Immune responses to human fungal pathogens and therapeutic prospects

MS Lionakis, RA Drummond, TM Hohl - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Pathogenic fungi have emerged as significant causes of infectious morbidity and death in
patients with acquired immunodeficiency conditions such as HIV/AIDS and following receipt …

[HTML][HTML] The gut mycobiome in health, disease, and clinical applications in association with the gut bacterial microbiome assembly

F Zhang, D Aschenbrenner, JY Yoo, T Zuo - The Lancet Microbe, 2022 - thelancet.com
The gut mycobiome (fungi) is a small but crucial component of the gut microbiome in
humans. Intestinal fungi regulate host homoeostasis, pathophysiological and physiological …

[HTML][HTML] A pan-cancer mycobiome analysis reveals fungal involvement in gastrointestinal and lung tumors

AB Dohlman, J Klug, M Mesko, IH Gao, SM Lipkin… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Fungal microorganisms (mycobiota) comprise a small but immunoreactive component of the
human microbiome, yet little is known about their role in human cancers. Pan-cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Mucosal fungi promote gut barrier function and social behavior via Type 17 immunity

I Leonardi, IH Gao, WY Lin, M Allen, XV Li, WD Fiers… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Fungal communities (the mycobiota) are an integral part of the gut microbiota, and the
disruption of their integrity contributes to local and gut-distal pathologies. Yet, the …

[HTML][HTML] Microbiome-based interventions to modulate gut ecology and the immune system

TCA Hitch, LJ Hall, SK Walsh, GE Leventhal, E Slack… - Mucosal …, 2022 - Elsevier
The gut microbiome lies at the intersection between the environment and the host, with the
ability to modify host responses to disease-relevant exposures and stimuli. This is evident in …

Selection of cross-reactive T cells by commensal and food-derived yeasts drives cytotoxic TH1 cell responses in Crohn's disease

GR Martini, E Tikhonova, E Rosati, MB DeCelie… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Aberrant CD4+ T cell reactivity against intestinal microorganisms is considered to drive
mucosal inflammation in inflammatory bowel diseases. The disease-relevant microbial …

Fungal microbiota sustains lasting immune activation of neutrophils and their progenitors in severe COVID-19

T Kusakabe, WY Lin, JG Cheong, G Singh… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Gastrointestinal fungal dysbiosis is a hallmark of several diseases marked by systemic
immune activation. Whether persistent pathobiont colonization during immune alterations …

The pathobiology of human fungal infections

GD Brown, ER Ballou, S Bates, EM Bignell… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Human fungal infections are a historically neglected area of disease research, yet they
cause more than 1.5 million deaths every year. Our understanding of the pathophysiology of …

Randomized placebo-controlled, biomarker-stratified phase Ib microbiome modulation in melanoma: impact of antibiotic preconditioning on microbiome and immunity

IC Glitza, YD Seo, CN Spencer, JR Wortman… - Cancer …, 2024 - aacrjournals.org
Gut-microbiota modulation shows promise in improving immune-checkpoint blockade (ICB)
response; however, precision biomarker-driven, placebo-controlled trials are lacking. We …

The role of intestinal microbes on intestinal barrier function and host immunity from a metabolite perspective

Y Fu, J Lyu, S Wang - Frontiers in immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The gut is colonized by many commensal microorganisms, and the diversity and metabolic
patterns of microorganisms profoundly influence the intestinal health. These microbial …