Immunology and Inflammation

Immunology and Inflammation

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

    Focus Issue: Trained Immunity

    Edited by Satyajit Rath et al.
    Our latest Focus Issue looks at what we’ve learnt over the past decade and what’s next for the field of trained immunity.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Focus Issue: Evolving our understanding of trained immunity

    Eva Kaufmann, Yahya Sohrabi ... Jos WM van der Meer
    The articles in this focus issue discuss progress towards a more complete understanding of memory in the innate immune system, and efforts to exploit "trained immunity" for the development of new vaccines and therapeutics.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Layers of immunity: Deconstructing the Drosophila effector response

    Faustine Ryckebusch, Yao Tian ... Bruno Lemaitre
    New tools make it possible to investigate the timing and importance of different immune effectors in defense against infection.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    B cell expression of the enzyme PexRAP, an intermediary in ether lipid biosynthesis, promotes antibody responses and germinal center size

    Sung Hoon Cho, Marissa A Jones ... Mark R Boothby
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Useful
    • Convincing
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Bacteriology: How Shigella tackles host defences

    Yizhou Huang, Teresa LM Thurston
    The pathogenic bacteria Shigella avoids detection inside hosts cells by degrading RNF213, the protein responsible for sensing the presence of intracellular pathogens.
    Version of Record
    Insight
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Structure-based Design of Chimeric Influenza Hemagglutinins to Elicit Cross-group Immunity

    Karla M Castro, Reyhaneh Ayardulabi ... Bruno E Correia
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    IFIT1 is rapidly evolving and exhibits disparate antiviral activities across 11 mammalian orders

    Matthew B McDougal, Ian N Boys ... John W Schoggins
    Evolutionary changes in RNA binding and antiviral activity result in diverse IFIT1 functions across mammals, even among closely related species.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Resident memory macrophages and trained innate immunity at barrier tissues

    Alisha Kang, Michael D'Agostino ... Zhou Xing
    The increasing knowledge of barrier tissue-resident memory macrophages and trained innate immunity (TII) will help develop both nontarget-specific and target-specific TII-based vaccine strategies.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Lipopolysaccharide stimulates dynamic changes in B cell metabolism to promote proliferation

    Dana MS Cheung, Momchil Razsolkov ... J Simon C Arthur
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Fundamental
    • Convincing

Senior editors

  1. Diane M Harper
    University of Michigan, United States
  2. Tony Ng
    King's College London, United Kingdom
  3. Satyajit Rath
    National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India
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