Antimicrobial Proteins and Peptides in Early Life: Ontogeny and Translational Opportunities.

abstract：:The intestinal mucosa is constantly facing a high load of antigens including bacterial antigens derived from the microbiota and food. Despite this, the immune cells present in the gastrointestinal tract do not initiate a pro-inflammatory immune response. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are pattern recognition receptors exp...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： de Kivit S,Tobin MC,Forsyth CB,Keshavarzian A,Landay AL

更新日期：2014-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A successful outcome to pregnancy is dependent on the ability of the maternal uterine microenvironment to regulate inflammation processes and establish maternal tolerance. Recently, B cells have been shown to influence pregnancy outcomes as aberrations in their numbers and functions are associated with obstetric compl...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Guzman-Genuino RM,Eldi P,Garcia-Valtanen P,Hayball JD,Diener KR

更新日期：2019-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent clinical observations indicate that bacterial vaccines induce cross-protection against infections produced by different microorganisms. MV130, a polyvalent bacterial sublingual preparation designed to prevent recurrent respiratory infectious diseases, reduces the infection rate in patients with recurrent respir...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Vázquez A,Fernández-Sevilla LM,Jiménez E,Pérez-Cabrera D,Yañez R,Subiza JL,Varas A,Valencia J,Vicente A

更新日期：2020-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 controllers (HIC) are extremely rare patients with the ability to control viral replication, maintain unchanging CD4 T-cell count, and evade disease progression for extensive periods of time, in the absence of antiretroviral therapy. In order to establish the representation of key genetic correlates of atypical ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Westrop SJ,Cocker ATH,Boasso A,Sullivan AK,Nelson MR,Imami N

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor initially identified because of its role in controlling the cellular response to environmental molecules. More recently, AHR has been shown to play a crucial role in controlling innate and adaptive immune responses through several mechanism...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Jaronen M,Quintana FJ

更新日期：2014-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) is a complex autoimmune disease, characterized by high mortality and morbidity. The heterogeneity in terms of extent, severity, and rate of progression of skin and internal organ involvement gives rise to many difficulties in finding the optimal therapeutic interventions for SSc and, to date, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Del Papa N,Pignataro F,Zaccara E,Maglione W,Minniti A

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Re-directing T cells via chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) was first tested in HIV-infected individuals with limited success, but these pioneering studies laid the groundwork for the clinically successful CD19 CARs that were recently FDA approved. Now there is great interest in revisiting the concept of using CAR-expr...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Kim GB,Hege K,Riley JL

更新日期：2019-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) is a highly conserved, nuclear protein present in all cell types. It is a multi-facet protein exerting functions both inside and outside of cells. Extracellular HMGB1 has been extensively studied for its prototypical alarmin functions activating innate immunity, after being actively r...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Yang H,Wang H,Andersson U

更新日期：2020-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages are heterogeneous leukocytes regulated in a tissue- and disease-specific context. While in vitro macrophage models have been used to study diseases empirically, a systematic analysis of the transcriptome thereof is lacking. Here, we acquired gene expression data from eight commonly-used in vitro macrophage...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Chen HJ,Li Yim AYF,Griffith GR,de Jonge WJ,Mannens MMAM,Ferrero E,Henneman P,de Winther MPJ

更新日期：2019-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurological disorders caused by neuroviral infections are an obvious pathogenic manifestation. However, non-neurotropic viruses or peripheral viral infections pose a considerable challenge as their neuropathological manifestations do not emerge because of primary infection. Their secondary or bystander pathologies de...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Mishra R,Banerjea AC

更新日期：2020-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella infections remain a big problem worldwide, causing enteric fever by Salmonella Typhi (or Paratyphi) or self-limiting gastroenteritis by non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) in healthy individuals. NTS may become invasive and cause septicemia in elderly or immuno-compromised individuals, leading to high mortality ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Li P,Liu Q,Luo H,Liang K,Yi J,Luo Y,Hu Y,Han Y,Kong Q

更新日期：2017-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacteria propelled modulation of host responses is of considerable interest in the face of emerging drug resistance. Although it is known that Abl tyrosine kinases affect entry and persistence of mycobacteria, mechanisms that couple c-Abl to proximal signaling pathways during immunity are poorly understood. Loss-o...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Mahadik K,Prakhar P,Rajmani RS,Singh A,Balaji KN

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cells are immune cells of the myeloid lineage and are present in connective tissues throughout the body. The activation and degranulation of mast cells significantly modulates many aspects of physiological and pathological conditions in various settings. With respect to normal physiological functions, mast cells ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Krystel-Whittemore M,Dileepan KN,Wood JG

更新日期：2016-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The PD-1/PD-L1 axis has recently emerged as an immune checkpoint that controls antitumor immune responses also in hematological malignancies. However, the use of anti-PD-L1/PD-1 antibodies in multiple myeloma (MM) patients still remains debated, at least in part because of discordant literature data on PD-L1...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Costa F,Vescovini R,Marchica V,Storti P,Notarfranchi L,Dalla Palma B,Toscani D,Burroughs-Garcia J,Catarozzo MT,Sammarelli G,Giuliani N

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification and tracking of antigen-specific immunoglobulin (Ig) sequences within total Ig repertoires is central to high-throughput sequencing (HTS) studies of infections or vaccinations. In this context, public Ig sequences shared by different individuals exposed to the same antigen could be valuable markers ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Bürckert JP,Dubois ARSX,Faison WJ,Farinelle S,Charpentier E,Sinner R,Wienecke-Baldacchino A,Muller CP

更新日期：2017-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether and how γδT cells play a protective role in immunity against Plasmodium infection remain open questions. γδT cells expand in patients and mice infected with Plasmodium spp, and cytokine production and cytotoxic responses against blood-stage parasites are observed in vitro. Their expansion is associated with pr...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Deroost K,Langhorne J

更新日期：2018-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are safe and effective in preventing HPV infection and cervical precancers. Neutralizing antibodies are thought to be the primary mechanism of protection for HPV vaccines, although the exact level required for protection has not been identified. Three common serological assays used ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Toh ZQ,He L,Chen C,Huang A,Russell FM,Garland SM,Reyburn R,Ratu T,Tuivaga E,Frazer IH,Mulholland EK,Licciardi PV

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:An important challenge in cancer immunotherapy is to expand the number of patients that benefit from immune checkpoint inhibitors (CI), a fact that has been related to the pre-existence of an efficient anti-tumor immune response. Different strategies are being proposed to promote tumor immunity and to be used in combi...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Roselli E,Araya P,Núñez NG,Gatti G,Graziano F,Sedlik C,Benaroch P,Piaggio E,Maccioni M

更新日期：2019-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is the dominant type of primary glomerulonephritis worldwide. However, IgAN rarely affects African Blacks and is uncommon in African Americans. Polymeric IgA1 with galactose-deficient hinge-region glycans is recognized as auto-antigen by glycan-specific antibodies, leading to formation of circul...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Zachova K,Kosztyu P,Zadrazil J,Matousovic K,Vondrak K,Hubacek P,Julian BA,Moldoveanu Z,Novak Z,Kostovcikova K,Raska M,Mestecky J

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal bioaerosols are ubiquitous in the environment and human exposure can result in a variety of health effects ranging from systemic, subcutaneous, and cutaneous infections to respiratory morbidity including allergy, asthma, and hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Recent research has focused on the role of microRNAs (miR...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Croston TL,Lemons AR,Beezhold DH,Green BJ

更新日期：2018-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies to develop cell-based therapies for cancer and other diseases have consistently shown that purified human natural killer (NK) cells secrete cytokines and kill target cells after in vitro culture with high concentrations of cytokines. However, these assays poorly reflect the conditions that are likely to prevai...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Nielsen CM,Wolf AS,Goodier MR,Riley EM

更新日期：2016-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory T-cells (Tregs) mediate their suppressive action by acting directly on conventional T-cells (Tcons) or dendritic cells (DCs). One mechanism of Treg suppression is the increase of cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) levels in target cells. Tregs utilize cAMP to control Tcon responses, such as prolife...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Rueda CM,Jackson CM,Chougnet CA

更新日期：2016-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells play a critical role in cancer control, but a range of potent immunosuppressive mechanisms can be upregulated in the tumor microenvironment (TME) to abrogate their activity. While various immunotherapies (IMTs) aiming at re-invigorating the T-cell-mediated anti-tumor response, such as immune checkpoint blockad...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Vigano S,Alatzoglou D,Irving M,Ménétrier-Caux C,Caux C,Romero P,Coukos G

更新日期：2019-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural antibodies (NAbs) are pre-existing antibodies with germline origin that arise in the absence of previous exposure to foreign antigens. NAbs are produced by B-1 lymphocytes and are primarily of the IgM isotype. There is accumulating evidence that - in addition to their role in antimicrobial host defense - NAbs ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Tsiantoulas D,Gruber S,Binder CJ

更新日期：2013-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) are central to the adoptive immune response, and their function is regulated by diverse signals in a context-specific manner. Different DCs have been described in physiologic conditions, inflammation, and cancer, prompting a series of questions on how adoptive immune responses, or tolerance, deve...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Palombo F,Focaccetti C,Barnaba V

更新日期：2014-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Induced expression of serum amyloid A (SAA) is a hallmark of many inflammatory diseases, but whether SAA exacerbates inflammation or protects tissues against injury remains unclear. In dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis, SAA3 is the predominant isoform of inducible SAA proteins that also include SAA1 and SAA...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Zhang G,Liu J,Wu L,Fan Y,Sun L,Qian F,Chen D,Ye RD

更新日期：2018-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a tropical parasitic infection of human transmitted by mosquitoes. Chronic infection results in severe physical disability in the infected patients. Although several potential vaccine antigens were identified by several groups, there are no licensed prophylactic vaccine to date against thi...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Chauhan N,Khatri V,Banerjee P,Kalyanasundaram R

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen capturing at the periphery is one of the earliest, crucial functions of antigen-presenting cells (APCs) to initiate immune responses. Langerhans cells (LCs), the epidermal APCs migrate to draining lymph nodes (DLNs) upon acquiring antigens. An arsenal of endocytic molecules is available to this end, including ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Becerril-García MA,Yam-Puc JC,Maqueda-Alfaro R,Beristain-Covarrubias N,Heras-Chavarría M,Gallegos-Hernández IA,Calderón-Amador J,Munguía-Fuentes R,Donis-Maturano L,Flores-Langarica A,Flores-Romo L

更新日期：2020-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species complex is capable of establishing persistent infections in a wide variety of species, particularly rodents. Infection is asymptomatic or mild in most reservoir host species, indicating successful co-evolution of the pathogen with its natural hosts. However, infected humans and ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Tracy KE,Baumgarth N

更新日期：2017-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants of a catalytically inactive variant of Proteinase 3 (PR3)-iPR3-Val103 possessing a Ser195Ala mutation relative to wild-type PR3-Val103-offer insights into how autoantigen PR3 interacts with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs) in granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) and whether such interactions can...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Pang YP,Casal Moura M,Thompson GE,Nelson DR,Hummel AM,Jenne DE,Emerling D,Volkmuth W,Robinson WH,Specks U

更新日期：2019-10-25 00:00:00