Abstract:
:Deadly infections from opportunistic fungi have risen in frequency, largely because of the at-risk immunocompromised population created by advances in modern medicine and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This review focuses on dynamics of the fungal polysaccharide cell wall, which plays an outsized role in fungal pathogenesis and therapy because it acts as both an environmental barrier and as the major interface with the host immune system. Human fungal pathogens use architectural strategies to mask epitopes from the host and prevent immune surveillance, and recent work elucidates how biotic and abiotic stresses present during infection can either block or enhance masking. The signaling components implicated in regulating fungal immune recognition can teach us how cell wall dynamics are controlled, and represent potential targets for interventions designed to boost or dampen immunity.
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Trends Microbioljournal_title
Trends in microbiologyauthors
Hopke A,Brown AJP,Hall RA,Wheeler RTdoi
10.1016/j.tim.2018.01.007subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-04-01 00:00:00pages
284-295issue
4eissn
0966-842Xissn
1878-4380pii
S0966-842X(18)30019-2journal_volume
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