The immunological synapse, TCR microclusters, and T cell activation.

abstract：:Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is associated with reciprocal and balanced chromosomal translocations always involving the retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARa) gene on chromosome 17 and variable partner genes (X genes) on distinct chromosomes. RARalpha fuses to the PML gene in the majority of APL cases, and in a few...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Scaglioni PP,Pandolfi PP

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：:In normal cells, the proto-oncogene c-myc is regulated by promoter-proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II (pol II). In Burkitt lymphoma cells, c-myc is chromosomally translocated to one of the three immunoglobulin (Ig) gene loci and its transcription is driven constitutively by Ig enhancers. Promoter-proximal pausing o...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Schneider EE,Albert T,Wolf DA,Eick D

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Torque teno (TT) viruses have been more frequently reported in malignant biopsies when compared to normal control tissue. The possible contribution of TT virus infection to human carcinogenesis or the potential oncolytic functions of these virus infections are being discussed based on available experimental evidence. ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： zur Hausen H,de Villiers EM

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Imprinting is the uniparental expression of a set of genes. Somatic cells carry two haploid sets of chromosomes, one maternal and one paternal, while germ cells contain only one of the two forms of chromosomes, male or female. This implies that during early embryogenesis the cells committed for developing the future g...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： El-Maarri O,Slim R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While more and more attention has been paid to CpG-DNA with respect to its usefulness as an adjuvant, its molecular mechanism of action is less well defined. Over the last few years, at least two major signalling pathways have been shown to be utilized by CpG-DNA: the NF-kappa B activation pathway and the stress-kinas...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Häcker H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of protein aggregates has a fundamental role in the patophysiology of distinct neurodegenerative diseases. This phenomenon may have a common origin, where disruption of intracellular mechanisms related to protein homeostasis (here termed proteostasis) control during aging may result in abnormal protei...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Cabral-Miranda F,Hetz C

更新日期：2018-01-01 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 Picornaviridae encompass many positive-strand RNA viruses, all of which share a generally similar genome design and capsid structure, but which induce quite diverse diseases in humans and other animals. Picornavirus strains of the same serotype have been shown to express different virulence (or pathogenic) phenoty...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Tracy S,Chapman NM,Drescher KM,Kono K,Tapprich W

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：: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：:Axonal transport ensures long-range delivery of essential components and signals between proximal and distal areas of the neuron, and it is crucial for neuronal homeostasis and survival. Several pathogens and virulence factors use this route to gain access to the central nervous system, exploiting the complex and stil...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Bercsenyi K,Giribaldi F,Schiavo G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild aquatic bird populations have long been considered the natural reservoir for influenza A viruses with virus transmission from these birds seeding other avian and mammalian hosts. While most evidence still supports this dogma, recent studies in bats have suggested other reservoir species may also exist. Extensive ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Yoon SW,Webby RJ,Webster RG

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural BD is a nonpurulent acute/subacute encephalitis of horses and sheep with a propensity to involve the olfactory and limbic systems, and the brain stem. The inflammation is concentrated primarily in the gray matter, but subcortical white matter may also be affected. Experimental BD can be produced in a series of...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Gosztonyi G,Ludwig H

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and represents one of the most relevant bacterial diseases worldwide. Recent advances have yielded new insights into the molecular basis of the immune response required for restriction of the pathogen and also highlighted determinants of im...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Ablasser A,Dorhoi A

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:B. anthracis virulence is the sum of the contributions of factors involved in toxicity, growth and persistence in the host. Recent data has revealed that the interactions between B. anthracis and macrophage is central to the B. anthracis pathogenesis. This review presents and describes tactics by which B. anthracis no...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Guidi-Rontani C,Mock M

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:Theoretical modeling of quasispecies has progressed in several directions. In this chapter, we review the works of Emmanuel Tannenbaum, who, together with Eugene Shakhnovich at Harvard University and later with colleagues and students at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheva, implemented one of the more useful approaches...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Wagner N,Atsmon-Raz Y,Ashkenasy G

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commercial vaccines currently available against swine influenza virus (SIV) are inactivated, adjuvanted, whole virus vaccines, based on H1N1 and/or H3N2 and/or H1N2 SIVs. In keeping with the antigenic and genetic differences between SIVs circulating in Europe and the US, the vaccines for each region are produced local...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Van Reeth K,Ma W

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that a new form of human prion disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) had occurred in the UK was first raised by the identification of a small number of cases with unusual clinical characteristics. Atypical features included a young age at death, a predominantly psychiatric presentation, a r...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Will RG,Ward HJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular response of cancer cells to hypoxia is the focus of intense research. In the last decade, research into microRNAs (miRNAs), small RNAs which have a role in regulation of mRNA and translation, has grown exponentially. miR-210 has emerged as the predominant miRNA regulated by hypoxia. Elucidation of its ta...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： McCormick R,Buffa FM,Ragoussis J,Harris AL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic differences that potentially account for the attenuation of the Oka vaccine VZV preparation are more clearly defined than for perhaps any other vaccine in current use. This is due in large part to the small number of differences between the vaccine and the parental strain from which it was derived, and to ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Schmid DS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently there is no commercial Group A Streptococcus (GAS; S. pyogenes) vaccine available. The development of safe GAS vaccines is challenging, researchers are confronted with obstacles such as the occurrence of many unique serotypes (there are greater than 150 M types), antigenic variation within the same serotype,...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Henningham A,Gillen CM,Walker MJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of human organotypic models for biomedical research is experiencing a significant increase due to their biological relevance, the possibility to perform high-throughput analyses, and their cost efficiency. In the field of anti-infective research, comprising the search for novel antipathogenic treatments includ...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Hendriks A,Cruz AR,Soldaini E,Manetti AGO,Bagnoli F

更新日期：2018-09-20 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