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Accessible and highly observable gastrointestinal organoid model systems for studying host-pathogen interactions
Traditional cell cultures have long been fundamental to biological research, offering an alternative to animal models burdened by ethical constraints and procedural intricacies, often lacking relevance to human physiology and disease. Moreover, their inabi ...
EPFL2024A common NFKB1 variant detected through antibody analysis in UK Biobank predicts risk of infection and allergy
Jacques Fellay, Flavia Aurelia Shoko Hodel
Infectious agents contribute significantly to the global burden of diseases through both acute infection and their chronic sequelae. We leveraged the UK Biobank to identify genetic loci that influence humoral immune response to multiple infections. From 45 ...
Cambridge2024Host-derived organic acids enable gut colonization of the honey bee symbiont Snodgrassella alvi
Anders Meibom, Stéphane Laurent Escrig
Diverse bacteria can colonize the animal gut using dietary nutrients or by engaging in microbial crossfeeding interactions. Less is known about the role of host-derived nutrients in enabling gut bacterial colonization. Here we examined metabolic interactio ...
Berlin2024Bacterial diversity dominates variable macrophage responses of tuberculosis patients in Tanzania
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) comprises nine human-adapted lineages that differ in their geographical distribution. Local adaptation of specific MTBC genotypes to the respective human host population has been invoked in this context. We aim ...
Nature Portfolio2024Accurate and rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing using a machine learning-assisted nanomotion technology platform
Sandor Kasas, Anthony Vocat, Gino Cathomen, Eric Delarze, Florian Tagini, Laura Munch
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major public health threat, reducing treatment options for infected patients. AMR is promoted by a lack of access to rapid antibiotic susceptibility tests (ASTs). Accelerated ASTs can identify effective antibiotics for t ...
Nature Portfolio2024Functional characterization of Drosophila melanogaster immune effectors
Drosophila melanogaster, commonly known as the "fruit fly", is a genetically tractable model organism widely used to study biological processes, notably the innate immune system. The advent of novel genome editing technologies, such as the CRISPR-Cas9 syst ...
EPFL2023Type I IFNs link skin-associated dysbiotic commensal bacteria to pathogenic inflammation and angiogenesis in rosacea
Alessio Mylonas, Yichen Wang, Jiaqi Chen
Rosacea is a common chronic inflammatory skin disease with a fluctuating course of excessive inflammation and apparent neovascularization. Microbial dysbiosis with a high density of Bacillus oleronius and increased activity of kallikrein 5, which cleaves c ...
AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC2023Host-Pathogen Interactions Through the Genomic Lens
Hosts and pathogens are involved in a long-standing evolutionary arms race characterized by successive rounds of evolution. Specifically, while hosts evolve resistance against infections, pathogens adapt to re-establish virulence. Since the signatures of t ...
EPFL2023Inhibitors of acyl protein thioesterases against microbial infections
Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Laurence Gouzi Abrami, Valeria Cagno
The present invention relates inhibitors of acyl protein thioesterases and method of preparation thereof. It also relates to the use of inhibitors of acyl protein thioesterases in the treatment and/or prevention of a microbial infection such as viral or ba ...
2023Rare predicted loss-of-function variants of type I IFN immunity genes are associated with life-threatening COVID-19
Jacques Fellay, Yu Zhang, Peng Zhang, Qian Zhang
BackgroundWe previously reported that impaired type I IFN activity, due to inborn errors of TLR3- and TLR7-dependent type I interferon (IFN) immunity or to autoantibodies against type I IFN, account for 15-20% of cases of life-threatening COVID-19 in unvac ...
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