Immunology and Inflammation

Immunology and Inflammation

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    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Synthetic auxotrophy reveals metabolic regulation of plasma cell generation, affinity maturation, and cytokine receptor signaling

    Sung Hoon Cho, Shawna K Brookens ... Mark R Boothby
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    MOTS-c is a mitochondrial-encoded interferon-linked host defense peptide

    Michelle C Rice, Maria Imun ... Changhan Lee
    MOTS-c, a mitochondrial-encoded microprotein, has immunological origins and functions, revealing for the first time that our immune system is encoded by both co-evolved nuclear and mitochondrial genomes.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    TLR4 signaling drives tissue inflammation, Claudin-5 internalization, and vascular barrier breakdown in a mouse model of neonatal meningitis

    Philip V Seegren, Amir Rattner ... Jeremy Nathans
    In a mouse model of E. coli meningitis, non-myeloid TLR4 signaling is a key determinant of the inflammatory response in all leptomeningeal cells and of the increase in vascular permeability.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Sequential and coordinated control of human plasma cell differentiation by IRF4 and BLIMP1 utilizing a discriminating ISRE/EICE motif lexicon

    Louis C Lau, Sneha Lal ... Harinder Singh
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Neuroscience

    The G-protein coupled receptor GPR34 promotes the homeostatic state of microglia and restrains the disease-associated microglial response in an Alzheimer’s disease model

    Ana Geller, Min Jee Kwon ... Prabhat S Kunwar
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Functional Convergence of Genetically Diverse B-Cell Receptors in Simian-HIV Infected Rhesus Macaques

    Shengli Song, Hui Li ... Garnett Kelsoe
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Tolerance to Lung Infection in TWIK2 K+ Efflux Mediated Macrophage Trained Immunity

    Josh Thompson, Yufan Li ... Jingsong Xu
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Pink1-mediated mitophagy in the endothelium releases proteins encoded by mitochondrial DNA and activates neutrophil responses during inflammation

    Priyanka Gajwani, Li Wang ... Jalees Rehman
    Inflammatory activation of endothelial cells triggers Pink1-dependent mitophagy and mitochondrial formyl peptides release, which drives neutrophil recruitment and lung injury.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    The C3-C3aR axis modulates trained immunity in alveolar macrophages

    Alexander P Earhart, Alberto Lopez ... Hrishikesh S Kulkarni
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    ImPaqT, a Golden Gate-based immunological toolkit for zebrafish transgenesis

    Saskia Hurst, Christiane Dimmler, Mark R Cronan
    ImPaqT is an immune toolkit that enables modular and expandable cloning of zebrafish transgenes using Golden Gate-based cloning techniques.
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Highlights

    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    3. Medicine

    Focus Issue: Trained Immunity

    Edited by Satyajit Rath et al.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Antibody Language Models: Taking the biology seriously makes models better

    Antonio Matas-Gil, Andreas Tiffeau-Mayer
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Neuroscience

    Microglia: Replacing the immune system of the brain

    Julie Rebejac, Soyon Hong

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