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RobertE. Briggs, et al. ; Rohana P. Dassanayake; Tracy J. Porter; Daniel Samorodnitsky; Shollie M. Falkenberg; Eric M. Nicholson; Fred M. Tatum; Mitchell V. Palmer; Eduardo Casas; Show all 9 Authors
Haemophilus somni; animal models; antibacterial properties; antimicrobial peptides; blood serum; cattle; circular dichroism spectroscopy; comparative study; digestion; mass spectrometry; mechanism of action; proteolysis; research; septicemia; toxicity; transmission electron microscopy; trypsin
Abstract:
... L-enantiomers of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are sensitive to proteolytic degradation; however, D-enantiomers of AMPs are expected to provide improved proteolytic resistance. The present study aimed to comparatively investigate the in vitro antibacterial activity, trypsin and serum stability, toxicity, and in vivo antibacterial activity of L-enantiomeric bovine NK2A (L-NK2A) and its D-enantiomer ...
RobertE. Briggs, et al. ; Sheila R. Billing; William D. Boatwright; Bradley O. Chriswell; Eduardo Casas; Rohana P. Dassanayake; Mitchell V. Palmer; Karen B. Register; Fred M. Tatum; Show all 9 Authors
... Novel live vaccine strains of Mannheimia haemolytica serotypes (St)1 and St6, expressing and secreting inactive yet immunogenic leukotoxin (leukotoxoid) fused to antigenic domains of Mycoplasma bovis Elongation Factor Tu (EFTu) and Heat shock protein (Hsp) 70 were constructed and tested for efficacy in cattle. Control calves were administered an intranasal mixture of M. haemolytica St1 and St6 mut ...
... Mannheimia haemolytica is an important respiratory pathogen of ruminants. Of the 12 capsular serovars identified, 1 and 6 are most frequently associated with disease in cattle, while 2 is largely a commensal. Comparative analysis of 24 M. haemolytica genomes was used to identify unique genes associated with capsular polysaccharide synthesis as amplification targets in a multiplex PCR assay to disc ...
... Bovine NK-lysins, which are functionally and structurally similar to human granulysin and porcine NK-lysin, are predominantly found in the granules of cytotoxic T-lymphocytes and NK-cells. Although antimicrobial activity of bovine NK-lysin has been assessed for several bacterial pathogens, not all the important bacterial pathogens that are involved in the bovine respiratory disease complex have be ...
... Here, we report two genomes, one complete and one draft, from virulent bovine strains of Mannheimia haemolytica serotype A6 recovered prior to the field usage of modern antimicrobial drugs. ...
... A temperature-sensitive shuttle vector, pBB80C, was utilized to generate in-frame deletion mutants of the leukotoxin structural gene (lktA) of Mannheimia haemolytica serotypes 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 12. Culture supernatants from the mutants contained a truncated protein with an approximate molecular weight of 66 kDa which was reactive to anti-leukotoxin monoclonal antibody. No protein reactive t ...
... Here, we report two genomes, one complete and one draft, from isolates of serotype A2 Mannheimia haemolytica recovered from pneumonic bovine lung. ...
... A new temperature-conditional shuttle vector, pBB80C, was constructed and utilized to generate an inframe deletion in the leukotoxin structural gene of Mannheimia haemolytica serotype 1. Culture supernatants from the mutant contained no detectable cytotoxicity to BL-3 lymphocyte targets, and contained a new protein with an approximate molecular weight of 66 kDa which was reactive to anti-leukotoxi ...
... Here we report two genome sequences, one complete and one draft, from virulent bovine strains of Mannheimia haemolytica serotype A1 recovered prior to the field usage of modern antimicrobial drugs. ...
RobertE. Briggs, et al. ; Timothy J. Johnson; Juan E. Abrahante; Samuel S. Hunter; Melissa Hauglund; Fred M. Tatum; Samuel K. Maheswaran; Show all 7 Authors
... Background: Pasteurella multocida is the etiologic agent of fowl cholera, a highly contagious and severe disease of poultry causing significant mortality and morbidity throughout the world. All types of poultry are susceptible to fowl cholera. Turkeys are most susceptible to the peracute/acute forms of the disease while chickens are most susceptible to the acute and chronic forms of the disease. T ...
RobertE. Briggs, et al. ; Juan E. Abrahante; Timothy J. Johnson; Samuel S. Hunter; Samuel K. Maheswaran; Melissa J. Hauglund; Darrell O. Bayles; Fred M. Tatum; Show all 8 Authors
... Here we report the draft genome sequences of two virulent avian strains of Pasteurella multocida. Comparative analyses of these genomes were done with the published genome sequence of avirulent P. multocida strain Pm70. ...