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  1. "Our findings underscore the importance of cell death in defense against intracellular bacterial pathogens and provide an example of how layered and hierarchical immune pathways can provide robust defense against pathogens that have evolved a broad arsenal of virulence factors."

    #Shigella #HostPathogen #CellDeath #Apoptosis #InnateImmunity #Pathogen #Microbiology #Immunology

    elifesciences.org/articles/836

  2. How to sustain energy-costly #proteinsynthesis under #nutrient-fluctuating conditions?
    Weiwei Han, Eduardo Groisman and coworkers show that #bacterial #elongation factor paralog EF-G2 mediates slow #translation without #GTPase activity/#GTP hydrolysis to promote #Bacteroides gut colonization
    #microbiology #hostpathogen
    embopress.org/doi/10.15252/emb

  3. 'Flagella-driven motility is essential for the entry of H. pylori into the mucus layer and for maintaining a swimming reservoir in the mucus (Fig. 3). H. pylori has a unipolar bundle of rotating sheathed flagella, with filaments composed of two flagellin proteins that evade activating the innate immune system via TLR5 due to specific adaptation of their amino acid sequences'

    #Helicobacter #InnateImmunity #HostPathogen

    nature.com/articles/s41572-023

  4. 'We discovered that the Neisseria gonorrhoeae transcriptional response to PMNs has features in common with the transcriptional response to nutrient metals and oxidative stress, which enhance Neisseria gonorrhoeae resistance to hydrogen peroxide & polymorphonuclear leukocytes.'
    #Immunology #HostPathogen

    journals.plos.org/plospathogen

  5. 'By employing a metabolic compartmentalization approach, we observed enhanced glycolysis and accumulation of the TCA-cycle derivative itaconate in splenic monocyte-derived dendritic cells from Plasmodium chabaudi (Pc)-infected mice.'
    #Malaria #Plasmodium #HostPathogen #Metabolism #immunology

    cell.com/cell-metabolism/fullt

  6. "Notably, infection and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in mink resulted in adaptive mutations in the virus genome, and viruses with these mink-origin mutations were detected in humans, suggesting mink-to-human transmission of the virus"
    #SarsCov2 #Covid19 #Covid #HostPathogen

    journals.aai.org/jimmunol/arti

  7. Live long & prosper. And host pathogens.

    "The white-footed deermouse Peromyscus leucopus, a long-lived rodent, is a key reservoir for agents of several zoonoses, including Lyme disease. While persistently infected, this deermouse is without apparent disability or diminished fitness"
    #immunology #InfectiousDisease #HostPathogen #ResistanceTolerance

    elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre

  8. 'Hence, a parasite protein known to bind two host cytokine receptor subunits has evolved a third receptor specificity, which serves to raise the avidity and cell type–specific potency of TGF-β signaling in mammalian cells.'
    #immunology #Parasitology #HostPathogen

    pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2302

  9. 'Together, these results demonstrate that host cGAS–STING senses T. cruzi infection, enhancing parasite growth at the site of entry, and contributes to acute-phase parasite restriction in the heart, a major site of tissue damage in chronic T. cruzi infection.'
    #immunology #InnateImmunity #HostPathogen

    journals.aai.org/jimmunol/arti

  10. 'Although infection and these translocated effector proteins are restricted to intestinal epithelial cells (IEC), type I dendritic cells (cDC1) were required to generate CD8+ T cell responses to these model antigens.'

    #Preprint #Immunology #HostPathogen #MucosalImmunology

    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

  11. 'In conclusion, mitochondrial perturbation of the epithelium causes dysbiotic expansion of Bacteroides spp., supporting the concept that microbe-host cross-talk contributes to metabolic injury in intestinal inflammation.'

    #Preprint #HostPathogen #metabolism #Immunology #MucosalImmunology

    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

  12. 'Therefore, to understand the influence of Wolbachia on within-host ZIKV evolution, we characterized the genetic diversity of molecularly barcoded ZIKV virus populations replicating in Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes and found that within-host ZIKV evolution was subject to weak purifying selection and, unexpectedly, loose anatomical bottlenecks in the presence and absence of Wolbachia'

    #Preprint #Wolbachia #HostPathogen #Virology #InnateImmunity

    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

  13. 'To study regulators of bacterial pathogenicity that are the major drivers of infectious disease outcome, we developed scPAIR-seq, an approach to functionally analyze the effects of bacterial mutants on host immunity at single-cell resolution.'

    #Immunology #HostPathogen

    pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2218

  14. "In this study, we provide a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship among these cellular subsets, uncover a novel homeostatic function in human NK cells, and illuminate how HIV-1 infection disrupts these cellular subsets and their functions"

    #HIV #InfectiousDisease #HostPathogen #Immunology #virology

    Wang et al @embojournal

    embopress.org/doi/full/10.1525

  15. 'Tuberculosis (TB) is a heterogenous disease in humans with individuals exhibiting a wide range of susceptibility. This heterogeneity is not captured by standard laboratory mouse lines. We used a new collection of 19 wild-derived inbred mouse lines collected from diverse geographic sites to identify novel phenotypes during Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection.'

    #Preprint #Tuberculosis #Immunology #HostPathogen #InfectiousDisease

    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

  16. Progress on understanding #endometriosis

    "In a cohort of women, 64% of patients with endometriosis but <10% of controls were found to have Fusobacterium infiltration in the endometrium. Immunohistochemical and biochemical analyses revealed that activated transforming growth factor–β (TGF-β) signaling resulting from Fusobacterium infection of endometrial cells led to the transition from quiescent fibroblasts to transgelin (TAGLN)–positive myofibroblasts, which gained the ability to proliferate, adhere, and migrate in vitro."
    #HostPathogen

    science.org/doi/10.1126/scitra

  17. 'Here, we aimed to understand how closely related strains with overlapping metabolic capacities can co-bloom (i.e., both strains reaching high densities) in the mammalian gut and how this promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance plasmids.'

    #HostPathogen #microbiology #mucosalimmunology

    cell.com/cell-host-microbe/ful

  18. 'Anomotaenia brevis, a cestode that uses Temnothorax nylanderi ants as intermediate hosts, extends the lifespan of these hosts several fold and changes their behaviour, morphology, and colouration. The mechanisms behind these changes are unknown, as is whether the increased longevity is achieved through manipulation of the parasite.'

    #Preprint #HostPathogen

    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

  19. 'Studies herein with Salmonella demonstrate that the interactions of structurally related, but functionally unique, α-helical Gre factors with the secondary channel of RNA polymerase elicit the expression of metabolic signatures that are associated with resistance to oxidative killing.'
    #Microbiology #HostPathogen

    journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

  20. 'Using fluorescence microscopy, we show that B. burgdorferi associates with mouse and human cells in culture, and we document that internalized spirochetes colocalize with the pattern recognition receptor cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS).'

    #Immunology #InnateImmunity #Borrelia #HostPathogen

    journals.aai.org/jimmunol/arti

  21. Nifty little host manipulation trick by Mtb

    "In this issue of the JCI, Bedard et al. demonstrate that 1-tuberculosinyladenosine, a virulence factor produced by M. tuberculosis, caused lysosomal dysfunction associated with lipid storage in the phagolysosome of macrophages in a manner that mimicked lysosomal storage diseases."

    #tuberculosis #HostPathogen

    jci.org/articles/view/168366

  22. "As an early-stage Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, Pascale made a discovery that ‘triggered a whole tsunami in the field’. She discovered the mechanisms of how L. monocytogenes uses the actin of a host to move and spread across tissue."

    #LIsteria #HostPathogen

    academic.oup.com/microlife/art

  23. "Here, we investigated the fetal hematopoietic response to maternal infection with Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii), an intracellular parasite that elicits Type II IFNγ-mediated maternal immunity."

    #immunology #Parasitology #Toxoplasma #HostPathogen #InfetionImmunity #Preprint

    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

  24. "By conducting a pangenomic screen of the plant pathogen #Pseudomonas syringae, we found 13 type III effectors that potentially possess NADase activities, indicating that NAD+ manipulation is an important virulence mechanism."

    #HostPathogen #InfetionImmunity #Metabolism

    pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2217

  25. This may be particularly helpful for developing risk models of zoonotic spillover from known host-pathogen systems. So we next turned our eyes to #HostPathogen association datasets. Fortunately the team @viralemergence have recently produced a harmonised host-pathogen dataset 🍀

  26. 'Gene duplication and diversification allow hosts to mutate otherwise essential genes, whereas changes in transcriptional regulation can selectively activate genes should their constitutive expression be detrimental. To counter mutational tolerance, it has been suggested that viruses target essential genes as host cofactors, because the genes are less prone to variability'

    #Virology #HostPathogen #RNASplicing

    journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

  27. "During systemic Salmonella Typhimurium (STm) infection germinal centers are absent, whereas extensive extrafollicular switched antibody responses are maintained. The mechanisms that underpin the absence of GC formation are incompletely understood. Here, we show that STm-induces a reversible disruption of niches within the splenic microenvironment, including the T and B cell compartments and the marginal zone."

    #GerminalCenter #Salmonella #Immunology #Infection #HostPathogen #Preprint

    cc @mucida @kevinng @BrodskyLab @victoralab

    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

  28. 'Although infection and these translocated effector proteins are restricted to intestinal epithelial cells (IEC), type I dendritic cells (cDC1) were required to generate CD8+ T cell responses to these model antigens.'

    #Preprint #Immunology #HostPathogen #MucosalImmunology

    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

  29. 'Although infection and these translocated effector proteins are restricted to intestinal epithelial cells (IEC), type I dendritic cells (cDC1) were required to generate CD8+ T cell responses to these model antigens.'

    #Preprint #Immunology #HostPathogen #MucosalImmunology

    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

  30. 'Although infection and these translocated effector proteins are restricted to intestinal epithelial cells (IEC), type I dendritic cells (cDC1) were required to generate CD8+ T cell responses to these model antigens.'

    #Preprint #Immunology #HostPathogen #MucosalImmunology

    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

  31. 'In conclusion, mitochondrial perturbation of the epithelium causes dysbiotic expansion of Bacteroides spp., supporting the concept that microbe-host cross-talk contributes to metabolic injury in intestinal inflammation.'

    #Preprint #HostPathogen #metabolism #Immunology #MucosalImmunology

    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

  32. 'In conclusion, mitochondrial perturbation of the epithelium causes dysbiotic expansion of Bacteroides spp., supporting the concept that microbe-host cross-talk contributes to metabolic injury in intestinal inflammation.'

    #Preprint #HostPathogen #metabolism #Immunology #MucosalImmunology

    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

  33. 'In conclusion, mitochondrial perturbation of the epithelium causes dysbiotic expansion of Bacteroides spp., supporting the concept that microbe-host cross-talk contributes to metabolic injury in intestinal inflammation.'

    #Preprint #HostPathogen #metabolism #Immunology #MucosalImmunology

    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20