Immunological mechanisms of human resistance to persistent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

JD Simmons, CM Stein, C Seshadri, M Campo… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a leading cause of mortality worldwide and establishes a
long-lived latent infection in a substantial proportion of the human population. Multiple lines …

Inside HDACs with more selective HDAC inhibitors

J Roche, P Bertrand - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
Inhibitors of histone deacetylases (HDACs) are nowadays part of the therapeutic arsenal
mainly against cancers, with four compounds approved by the Food and Drug …

The mechanisms of social immunity against fungal infections in eusocial insects

L Liu, XY Zhao, QB Tang, CL Lei, QY Huang - Toxins, 2019 - mdpi.com
Entomopathogenic fungus as well as their toxins is a natural threat surrounding social insect
colonies. To defend against them, social insects have evolved a series of unique disease …

Transcriptional landscape of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in macrophages

S Roy, S Schmeier, B Kaczkowski, E Arner, T Alam… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection reveals complex and dynamic host-pathogen
interactions, leading to host protection or pathogenesis. Using a unique transcriptome …

Epigenetics in tuberculosis: immunomodulation of host immune response

A Khadela, VP Chavda, H Postwala, Y Shah, P Mistry… - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tuberculosis is a stern, difficult to treat chronic infection caused by acid-fast bacilli that tend
to take a long time to be eradicated from the host's environment. It requires the action of both …

DNA hypermethylation during tuberculosis dampens host immune responsiveness

AR DiNardo, K Rajapakshe… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) has coevolved with humans for millennia and
developed multiple mechanisms to evade host immunity. Restoring host immunity in order to …

Health horizons: Future trends and technologies from the European Medicines Agency's horizon scanning collaborations

V Vignali, PA Hines, AG Cruz, B Ziętek… - Frontiers in medicine, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In medicines development, the progress in science and technology is accelerating.
Awareness of these developments and their associated challenges and opportunities is …

The Mycobacterium tuberculosis methyltransferase Rv2067c manipulates host epigenetic programming to promote its own survival

PR Singh, V Dadireddy, S Udupa, SM Kalladi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis has evolved several mechanisms to counter host defense
arsenals for its proliferation. Here we report that M. tuberculosis employs a multi-pronged …

Functional Inhibition of Host Histone Deacetylases (HDACs) Enhances in vitro and in vivo Anti-mycobacterial Activity in Human Macrophages and in Zebrafish

JD Moreira, BEV Koch, S van Veen… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The rapid and persistent increase of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb)
infections poses increasing global problems in combatting tuberculosis (TB), prompting for …

From gene to protein—How bacterial virulence factors manipulate host gene expression during infection

L Denzer, H Schroten, C Schwerk - International Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Bacteria evolved many strategies to survive and persist within host cells. Secretion of
bacterial effectors enables bacteria not only to enter the host cell but also to manipulate host …