Inflammasome Activation and Function During Infection with Mycobacterium Tuberculosis.

abstract：:Swine influenza is a continual problem for the Swine industry and can pose a public health threat as evidenced by the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus pandemic. Given its importance, it is not surprising to find papers describing the disease from the early 20th century. In this chapter, we discuss the history of Swine influe...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Schultz-Cherry S,Olsen CW,Easterday BC

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of autophagy research has advanced rapidly in recent years, with important discoveries made in relation to both molecular mechanisms and physiological functions. Initially, autophagy was thought to be primarily a response to starvation. Although this might be true in lower eukaryotes, this catabolic process ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Mizushima N

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-22 is a member of the IL-10 family of cytokines, which, besides IL-10, contains seven additional cytokines. Although the founding member IL-10 is an important immunoregulatory cytokine that represses both innate and adaptive immunity, the other family members preferentially target epithelial cells and...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Eidenschenk C,Rutz S,Liesenfeld O,Ouyang W

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenoviruses contain genes that have evolved to control the host immune and inflammatory responses; however, it is not clear whether these genes function primarily to facilitate survival of the virus during acute infection or during its persistent phase. These issues have assumed greater importance as the use of adeno...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Fessler SP,Delgado-Lopez F,Horwitz MS

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of appropriate fluorescent proteins has allowed the use of FRET microscopy for investigation of intermolecular interactions in living cells. This method has the advantage of both being dynamic and of working at the subcellular level, so that the time and place where proteins interact can be visualized. We have...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Gascoigne NR,Ampudia J,Clamme JP,Fu G,Lotz C,Mallaun M,Niederberger N,Palmer E,Rybakin V,Yachi PP,Zal T

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:The collaboration between Alick Isaacs and myself started in the summer of 1956. Our initial project was to show, by electron microscopy, that interference between inactivated influenza virus and live virus involved the transfer of material from the interfering virus to the host cell. This approach failed for technica...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Lindenmann J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-cell technologies like mass cytometry enable researchers to comprehensively monitor signaling network responses in the context of heterogeneous cell populations. Cell-to-cell variability, the possibly nonlinear topology of signaling processes, and the destructive nature of mass cytometry necessitate nontrivial ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Claassen M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplast genetic engineering offers several advantages, including high levels of transgene expression, transgene containment via maternal inheritance, and multi-gene expression in a single transformation event. Oral delivery is facilitated by hyperexpression of vaccine antigens against cholera, tetanus, anthrax, pl...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Chebolu S,Daniell H

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how cell growth is regulated in response to environmental signals remains a challenging biological problem. Recent studies indicate the TOR (target of rapamycin) kinase acts within an intracellular regulatory network used by eukaryotic cells to regulate their growth according to nutrient availability. Th...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Powers T,Dilova I,Chen CY,Wedaman K

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein synthesis requires nutrients both as precursors (amino acids) and as a source of energy, since this process consumes a high proportion of cellular metabolic energy. Recent work has shown that both types of nutrients directly influence the activities of components of the translational machinery in mammalian cel...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Proud CG

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor DNA contains valuable clues about the origin and pathogenesis of human cancers. Alterations in DNA methylation can lead to silencing of genes associated with distinct tumorigenic pathways. These pathway-specific DNA methylation changes help define tumor-specific DNA methylation profiles that can be used to furth...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Campan M,Weisenberger DJ,Laird PW

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this chapter, cancer research using immunodeficient mice, with emphasis on metastasis field studies, is described. The definition of "humanized mice" used for biomedical research is given in the chapter by Nomura et al. in this volume. Briefly, a humanized mouse possesses human cells or tissues and shows, in part, ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakamura M,Suemizu H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloid differentiation factor 88 (MyD88) is an adaptor molecule composed of an N-terminal death domain and a C-terminal Toll/interleukin (IL)-1R homology domain. Ligand binding to Toll-like receptor (TLR)/IL-1R family members results in the association of MyD88 to the cytoplasmic tail of receptors; this then initiate...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Takeuchi O,Akira S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural and intentional biological risks threaten human civilization, both through direct human fatality as well as follow-on effects from a collapse of the just-in-time delivery system that provides food, energy and critical supplies to communities globally. Human beings have multiple innate cognitive biases that sys...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Luby S,Arthur R

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:Group A streptococcal (Streptococcus pyogenes) infections remain important causes of medical and public health morbidity and mortality even during the early twenty-first century. Although most often concentrated in socially/economically disadvantaged populations, the problems remain significant in both industrializing...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Kaplan EL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhabdoviruses, mainly in rainbow trout, are among the most devastating viruses for worldwide aquaculture. To date no effective treatments to fight against these viruses are available. During the past years, several approaches to develop efficient vaccines have been undertaken such as the use of immunogenic recombinant...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Brémont M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune gastritis (AIG) is an experimental model that closely resembles human autoimmune gastritis, the underlying pathology of pernicious anemia. Pathogenic CD4+ T cells are reactive to the parietal cell autoantigen, H/K ATPase, and are controlled by CD4+CD25+ T cells in an immunosuppressive cytokine-independent m...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： McHugh RS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial biofilms are governed by an intricate interplay between physical-chemical factors and the physiological and genetic properties of the inhabiting microbes. Many of the physiological traits that are exhibited in a biofilm environment have been observed and studied previously in detail in planktonic cultures. H...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Spormann AM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteasomes are highly abundant cytosolic and nuclear protease complexes that degrade most intracellular proteins in higher eukaryotes and appear to play a major role in the cytosolic steps of MHC class I antigen processing. This review summarizes the knowledge of the role of proteasomes in antigen processing and the ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Niedermann G

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitogenic dermonecrotic toxin from Pasteurella multocida (PMT) is a 1285-residue multipartite protein that belongs to the A-B family of bacterial protein toxins. Through its G-protein-deamidating activity on the α subunits of heterotrimeric G(q)-, G(i)- and G(12/13)-proteins, PMT potently stimulates downstream mit...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Wilson BA,Ho M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Japanese encephalitis (JE) is one of the most well studied arthropod zoonotic diseases with human and animal research and their integration spanning 6-7 decades. JE research and policy in some Asian countries has epitomized the 'One Health' strategy of attainment of optimal health for people, animals, and the environm...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Impoinvil DE,Baylis M,Solomon T

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Clostridium difficile causes infectious diarrhoea in humans and animals. It has been found in both diarrhoeal and non-diarrhoeal pigs, horses and cattle, suggesting a potential reservoir for human insection, and in 20-40 % of meat products in Canada and the USA, suggesting the possibility, albeit not proven, of food-b...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Squire MM,Riley TV

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza hemagglutinin (HA) is the major surface glycoprotein on influenza viruses and mediates viral attachment and subsequent fusion with host cells. The HA is the major target of the immune response, but due to its high level of variability, as evidenced by substantial antigenic diversity, it had been historically...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Lee PS,Wilson IA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initial studies of how bacterial toxins modulate the actin cytoskeleton have focused primarily on the mode of action of these toxins. More recently, studies have addressed the molecular interactions of these toxins with host cell signaling pathways and how toxins modulate cellular physiology. Although each individual ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Baldwin MR,Barbieri JT

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many nuclear hormone receptors (NHRs) actively repress the expression of their primary response genes through the recruitment of transcriptional corepressor complexes to regulated promoters. N-CoR and the highly related SMRT were originally isolated and characterized by their ability to interact exclusivelywith the un...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Jones PL,Shi YB

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NF-κB is a pivotal transcription factor that controls cell survival and proliferation in diverse physiological processes. The activity of NF-κB is tightly controlled through its cytoplasmic sequestration by specific inhibitors, IκBs. Various cellular stimuli induce the activation of an IκB kinase, which phosphorylates...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Sun SC,Cesarman E

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remarkable progress has been made in reducing measles incidence and mortality as a consequence of implementing the measles mortality reduction strategy of the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). The revised global measles mortality reduction goal set forth in the WHO-UNICEF Glo...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Moss WJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00