HERC5 and the ISGylation pathway: critical modulators of the antiviral immune response

NA Mathieu, E Paparisto, SD Barr, DE Spratt - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mammalian cells have developed an elaborate network of immunoproteins that serve to
identify and combat viral pathogens. Interferon-stimulated gene 15 (ISG15) is a 15.2 kDa …

[HTML][HTML] The HERC proteins and the nervous system

EM Pérez-Villegas, R Ruiz, S Bachiller… - Seminars in cell & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The HERC protein family is one of three subfamilies of Homologous to E6AP C-terminus
(HECT) E3 ubiquitin ligases. Six HERC genes have been described in humans, two of which …

ISG15 deficiency restricts HIV-1 infection

D Jurczyszak, L Manganaro, S Buta, C Gruber… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Type I interferons (IFN-Is) are a group of potent inflammatory and antiviral cytokines. They
induce IFN stimulated genes (ISGs), which act as proinflammatory mediators, antiviral …

Screening biomarkers for systemic lupus erythematosus based on machine learning and exploring their expression correlations with the ratios of various immune cells

Y Zhong, W Zhang, X Hong, Z Zeng, Y Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune illness caused by a
malfunctioning immunomodulatory system. China has the second highest prevalence of SLE …

Discovery and validation of a three-gene signature to distinguish COVID-19 and other viral infections in emergency infectious disease presentations: a case-control …

HK Li, M Kaforou, J Rodriguez-Manzano… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Emergency admissions for infection often lack initial diagnostic certainty.
COVID-19 has highlighted a need for novel diagnostic approaches to indicate likelihood of …

Bioinformatics analysis of potential common pathogenic mechanisms for COVID-19 infection and primary Sjogren's syndrome

H Luo, X Zhou - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Accumulating evidence has revealed that the prevalence of Coronavirus 2019
(COVID-19) was significantly higher in patients with primary Sjogren's syndrome (pSS) …

Molecular prognosticators in clinically and pathologically distinct cohorts of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma—A meta-analysis approach

RB Reddy, SS Khora, A Suresh - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) includes multiple subsites that exhibit
differential treatment outcome, which is in turn reflective of tumor stage/histopathology and …

Rapid evolution of HERC6 and duplication of a chimeric HERC5/6 gene in rodents and bats suggest an overlooked role of HERCs in mammalian immunity

S Jacquet, D Pontier, L Etienne - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Studying the evolutionary diversification of mammalian antiviral defenses is of main
importance to better understand our innate immune repertoire. The small HERC proteins are …

A novel non–mammalian-specific HERC7 negatively regulates IFN response through degrading RLR signaling factors

YL Li, XY Gong, ZL Qu, X Zhao, C Dan… - The Journal of …, 2022 - journals.aai.org
The small HERC family currently comprises four members (HERC3–6) involved in the
regulation of various physiological activities. Little is known about the role of HERCs in IFN …

Pulmonary mesenchymal stem cells in mild cases of COVID-19 are dedicated to proliferation; in severe cases, they control inflammation, make cell dispersion, and …

A Henriques-Pons, DG Beghini, VS Silva… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent adult stem cells present in virtually all
tissues; they have potent self-renewal capacity and differentiate into multiple cell types. For …