A journey from structure to function of bacterial lipopolysaccharides

F Di Lorenzo, KA Duda, R Lanzetta, A Silipo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a crucial constituent of the outer membrane of most Gram-
negative bacteria, playing a fundamental role in the protection of bacteria from …

Gut microbiota, metabolites and host immunity

MG Rooks, WS Garrett - Nature reviews immunology, 2016 - nature.com
The microbiota—the collection of microorganisms that live within and on all mammals—
provides crucial signals for the development and function of the immune system. Increased …

Deterministically patterned biomimetic human iPSC-derived hepatic model via rapid 3D bioprinting

X Ma, X Qu, W Zhu, YS Li, S Yuan… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The functional maturation and preservation of hepatic cells derived from human induced
pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are essential to personalized in vitro drug screening and …

Fusobacterium nucleatum promotes colorectal cancer cells adhesion to endothelial cells and facilitates extravasation and metastasis by inducing ALPK1/NF-κB …

Y Zhang, L Zhang, S Zheng, M Li, C Xu, D Jia, Y Qi… - Gut …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Metastasis is the leading cause of death for colorectal cancer (CRC) patients, and the
spreading tumor cells adhesion to endothelial cells is a critical step for extravasation and …

[HTML][HTML] Neisseria gonorrhoeae host adaptation and pathogenesis

SJ Quillin, HS Seifert - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
The urogenital tract is a complex environment composed of many different types of epithelial
tissues and innate immune cells that sample the surrounding milieu. As a host-adapted …

Immunomodulatory potential of gut microbiome-derived short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs)

W Ratajczak, A Rył, A Mizerski… - Acta Biochimica …, 2019 - abp.ptbioch.edu.pl
Intestinal microbiota is an element of the bacterial ecosystem in all mammalian organisms.
These microorganisms play a very important part in the development, functioning, and …

Microbiome-modulated metabolites at the interface of host immunity

E Blacher, M Levy, E Tatirovsky… - The Journal of …, 2017 - journals.aai.org
The mammalian gastrointestinal tract and associated mucosal immune system harbor a
large repertoire of metabolites of prokaryotic and eukaryotic origin that play important roles …

Inflammatory response to different toxins in experimental sepsis models

K Dickson, C Lehmann - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Sepsis is defined as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by the dysregulated host
response to infection. Despite serious mortality and morbidity, no sepsis-specific drugs exist …

Genetic mapping of microbial and host traits reveals production of immunomodulatory lipids by Akkermansia muciniphila in the murine gut

Q Zhang, V Linke, KA Overmyer, LL Traeger… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The molecular bases of how host genetic variation impacts the gut microbiome remain
largely unknown. Here we used a genetically diverse mouse population and applied …

Immunomodulating activity and therapeutic effects of short chain fatty acids and tryptophan post-biotics in inflammatory bowel disease

E Russo, F Giudici, C Fiorindi, F Ficari… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Crohn's disease (CD) and Ulcerative colitis (UC) are grouped as Inflammatory Bowel
Diseases (IBD). The IBD is associated to a multifaceted interplay between immunologic …