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HIV‐1 establishes immediate latency in T cells expressing the viral Nef protein

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Nef is a viral protein often omitted from HIV‐1 reporter viruses. Consequently, its role in viral latency is unclear. We developed three novel dual reporter HIV‐1 derivatives that express Nef and allow for detection of latent and productive infection. Using these reporters, we show that Nef does not affect the establishment of immediate viral latency ...
Cindy Lam, Ivan Sadowski
wiley   +1 more source

Toll-like receptor agonist augments virus-like particle-mediated protection from Ebola virus with transient immune activation.

PLoS ONE, 2014
Identifying safe and effective adjuvants is critical for the advanced development of protein-based vaccines. Pattern recognition receptor (PRR) agonists are increasingly being explored as potential adjuvants, but there is concern that the efficacy of ...
Karen A O Martins, Jesse T Steffens, Sean A van Tongeren, Jay B Wells, Alison A Bergeron, Samuel P Dickson, John M Dye, Andres M Salazar, Sina Bavari   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Alcohol‐induced altered glycans in human tracheal epithelial cells promote bacterial adhesion

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Alcohol induces altered glycans to promote bacteria adhesion. Heavy alcohol drinking is known to increase the risk of bacterial pneumonia. However, the link between alcohol levels and risk of infection remains underexplored. Recently, we found that alcohol induced α2‐6sialo mucin O‐glycans in human tracheobronchial epithelial cells, which mediated the ...
Pi‐Wan Cheng, Souvik Datta, Derrick R. Samuelson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effects of high shear rates on the average hydrodynamic diameter measured in biomimetic HIV Gag virus-like particle dispersions

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
HIV Gag virus-like particles (HIV Gag VLPs) are promising HIV vaccine candidates. In the literature, they are often described as shear-sensitive particles, and authors usually recommend the operation of tangential flow filtration (TFF) gently at shear ...
Tobias Wolf, Tobias Wolf, Kerim Kadir Calisan, Jörn Stitz, Stéphan Barbe   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH) regulates trophoblast syncytialization through organelle stress–induced cellular senescence

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
The inhibition of mitochondrial dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH) impairs syncytialization and induces cellular senescence via mitochondrial and endoplasmic reticulum stress in human trophoblast stem cells, elevating sFlt1/PlGF levels, a hallmark of placental dysfunction in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.
Kanoko Yoshida, Kazuya Kusama, Ayaka Horiuchi, Yu Kawaguchi, Atsuya Tsuru, Mikihiro Yoshie, Kazuhiro Tamura   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

HBsAg-vectored DNA vaccines elicit concomitant protective responses to multiple CTL epitopes relevant in human disease. [PDF]

, 2008
Vaccines capable of controlling neoplastic and infectious diseases which depend on the cellular immune response for their resolution, have proven difficult to develop.
Allan Gould, Dekun Chen, Jacqueline Kattenbelt, Melanie Barnes, Michael Mather, Oscar Haigh, Robert R. Tindle, Scott Thomson   +7 more
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Development of human monoclonal antibodies against TARM1 by yeast display

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Human monoclonal antibodies against TARM1 are generated by yeast display‐guided selection. These antibodies bind to soluble and cell‐surface forms of TARM1. Also, these antibodies exhibit agonistic activity in the NFAT‐GFP reporter assay, indicating that TARM1 signaling can be functionally modulated by antibodies and suggesting TARM1 as a potential ...
Rikio Yabe, Mayumi Saeki, Masaaki Hashiguchi, Sayaka Ono, Kazuhisa Aoki, Hidetaka Tanno   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Water and the Biology of Prions and Plaques [PDF]

, 2007
This is an attempt to account for the insolubility and/or aggregation of prions and plaques in terms of a model of water consisting of an equilibrium between high density and low density microdomains.
Graham K. Steel, Phillippa M. Wiggins
core   +1 more source

Screening and epitope characterization of Nidogen‐2‐specific nanobodies

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Camel immunization and phage display were employed to generate high‐affinity VHH nanobodies against Nidogen‐2. After library construction, biopanning, ELISA screening, sequencing, and recombinant expression, selected nanobodies were purified and characterized, leading to the preliminary exploration of a nanobody‐based sandwich ELISA for specific ...
Jianchuan Wen, Qianqian Cui, Zhongyun Lan, Yingjun Wang, Shuaiying Zhao, Wenxuan Feng, Yunfeng Liu, Qiting Huang, Dongna Zhang, Jianfeng Xu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mechanism of membrane tube formation induced by adhesive nanocomponents

, 2012
We report numerical simulations of membrane tubulation driven by large colloidal particles. Using Monte Carlo simulations we study how the process depends on particle size, concentration and binding strength, and present accurate free energy calculations
A. H. Bahrami, Angelo Cacciuto, Anđela Šarić, H. Garoff   +3 more
core   +1 more source