Immune evasion and provocation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis

P Chandra, SJ Grigsby, JA Philips - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, has infected humans for
millennia. M. tuberculosis is well adapted to establish infection, persist in the face of the host …

Type I interferons in tuberculosis: Foe and occasionally friend

L Moreira-Teixeira, K Mayer-Barber, A Sher… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - rupress.org
Tuberculosis remains one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, and, despite its
clinical significance, there are still significant gaps in our understanding of pathogenic and …

Inborn errors of type I IFN immunity in patients with life-threatening COVID-19

Q Zhang, P Bastard, Z Liu, J Le Pen, M Moncada-Velez… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Clinical outcomes of human severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection range from silent infection to lethal coronavirus …

[HTML][HTML] Type I interferon signaling mediates Mycobacterium tuberculosis–induced macrophage death

L Zhang, X Jiang, D Pfau, Y Ling… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - rupress.org
Macrophages help defend the host against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the major
cause of tuberculosis (TB). Once phagocytized, Mtb resists killing by macrophages …

Type I interferon-driven susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis is mediated by IL-1Ra

DX Ji, LH Yamashiro, KJ Chen, N Mukaida… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) causes tuberculosis and is
responsible for more human mortality than any other single pathogen. Progression to active …

A loss-of-function IFNAR1 allele in Polynesia underlies severe viral diseases in homozygotes

P Bastard, KC Hsiao, Q Zhang, J Choin… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
Globally, autosomal recessive IFNAR1 deficiency is a rare inborn error of immunity
underlying susceptibility to live attenuated vaccine and wild-type viruses. We report seven …

[HTML][HTML] Mycobacterium tuberculosis suppresses host DNA repair to boost its intracellular survival

S Liu, L Guan, C Peng, Y Cheng, H Cheng, F Wang… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2023 - cell.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) triggers distinct changes in macrophages, resulting in the
formation of lipid droplets that serve as a nutrient source. We discover that Mtb promotes …

Early cellular mechanisms of type I interferon-driven susceptibility to tuberculosis

DI Kotov, OV Lee, SA Fattinger, CA Langner, JV Guillen… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) causes 1.6 million deaths annually. Active
tuberculosis correlates with a neutrophil-driven type I interferon (IFN) signature, but the …

The value of transcriptomics in advancing knowledge of the immune response and diagnosis in tuberculosis

A Singhania, RJ Wilkinson, M Rodrigue, P Haldar… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Blood transcriptomics analysis of tuberculosis has revealed an interferon-inducible gene
signature that diminishes in expression after successful treatment; this promises improved …

Exploring the “multiple-hit hypothesis” of neurodegenerative disease: bacterial infection comes up to bat

KL Patrick, SL Bell, CG Weindel… - Frontiers in Cellular and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Despite major strides in personalized genomics, it remains poorly understood why
neurodegenerative diseases occur in only a fraction of individuals with a genetic …