Immunology of Infection with Neisseria Gonorrhoeae

Rice, Peter A.

Abstract

Funding Agency

• Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Institute: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
• Type: Research Project (R01)
• Project #: 5R01AI032725-04
• Application #: 2067610
• Study Section: Bacteriology and Mycology Subcommittee 2 (BM)
• Project Start: 1993-01-01
• Project End: 1996-12-31
• Budget Start: 1996-01-01
• Budget End: 1996-12-31
• Support Year: 4
• Fiscal Year: 1996

Institution

• Name: Boston Medical Center
• DUNS #: 005492160
• City: Boston
• State: MA
• Country: United States
• Zip Code: 02118

Publications

Gulati, Sunita; Schoenhofen, Ian C; Whitfield, Dennis M et al. (2015) Utilizing CMP-Sialic Acid Analogs to Unravel Neisseria gonorrhoeae Lipooligosaccharide-Mediated Complement Resistance and Design Novel Therapeutics. PLoS Pathog 11:e1005290

Gulati, Sunita; Mu, Xin; Zheng, Bo et al. (2015) Antibody to reduction modifiable protein increases the bacterial burden and the duration of gonococcal infection in a mouse model. J Infect Dis 212:311-5

Lewis, Lisa A; Gulati, Sunita; Burrowes, Elizabeth et al. (2015) ?-2,3-sialyltransferase expression level impacts the kinetics of lipooligosaccharide sialylation, complement resistance, and the ability of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to colonize the murine genital tract. MBio 6:

Lewis, Lisa A; Ram, Sanjay (2014) Meningococcal disease and the complement system. Virulence 5:98-126

Del Tordello, Elena; Vacca, Irene; Ram, Sanjay et al. (2014) Neisseria meningitidis NalP cleaves human complement C3, facilitating degradation of C3b and survival in human serum. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111:427-32

Lewis, Lisa A; Vu, David M; Granoff, Dan M et al. (2014) Inhibition of the alternative pathway of nonhuman infant complement by porin B2 contributes to virulence of Neisseria meningitidis in the infant rat model. Infect Immun 82:2574-84

Agarwal, Sarika; Vasudhev, Shreekant; DeOliveira, Rosane B et al. (2014) Inhibition of the classical pathway of complement by meningococcal capsular polysaccharides. J Immunol 193:1855-63

Lewis, Lisa A; Vu, David M; Vasudhev, Shreekant et al. (2013) Factor H-dependent alternative pathway inhibition mediated by porin B contributes to virulence of Neisseria meningitidis. MBio 4:e00339-13

Granoff, Dan M; Ram, Sanjay; Beernink, Peter T (2013) Does binding of complement factor H to the meningococcal vaccine antigen, factor H binding protein, decrease protective serum antibody responses? Clin Vaccine Immunol 20:1099-107

Brookes, Charlotte; Kuisma, Eeva; Alexander, Frances et al. (2013) Development of a large scale human complement source for use in bacterial immunoassays. J Immunol Methods 391:39-49