Interferon-γ and infectious diseases: Lessons and prospects

JL Casanova, JD MacMicking, CF Nathan - Science, 2024 - science.org
Infectious diseases continue to claim many lives. Prevention of morbidity and mortality from
these diseases would benefit not just from new medicines and vaccines but also from a …

[HTML][HTML] Type I interferons in infectious disease

F McNab, K Mayer-Barber, A Sher, A Wack… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Type I interferons (IFNs) have diverse effects on innate and adaptive immune cells during
infection with viruses, bacteria, parasites and fungi, directly and/or indirectly through the …

Perturbation-response genes reveal signaling footprints in cancer gene expression

M Schubert, B Klinger, M Klünemann, A Sieber… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Aberrant cell signaling can cause cancer and other diseases and is a focal point of drug
research. A common approach is to infer signaling activity of pathways from gene …

A blood RNA signature for tuberculosis disease risk: a prospective cohort study

DE Zak, A Penn-Nicholson, TJ Scriba, E Thompson… - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background Identification of blood biomarkers that prospectively predict progression of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection to tuberculosis disease might lead to interventions that …

Cutaneous mycobacterial infections

C Franco-Paredes, LA Marcos… - Clinical microbiology …, 2018 - journals.asm.org
Humans encounter mycobacterial species due to their ubiquity in different environmental
niches. In many individuals, pathogenic mycobacterial species may breach our first-line …

Regulation of type I interferon responses

LB Ivashkiv, LT Donlin - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2014 - nature.com
Type I interferons (IFNs) activate intracellular antimicrobial programmes and influence the
development of innate and adaptive immune responses. Canonical type I IFN signalling …

The cytosolic sensor cGAS detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA to induce type I interferons and activate autophagy

RO Watson, SL Bell, DA MacDuff, JM Kimmey… - Cell host & …, 2015 - cell.com
Type I interferons (IFNs) are critical mediators of antiviral defense, but their elicitation by
bacterial pathogens can be detrimental to hosts. Many intracellular bacterial pathogens …

Aging-induced type I interferon response at the choroid plexus negatively affects brain function

K Baruch, A Deczkowska, E David, JM Castellano… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Aging-associated cognitive decline is affected by factors produced inside and outside the
brain. By using multiorgan genome-wide analysis of aged mice, we found that the choroid …

[HTML][HTML] Early cellular mechanisms of type I interferon-driven susceptibility to tuberculosis

DI Kotov, OV Lee, SA Fattinger, CA Langner, JV Guillen… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) causes 1.6 million deaths annually. Active
tuberculosis correlates with a neutrophil-driven type I interferon (IFN) signature, but the …

The roles of type I interferon in bacterial infection

GM Boxx, G Cheng - Cell host & microbe, 2016 - cell.com
Type I interferons (IFNs) are pleiotropic cytokines well recognized for their role in the
induction of a potent antiviral gene program essential for host defense against viruses. They …