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SARS-CoV-2 host-shutoff inhibits innate NK surveillance by suppressing activating ligands, however ADCC provides a potent NK stimulus that is mediated by antibodies targeting Nucleocapsid, ORF3a, and Membrane, with those targeting Spike being significantly weaker.

The Toll-like receptor 2-4 genetic modification goat improves effectively resistance against Staphylococcus aureus infection by enhancing autophagy level, and it provides a novel strategy for challenge of S. aureus-caused infections.

A new study sheds light on how SARS-CoV-2 influences the way natural killer cells can recognize and kill infected cells.

Cytotoxic CD4 T lymphocytes are abundantly generated in T. cruzi-infected mice, predominantly infiltrate infected hearts, depend on T-cell intrinsic IL-18R/MyD88 signaling for expansion and their blood frequency correlates with the severity of chronic myocarditis in patients with Chagas disease.

Microbial variants that arise during chronic lung infections have an increased ability to use nutrients that are abundant in lung infections.

Streptococcus pyogenes M87 protein unfurls its coiled coil to capture and neutralize the human antimicrobial peptide LL-37.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes tuberculosis, can evolve rapidly in response to new environments by mutating genetic regulators that control multiple genes at once.

Generally recognised as safe GABA-producing L. lactis strains could be considered as future therapeutic agents for the management of visceral pain and the anxious profile of IBS patients.

Selective removal of Wall Teichoic Acids from the envelope of Streptococcus pneumoniae prevents bacteriolysis and directs zonal cell wall synthesis.

Ancestral reconstruction of a signaling pathway reveals the mutations responsible for producing specificity of the two paralogous pathways produced by a duplication event.