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Publications related to Anthrax by MARCE participants.

  • Baillie L, Hibbs S, Tsai P, Cao GL, and Rosen GM: Role of superoxide in the germination of Bacillus anthracis endospores. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2005, 245: 33-38 PubMed link

  • Basu S, TJ, Chen WH, Fenton MJ, Baillie L, Hibbs S, and Cross AS: Role of Bacillus anthracis spore structures in macrophage cytokine responses. Infect Immun 2007, 75: 2351-2358 PubMed link

  • Brahmbhatt TN, Darnell SC, Carvalho HM, Sanz P, Kang TJ, Bull RL, Rasmussen SB, Cross AS, and O'Brien AD: Recombinant exosporium protein BclA of Bacillus anthracis is effective as a booster for mice primed with suboptimal amounts of protective antigen. Infect Immun 2007, 75: 5240-5247 PubMed link

  • Brahmbhatt TN, Janes BK, Stibitz ES, Darnell SC, Sanz P, Rasmussen SB, and O'Brien AD: Bacillus anthracis exosporium protein BclA affects spore germination, interaction with extracellular matrix proteins, and hydrophobicity. Infect Immun 2007, 75: 5233-5239 PubMed link

  • Easley CJ, Karlinsey JM, Bienvenue JM, Legendre LA, Roper MG, Feldman SH, Hughes MA, Hewlett EL, Merkel TJ, Ferrance JP, and Landers JP: A fully integrated microfluidic genetic analysis system with sample-in-answer-out capability. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006, 103: 19272-19277 PubMed link

  • Galen JE, Zhao L, Chinchilla M, Wang JY, Pasetti MF, Green J, and Levine MM: Adaptation of the endogenous Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi clyA-encoded hemolysin for antigen export enhances the immunogenicity of anthrax protective antigen domain 4 expressed by the attenuated live-vector vaccine strain CVD 908-htrA. Infect Immun 2004, 72: 7096-7106 PubMed link

  • Harvill ET, Lee G, Grippe VK, and Merkel TJ: Complement depletion renders C57BL/6 mice sensitive to the Bacillus anthracis Sterne strain. Infection and Immunity 2005, 73: 4420-4422 PubMed link

  • Hughes MA, Green CS, Lowchyj L, Lee GM, Grippe VK, Smith MF, Jr., Huang LY, Harvill ET, and Merkel TJ: MyD88-dependent signaling contributes to protection following Bacillus anthracis spore challenge of mice: implications for Toll-like receptor signaling. Infect Immun 2005, 73: 7535-7540 PubMed link

  • Kang TJ, Fenton MJ, Weiner MA, Hibbs S, Basu S, Baillie L, and Cross AS: Murine macrophages kill the vegetative form of Bacillus anthracis. Infect Immun 2005, 73: 7495-7501 PubMed link

  • Loving CL, Kennett M, Lee GM, Grippe VK, and Merkel TJ: Murine aerosol challenge model of anthrax. Infect Immun 2007, 75: 2689-2698 PubMed link

  • Mosser EM and Rest RF: The Bacillus anthracis cholesterol-dependent cytolysin, Anthrolysin O, kills human neutrophils, monocytes and macrophages. BMC Microbiol 2006, 6: 56 PubMed link

  • Park JM, Ng VH, Maeda S, Rest RF, and Karin M: Anthrolysin O and other gram-positive cytolysins are toll-like receptor 4 agonists. J Exp Med 2004, 200: 1647-1655 PubMed link

  • Perkins DJ, Gray MC, Hewlett EL, and Vogel SN: Bordetella pertussis adenylate cyclase toxin (ACT) induces cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) in murine macrophages and is facilitated by ACT interaction with CD11b/CD18 (Mac-1). Mol Microbiol 2007, 66: 1003-1015 PubMed link

  • Raines KW, Kang TJ, Hibbs S, Cao GL, Weaver J, Tsai P, Baillie L, Cross AS, and Rosen GM: Importance of nitric oxide synthase in the control of infection by Bacillus anthracis. Infect Immun 2006, 74: 2268-2276 PubMed link

  • Tessier J, Green C, Padgett D, Zhao W, Schwartz L, Hughes M, and Hewlett E: Contributions of histamine, prostanoids, and neurokinins to edema elicited by edema toxin from Bacillus anthracis. Infect Immun 2007, 75: 1895-1903 PubMed link

  • Weaver J, Kang TJ, Raines KW, Cao GL, Hibbs S, Tsai P, Baillie L, Rosen GM, and Cross AS: Protective role of Bacillus anthracis exosporium in macrophage-mediated killing by nitric oxide. Infect Immun 2007, 75: 3894-3901 PubMed link