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Recent advances in studies on magnetosome-associated proteins composing the bacterial geomagnetic sensor organelle 细菌地磁传感细胞器磁小体相关蛋白的研究进展

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Microbiology and Immunology Pub Date : 2023-03-09 DOI: 10.1111/1348-0421.13062

Azuma Taoka, Yukako Eguchi, Rino Shimoshige, Yoshihiro Fukumori

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Molecular mechanism of Streptococcus pneumoniae–targeting xenophagy recognition and evasion: Reinterpretation of pneumococci as intracellular bacteria 肺炎链球菌靶向异食识别和逃避的分子机制:肺炎球菌作为细胞内细菌的重新解释

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Microbiology and Immunology Pub Date : 2023-03-05 DOI: 10.1111/1348-0421.13060

Michinaga Ogawa, Sayaka Shizukuishi, Yukihiro Akeda, Makoto Ohnishi

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Microbiology and Immunology Pub Date : 2023-03-03 DOI: 10.1111/1348-0421.12991

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γδ T-cell–mediated immune responses to malaria γδ t细胞介导的疟疾免疫应答

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Microbiology and Immunology Pub Date : 2023-02-24 DOI: 10.1111/1348-0421.13059

Ganchimeg Bayarsaikhan, Yarob Ibraheem, Shin-Ichi Inoue

{"title":"γδ T-cell–mediated immune responses to malaria","authors":"Ganchimeg Bayarsaikhan, Yarob Ibraheem, Shin-Ichi Inoue","doi":"10.1111/1348-0421.13059","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1348-0421.13059","url":null,"abstract":"Malaria is one of the deadliest infectious diseases. Licensed vaccine have demonstrated just over 30% efficacy, and therefore, developing new vaccine candidates and understanding immune responses to Plasmodium have become necessary. γδ T cells have been suggested to be associated with immune responses to malaria due to the observation of their expansion in patients with malaria and experimental models of malaria. γδ T cells act as both “innate-like” and “adaptive-like” cells during immune response to malaria. Studies have found that γδ T cells can recognize Plasmodium phosphoantigen, present the antigen, and initiate adaptive immune response during blood-stage Plasmodium infection. Recent reports also suggested the phagocytic and cytotoxic potential of γδ T cells. Furthermore, γδ T cells can provide protection upon immunization with whole parasite. In addition, γδ T cells during the liver-stage infection were able to prevent experimental cerebral malaria. Despite these new findings, questions related to γδ T-cell response during Plasmodium infection remain to be answered. However, investigating these cells in humans remains difficult in many ways; in this regard, rodent models of malarial infection enable us to study these cells in more detail. Insights from experimental malaria models give rise to new cues for development of malarial vaccine and adjunctive therapy for severe malaria. Here, we review our current knowledge of γδ T-cell immune function in human and experimental mouse malarial infection models; especially, we focus on the mechanisms underlying γδ T cells that are associated with protective immunity during malarial infection.","PeriodicalId":18679,"journal":{"name":"Microbiology and Immunology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9755541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Premarital screening of the viral hepatitis among Saudi nationals 沙特国民病毒性肝炎的婚前筛查

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Microbiology and Immunology Pub Date : 2023-02-22 DOI: 10.1111/1348-0421.13058

Abdullah A. K. Alzahrani, Yasser A. Altalhi, Ahmed A. S. Alghamdi, Samah M. Muhandis, Daifallah M. Al Aboud, Gaber M. G. Shehab, Ahmed S. Abdel-Moneim

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The autotransporter BafA contributes to the proangiogenic potential of Bartonella elizabethae 自体转运体BafA有助于伊丽莎白巴尔通体的促血管生成潜能

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Microbiology and Immunology Pub Date : 2023-02-22 DOI: 10.1111/1348-0421.13057

Natsumi Suzuki, Kayo Kumadaki, Kaoru Tatematsu, Yohei Doi, Kentaro Tsukamoto

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Promising whole-cell vaccines against cryptococcosis 有前途的全细胞疫苗对抗隐球菌病

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Microbiology and Immunology Pub Date : 2023-02-14 DOI: 10.1111/1348-0421.13056

Keigo Ueno, Soichiro Tsuge, Kiminori Shimizu, Yoshitsugu Miyazaki

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Microbiology and Immunology Pub Date : 2023-02-04 DOI: 10.1111/1348-0421.12989

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Emergence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus serotype O10:K4 in Thailand 泰国出现血清型O10:K4副溶血性弧菌

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Microbiology and Immunology Pub Date : 2023-01-23 DOI: 10.1111/1348-0421.13055

Kazuhisa Okada, Amonrattana Roobthaisong, Suthida Muangnoicharoen Hearn, Pilailuk Akkapaiboon Okada, Pawinee Doung-Ngern, Warawan Wongboot, Atchareeya Nakkarach, Masatomo Morita, Toshio Kodama, Tetsuya Iida

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A novel toxin–antitoxin system swpAB alters gene expression patterns and reduces virulence expression in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli 一种新的毒素-抗毒素系统swpAB改变肠出血性大肠杆菌的基因表达模式并降低毒力表达

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Microbiology and Immunology Pub Date : 2023-01-12 DOI: 10.1111/1348-0421.13054

Shinya Ebihara, Hilo Yen, Toru Tobe

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