Varicella-zoster virus open reading frame 66 protein kinase and its relationship to alphaherpesvirus US3 kinases.

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

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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：:The catalytic polypeptides of certain bacterial and plant protein toxins reach their substrates in the cytosol of mammalian cells by retro-translocation from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Emerging evidence indicates that these proteins subvert the ER-associated protein degradation (ERAD) pathway that normally remove...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Lord JM,Roberts LM,Lencer WI

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a contractile nanomachine dedicated to delivering molecules out of bacterial cells. T6SS-encoding loci are in the genome sequences of many Gram-negative bacteria, and T6SS has been implicated in a plethora of roles. In the majority of cases, the T6SSs deliver effector p...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Wu CF,Smith DA,Lai EM,Chang JH

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is arguably one of the most successful pathogens of humans, persistently infecting over ninety percent of the world's population. Despite this high frequency of carriage, the virus causes apparently few adverse effects in the vast majority of infected individuals. Nevertheless, the potent grow...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Hislop AD,Taylor GS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia entercolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis are human foodborne pathogens that interact extensively with tissues of the gut and the host's immune system to cause disease. As part of their pathogenic strategies, the Yersinia have evolved numerous ways to invade host tissues, gain essential nutrients, and eva...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Dube P

更新日期：2009-01-01 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

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：:The rotaviruses, members of the family Reoviridae, are icosahedral triple-layered viruses with genomes consisting of 11 segments of double-stranded (ds)RNA. A characteristic feature of rotavirus-infected cells is the formation of large cytoplasmic inclusion bodies, termed viroplasms. These dynamic and highly organized...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Patton JT,Silvestri LS,Tortorici MA,Vasquez-Del Carpio R,Taraporewala ZF

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:B cell development is a process tightly regulated by the orchestrated signaling of cytokine receptors, the pre-B cell receptor (BCR) and the B cell receptor (BCR). It commences with common lymphoid progenitors (CLP) up-regulating the expression of B cell-related genes and committing to the B cell lineage. Cytokine sig...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Clark MR,Cooper AB,Wang LD,Aifantis I

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:The prototypes of the human MYC and RAF gene families are orthologs of animal proto-oncogenes that were originally identified as transduced alleles in the genomes of highly oncogenic retroviruses. MYC and RAF genes are now established as key regulatory elements in normal cellular physiology, but also as major cancer d...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Stefan E,Bister K

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:The human stomach is a harsh and fluctuating environment for bacteria with hazards such as gastric acid and flow through of gastric contents into the intestine. H. pylori gains admission to a stable niche with nutrient access from exudates when attached to the epithelial cells under the mucus layer, whereof adherence ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Padra M,Benktander J,Robinson K,Lindén SK

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:Inflammatory responses to microbial and non-microbial stimuli involve coordinate changes in the expression of hundreds of genes. The inflammatory gene expression programs display two important features: first, alternative stimuli affect both a large set of common genes and a variable number of stimulus-specific genes....

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Natoli G

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Cell-based therapies with various lymphocytes and antigen-presenting cells are promising approaches for cancer immunotherapy. The transfusion of T lymphocytes, also called adoptive cell therapy (ACT), is an effective treatment for viral infections, has induced regression of cancer in early stage clinical trials, and m...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Grupp SA,June CH

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells are crucial to mounting an effective immune response. They have a significant role in cancer immunosurveillance and function as a bridge between innate and adaptive immunity. However, until recently, surprisingly little was known about the molecular basis of NK cell development as compared to...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Male V,Brady HJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:During early stages of development, precursor B lymphocytes express a characteristic type of antigen receptor known as the pre-B-cell receptor (pre-BCR). This receptor differs from conventional BCRs in that it possesses a germ line-encoded surrogate light chain (SLC), which is associated with the signal transduction m...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Übelhart R,Werner M,Jumaa H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitous, opportunistic pathogen human cytomegalovirus (CMV) encodes several proteins homologous to those of the host organism. Four different CMV genes encode chemokine receptor-like peptides. These genes, UL33, UL78, US27, and US28, are expressed at various stages of infection in vitro. Their functions remain ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Beisser PS,Goh CS,Cohen FE,Michelson S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a systemic disease characterized by elevated serum IgG4 levels and a strong infiltration of IgG4-positive plasma cells in various organs. IgG4-RD patients also frequently suffer from allergic diseases, including asthma and atopic dermatitis. It is well known that T helper type 2 (Th2)...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Moriyama M,Nakamura S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell activation begins with the interaction between an antigen-specific T cell and an antigen-presenting cell (APC). This interaction results in the formation of the immunological synapse, which had been considered to be responsible for antigen recognition and T cell activation. Recent advances in imaging analysis h...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Yokosuka T,Saito T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00