SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis

MM Lamers, BL Haagmans - Nature reviews microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has
caused a devastating pandemic. Although most people infected with SARS-CoV-2 develop …

Innate immune evasion strategies of SARS-CoV-2

JM Minkoff, B tenOever - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, has been
associated with substantial global morbidity and mortality. Despite a tropism that is largely …

The STRING database in 2023: protein–protein association networks and functional enrichment analyses for any sequenced genome of interest

D Szklarczyk, R Kirsch, M Koutrouli… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Much of the complexity within cells arises from functional and regulatory interactions among
proteins. The core of these interactions is increasingly known, but novel interactions …

[HTML][HTML] High-content CRISPR screening

C Bock, P Datlinger, F Chardon, MA Coelho… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
CRISPR screens are a powerful source of biological discovery, enabling the unbiased
interrogation of gene function in a wide range of applications and species. In pooled …

Human genetic and immunological determinants of critical COVID-19 pneumonia

Q Zhang, P Bastard, A Cobat, JL Casanova - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 infection is benign in most individuals but, in around 10% of cases, it triggers
hypoxaemic COVID-19 pneumonia, which leads to critical illness in around 3% of cases …

[HTML][HTML] Inflammasome activation in infected macrophages drives COVID-19 pathology

E Sefik, R Qu, C Junqueira, E Kaffe, H Mirza, J Zhao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Severe COVID-19 is characterized by persistent lung inflammation, inflammatory cytokine
production, viral RNA and a sustained interferon (IFN) response, all of which are …

Unadjuvanted intranasal spike vaccine elicits protective mucosal immunity against sarbecoviruses

T Mao, B Israelow, MA Peña-Hernández, A Suberi… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has
highlighted the need for vaccines that not only prevent disease but also prevent …

The multifunctional protein HMGB1: 50 years of discovery

D Tang, R Kang, HJ Zeh, MT Lotze - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Fifty years since the initial discovery of HMGB1 in 1973 as a structural protein of chromatin,
HMGB1 is now known to regulate diverse biological processes depending on its subcellular …

COVID-19 and metabolic disease: mechanisms and clinical management

C Steenblock, PEH Schwarz, B Ludwig… - The lancet Diabetes & …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Up to 50% of the people who have died from COVID-19 had metabolic and vascular
disorders. Notably, there are many direct links between COVID-19 and the metabolic and …

KDM5B promotes immune evasion by recruiting SETDB1 to silence retroelements

SM Zhang, WL Cai, X Liu, D Thakral, J Luo, LH Chan… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Tumours use various strategies to evade immune surveillance,. Immunotherapies targeting
tumour immune evasion such as immune checkpoint blockade have shown considerable …