Novel Proteins Secreted by E coli 0157 - H7

Kaper, James B.

Abstract

Funding Agency

• Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Institute: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
• Type: Research Project (R01)
• Project #: 1R01AI041325-01
• Application #: 2005854
• Study Section: Special Emphasis Panel (SRC (01))
• Project Start: 1996-09-30
• Project End: 2001-08-31
• Budget Start: 1996-09-30
• Budget End: 1997-08-31
• Support Year: 1
• Fiscal Year: 1996

Institution

• Name: University of Maryland Baltimore
• Department: Internal Medicine/Medicine
• Type: Schools of Medicine
• DUNS #: 003255213
• City: Baltimore
• State: MD
• Country: United States
• Zip Code: 21201

Publications

Torres, Alfredo G; Zhou, Xin; Kaper, James B (2005) Adherence of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli strains to epithelial cells. Infect Immun 73:18-29

Torres, Alfredo G; Kanack, Kristen J; Tutt, Christopher B et al. (2004) Characterization of the second long polar (LP) fimbriae of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and distribution of LP fimbriae in other pathogenic E. coli strains. FEMS Microbiol Lett 238:333-44

Torres, Alfredo G; Kaper, James B (2003) Multiple elements controlling adherence of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 to HeLa cells. Infect Immun 71:4985-95

Karmali, Mohamed A; Mascarenhas, Mariola; Petric, Martin et al. (2003) Age-specific frequencies of antibodies to Escherichia coli verocytotoxins (Shiga toxins) 1 and 2 among urban and rural populations in southern Ontario. J Infect Dis 188:1724-9

Sperandio, Vanessa; Torres, Alfredo G; Jarvis, Bruce et al. (2003) Bacteria-host communication: the language of hormones. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:8951-6

Sperandio, Vanessa; Li, Caiyi C; Kaper, James B (2002) Quorum-sensing Escherichia coli regulator A: a regulator of the LysR family involved in the regulation of the locus of enterocyte effacement pathogenicity island in enterohemorrhagic E. coli. Infect Immun 70:3085-93

Sperandio, Vanessa; Torres, Alfredo G; Kaper, James B (2002) Quorum sensing Escherichia coli regulators B and C (QseBC): a novel two-component regulatory system involved in the regulation of flagella and motility by quorum sensing in E. coli. Mol Microbiol 43:809-21

Okeke, Iruka N; Steinruck, Hartmut; Kanack, Kristen J et al. (2002) Antibiotic-resistant cell-detaching Escherichia coli strains from Nigerian children. J Clin Microbiol 40:301-5

Torres, Alfredo G; Giron, Jorge A; Perna, Nicole T et al. (2002) Identification and characterization of lpfABCC'DE, a fimbrial operon of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7. Infect Immun 70:5416-27

Karpman, Diana; Bekassy, Zivile D; Sjogren, Ann-Christine et al. (2002) Antibodies to intimin and Escherichia coli secreted proteins A and B in patients with enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli infections. Pediatr Nephrol 17:201-11