Structures of Type III Secretion System Needle Filaments.

abstract：:CD4(+) helper and CD8(+) cytotoxic T cells, two major subsets of αβTCR expressing lymphocytes, are differentiated from common precursor CD4(+)CD8(+) double-positive (DP) thymocytes. Bifurcation of the CD4(+)/CD8(+) lineages in the thymus is a multilayered process and is thought to culminate in a loss of developmental ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Tanaka H,Taniuchi I

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA replication is an important step in the life cycle of every cell that ensures the continuous flow of genetic information from one generation to the next. In all organisms, chromosome replication must be coordinated with overall cell growth. Helicobacter pylori growth strongly depends on its interaction with the ho...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Zawilak-Pawlik A,Zakrzewska-Czerwińska J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HAM/TSP is a chronic inflammatory disease of the spinal cord. It is rather rare in HTLV-1-infected individuals. Immunogenetic factors of the HLA complex have been identified that support or prevent the development of the disease. In HAM/TSP patients a characteristic constellation of high proviral loads and increased c...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Kitze B,Usuku K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is an important human pathogen, responsible for infections in the community and the healthcare setting. Although much of the attention is focused on the methicillin-resistant "variant" MRSA, the methicillin-susceptible counterpart (MSSA) remains a prime species in infections. The epidemiology of ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Monaco M,Pimentel de Araujo F,Cruciani M,Coccia EM,Pantosti A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapies for filovirus infections are urgently needed. The paradoxical issue facing therapies is the need for rigorous safety and efficacy testing, adhering to the principle tenant of medicine to do no harm, while responding to the extreme for a treatment option during an outbreak. Supportive care remains a primary g...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Connor J,Kobinger G,Olinger G

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gram-negative bacterium Helicobacter pylori is predominantly known for its tight association with peptic ulcer disease and gastric cancer development. However, recent epidemiological and experimental evidence suggests that chronic infection with H. pylori may at the same time be beneficial to the host by conferrin...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Kyburz A,Müller A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial polysaccharides play an essential role in cell viability, virulence, and evasion of host defenses. Although the polysaccharides themselves are highly diverse, the pathways by which bacteria synthesize these essential polymers are conserved in both Gram-negative and Gram-positive organisms. By utilizing a lip...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Taylor VL,Huszczynski SM,Lam JS

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal models of ricin toxicosis are necessary for testing the efficacy of therapeutic measures, as well studying the mechanisms by which ricin exerts its toxicity in intact animals. Because ricin can serve as a particularly well-characterized model of tissue damage, and the host response to that damage, studies of th...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Roy CJ,Song K,Sivasubramani SK,Gardner DJ,Pincus SH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a trend toward viral-based hybrid systems to furnish viral nanoparticles with enhanced features, for function beyond a delivery vehicle. Such hybrids have included Nanogold for microwave release, quantum dots and fluorescent moieties, to provide simultaneous imaging capabilities, and iron oxide particles for ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Portney NG,Destito G,Manchester M,Ozkan M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CVB3 myocarditis can lead to dilated cardiomyopath (DCM). DCM is one of the leading causes of the need for heart transplantation, so it is important to understand the life cycle of CVB3 and its interactions with the host cell. Infection causes rapid death of host cardiomyocytes by altering normal cellular homeostasis ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Marchant D,Si X,Luo H,McManus B,Yang D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rho GTPases are molecular switches controlling a broad range of cellular processes including lymphocyte activation. Not surprisingly, Rho GTPases are now recognized as pivotal regulators of antigen-specific T cell activation by APCs and immunological synapse formation. This review summarizes recent advances in our und...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Deckert M,Moon C,Le Bras S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "humanized mouse" is a mouse harboring functioning human tissues used as in vivo human models for both physiological and pathological conditions. The NOD/Shi-scid IL2rgamma(null) (NOG) mouse, an excellent immunodeficient mouse used as the basis for the humanized mouse, requires strict genetic and environmental con...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Nomura T,Tamaoki N,Takakura A,Suemizu H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a cellular organelle responsible for folding of secretory and membrane proteins. Perturbance in ER homeostasis caused by various intrinsic/extrinsic stimuli challenges the protein-folding capacity of the ER, leading to an ER dysfunction, called ER stress. Cells have developed a defens...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Chandrahas VK,Han J,Kaufman RJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of fundamental concepts about the packaging of the adenovirus genome has contributed significantly to the development of therapeutic viral vectors for gene therapy. The packaging of adenovirus DNA into virus particles requires a cis-acting domain at the left end of the genome. This region contains a se...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Ostapchuk P,Hearing P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenotransplantation is a public health concern because it has the potential to infect human recipients with zoonotic and other infectious agents that are not endemic in human populations, thereby potentially introducing new infections to the human community. From this perspective, xenotransplantation clinical trials c...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Chapman LE

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Promoting remyelination following injury to the central nervous system (CNS) promises to be an effective neuroprotective strategy to limit the loss of surviving axons and prevent disability. Studies confirm that multiple sclerosis (MS) and spinal cord injury lesions contain myelinating cells and their progenitors. Rec...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Warrington AE,Rodriguez M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translocations or amplifications which activate members of the myc gene family are common in human cancer. c-Myc is a central regulator of normal cell proliferation and differentiation (Luscher and Eisenman, 1991; Marcu et al. 1992) and can induce apoptosis (Askew et al. 1991, 1993; Evan et al. 1992; Bissonette et al....

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Packham G,Cleveland JL

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histoplasmosis, caused by the dimorphic environmental fungus Histoplasma capsulatum, is a major mycosis on the global stage. Acquisition of the fungus by mammalian hosts can be clinically silent or it can lead to life-threatening systemic disease, which can occur in immunologically intact or deficient hosts, albeit se...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Mittal J,Ponce MG,Gendlina I,Nosanchuk JD

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been estimated that there are more microorganisms within and upon the human body than there are human cells. By necessity, every accessible niche must be defended by innate mechanisms to prevent invasive infection, and ideally that precludes the need for robust inflammatory responses. Yet the potential for path...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Yeaman MR,Bayer AS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-cleaving RNA sequences, or ribozymes, in the genomic and antigenomic strands of hepatitis delta virus (HDV) RNA fold into structures that are similar to each other but distinct from those of small ribozymes associated with the RNA replicons that infect plants. HDV ribozymes have provided a tractable system fo...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Been MD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The infectious cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi necessitates persistent infection of both vertebrates and ticks, and efficient means of transmission between those two very different types of hosts. The Lyme disease spirochete has evolved mechanisms to sense its location in the infectious cycle, and use that information t...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Stevenson B,Seshu J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) has evolved numerous strategies to commandeer the host cell for producing viral progeny. The virus manipulates host cell cycle pathways from the early stages of infection to stimulate viral DNA replication at the expense of cellular DNA synthesis. At the same time, cell cycle checkpoints a...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Sanchez V,Spector DH

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In conventionally reared mice germinal centers (GCs) are chronically induced in Peyer's patches (PP), mesenteric lymph node (MLN), and isolated lymphoid follicles (ILF) of gut-associated lymphoid tissues (GALT), as a result of continuous B cell stimulation by commensal bacteria. It is generally thought that BCR-mediat...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Casola S,Rajewsky K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early B cell factor 1 (EBF1) is a transcription factor that is critical for both B lymphopoiesis and B cell function. EBF1 is a requisite component of the B lymphocyte transcriptional network and is essential for B lineage specification. Recent studies revealed roles for EBF1 in B cell commitment. EBF1 binds its targe...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Hagman J,Ramírez J,Lukin K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host cell attachment by influenza A viruses is mediated by the hemagglutinin glycoprotein (HA), and the recognition of specific types of sialic acid -containing glycan receptors constitutes one of the major determinants of viral host range and transmission properties. Structural studies have elucidated some of the vir...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Xiong X,McCauley JW,Steinhauer DA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By now, it is well established that the error rate of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) that replicates RNA virus genomes is a primary driver of the mutation frequencies observed in RNA virus populations-the basis for the RNA quasispecies. Over the last 10 years, a considerable amount of work has uncovered the m...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Bordería AV,Rozen-Gagnon K,Vignuzzi M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endemic Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) remains the most prevalent pediatric cancer in sub-Saharan Africa even though it was the first human cancer with a viral etiology described over 50 years ago. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was discovered in a BL tumor in 1964 and has since been implicated in other malignancies. The etiology ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Rochford R,Moormann AM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular mimics of self-antigens can behave as altered peptide ligands and serve to ameliorate autoimmune disease. Analysis of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis with proteomic autoantibody microarrays reveals that there might exist a wide variety of microbes with features that mimic self-epitopes. Autoimmunit...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Steinman L,Utz PJ,Robinson WH

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to regulate and even target mutagenesis is an extremely valuable cellular asset. Enzyme-catalyzed DNA cytosine deamination is a molecular strategy employed by vertebrates to promote antibody diversity and defend against foreign nucleic acids. Ten years ago, a family of cellular enzymes was first described ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Refsland EW,Harris RS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most eukaryotic messenger RNAs are transcribed as precursors that necessitate specific and exact processing of intron boundaries. Furthermore, the choice of these boundaries appears to be fluid and adaptive to the rate of transcription and the developmental and physiological state of the cell. A central regulator of s...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Fluhr R

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00