Nitric oxide synthase in innate and adaptive immunity: an update

C Bogdan - Trends in immunology, 2015 - cell.com
Thirty years after the discovery of its production by activated macrophages, our appreciation
of the diverse roles of nitric oxide (NO) continues to grow. Recent findings have not only …

Brucella: Reservoirs and Niches in Animals and Humans

G González-Espinoza, V Arce-Gorvel, S Mémet… - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
Brucella is an intracellular bacterium that causes abortion, reproduction failure in livestock
and leads to a debilitating flu-like illness with serious chronic complications if untreated in …

The peroxisome: an up-and-coming organelle in immunometabolism

F Di Cara, S Savary, WJ Kovacs, P Kim… - Trends in Cell …, 2023 - cell.com
Peroxisomes are essential metabolic organelles, well known for their roles in the
metabolism of complex lipids and reactive ionic species. In the past 10 years, peroxisomes …

Peroxisomes in immune response and inflammation

F Di Cara, P Andreoletti, D Trompier, A Vejux… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The immune response is essential to protect organisms from infection and an altered self. An
organism's overall metabolic status is now recognized as an important and long-overlooked …

The Mechanism of Facultative Intracellular Parasitism of Brucella

H Jiao, Z Zhou, B Li, Y Xiao, M Li, H Zeng… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Brucellosis is a highly prevalent zoonotic disease characterized by abortion and
reproductive dysfunction in pregnant animals. Although the mortality rate of Brucellosis is …

Establishment of Chronic Infection: Brucella's Stealth Strategy

W Ahmed, K Zheng, ZF Liu - Frontiers in cellular and infection …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Brucella is a facultative intracellular pathogen that causes zoonotic infection known as
brucellosis which results in abortion and infertility in natural host. Humans, especially in low …

PPARγ-mediated increase in glucose availability sustains chronic Brucella abortus infection in alternatively activated macrophages

MN Xavier, MG Winter, AM Spees, AB den Hartigh… - Cell host & …, 2013 - cell.com
Eradication of persistent intracellular bacterial pathogens with antibiotic therapy is often slow
or incomplete. However, strategies to augment antibiotics are hampered by our poor …

CD4+ T Cell-derived IL-10 Promotes Brucella abortus Persistence via Modulation of Macrophage Function

MN Xavier, MG Winter, AM Spees, K Nguyen… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Evasion of host immune responses is a prerequisite for chronic bacterial diseases; however,
the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. Here, we show that the persistent …

Crucial Role of Gamma Interferon-Producing CD4+ Th1 Cells but Dispensable Function of CD8+ T Cell, B Cell, Th2, and Th17 Responses in the Control of Brucella …

MA Vitry, C De Trez, S Goriely, L Dumoutier… - Infection and …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Brucella spp. are facultative intracellular bacterial pathogens responsible for brucellosis, a
worldwide zoonosis that causes abortion in domestic animals and chronic febrile disease …

A Brucella type IV effector targets the COG tethering complex to remodel host secretory traffic and promote intracellular replication

CN Miller, EP Smith, JA Cundiff, LA Knodler… - Cell host & …, 2017 - cell.com
Many intracellular pathogens exploit host secretory trafficking to support their intracellular
cycle, but knowledge of these pathogenic processes is limited. The bacterium Brucella …