Immune responses to human fungal pathogens and therapeutic prospects

MS Lionakis, RA Drummond, TM Hohl - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Pathogenic fungi have emerged as significant causes of infectious morbidity and death in
patients with acquired immunodeficiency conditions such as HIV/AIDS and following receipt …

Pathogenesis and virulence of Candida albicans

JP Lopes, MS Lionakis - Virulence, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Candida albicans is a commensal yeast fungus of the human oral, gastrointestinal, and
genital mucosal surfaces, and skin. Antibiotic-induced dysbiosis, iatrogenic …

Targeting NF-κB pathway for the therapy of diseases: mechanism and clinical study

H Yu, L Lin, Z Zhang, H Zhang, H Hu - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2020 - nature.com
NF-κB pathway consists of canonical and non-canonical pathways. The canonical NF-κB is
activated by various stimuli, transducing a quick but transient transcriptional activity, to …

[HTML][HTML] From rare disorders of immunity to common determinants of infection: Following the mechanistic thread

JL Casanova, L Abel - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The immense interindividual clinical variability during any infection is a long-standing
enigma. Inborn errors of IFN-γ and IFN-α/β immunity underlying rare infections with weakly …

[HTML][HTML] Invasive candidiasis

PG Pappas, MS Lionakis, MC Arendrup… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Invasive candidiasis is an important health-care-associated fungal infection that can be
caused by several Candida spp.; the most common species is Candida albicans, but the …

30 years of NF-κB: a blossoming of relevance to human pathobiology

Q Zhang, MJ Lenardo, D Baltimore - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
NF-κB was discovered 30 years ago as a rapidly inducible transcription factor. Since that
time, it has been found to have a broad role in gene induction in diverse cellular responses …

[HTML][HTML] Malassezia is associated with Crohn's disease and exacerbates colitis in mouse models

JJ Limon, J Tang, D Li, AJ Wolf, KS Michelsen… - Cell host & …, 2019 - cell.com
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is characterized by alterations in the intestinal microbiota
and altered immune responses to gut microbiota. Evidence is accumulating that IBD is …

Invasive candidiasis

C Lass-Flörl, SS Kanj, NP Govender… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Invasive candidiasis is an important fungal disease caused by Candida albicans and,
increasingly, non-albicans Candida pathogens. Invasive Candida infections originate most …

The IL-23–IL-17 immune axis: from mechanisms to therapeutic testing

SL Gaffen, R Jain, AV Garg, DJ Cua - Nature reviews immunology, 2014 - nature.com
Following the discovery of T helper 17 (TH17) cells, the past decade has witnessed a major
revision of the TH subset paradigm and substantial progress has been made in deciphering …

Neutrophils: between host defence, immune modulation, and tissue injury

P Kruger, M Saffarzadeh, ANR Weber, N Rieber… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Neutrophils, the most abundant human immune cells, are rapidly recruited to sites of
infection, where they fulfill their life-saving antimicrobial functions. While traditionally …