Monocyte/macrophage inflammatory response pathways to combat Francisella infection: possible therapeutic targets?

abstract：:Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A Streptococcus or GAS) is a hemolytic human pathogen associated with a wide variety of infections ranging from minor skin and throat infections to life-threatening invasive diseases. The cell wall of GAS consists of peptidoglycan sacculus decorated with a carbohydrate comprising a polyrh...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Edgar RJ,Chen J,Kant S,Rechkina E,Rush JS,Forsberg LS,Jaehrig B,Azadi P,Tchesnokova V,Sokurenko EV,Zhu H,Korotkov KV,Pancholi V,Korotkova N

更新日期：2016-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Most strains of Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis possess a strong restriction barrier that hinders exchange of DNA. Recently, major advances have been made in identifying and characterizing the restriction-modification (RM) systems involved. In particular a novel type IV restriction enzyme that rec...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Monk IR,Foster TJ

更新日期：2012-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) represents the etiological agent for several human malignancies, including Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), primary effusion lymphoma (PEL), and multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD), which are mostly seen in immunocompromised patients. In fact, KSHV has developed many strategies ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Barrett L,Chen J,Dai L,Plaisance-Bonstaff K,Del Valle L,Qin Z

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gram-negative bacterial cell envelope consists of an inner membrane (IM) that surrounds the cytoplasm and an asymmetrical outer-membrane (OM) that forms a protective barrier to the external environment. The OM consists of lipopolysaccahride (LPS), phospholipids, outer membrane proteins (OMPs), and lipoproteins. Ox...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Piek S,Kahler CM

更新日期：2012-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax, has been a focus of study in host-pathogen dynamics since the nineteenth century. While the interaction between anthrax and host macrophages has been extensively modeled, comparatively little is known about the effect of anthrax on the immune function of neutrophils,...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Liu JZ,Ali SR,Bier E,Nizet V

更新日期：2018-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnaporthe oryzae (Mo) is a model pathogen causing rice blast resulting in yield and economic losses world-wide. CK2 is a constitutively active, serine/threonine kinase in eukaryotes, having a wide array of known substrates, and involved in many cellular processes. We investigated the localization and role of MoCK2 d...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Zhang L,Zhang D,Chen Y,Ye W,Lin Q,Lu G,Ebbole DJ,Olsson S,Wang Z

更新日期：2019-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein secretion systems are vital for prokaryotic life, as they enable bacteria to acquire nutrients, communicate with other species, defend against biological and chemical agents, and facilitate disease through the delivery of virulence factors. In this review, we will focus on the recently discovered type IX secre...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Lasica AM,Ksiazek M,Madej M,Potempa J

更新日期：2017-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroxine metabolism is an important topic of pathogenesis research and treatment schedule of subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH). L-Thyroxine replacement therapy (LRT) is usually recommended for severe SCH patients only. Our previous studies reported that disordered serum lipid of mild SCH people could also benefit from...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Yao Z,Zhao M,Gong Y,Chen W,Wang Q,Fu Y,Guo T,Zhao J,Gao L,Bo T

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Different species inhabit different sensory worlds and thus have evolved diverse means of processing information, learning and memory. In the escalated arms race with host defense, each pathogenic bacterium not only has evolved its individual cellular sensing and behavior, but also collective sensing, interbacterial c...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Steinert M

更新日期：2014-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus faecium is a clinically important pathogen associated with opportunistic infection and multi-drug resistance. E. faecium has been shown to produce membrane vesicles (MVs), but MV production by E. faecium under antibiotic stress conditions and the pathogenic traits thereof have yet to be determined. This s...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Kim MH,Kim SY,Son JH,Kim SI,Lee H,Kim S,Shin M,Lee JC

更新日期：2019-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) has been increasingly associated with perturbations to the microbial communities that reside in and on the body (the microbiome), in both human and animal studies. To date, such studies have mainly focused on the microbial communities that inhabit the gut and oral cavity. Mounting evidence su...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Hammad DBM,Hider SL,Liyanapathirana VC,Tonge DP

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida species are known to differ in their ability to cause infection and have been shown to display varied susceptibilities to antifungal drugs. Treatment with the echinocandin, caspofungin, leads to compensatory alterations in the fungal cell wall. This study was performed to compare the structure and composition ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Walker LA,Munro CA

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonellae are facultative intracellular pathogens that cause globally distributed diseases with massive morbidity and mortality in humans and animals. In the past decades, numerous studies were focused on host defenses against Salmonella infection. Autophagy has been demonstrated to be an important defense mechanism...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Wang L,Yan J,Niu H,Huang R,Wu S

更新日期：2018-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequent emergence of azole-resistant strains has increasingly led azoles to fail in treating candidiasis. Combination with other drugs is a good option to effectively reduce or retard its incidence of resistance. Natural products are a promising synergist source to assist azoles in treating resistant candidiasis....

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Xu J,Liu R,Sun F,An L,Shang Z,Kong L,Yang M

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Syf1 is a tetratricopeptide repeat (TPR) protein implicated in transcription elongation, spliceosome conformation, mRNA nuclear-cytoplasmic export and transcription-coupled DNA repair. Recently, we identified the spliceosomal components of the human parasite Entamoeba histolytica, among them is EhSyf. Molecular predic...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Torres-Cifuentes DM,Galindo-Rosales JM,Saucedo-Cárdenas O,Valdés J

更新日期：2018-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermatophytosis is one of the most common human infections affecting both immunocompetent individuals and immunocompromised patients, in whom the disease is more aggressive and can reach deep tissues. Over the last decades, cases of deep dermatophytosis have increased and the dermatophyte-host interplay remains poorly...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Almeida DF,Fraga-Silva TF,Santos AR,Finato AC,Marchetti CM,Golim MA,Lara VS,Arruda MS,Venturini J

更新日期：2017-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular bacterial pathogens (IBPs) invade and replicate in different cell types including immune cells, in particular of the innate immune system (IIS) during infection in the acute phase. However, immune cells primarily function as essential players in the highly effective and integrated host defense systems co...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Eisenreich W,Rudel T,Heesemann J,Goebel W

更新日期：2017-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M. hyopneumoniae) is the causative agent of pandemic pneumonia among pigs, namely, swine enzootic pneumonia. Although M. hyopneumoniae was first identified in 1965, little is known regarding its metabolic pathways, which might play a pivotal role during disease pathogenesis. Lipoate is an ess...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Zhu K,Chen H,Jin J,Wang N,Ma G,Huang J,Feng Y,Xin J,Zhang H,Liu H

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Histoplasmosis is one of the most frequent systemic mycosis in HIV patients. In these patients, histoplasmosis has high rates of morbidity/mortality if diagnosis and treatment are delayed. Despite its relevance, there is a paucity of information concerning the interaction between Histoplasma capsulatum and the human h...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Almeida MA,Almeida-Paes R,Guimarães AJ,Valente RH,Soares CMA,Zancopé-Oliveira RM

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei, the etiological agent of melioidosis in humans and various animals, is capable of survival and movement within the cytoplasm of host cells by a process known as actin-based motility. The bacterial factor BimA is required for actin-based motility through its direct ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Srinon V,Chaiwattanarungruengpaisan S,Korbsrisate S,Stevens JM

更新日期：2019-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten bacteriophages were isolated from faeces and their lytic effects assayed on 103 pathogenic and non-pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae. Two phages (DT1 and DT6) were selected based on their host ranges, and their lytic effects on pathogenic E. coli strains inoculated on pieces of beef were determined. We evaluated the r...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Tomat D,Migliore L,Aquili V,Quiberoni A,Balagué C

更新日期：2013-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation enteritis (RE) is a common complication in cancer patients receiving radiotherapy. Although studies have shown the changes of this disease at clinical, pathological and other levels, the dynamic characteristics of local microbiome and metabolomics are hitherto unknown. We aimed to examine the multi-omics fea...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Li Y,Yan H,Zhang Y,Li Q,Yu L,Li Q,Liu C,Xie Y,Chen K,Ye F,Wang K,Chen L,Ding Y

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross talk occurs between the human gut and the lung through a gut-lung axis involving the gut microbiota. However, the signatures of the human gut microbiota after active Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection have not been fully understood. Here, we investigated changes in the gut microbiota in tuberculosis (TB) patie...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Hu Y,Feng Y,Wu J,Liu F,Zhang Z,Hao Y,Liang S,Li B,Li J,Lv N,Xu Y,Zhu B,Sun Z

更新日期：2019-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli carrying prophage with genes that encode for Shiga toxins are categorized as Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) pathotype. Illnesses caused by STEC in humans, which are often foodborne, range from mild to bloody diarrhea with life-threatening complications of renal failure and hemolytic uremic syndr...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Ludwig JB,Shi X,Shridhar PB,Roberts EL,DebRoy C,Phebus RK,Bai J,Nagaraja TG

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid-state fermentation of feedstuffs by Bacillus subtilis MA139 can reduce insoluble dietary fiber content in vitro and improve growth performance in pigs. This study was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary corn bran (CB) fermented by B. subtilis on growth performance and gut microbiota composition in fi...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Liu P,Zhao J,Guo P,Lu W,Geng Z,Levesque CL,Johnston LJ,Wang C,Liu L,Zhang J,Ma N,Qiao S,Ma X

更新日期：2017-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the parameters associated with post-treatment recurrence of bacterial vaginosis (BV), clinical factors and vaginal microbiota were examined and analyzed for BV patients who received standard metronidazole therapy. The variables associated with BV recurrence included clinical factors of past BV history, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Xiao B,Wu C,Song W,Niu X,Qin N,Liu Z,Xu Q

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:HIGHLIGHTS What is already known about this subject?Celiac disease (CD) has a high clinical and histological diversity and the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon remain elusive.H. pylori is a bacterium that chronically infect gastric and duodenal mucosa activating both a Th1/Th17 and T-reg pathways.The role of H. p...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Lucero Y,Oyarzún A,O'Ryan M,Quera R,Espinosa N,Valenzuela R,Simian D,Alcalde E,Arce C,Farfán MJ,Vergara AF,Gajardo I,Mendez J,Carrasco J,Errázuriz G,Gonzalez M,Ossa JC,Maiza E,Perez-Bravo F,Castro M,Araya M

更新日期：2017-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we determined the in vitro characteristics and binding interactions of chicken PD-1 (chPD-1) and PD-L1 (chPD-L1) and developed a panel of specific monoclonal antibodies against the two proteins. ChPD-1 and chPD-L1 sequence identities and similarities were lower compared with those of humans and o...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Reddy VRAP,Mwangi W,Sadigh Y,Nair V

更新日期：2019-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is one of the most common fungal pathogens. Our previous study demonstrated that concomitant use of berberine (BBR) and fluconazole (FLC) showed a synergistic action against FLC-resistant C. albicans in vitro and BBR had a major antifungal effect in the synergism, while FLC played a role of increasing...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Xu Y,Quan H,Wang Y,Zhong H,Sun J,Xu J,Jia N,Jiang Y

更新日期：2017-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is a prevalent parasite of mammals and birds including up to 30% of humans world-wide. Primary infection of immunocompetent hosts leads to a robust cell-mediated immune response, which controls but does not clear the infection, thus enabling long-term parasite persistence in brain and muscle tissues....

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Ehmen HG,Lüder CGK

更新日期：2019-06-28 00:00:00