Transcriptional control of NK cell differentiation and function.

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：:Hemopoietic cells express relatively high levels of the type I phosphoinositide (PI) 3-kinase isoforms, with p110δ and γ exhibiting specialized signaling functions in neutrophils, monocytes, mast cells, and lymphocytes. In platelets, p110β appears to be the dominant PI 3-kinase isoform regulating platelet activation, ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Jackson SP,Schoenwaelder SM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The low-resource environment deprives healthcare providers caring for patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD) of many of the means employed for the critically ill that are available in better resourced settings, such as advanced therapeutic interventions and abundant staff. In addition to these limitations may be adde...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Sprecher A,Van Herp M,Rollin PE

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible role of silicone in the pathogenesis of a scleroderma-like syndrome is still unresolved. It has been proposed that silicone escaping from breast implants potentiates the progression of the disease. To clarify whether silicone enhances development of fibrotic skin lesions and autoantibodies, we tested its ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Frondoza C,Jones L,Rose NR,Hatakeyama A,Phelps R,Bona C

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of varicella zoster virus (VZV) to cause varicella (chickenpox) relies upon multiple steps, beginning with inoculation of the host at mucosal sites with infectious virus in respiratory droplets. Despite the presence of a powerful immune defense system, this virus is able to disseminate from the site of in...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Abendroth A,Kinchington PR,Slobedman B

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variation of the host significantly contributes to dramatic differences in the outcomes of natural infection with virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in humans, as well as in experimental animal models. Host resistance to tuberculosis is a complex multifactorial genetic trait in which many genetic polymo...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Kramnik I

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of bacterial resistance against current antibiotic drugs necessitates a continuous renewal of the arsenal of efficacious drugs. This imperative has not been met by the output of antibiotic research and development of the past decades for various reasons, including the declining efforts of large pharma ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Klahn P,Brönstrup M

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:In view of the recent studies on the CDCs, a reasonable schematic of the stages leading to membrane insertion of the CDCs can be assembled. As shown in Fig. 3, we propose that the CDC first binds to the membrane as a monomer. These monomers then diffuse laterally on the membrane surface to encounter other monomers or ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Tweten RK,Parker MW,Johnson AE

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The family of protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) includes 107 genes in humans that are diverse in their structures and expression profiles. The majority are present in immune cells and play various roles in either inhibiting or promoting the duration and amplitude of signaling cascades. Several PTPs, including TC-PT...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Penafuerte C,Perez-Quintero LA,Vinette V,Hatzihristidis T,Tremblay ML

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dicer, an RNase III type endonuclease, is the key enzyme involved in RNA interference (RNAi) and microRNA (miRNA) pathways. It is required for biogenesis of miRNAs and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), and also plays an important role in an effector step of RNA silencing, the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) assemb...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Jaskiewicz L,Filipowicz W

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Phospholipases are diverse enzymes produced in eukaryotic hosts and their bacterial pathogens. Several pathogen phospholipases have been identified as major virulence factors acting mainly in two different modes: on the one hand, they have the capability to destroy host membranes and on the other hand they are able to...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Kuhle K,Flieger A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumors are formed following the accumulation of several genetic changes in genes which normally function to regulate cell growth. As yet it is unclear why multiple mutations are required, which type of alterations can collaborate with each other, and if collaboration is cell-type specific. In our myc transgenic mouse ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Scheuermann RH,Bauer SR

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various gram-negative pathogens express type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) which translocate bacterial virulence factors into host target cells to hijack cellular processes for their own benefit and causing disease. The pathology of Helicobacter pylori, the causative agent of chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, an...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Backert S,Haas R,Gerhard M,Naumann M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific T cell responses to a variety of self and microbial lipids depend on proper assembly and intracellular trafficking of CD 1 molecules that intersect with and load processed lipid antigens. These pathways involve unique membrane trafficking and chaperones that are distinct from those utilized for major histocom...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Sugita M,Barral DC,Brenner MB

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：:During the last two decades, researchers have developed robust systems for recombinant subunit vaccine production in plants. Stably and transiently transformed plants have particular advantages that enable immunization of humans and animals via mucosal delivery. The initial goal to immunize orally by ingestion of plan...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Mason HS,Herbst-Kralovetz MM

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：: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：: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：:E2F is a heterodimer composed of two partners, such as E2F1 and DP1. Although E2F1 can bind DNA as a homodimer and increase promoter activity, optimal DNA-binding and transcriptional activity occurs in the heterodimeric form. A model (Fig. 3) for the involvement of E2F activity in cell growth control that incorporates...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Slansky JE,Farnham PJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was the first pandemic transmissible disease of previously unknown aetiology in the twenty-first century. Early epidemiologic investigations suggested an animal origin for SARS-CoV. Virological and serological studies indicated that masked palm civets ( Paguma larvata), togethe...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Wang LF,Eaton BT

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Measles virus (MV) has two envelope glycoproteins, the hemagglutinin (H) and fusion protein, which are responsible for attachment and membrane fusion, respectively. Signaling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM, also called CD150), a membrane glycoprotein expressed on immune cells, acts as the principal cellular rece...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Yanagi Y,Takeda M,Ohno S,Hashiguchi T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After infection of a cell, the positive-strand RNA genome of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) directly serves as the template for translation in the cytosol. By the use of an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) element in the 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR) of the viral RNA, the HCV RNA bypasses the need for nuclear processing...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Niepmann M

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Rabies, being a major zoonotic disease, significantly impacts global public health. It is invariably fatal once clinical signs are apparent. The majority of human rabies deaths occur in developing countries. India alone reports more than 50% of the global rabies deaths. Although it is a vaccine-preventable disease, ef...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Nagarajan T,Rupprecht CE,Dessain SK,Rangarajan PN,Thiagarajan D,Srinivasan VA

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Studies have focused on two genetic loci, c-myb and Mml1, whose activation by retroviral insertional mutagenesis contribute to promonocytic leukemia in our acute monocytic leukemia (AMoL) model. Multiple mechanisms of activation of c-myb by retroviral insertional mutagenesis implicate both transcriptional deregulation...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Wolff L,Koller R,Bies J,Nazarov V,Hoffman B,Amanullah A,Krall M,Mock B

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00