Viral RNA detection by RIG-I-like receptors.

abstract：:Current models suggest that continuous antigenic stimulation of memory B cells is required to maintain long-term antibody production. In view of recent developments concerning plasma cell longevity, a new model is described that incorporates the important role of long-lived plasma cells in sustaining persistent antibo...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Slifka MK,Ahmed R

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis is often considered to be an autoimmune disease in which the abnormal immunological response is triggered by an infectious agent(s) but progress towards identifying such extrinsic factors has so far been unrevealing. In contrast, the genetic component of host susceptibility is slowly becoming clea...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Wordsworth P

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages specifically engulf apoptotic cells but not healthy cells. Phosphatidylserine (PtdSer) is localized at the inner leaflet of plasma membranes as a result of the action of flippases (ATP11A and 11C). When cells undergo apoptosis, caspase 3 cleaves and inactivates the flippases, while simultaneously cleaving ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Nagata S,Segawa K

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell exhaustion represents a continuous spectrum of cellular dysfunction induced during chronic viral infection, facilitating viral persistence and associating with poor clinical outcome. Modulation of T cell exhaustion can restore function in exhausted CD8 T cells, promoting viral clearance. Exhaustion has also bee...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： McKinney EF,Smith KG

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear factor κ enhancer binding protein (NF-κB) family of transcription factors regulates the expression of a large array of genes involved in diverse cellular processes including inflammation, immunity and cell survival. Activation of NF-κB requires ubiquitination, a highly conserved and versatile modification ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Chen J,Chen ZJ

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of Type 1 diabetes research has been quick to embrace the era of translational medicine in the recent epoch. Building upon some 30 years of intense immunological research, the past decade has been marked by a series of clinical trials designed to evaluate the potential beneficial effects of a range of immune...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Roep BO,Peakman M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological cell death, which occurs as a continuous byproduct of cellular turnover, is non-immunogenic or even tolerogenic, thereby avoiding autoimmunity. By contrast, cancer cell death elicited by radiotherapy and some chemotherapeutic agents such as anthracyclines is immunogenic. Recent data suggest that innate a...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Tesniere A,Apetoh L,Ghiringhelli F,Joza N,Panaretakis T,Kepp O,Schlemmer F,Zitvogel L,Kroemer G

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triggers involved in the development of an autoimmune disease, and those that are part of determining its level of severity, are a major focus of current investigative efforts. However, factors that increase the risk to disease may not be similar to those that determine its severity or its pace of progression. The ary...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Veldhoen M,Duarte JH

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of NKT cells has been rapidly advancing over recent years, with many research groups studying how these cells behave and how they can be manipulated to prevent disease. Although good progress has been made, a difficulty is the lack of a clear consensus about how to assay, or even identify, NKT cells....

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Berzins SP,Smyth MJ,Godfrey DI

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flaviviruses are a group of important emerging and re-emerging human pathogens that cause worldwide epidemics with thousands of deaths annually. Flaviviruses are small, enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses that are obligate intracellular pathogens, relying heavily on host cell machinery for productiv...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Li M,Ramage H,Cherry S

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While mutations in human FOXP3 predispose individuals to autoimmune conditions, it is unclear how the mutant protein fails to function as a transcriptional regulator. There is also limited detail of how FOXP3 itself interacts with the transcriptional machinery and which components of the FOXP3 ensembles exert phenotyp...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Li B,Saouaf SJ,Samanta A,Shen Y,Hancock WW,Greene MI

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of T lymphocytes is initiated by the binding of MHC-peptide complexes on antigen-presenting cells to MHC-restricted, peptide specific TCRs. Significant progress has recently been made in understanding the structure of the TCR and in the direct quantitative examination of the primary binding interactions...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Margulies DH

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of novel immune receptors has led to a recent renaissance of research into the innate immune system, following decades of intense research of the adaptive immune system. Of particular interest has been the discovery of the natural killer (NK) cell receptors which, depending on type, interact with classic...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Sambrook JG,Beck S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extraordinary sensitivity and specificity of T cells for their cognate antigen make them a highly attractive cancer therapeutic. However, the rarity of tumor-reactive T cells in cancer patients, the difficulty isolating them in sufficient numbers for adoptive immunotherapy, and the unpredictable persistence of tra...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Turtle CJ,Riddell SR

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptides presented by MHC class I molecules are typically produced through antigen degradation by the proteasome followed by trimming by exopeptidases. According to recent results, these include both aminopeptidases and carboxypeptidases in the cytosol and the endoplasmic reticulum. While cytosolic peptidases have a n...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Weimershaus M,Evnouchidou I,Saveanu L,van Endert P

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atopic dermatitis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease associated with elevated serum IgE levels and sensitization to a variety of inhalant, food and microbial allergens. Controlled challenges have provided substantial evidence that allergens can trigger acute IgE-mediated mast-cell dependent exacerbations of eczema...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Leung DY

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunological memory can be regulated during either its development or its maintenance phases. Controversy and confusion surround both methods of regulation, especially in the field of T-cell memory. Recent work has helped in improving our definition of 'a memory cell', but this has been complicated by another major p...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Gray D

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major problem in the analysis of vaccine candidates is the lack of any agreed upon surrogates of efficacy, which means that for diseases that depend on a strong T cell response (HIV, TB especially) the only option is to perform an efficacy trial, involving thousands of subjects, enormous costs, and years before the ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Davis MM

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of human papillomavirus as the etiological factor for cervical cancer provides an opportunity to treat these malignancies by vaccination. Although therapeutic vaccination against viral oncogenes regularly induces a specific T cell response, clinical effectivity remains low. Three factors are particu...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： van der Sluis TC,van der Burg SH,Arens R,Melief CJ

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The innate immune system is comprised of a sophisticated network of recognition and effector molecules that act together to protect the host in the first minutes or hours of exposure to an infectious challenge. The mannose-binding lectin (MBL) is an evolutionary conserved circulating host defense protein that acts as ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Takahashi K,Ip WE,Michelow IC,Ezekowitz RA

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevailing paradigm ascribes activation of Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) to the detection of CpG-motifs within pathogen derived DNA. However, new work ties natural phospho-diester (PD) DNA recognition by TLR9 to the detection of the DNA sugar backbone 2' deoxyribose. PD 2' deoxyribose homopolymers lacking DNA bases ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Wagner H

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteric microbial pathogens interact with the gut epithelium to establish infection. Recently, it has become clear that many microorganisms that colonize or traverse the intestinal mucosa do so via the specialized M cells. Recent work has shown that Shigella flexneri and Salmonella typhimurium specifically target M ce...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Jones B,Pascopella L,Falkow S

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction and execution of a successful anti-pathogen immune response requires a consecutive series of cellular interactions that begin in lymphoid environments and later extend into the periphery. Much of our current knowledge of these events has been gained using ex vivo approaches that yield important static in...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Mueller SN,Hickman HD

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A subfamily of serine proteases is uniquely expressed by cytotoxic natural killer lymphocytes and T cells. Protease cleavage of different natural substrates is now implicated in the cytotoxic mechanisms of target cell membrane pore formation, DNA fragmentation and cytostasis. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Hudig D,Ewoldt GR,Woodard SL

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two years ago, T helper cells, including Th1, Th2 and Th17 cells, were considered to be the most significant sources of cytokine during the orchestration of immune responses in the lung. Following the discovery of innate lymphoid cells, we now know that these previously unappreciated cytokine-secreting cells, includin...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Scanlon ST,McKenzie AN

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perforin defects have been identified in humans with familial hematophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. The pathology of these patients has dramatically illustrated an under-appreciated role for perforin in the regulation of T-cell responses in vivo, and experimental studies are shedding light on the mechanisms involved. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Catalfamo M,Henkart PA

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunity to intracellular pathogens and cancer relies on the generation of robust CD8(+) T cell effector responses as well as the establishment of immunological memory. During a primary immune response CD8(+) T cells experience diverse extracellular environmental cues and cell-cell interactions that trigger downstream...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Thaventhiran JE,Fearon DT,Gattinoni L

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence indicates that genes required for antigen processing are present in the class II region of the MHC. Two new classes of MHC genes that may encode much of the machinery required in the class I (endogenous) antigen-processing pathway have been discovered. There is evidence that genes required in the class...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Monaco JJ

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Engagement of the TCR/CD3 complex triggers a cascade of events that result in T lymphocyte activation and promote positive and negative selection of thymocytes, T lymphocyte migration and effector functions, development and activation of regulatory T cells. Gene mutations that abrogate early TCR signaling are associat...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Notarangelo LD

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardinal signs of inflammation suggest a close connection between the nervous system and the immune system. However, the cellular and molecular basis of these interactions remains incompletely defined. Recent research has demonstrated that tissue-resident innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) obtain neuronal signals, parti...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Klose CS,Artis D

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00