Key Limitations and New Insights Into the Toxoplasma gondii Parasite Stage Switching for Future Vaccine Development in Human, Livestock, and Cats

MN Mévélec, Z Lakhrif, I Dimier-Poisson - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease affecting human, livestock and cat. Prophylactic
strategies would be ideal to prevent infection. In a One Health vaccination approach, the …

The unicellular eukaryotic parasite Toxoplasma gondii hijacks the migration machinery of mononuclear phagocytes to promote its dissemination

EB Ólafsson, A Barragan - Biology of the Cell, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular protozoan with the ability to infect virtually any
type of nucleated cell in warm‐blooded vertebrates including humans. Toxoplasma gondii …

[HTML][HTML] The Toxoplasma effector GRA28 promotes parasite dissemination by inducing dendritic cell-like migratory properties in infected macrophages

AL Ten Hoeve, L Braun, ME Rodriguez, GC Olivera… - Cell host & …, 2022 - cell.com
Upon pathogen detection, macrophages normally stay sessile in tissues while dendritic cells
(DCs) migrate to secondary lymphoid tissues. The obligate intracellular protozoan …

An ex vivo model of Toxoplasma recrudescence reveals developmental plasticity of the bradyzoite stage

EA Vizcarra, AL Goerner, A Ulu, DD Hong… - Mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
The recrudescence of Toxoplasma cysts is the cause of clinical disease in the
immunocompromised. Although Toxoplasma has been a useful parasite model for decades …

Toxoplasma  GRA15 and GRA24 are important activators of the host innate immune response in the absence of TLR11

D Mukhopadhyay, D Arranz-Solís, JPJ Saeij - PLoS pathogens, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The murine innate immune response against Toxoplasma gondii is predominated by the
interaction of TLR11/12 with Toxoplasma profilin. However, mice lacking Tlr11 or humans …

Early growth response 1 suppresses macrophage phagocytosis by inhibiting NRF2 activation through upregulation of autophagy during pseudomonas aeruginosa …

Z Pang, Y Xu, Q Zhu - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that causes life-threatening
infections in cystic fibrosis patients and immunocompromised individuals. A tightly regulated …

scDual-Seq of Toxoplasma gondii-infected mouse BMDCs reveals heterogeneity and differential infection dynamics

F Hildebrandt, M Mohammed, A Dziedziech… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Dendritic cells and macrophages are integral parts of the innate immune system and
gatekeepers against infection. The protozoan pathogen, Toxoplasma gondii, is known to …

Early growth response 1 (EGR1) activation in initial stages of host–pathogen interactions

R Banerji, SD Saroj - Molecular biology reports, 2021 - Springer
The factors that determine the outcomes of host–pathogen interactions, such as host
specificity, tissue specificity, and transition from asymptomatic to symptomatic behavior of a …

MicroRNA‐124‐3p attenuates the development of nerve injury–induced neuropathic pain by targeting early growth response 1 in the dorsal root ganglia and spinal …

M Jiang, X Zhang, X Wang, F Xu… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging evidence indicates the early growth response 1 (Egr1) plays an important role in
the pathogenesis of chronic pain. However, the regulation of Egr1 expression in the DRG …

Transcriptome Profiling of Cardiac Glycoside Treatment Reveals EGR1 and Downstream Proteins of MAPK/ERK Signaling Pathway in Human Breast Cancer Cells

H Pavithran, R Kumavath, P Ghosh - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cardiac glycosides (CGs) constitute a group of steroid-like compounds renowned for their
effectiveness in treating cardiovascular ailments. In recent times, there has been growing …