Protein kinase R in bacterial infections: friend or foe?

R Smyth, J Sun - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The global antimicrobial resistance crisis poses a significant threat to humankind in the
coming decades. Challenges associated with the development of novel antibiotics …

The progress of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug targets

X Zhang, R Zhao, Y Qi, X Yan, G Qi, Q Peng - Frontiers in Medicine, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB) has been troubling humans for hundreds of years, is a highly infectious
disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection, Mtb can infect almost all …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis PE17 (Rv1646) promotes host cell apoptosis via host chromatin remodeling mediated by reduced H3K9me3 occupancy

MA Abo-Kadoum, M Assad, MK Ali, SAE Nzaou… - Microbial …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains a serious global public health
threat. M. tuberculosis PE and PPE proteins are closely involved in pathogen-host …

Increased Interferon-Induced Protein With Tetracopeptides (IFITs) Reduces Mycobacterial Growth

A Madhvi, H Mishra, NN Chegou… - Frontiers in Cellular and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Objectives The host immune response towards Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) is known
to vary with the virulence of mycobacterial species. While the majority of M. tb-exposed …

Bioactive compound C498-0670 alleviates LPS-induced sepsis via JAK/STAT and NFκB signaling pathways

J Xu, X Zhang, M Zhou, P Lu, Y Xu, L Wu… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The JAK/STAT and NFκB signaling pathways are two major inflammatory signaling
pathways that are usually activated simultaneously in the body's inflammatory response to …

Epidemiological and cytokine profile of patients with pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis in a population of the Brazilian Amazon

MAF Queiroz, SS Lima, ESG Amoras, FDM Sousa… - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Several factors are associated with the development of different clinical forms of tuberculosis
(TB). The present study evaluated epidemiological variables and cytokine levels in samples …

Scaffold compound L971 exhibits anti‐inflammatory activities through inhibition of JAK/STAT and NFκB signalling pathways

M Li, Y Yan, X Zhang, Y Zhang, X Xu… - Journal of Cellular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract JAK/STAT and NFκB signalling pathways play essential roles in regulating
inflammatory responses, which are important pathogenic factors of various serious immune …

Deletion of N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanine amidases alters the host immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

NS Kieswetter, M Ozturk, SS Jones, S Senzani… - Virulence, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Peptidoglycan (PG), a heteropolysaccharide component of the mycobacterial cell wall can
be shed during tuberculosis infection with immunomodulatory consequences. As such …

The culture dish surface influences the phenotype and dissociation strategy in distinct mouse macrophage populations

Q Song, Y Zhang, M Zhou, Y Xu, Q Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The nature of the culture dish surface and the technique used to detach adherent cells could
very likely influence the cell viability and cell membrane protein integrity of harvested …

Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis Leading to Abdominal Wall Mass in Young Patient

M Karimi, A AtashAbParvar - Case Reports in Infectious …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that is caused by Mycobacterium
tuberculosis. Tuberculosis has arguably been the largest killer of humans historically, and it …