Animal models of Long Covid: A hit-and-run disease

A Schäfer, SR Leist, JM Powers, RS Baric - Science Translational …, 2024‏ - science.org
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV 2) pandemic has caused
more than 7 million deaths globally. Despite the presence of infection-and vaccine-induced …

Mx GTPases: dynamin-like antiviral machines of innate immunity

O Haller, P Staeheli, M Schwemmle, G Kochs - Trends in microbiology, 2015‏ - cell.com
The Mx dynamin-like GTPases are key antiviral effector proteins of the type I and type III
interferon (IFN) systems. They inhibit several different viruses by blocking early steps of the …

Sixteen diverse laboratory mouse reference genomes define strain-specific haplotypes and novel functional loci

J Lilue, AG Doran, IT Fiddes, M Abrudan, J Armstrong… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
We report full-length draft de novo genome assemblies for 16 widely used inbred mouse
strains and find extensive strain-specific haplotype variation. We identify and characterize …

Genomes of the mouse collaborative cross

A Srivastava, AP Morgan, ML Najarian, VK Sarsani… - Genetics, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Collaborative Cross (CC) is a multiparent panel of recombinant inbred (RI)
mouse strains derived from eight founder laboratory strains. RI panels are popular because …

Strategies for containing Ebola in west Africa

A Pandey, KE Atkins, J Medlock, N Wenzel… - Science, 2014‏ - science.org
The ongoing Ebola outbreak poses an alarming risk to the countries of West Africa and
beyond. To assess the effectiveness of containment strategies, we developed a stochastic …

Immune genes are hotspots of shared positive selection across birds and mammals

AJ Shultz, TB Sackton - Elife, 2019‏ - elifesciences.org
Consistent patterns of positive selection in functionally similar genes can suggest a common
selective pressure across a group of species. We use alignments of orthologous protein …

High-diversity mouse populations for complex traits

MC Saul, VM Philip, LG Reinholdt, EJ Chesler - Trends in Genetics, 2019‏ - cell.com
Contemporary mouse genetic reference populations are a powerful platform to discover
complex disease mechanisms. Advanced high-diversity mouse populations include the …

Host genetic diversity enables Ebola hemorrhagic fever pathogenesis and resistance

AL Rasmussen, A Okumura, MT Ferris, R Green… - Science, 2014‏ - science.org
Existing mouse models of lethal Ebola virus infection do not reproduce hallmark symptoms
of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, neither delayed blood coagulation and disseminated …

Rare variant MX1 alleles increase human susceptibility to zoonotic H7N9 influenza virus

Y Chen, L Graf, T Chen, Q Liao, T Bai, PP Petric, W Zhu… - Science, 2021‏ - science.org
Zoonotic avian influenza A virus (IAV) infections are rare. Sustained transmission of these
IAVs between humans has not been observed, suggesting a role for host genes. We used …

Mouse models of human TB pathology: roles in the analysis of necrosis and the development of host-directed therapies

I Kramnik, G Beamer - Seminars in immunopathology, 2016‏ - Springer
A key aspect of TB pathogenesis that maintains Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the human
population is the ability to cause necrosis in pulmonary lesions. As co-evolution shaped M …