Naturally arising Foxp3-expressing CD25+CD4+ regulatory T cells in self-tolerance and autoimmune disease.

abstract：:Climate change adds complexity and uncertainty to human health issues such as emerging infectious diseases, food security, and national sustainability planning that intensify the importance of interdisciplinary and collaborative research. Collaboration between veterinary, medical, and public health professionals to un...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Patz JA,Hahn MB

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：:A number of Gram-positive bacteria are important players in industry as producers of a diverse array of economically interesting metabolites and proteins. As discussed in this overview, several Gram-positive bacteria are valuable hosts for the production of heterologous proteins. In contrast to Gram-negative bacteria,...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Anné J,Economou A,Bernaerts K

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain vertebrates are capable of regenerating parts of the eye, including the lens. Depending on the species, two principal forms of in vivo lens regeneration have been described wherein the new lens arises from either the pigmented epithelium of the dorsal iris or the cornea epithelium. These forms of lens regenera...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Henry JJ,Thomas AG,Hamilton PW,Moore L,Perry KJ

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：: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：: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：:Poxviruses have been long regarded as potent inhibitors of apoptotic cell death. More recently, they have been shown to inhibit necroptotic cell death through two distinct strategies. These strategies involve either blocking virus sensing by the host pattern recognition receptor, ZBP1 (also called DAI) or by influenci...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Koehler HS,Jacobs BL

更新日期：2021-01-29 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 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：: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：: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：:Negative-strand RNA virus particles are formed by a process that includes the assembly of viral components at the plasma membranes of infected cells and the subsequent release of particles by budding. Here, we review recent progress that has been made in understanding the mechanisms of negative-strand RNA virus assemb...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Schmitt AP,Lamb RA

更新日期：2004-01-01 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

abstract：:Host cell attachment by influenza A viruses is mediated by the hemagglutinin glycoprotein (HA), and the recognition of specific types of sialic acid -containing glycan receptors constitutes one of the major determinants of viral host range and transmission properties. Structural studies have elucidated some of the vir...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Xiong X,McCauley JW,Steinhauer DA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the original identification of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) as the gene defective in the primary immunodeficiency X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA) in 1993, our knowledge on the physiological function of BTK has expanded impressively. In this review, we focus on the role of BTK during B cell differentiation in...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Corneth OBJ,Klein Wolterink RGJ,Hendriks RW

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:Production of type I IFN is the key response to viral infection. Since the discovery of type I IFNs in 1957, long double-stranded RNA formed during replication of many viruses was thought to be responsible for type I IFN induction, and for decades double-stranded RNA-activated protein kinase (PKR) was thought to be th...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Schlee M,Barchet W,Hornung V,Hartmann G

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most cases, the genetic engineering of plants uses Agrobacterium-mediated transformation to introduce novel genes. In nature, insertion of T-DNA into the plant genome and its subsequent transfer via sexual reproduction have been shown for several species in the genera Nicotiana, Ipomoea , and Linaria . A sequence h...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Matveeva TV

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:Every enveloped virus fuses its membrane with a host cell membrane, thereby releasing its genome into the cytoplasm and initiating the viral replication cycle. In each case, one or a small set of viral surface transmembrane glycoproteins mediates fusion. Viral fusion proteins vary in their mode of activation and in st...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Earp LJ,Delos SE,Park HE,White JM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface membrane molecule CD5 is expressed on mature T cells and on the B-1a subpopulation of B cells. These CD5 positive B cells express an antibody repertoire with a relatively high frequency of self-reactivity. There is uncertainty about the origins of CD5 B cells and the reasons for this are reviewed. Recent r...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Bandyopadhyay RS,Teutsch MR,Wortis HH

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoprotein M (gM) is conserved among herpesviruses. Important features are its 6-8 transmembrane domains without a large extracellular domain, localization to the virion envelope, complex formation with another envelope glycoprotein, glycoprotein N (gN), and role in virion assembly and egress. In varicella-zoster vi...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Mori Y,Sadaoka T

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Measles ranks fifth among the five major childhood conditions which are responsible for 21% of all deaths in low and middle-income countries. Measles immunization is considered the most cost-effective public health intervention in the world. In recent years, there has been a critical need to identify alternative route...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Valdespino-Gómez JL,de Lourdes Garcia-Garcia M,Fernandez-de-Castro J,Henao-Restrepo AM,Bennett J,Sepulveda-Amor J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collective knowledge regarding the occurrence of influenza among swine is incomplete due to inconsistent surveillance of swine populations. In this chapter, we review what surveillance activities exist and some of the practical challenges encountered. Furthermore, to support robust surveillance activities, accurate la...

journal_title：Current topics in microbiology and immunology

authors： Detmer S,Gramer M,Goyal S,Torremorell M,Torrison J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00