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Amphibian chytridiomycosis : a review with focus on fungus-host interactions [PDF]
, 2015 Amphibian declines and extinctions are emblematic for the current sixth mass extinction event. Infectious drivers of these declines include the recently emerged fungal pathogens Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans ...
Haesebrouck, Freddy +3 more
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Dietary Nutrients Mediate Intestinal Host Defense Peptide Expression [PDF]
Advances in Nutrition, 2020 The intestinal tract is the shared locus of intestinal epithelial cells, immune cells, nutrient digestion and absorption, and microbial survival. The gut in animals faces continuous challenges in communicating with the external environment. Threats from endogenous imbalance and exogenous feeds, especially pathogens, could trigger a disorder of ...
Jianmin Wu +3 more
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The Growing Threat of Agroterrorism and Strategies for Agricultural Defense [PDF]
, 2020 Due to the dynamic nature of human conflict, non-traditional terror tactics have evolved to undermine the socioeconomic stability of targeted societies.
Forrest, Alyssa
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Optimizing Antimicrobial Host Defense Peptides
Chemistry & Biology, 2006 Antimicrobial host defense peptides constitute a major component of innate immune systems. Expectations are high to develop them into a novel class of anti-infective agents. In this issue of Chemistry & Biology, Hilpert et al. describe new design and peptide synthesis strategies for systematically investigating such concepts.
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Snake Venom Cathelicidins as Natural Antimicrobial Peptides
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2019 Bioactive small molecules isolated from animals, plants, fungi and bacteria, including natural antimicrobial peptides, have shown great therapeutic potential worldwide.
Elizângela de Barros +14 more
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Structural biology of ferritin nanocages
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Ferritin is a conserved iron‐storage protein that sequesters iron as a ferric mineral core within a nanocage, protecting cells from oxidative damage and maintaining iron homeostasis. This review discusses ferritin biology, structure, and function, and highlights recent cryo‐EM studies revealing mechanisms of ferritinophagy, cellular iron uptake, and ...
Eloise Mastrangelo, Flavio Di Pisa
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Multifunctional host defense peptides: intracellular‐targeting antimicrobial peptides [PDF]
The FEBS Journal, 2009 There is widespread acceptance that cationic antimicrobial peptides, apart from their membrane‐permeabilizing/disrupting properties, also operate through interactions with intracellular targets, or disruption of key cellular processes. Examples of intracellular activity include inhibition of DNA and protein synthesis, inhibition of chaperone‐assisted ...
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Learning from host-defense peptides: cationic, amphipathic peptoids with potent anticancer activity.
PLoS ONE, 2014 Cationic, amphipathic host defense peptides represent a promising group of agents to be developed for anticancer applications. Poly-N-substituted glycines, or peptoids, are a class of biostable, peptidomimetic scaffold that can display a great diversity ...
Wei Huang +6 more
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Beyond self-eating: The control of nonautophagic functions and signaling pathways by autophagy-related proteins. [PDF]
, 2017 The identification of conserved autophagy-related proteins (ATGs) that mediate bulk degradation of cytosolic material laid the foundation for breakthroughs linking autophagy to a litany of physiological processes and disease conditions.
Cadwell, Ken, Debnath, Jayanta
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Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
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