proteins. The data obtained by this biochemical method together with computer predictions suggest that HlyB is inserted in the cytoplasmic membrane by six stable hydrophobic, α-helical transmembrane segments. These segments extend from amino acid positions 158 to 432 of HlyB. The cytoplasmic loops between these transmembrane segments are relatively large and carry an excess of positively charged amino acids, while the periplasmic loops are rather small. In addition to these six transmembrane segments, two additional regions in the 78 N-terminal amino acids of HlyB appear to be also inserted in the cytoplasmic membrane. However, the association of these two segments with the cytoplasmic membrane seems to be less tight, since active PhoA and LacZ fusions were obtained by insertion into the same positions of these segments. A LacZ-HlyAs fusion protein carrying, at the C-terminus of LacZ, the 60-amino acid signal sequence of HlyA was not secreted in the presence of HlyB/HlyD. However, transport of this fusion protein into the cytoplasmic membrane appeared to be initiated, as suggested by the tight association of this protein with the inner membrane. A similar close association of LacZ-HlyAs with the inner membrane was also observed in the presence of HlyB alone but not in its absence. These data suggest that HlyB recognizes the HlyA signal sequence and initiates the transport of HlyA into the membrane.
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  • 8
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Keywords: Escherichia coli hemolysin secretion system ; HlyD protein ; HlyD-related proteins ; HlyD functional domains
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Secretion of Escherichia coli hemolysin is mediated by a sec-independent pathway which requires the products of at least three genes, hlyB, hlyD and tolC. Two regions of HlyD were studied. The first region (region A), consisting of the 33-amino acid, C-terminal part of the HlyD protein, is predicted to form a potential helix-loop-helix structure. This sequence is conserved among HlyD analogues of similar transport systems of other bacterial species. Using site-directed mutagenesis, we showed that the amino acids Leu475, Glu477 and Arg478 of this region are essential for HlyD function. The last amino acid of HlyD, Arg478, is possibly involved in the release of the HlyA protein, since cells bearing a hlyD gene mutant at this position produce similar amounts of HlyA to the wild-type strain, but most of the protein remains cell-associated. Competition experiments between wild-type and mutant HlyD proteins indicate that region A interacts directly with a component of the secretion apparatus. The second region of HIyD (region B), located between amino acids Leul27 and Leu170, is highly homologous to the otherwise unrelated outer membrane protein TolC. Deletion of this region abolishes secretion of hemolysin. This sequence of HlyD also seems to interact with a component of the hemolysin secretion machinery since a hybrid HIyD protein carrying the corresponding TolC sequence, although inactive in the transport of HlyA, is able to displace wild-type HlyD from the secretion apparatus.
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