Through the wall: extracellular vesicles in Gram-positive bacteria, mycobacteria and fungi

L Brown, JM Wolf, R Prados-Rosales… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are produced by all domains of life. In Gram-negative bacteria,
EVs are produced by the pinching off of the outer membrane; however, how EVs escape the …

Exosomes and other extracellular vesicles in host–pathogen interactions

JS Schorey, Y Cheng, PP Singh, VL Smith - EMBO reports, 2015 - embopress.org
An effective immune response requires the engagement of host receptors by pathogen‐
derived molecules and the stimulation of an appropriate cellular response. Therefore, a …

Applying extracellular vesicles based therapeutics in clinical trials–an ISEV position paper

T Lener, M Gimona, L Aigner, V Börger… - Journal of …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), such as exosomes and microvesicles, are released by different
cell types and participate in physiological and pathophysiological processes. EVs mediate …

A holistic review on Cryptococcus neoformans

SS Rathore, J Sathiyamoorthy, C Lalitha… - Microbial …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated fungal pathogen that causes infection in
immunocompromised individuals such as HIV patients, organ transplant patients …

Extracellular vesicles—connecting kingdoms

E Woith, G Fuhrmann, MF Melzig - International journal of molecular …, 2019 - mdpi.com
It is known that extracellular vesicles (EVs) are shed from cells of almost every type of cell or
organism, showing their ubiquity in all empires of life. EVs are defined as naturally released …

Exosomes and other extracellular vesicles: the new communicators in parasite infections

G Coakley, RM Maizels, AH Buck - Trends in parasitology, 2015 - cell.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as a ubiquitous mechanism for transferring
information between cells and organisms across all three kingdoms of life. In addition to their …

Basic principles of the virulence of Cryptococcus

O Zaragoza - Virulence, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Among fungal pathogens, Cryptococcus neoformans has gained great importance among
the scientific community of several reasons. This fungus is the causative agent of …

Fungal melanin: what do we know about structure?

JD Nosanchuk, RE Stark, A Casadevall - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The production of melanin significantly enhances the virulence of many important human
pathogenic fungi. Despite fungal melanin's importance in human disease, as well as …

Sporothrix brasiliensis: A Review of an Emerging South American Fungal Pathogen, Its Related Disease, Presentation and Spread in Argentina

A Etchecopaz, MA Toscanini, A Gisbert, J Mas… - Journal of Fungi, 2021 - mdpi.com
Sporotrichosis, caused by Sporothrix schenckii and related species, is the most frequent
implantation mycosis in Latin America. In Argentina, over the last 8 years, there have been …

Exosomes: immune properties and potential clinical implementations

N Chaput, C Théry - Seminars in immunopathology, 2011 - Springer
To communicate, cells are known to release in their environment proteins which bind to
receptors on surrounding cells. But cells also secrete more complex structures, called …