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Mechanopathology of biofilm-like Mycobacterium tuberculosis cords

John McKinney, Graham Knott, Neeraj Dhar, Nicolas Jean Philippe Guex, Jessica Sordet, Maxime Jan, Richa Mishra, Mélanie Thérèse Marie Hannebelle, Vivek Vijay Thacker, Kunal Sharma

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) cultured axenically without detergent forms biofilm-like cords, a clinical identifier of virulence. In lung-on-chip (LoC) and mouse models, cords in alveolar cells contribute to suppression of innate immune signaling via nu ...

Cell Press2023

The cGAS–STING pathway drives type I IFN immunopathology in COVID-19

Andrea Ablasser, Muhammet Fatih Gülen, Théo Nass, Vivek Vijay Thacker, Martin Schaller, Kunal Sharma

COVID-19, which is caused by infection with SARS-CoV-2, is characterized by lung pathology and extrapulmonary complications1,2. Type I interferons (IFNs) have an essential role in the pathogenesis of COVID-19 (refs 3–5). Although rapid induction of type I ...

2022

Early invasion of the bladder wall by solitary bacteria protects UPEC from antibiotics and neutrophil swarms in an organoid model

John McKinney, Graham Knott, Neeraj Dhar, Maria Clapés Cabrer, François Signorino-Gelo, Vivek Vijay Thacker, Kunal Sharma

2021

Microtissue models for studying the dynamics of host-pathogen interactions in the urinary bladder

Kunal Sharma

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are amongst the most common bacterial infections and are the second-most frequent reason for antibiotic prescriptions. Moreover, in about 25% of all treated cases, recurrence of infection occurs. Uropathogenic Escherichia co ...

EPFL2021

Dynamic persistence of UPEC intracellular bacterial communities in a human bladder-chip model of urinary tract infection

John McKinney, Graham Knott, Neeraj Dhar, François Signorino-Gelo, Vivek Vijay Thacker, Kunal Sharma, Thomas Marie Simonet

Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) proliferate within superficial bladder umbrella cells to form intracellular bacterial communities (IBCs) during early stages of urinary tract infections. However, the dynamic responses of IBCs to host stresses and anti ...

2021

Microfluidic-assisted bioprinting of tissues and organoids at high cell concentrations

Philippe Renaud, Arnaud Bertsch, John McKinney, Ludovic Serex, Kunal Sharma

Despite its simplicity, which makes it the most commonly used bioprinting method today, extrusion-based bioprinting suffers from its inability to reproduce the complex tissue architecture found in organs. Generally, this printing method allows for the disp ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

A lung-on-chip model of early Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection reveals an essential role for alveolar epithelial cells in controlling bacterial growth

John McKinney, Neeraj Dhar, Vivek Vijay Thacker, Kunal Sharma

We establish a murine lung-on-chip infection model and use time-lapse imaging to reveal the dynamics of host-Mycobacterium tuberculosis interactions at an air-liquid interface with a spatiotemporal resolution unattainable in animal models and to probe the ...

2020

Effect Of Distinct Conductive And Thermodynamic Temperatures On The Reflection Of Plane Waves In Micropolar Elastic Half-Space

Kunal Sharma

The present investigation is concerned with wave propagation in micropolar thermoelastic solid half space with distinct conductive and thermodynamic temperatures. Reflection of plane waves incident obliquely at the free surface of micropolar generalized th ...

Univ Politehnica Bucharest, Sci Bull2013