Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillosis in 2019

JP Latgé, G Chamilos - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Aspergillus fumigatus is a saprotrophic fungus; its primary habitat is the soil. In its ecological
niche, the fungus has learned how to adapt and proliferate in hostile environments. This …

[HTML][HTML] Treg heterogeneity, function, and homeostasis

D Shevyrev, V Tereshchenko - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
T-regulatory cells (Tregs) represent a unique subpopulation of helper T-cells by maintaining
immune equilibrium using various mechanisms. The role of T-cell receptors (TCR) in …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal single-cell tracing reveals clonal revival and expansion of precursor exhausted T cells during anti-PD-1 therapy in lung cancer

B Liu, X Hu, K Feng, R Gao, Z Xue, S Zhang, Y Zhang… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Anti-PD-1 treatment has shown unprecedented clinical success in the treatment of non-small-
cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood …

[HTML][HTML] Imbalance of regulatory and cytotoxic SARS-CoV-2-reactive CD4+ T cells in COVID-19

BJ Meckiff, C Ramírez-Suástegui, V Fajardo, SJ Chee… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The contribution of CD4+ T cells to protective or pathogenic immune responses to SARS-
CoV-2 infection remains unknown. Here, we present single-cell transcriptomic analysis of> …

Severely ill patients with COVID-19 display impaired exhaustion features in SARS-CoV-2–reactive CD8+ T cells

A Kusnadi, C Ramírez-Suástegui, V Fajardo… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The molecular properties of CD8+ T cells that respond to SARS-CoV-2 infection are not fully
known. Here, we report on the single-cell transcriptomes of> 80,000 virus-reactive CD8+ T …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 in severe COVID-19 induces a TGF-β-dominated chronic immune response that does not target itself

M Ferreira-Gomes, A Kruglov, P Durek… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The pathogenesis of severe COVID-19 reflects an inefficient immune reaction to SARS-CoV-
2. Here we analyze, at the single cell level, plasmablasts egressed into the blood to study …

Global characterization of T cells in non-small-cell lung cancer by single-cell sequencing

X Guo, Y Zhang, L Zheng, C Zheng, J Song, Q Zhang… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Cancer immunotherapies have shown sustained clinical responses in treating non-small-
cell lung cancer,–, but efficacy varies and depends in part on the amount and properties of …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of genetic polymorphisms on human immune cell gene expression

BJ Schmiedel, D Singh, A Madrigal… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
While many genetic variants have been associated with risk for human diseases, how these
variants affect gene expression in various cell types remains largely unknown. To address …

Analyzing the Mycobacterium tuberculosis immune response by T-cell receptor clustering with GLIPH2 and genome-wide antigen screening

H Huang, C Wang, F Rubelt, TJ Scriba… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
CD4+ T cells are critical to fighting pathogens, but a comprehensive analysis of human T-
cell specificities is hindered by the diversity of HLA alleles (> 20,000) and the complexity of …

Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies

A Cossarizza, HD Chang, A Radbruch… - European journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
These guidelines are a consensus work of a considerable number of members of the
immunology and flow cytometry community. They provide the theory and key practical …