[HTML][HTML] The antimicrobial activity of innate host-directed therapies–a systematic review

T Shapira, M Christofferson, Y Av-Gay - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Intracellular human pathogens are the deadliest infectious diseases and pose great difficulty
to effectively treat due to their protection inside the host cell and the development of …

The versatile defender: exploring the multifaceted role of p62 in intracellular bacterial infection

Y Zhou, S Hua, L Song - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
As a highly conserved, multifunctional protein with multiple domains, p62/SQSTM1 plays a
crucial role in several essential cellular activities, particularly selective autophagy. Recent …

TREM2 promotes immune evasion by mycobacterium tuberculosis in human macrophages

A Dabla, YC Liang, N Rajabalee, C Irwin, CGJ Moonen… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Macrophage surface receptors are critical for pathogen defense, as they are the
gatekeepers for pathogen entry and sensing, which trigger robust immune responses …

Protein phosphatase PP2Cα S-glutathionylation regulates cell migration

DSK Kukulage, KTG Samarasinghe, NNJM Don… - Journal of Biological …, 2024 - jbc.org
Redox signaling is a fundamental mechanism that controls all major biological processes
partly via protein cysteine oxidations, including S-glutathionylation. Despite over 2000 …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection triggers epigenetic changes that are enriched in a type I IFN signature

K Madden, R El Hamra, S Berton, J Felker… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Tuberculosis, a deadly infectious lung disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb),
remains the leading cause of bacterial disease-related deaths worldwide. Mtb reprograms …

Small Molecule Targeting PPM1A Activates Autophagy for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Host-Directed Therapy

Z Yu, YC Liang, S Berton, L Liu, J Zou… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the infectious agent of tuberculosis (TB), causes over 1.5
million deaths globally every year. Host-directed therapies (HDT) for TB are desirable for …

PP2C phosphatases—terminators of suicidal thoughts

L Lagorgette, DA Bogdanova… - Cell Death & …, 2024 - nature.com
Cell death and related signaling pathways are essential during development and in various
physiological and pathological conditions. Post-translational modifications such as …

ATF2 orchestrates macrophage differentiation and activation to promote antibacterial responses

N Rajabalee, H Siushansian, M Weerapura, S Berton… - 2023 - academic.oup.com
The differentiation and activation of macrophages are critical regulatory programs that are
central to host inflammation and pathogen defense. However, the transcriptional regulatory …

Host‐pathogen dialogues in different cell death modes during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

H Ruan, M Lyu, H Lai, L Niu, Z Zhao… - Interdisciplinary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Tuberculosis (TB) is a fatal infectious disease that continues to pose a serious public health
threat. The emergence of drug‐resistant TB has further worsened the burden of the disease …

[HTML][HTML] An in vivo biosafety-level-2-compatible model of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection for drug susceptibility testing

YC Liang, S Berton, C Reeks, J Sun - STAR protocols, 2022 - Elsevier
Available mouse models for tuberculosis drug susceptibility testing requires using virulent
biosafety-level-3 (BSL-3) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) strains, or attenuated BSL-2 …