Pathogens, particularly viruses, target the same genes over deep evolutionary time, resulting in shared signatures of positive selection and transcriptional responses at the same genes.
Sarah R Mullinax, Andrea M Darby ... Robert L Unckless
Genetic variation in an immune peptide is maintained by multiple selective forces including an interplay between systemic immunity, sex, and the microbiome.
Dylan H Morris, Velislava N Petrova ... Colin A Russell
Despite the virus' error prone polymerase, influenza virus antigenic evolution is rare, even in previously immune hosts, virus replication occurs before producing new antibodies.
Yael Artzy-Randrup, Mary M Rorick ... Mercedes Pascual
Mathematical modeling shows that local populations of the malaria parasite self-organize into a limited number of transient but distinct strains through competition for hosts in immunity space.
Anastasia O Smirnova, Anna M Miroshnichenkova ... Alexander Komkov
A hallmark property of non-functional clonotypes was used to develop a universal and fully computational method for detection and correction of multiplex PCR-specific quantitative bias in adaptive immune receptor repertoire.
The integration of signals via the pleiotropic NF-kappaB (NF-κB) system enables microenvironmental cues to tune cellular responses to pathogenic substances.