Phenotypic Switching in Cryptococcus neoformans Contributes to Virulence by Changing the Immunological Host Response

A Guerrero, BC Fries - Infection and immunity, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
… The RC-2 strain can produce two colony morphologies in agar, known as SM and MC, both
… They were stained with a standard hematoxylin-eosin stain and with mucin carmine to detect …

Cryptococcus neoformans glycoantigens are captured by multiple lectin receptors and presented by dendritic cells

MK Mansour, E Latz, SM Levitz - The Journal of Immunology, 2006 - journals.aai.org
… to a wide variety of Ags such as the oncogenic proteins, mucin 1 (1) and prostate-specific Ag
(1, 2… -α-d-mannopyranoside, produced more significant inhibition of IL-2 production by T cell …

Effect of a CD4-Depleting Antibody on the Development of Cryptococcus neoformans-Induced Allergic Bronchopulmonary Mycosis in Mice

S Arora, RA McDonald, GB Toews… - Infection and …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
… ABPM caused by Cryptococcus neoformans infection of C57BL/… production and no serum
immunoglobulin E production. … with a significant reduction in mucus production and goblet cell …

… disease-promoting type 2 cytokines, alternatively activated macrophages and allergic inflammation during pulmonary infection of mice with Cryptococcus neoformans

U Muller, W Stenzel, G Köhler, C Werner… - The Journal of …, 2007 - journals.aai.org
… The opportunistic pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans has become a major health
problem … are consistent with high fungal burden and elevated mucus production in lungs of C. …

Characterization of pathogenic constituents of Cryptococcus neoformans strains

K Kagaya, T Yamada, Y Miyakawa… - Microbiology and …, 1985 - jstage.jst.go.jp
MATERIALS AND METHODS Strains used. Cultures of seven strains of five serotypes of C.
neoformans(A, B, C, D, and AD) were used in this study. C. albicans MCY 1012 was used in …

Dectin-3 Is Not Required for Protection against Cryptococcus neoformans Infection

A Campuzano, N Castro-Lopez, KL Wozniak… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
… Dectin-2 is postulated to oppose Th2-type responses and IL-4-dependent mucin production
… pulmonary cryptococcosis using an experimental murine model of pulmonary C neoformans

Functional Characterization of the GlcNAc Catabolic Pathway in Cryptococcus deneoformans

…, L Shen, Y Kuang, Y Wang, Y Peng, C Hu… - Applied and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
… size, melanin production, and antifungal drug resistance in Cryptococcus neoformans (9). …
GlcNAc in host lung mucins, the function of GlcNAc on host colonization of C. deneoformans …

Dectin‐2‐mediated signaling triggered by the cell wall polysaccharides of Cryptococcus neoformans

D Tanno, R Yokoyama, K Kawamura… - Microbiology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… cells upon in vitro stimulation with C. neoformans. Furthermore, in in vivo experiments,
accelerated Th2 response and IL-4-dependent mucin production was observed in lungs infected …

Overview of selected virulence attributes in Aspergillus fumigatus, Candida albicans, Cryptococcus neoformans, Trichophyton rubrum, and Exophiala dermatitidis

H Boral, B Metin, A Döğen, S Seyedmousavi… - Fungal Genetics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
… However, the metabolic pathways to produce melanin differ widely among Aspergillus
species. For example, A. fumigatus conidia synthesize DHN melanin from 1,8 …

IL-4 Receptor-Alpha-Dependent Control of Cryptococcus neoformans in the Early Phase of Pulmonary Infection

A Grahnert, T Richter, D Piehler, M Eschke, B Schulze… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
… Additionally, when counting periodic acid Schiff staining in lung tissue sections we observed
prominent mucus production in the WT group, indicated by PAS + epithelial cells (Figure 3E)…