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The Drosophila Baramicin polypeptide gene protects against fungal infection

Bruno Lemaitre, Mark Austin Hanson, Alice Marra, Igor Iatsenko

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster combats microbial infection by producing a battery of effector peptides that are secreted into the haemolymph. Technical difficulties prevented the investigation of these short effector genes until the recent advent of ...

2021

A new paradigm for leprosy diagnosis based on host gene expression

Stewart Cole, Andrej Benjak, Charlotte Avanzi, Philippe Busso

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PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2021

Niche-Mediated Integrin Signaling Supports Steady-State Hematopoiesis in the Spleen

Jörg Hülsken

Outside-in integrin signaling regulates cell fate decisions in a variety of cell types, including hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Our earlier published studies showed that interruption of periostin (POSTN) and integrin-av (ITGAV) interaction induces faste ...

American Association of Immunologists ; Oxford University Press2021

BAF restricts cGAS on nuclear DNA to prevent innate immune activation

Beat Fierz, Mahmut Selman Sakar, Andrea Ablasser, Murat Kaynak, Kristina Makasheva, Alexiane Clara Decout, Baptiste Claude André Guey, Marilena Wischnewski

The appearance of DNA in the cytosol is perceived as a danger signal that stimulates potent immune responses through cyclic guanosine monophosphate–adenosine monophosphate synthase (cGAS). How cells regulate the activity of cGAS toward self-DNA and guard a ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2020

CD36-mediated metabolic adaptation supports regulatory T cell survival and function in tumors

Etienne Meylan

Depleting regulatory T cells (T-reg cells) to counteract immunosuppressive features of the tumor microenvironment (TME) is an attractive strategy for cancer treatment; however, autoimmunity due to systemic impairment of their suppressive function limits it ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

The emerging roles of eosinophils in mucosal homeostasis

Nicola Harris, Kathleen Shah

Eosinophils are granulocytes, typically implicated as end-stage effector cells in type-II immune responses. They are capable of producing a wide array of pre-formed molecules which render them with vast potential to influence a wide variety of processes. N ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Adjuvant-free immunization with infective filarial larvae as lymphatic homing antigen carriers

Melody Swartz, Alexandre de Titta, Esra Güç, David Scott Wilson, Marcela Rincón-Restrepo, Sachiko Hirosue

Controlled infection with intestinal nematodes has therapeutic potential for preventing the symptoms of allergic and autoimmune diseases. Here, we engineered larvae of the filarial nematode Litomosoides sigmodontis as a vaccine strategy to induce adaptive ...

Nature Research2020

Bioengineering Methods to Improve in vitro Adoptive Cell Therapy based on Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes

François Réal Rivest

Cancer is one of the biggest medical challenges of our times, with a devastating impact across all social categories. Accordingly, considerable efforts are geared towards improving the standard of care. Among them, immunotherapy, which relies on the immune ...

EPFL2020

How single-cell immunology is benefiting from microfluidic technologies

Sebastian Maerkl, Fabien Louis Claude Robert Jammes

The immune system is a complex network of specialized cells that work in concert to protect against invading pathogens and tissue damage. Imbalances in this network often result in excessive or absent immune responses leading to allergies, autoimmune disea ...

2020

Allosteric regulation and targeting of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk) in B-cell lymphoma

Daniel Pereira Duarte

Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk) is a key component of BCR signaling required for B-cell maturation and activation. Loss-of-function mutations throughout the Btk protein cause human X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA), a heritable genetic disorder characterize ...

EPFL2020

Weevil pgrp-lb prevents endosymbiont TCT dissemination and chronic host systemic immune activation

Florent François Masson, João Pedro Alves Da Silva

Long-term intracellular symbiosis (or endosymbiosis) is widely distributed across invertebrates and is recognized as a major driving force in evolution. However, the maintenance of immune homeostasis in organisms chronically infected with mutualistic bacte ...

National Academy of Sciences2019

Inflammation clues in STING protein structure

Andrea Ablasser

The STING protein aids intracellular defences by triggering inflammation. Studies that uncover how STING is activated might lead to strategies for targeting this protein in the treatment of cancer or autoimmune diseases. ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019