abstract：:MAIT cells are innate-like T cells that are enriched in mucosal sites and tissues including adipose tissue and liver. They play an important role in immunity against microbial pathogens. Recently, it has been reported that MAIT cells could also be important in metabolic diseases and can be involved in setting up and m...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Toubal A,Lehuen A

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regarding the role of micro RNAs (miRNA) in the proliferation and differentiation of T cells as well as the controversy around the role of bacteria in the pathogenesis of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), the effects of Helicobacter pylori (Hp) and Lactobacillus acidophilus (La) were investigated in the induction of mi...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Kalani M,Hodjati H,Ghoddusi Johari H,Doroudchi M

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Smalotrophomonas maltophilia(S. maltophilia) is common in nosocomial infections. However, few studies have revealed the effect of S. maltophilia on cellular immunity in the host's immune system up to now. In clinical work, we accidentally discovered that S. maltophilia directly stimulated T cells to secrete ...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Wang M,Yin S,Qin Q,Peng Y,Hu Z,Zhu X,Liu L,Li X

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages are the most abundant cells in tumor stroma and their polarization within tumor microenvironment exert the key roles in tumorigenesis. Astragaloside IV is a natural extract from traditional Chinese herbal Radix Astragali, and fulfills pleiotropic function in several cancers. Nevertheless, its function in o...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Wang X,Gao S,Song L,Liu M,Sun Z,Liu J

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of α-galactosylceramide (α-GalCer) to act as an anti-cancer agent in mice through the specific stimulation of type I NKT (iNKT) cells has prompted extensive investigation to translate this finding to the clinic. However, low frequencies of iNKT cells in cancer patients and their hypo-responsiveness to rep...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Painter GF,Burn OK,Hermans IF

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunological role of exosomes in autoimmune encephalitis (AE) remains uncharacterized and not examined. In this study we ought to determine whether exosomes are generated in AE and to define the presence of cell surface neuronal autoantigens (autoAgs) in the cargo. Exosomes were isolated from cerebrospinal fluid ...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Gu J,Jin T,Li Z,Chen H,Xia H,Xu X,Gui Y

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) poses a significant challenge to healthcare systems worldwide. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the outbreak of COVID-19 has been a pandemic that infected more than 25.32 million people and caused more than 848.25 thousand deaths worldwi...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Liu D,Wu F,Cen Y,Ye L,Shi X,Huang Y,Fang S,Ma L

更新日期：2021-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:During T-cell regulation, T-cell receptors and CD28 lead to signaling activation, while T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4) is known to lead to downregulation, similar to programmed cell death-1 (PD-1). In the cytoplasmic tails of CD28 and CTLA-4, phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) binds to the consensus sequence including ...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Iiyama M,Numoto N,Ogawa S,Kuroda M,Morii H,Abe R,Ito N,Oda M

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathepsin L protease belongs to the papain-like cysteine proteases family, plays indispensable roles in animals' pathological and physiological processes. However, little is known about Cathepsin L in silkworm, Bombyx mori. Herein, a novel Cathepsin L-like (Cat L-like) was cloned and identified from silkworm by the ra...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Pan G,Zhang K,Li C,Hu X,Kausar S,Gu H,Yang L,Cui H

更新日期：2020-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review we introduce the basic principles of epigenetic gene regulation and discuss them in the context of dendritic cell (DC) development and differentiation. Epigenetic mechanisms control the accessibility of chromatin for DNA binding proteins and thus they control gene expression. These mechanisms comprise c...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Chauvistré H,Seré K

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GK-1 is an immunomodulatory, 18-aa-long peptide that has been proved to promote the activation of mouse peritoneal macrophages and LPS-pulsed mouse bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (BM-DCs). This study is aimed to explore the mechanisms underlying the activation of these antigen-presenting cells (APCs) by GK-1. In ...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Montero L,Cervantes-Torres J,Sciutto E,Fragoso G

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease which is susceptible to children and causes great harm to them. Recently, Interferon-related developmental regulator 1 (IFRD1) was proved to be participant in regulating lung diseases, and its abnormal expression was shown in pathological airway tissues. Our study aimed to demon...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Chang M,Zhang Y,Hui Z,Wang D,Guo H

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV) is one of the main pathogens that seriously affect the sustainable development of sericulture industry. Inhibition of Hsp90 by Hsp90 inhibitor, geldanamycin (GA) significantly suppresses BmNPV proliferation in Bombyx mori, while the functional mechanism is not clear. LncRNA has...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Yin H,Shang Q,Zhang S,Shen M,Huang H,Zhao W,Xijie G,Wu P

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis-induced inflammatory damage is a crucial cause of acute kidney injury (AKI), and AKI is an ecumenical fearful complication in approximately half of patients with sepsis. CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein β (C/EBPβ) plays roles in regulating acute phase responses and inflammation. However, the role and mechanism of...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Dai XG,Li Q,Li T,Huang WB,Zeng ZH,Yang Y,Duan ZP,Wang YJ,Ai YH

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolactin has several immune functions in fish however, the effects on innate and specific components of rainbow trout immunity are currently unknown. Therefore in this study, prolactin peptide (pPRL) injection in rainbow trout generated anti-PRL antibodies that were confirmed through Western blot assays of fish brain...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Villalba M,Gómez G,Torres L,Maldonado N,Espiñeira C,Payne G,Vargas-Chacoff L,Figueroa J,Yáñez A,Olavarría VH

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T regulatory (Treg)/T-helper (Th) 17 imbalance has been shown to integrate with epigenetics to result in the development of autoimmune diseases. We aim to investigate the influence of disease staging on Treg/Th17 cells and whether the aberrant DNA methylation is implicated in the development of rheumatoid arthritis (R...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Huang Y,Wang H,Ba X,Chen Z,Wang Y,Qin K,Huang Y,Shen P,Tu S

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insect gut participates in initial local immune responses by producing reactive oxygen and nitrogen species as well as anti-microbial peptides to resist pathogenic invasions. Nitric oxide (NO), a signaling and an immune effector molecule synthesized by the enzyme NO synthase (NOS), mediates an early step of the si...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Liu W,Wang Y,Leng Z,Wang Q,Duan X,Luo Y,Jiang Y,Qin L

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucine-rich repeat-containing G-protein-coupled receptors (LGRs) form a subfamily of the large superfamily of G-protein-coupled receptors. LGRs can be divided into three groups. LGR2 from Drosophila melanogaster is involved in cuticle tanning (melanization and sclerotization). In this study, one LGR2 (MnLGR2) was ide...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Cao X,Zhang C,Zhang R,Wang K,Dai X,Huang X,Ren Q

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PIM1 is serine/threonine protein kinase that is involved in numerous biological processes. Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a chronic pathological result of the dysfunctional repair of lung injury without effective therapeutic treatments. In the current study, we investigated whether PIM1 inhibition would improve bleomycin ...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Zhang X,Zou Y,Liu Y,Cao Y,Zhu J,Zhang J,Chen X,Zhang R,Li J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suppressor of cytokine signaling 3 (SOCS3) is a negative regulator of TBK1 and interferon pathway and the expression of SOCS3 is closely correlated with symptoms of influenza patients. However, whether deletion of Socs3 in the lung epithelial cells would affect influenza lung replication and inflammation in vivo is un...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Li L,Wu H,Li Q,Chen J,Xu K,Xu J,Su X

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary immune response against Staphylococcus aureus is mediated by neutrophils. In response to S. aureus and its proteins, neutrophil shows two different kinds of NETosis, viz. suicidal and vesicular NETosis. Glucose is the major energy source of neutrophils for performing NETosis. However, NETosis was found alt...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： V Shaji B,Shaji S,V H H,S P,Y A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bladder cancer (BC) can be successfully treated by manipulating immune responses with intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guerin instillation or targeting the PD-1/PD-L signaling pathway. In the present study we investigated the prognostic significance of the immune checkpoint inhibitor PD-1 and its ligands PD-L1...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Ariafar A,Ghaedi M,Rezaeifard S,Shahriari S,Zeighami S,Ghaderi A,Faghih Z

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania infantum pyridoxal kinase (PK) protein was characterized after an immunoproteomics screening performed with the sera from patients suffering visceral leishmaniasis (VL). Since it was recognized by sera of mammalian hosts infected by a viscerotropic Leishmania species, PK could emerge as a new vaccine candid...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Oliveira-da-Silva JA,Lage DP,Ramos FF,Machado AS,Tavares GSV,Mendonça DVC,Pereira IAG,Martins VT,Carvalho LM,Ludolf F,Santos TTO,Reis TAR,Oliveira CS,Bandeira RS,Silva AM,Costa LE,Oliveira JS,Duarte MC,Menezes-Souza D

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD1) is a cell-surface receptor that plays a vital regulatory role in suppressing inflammatory T cell activity; therefore, it is an ideal target for T cell-redirecting therapies. Here, we describe a cynomolgus macaque model for studying the transfer of PD1-modified T cells. We develope...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Gao CE,Song Q,Zhang M,Li J,Miao Y,Li Z,Dong J

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune system protects from infections primarily by detecting and eliminating invading pathogens. This is predominantly mediated by innate immune cells like neutrophils, monocytes and dendritic cells (DCs) expressing specific receptors recognizing pathogen-associated molecular patterns. DC activation by pathogens ...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Bieber K,Autenrieth SE

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transglutaminase 2 (TG2) is one of the enigmatic enzymes with important functional diversity. It plays an important role in several pathologies such as celiac disease (CD). In patients with active CD, the abnormal retrotranscytosis of IgA/gliadin complexes is mediated by Transferrin Receptor 1 (TfR1). This triad a...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Abbad L,Monteiro RC,Berthelot L

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consumption of fermentable dietary fibres, such as inulin, or administration of helminth products (e.g. Trichuris suis ova) have independently been shown to alleviate inflammation in vivo. We recently found that dietary inulin and T. suis infection in pigs co-operatively suppressed type-1 inflammatory responses in the...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Myhill LJ,Jensen P,Zakeri A,Nielsen LF,Jakobsen SR,Mejer H,Thamsborg SM,Nejsum P,Williams AR

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that aberrant activation of the complement system plays an important role in the pathogenesis of preeclampsia. There is evidence to suggest that aberrant activation of the complement system may already be present during the first trimester. Here, we performed a prospective study in which peri...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： He YD,Xu BN,Wang ML,Wang YQ,Yu F,Chen Q,Zhao MH

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mus m 1.0102 is a member of the mouse Major Urinary Protein family, belonging to the Lipocalins superfamily. Major Urinary Proteins (MUPs) are characterized by highly conserved structural motifs. These include a disulphide bond, involved in protein oxidative folding and protein structure stabilization, and a free cyst...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Ferrari E,Corsini R,Burastero SE,Tanfani F,Spisni A

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:The complement system plays an important role in the development of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Complement C1q is an important initial component of the classical complement pathway and closely related to many chronic inflammatory diseases, including atherosclerosis (AS). We aimed to determi...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Ni XN,Yan SB,Zhang K,Sai WW,Zhang QY,Ti Y,Wang ZH,Zhang W,Zheng CY,Zhong M

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the impact of death-associated protein kinase 1 (Dapk1) on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced acute lung injury (ALI) via p38MAPK/NF-κB pathway. METHODS:Dapk1+/+ and Dapk1-/- mice were randomized into Control, LPS, SB203580 (a p38MAPK pathway inhibitor) + LPS, and PDTC (a NF-κB pathway inhibitor...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Li T,Wu YN,Wang H,Ma JY,Zhai SS,Duan J

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histocompatibility Leukocyte Antigens, or HLAs, are one of the most polymorphic molecules in humans. This high degree of polymorphism endows HLA molecules with the ability to present a vast array of peptides, an essential trait for responding to ever-evolving pathogens. Unlike classical HLA molecules (HLA-Ia), some no...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Grant EJ,Nguyen AT,Lobos CA,Szeto C,Chatzileontiadou DSM,Gras S

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells(DCs) were once considered as a single cell type closely related developmentally to macrophages. Now we recognise several subtypes of DCs and have outlined several different pathways that potentially lead to their development. This article outlines some of the research findings that led to these changes...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Shortman K

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crotoxin (Ctx) is the main lethal component of Crotalus durissus terrificus venom. It is a neurotoxin, composed of two subunits associated by noncovalent interactions, the non-toxic acid subunit (CA), named Crotapotin, and the basic subunit (CB), with phospholipase A2 (PLA2) activity. Employing the SPOT synthesis tech...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Molina Molina DA,Guerra-Duarte C,Costal-Oliveira F,Almeida Rocha E,Rego Rodrigues C,Machado-de-Ávila RA,Soccol VT,Chávez-Olórtegui C

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The five-year survival rate of melanoma worsens significantly with advancing tumor stage. We hypothesized that regulatory B cells (Breg) might have participated in the pathogenesis of melanoma. In this study, the PD-L1+ Breg cells were investigated. The expression of PD-L1 by circulating B cells was very low in health...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Wu H,Xia L,Jia D,Zou H,Jin G,Qian W,Xu H,Li T

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a neurological disease with high incidence and disability. In this paper, we made a foundational study in long non-coding RNA paternally expressed gene 10 (lncRNA PEG10) at PC-12 cells. METHODS:We used CCK8, flow cytometry, migration and invasion assay to detect changes at the cel...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Niu S,Ni Y,Niu T,Gao J

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p38 mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) are essential cytoplasmic signal molecules of innate immune pathways that play a vital role in host immune defense responses to pathogenic challenges. In this study, two fish p38 genes (Cip38α and Cip38β) were characterized for the first time from the grass carp Ctenop...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Sun Y,Xu W,Li D,Zhou H,Qu F,Cao S,Tang J,Zhou Y,He Z,Li H,Zhou Z,Liu Z

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although granulocyte colony-stimulating factor(G-CSF) has pathogenic roles in several immune inflammatory diseases, its role in periodontitis has not been investigated. Here we detected local expression of G-CSF using public datasets in the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database, and immune cell infiltration into ging...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Zhang Z,Yuan W,Deng J,Wang D,Zhang T,Peng L,Tian H,Wang Z,Ma J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A T cell subtype with the CD4+CD25-FoxP3+ phenotype was recently described. We aimed to investigate the frequency of these cells and their ability to produce cytokines in tumor-draining lymph nodes from patients with breast cancer (BC). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Mononuclear cells from lymph nodes of 20 patients...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Niakan A,Faghih Z,Talei AR,Ghaderi A

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammals have evolved a special cellular mechanism for killing invading microbes, which is called the phagocytosis. Neutrophils are the first phagocytosing cells that migrate into the site of infection. In these cells, hypochlorite (HOCl) and other hypohalites, generated in the myeloperoxidase (MPO)-hydrogen peroxide (...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Atosuo J,Suominen E

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00