September 21, 2021
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09/16/2021
Pearls
As corals are challenged by warming seas, overfishing, and ocean acidification, the spread of disease is an important factor in their reaction to these challenges. In this Pearls article, Keeling, Mathur and Kwong shed light on Corallicolids, new members of the Apicomplexa which have emerged as a chance discovery from ecological research.
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Current Issue September 2021
09/23/2021
Review
In this Review, Kaminski, Lemoine & Pradeu show that 3 distinct approaches to immunological exhaustion coexist and that they only partially overlap, generating potential misunderstandings.
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09/16/2021
Review
Crilly & Mugnier review articles describing T. brucei infections in humans, natural hosts, and experimental animal models, providing a wealth of information on the distribution and biology of extravascular parasites, the corresponding immune response in each tissue, and resulting host pathology.
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09/29/2021
Research Article
Joanne Kite and colleagues study HSV1 entry and transmission in the human keratinocyte, the main cell type in the target epithelia, with a focus on the primary candidate virus receptor, nectin1.
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09/29/2021
Research Article
In this study, Xiangxiang Zhang and colleagues reveal a mechanism in which a negative regulator of antiviral autophagy recognizes a virus-derived siRNA and sacrifices itself to induce autophagy, which inhibits viral infection.
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09/16/2021
Research Article
Uri Mbonye and colleagues discuss the biogenesis of PTEFb, an important factor in reversing HIV latency, and demonstrate involvement of two complementary signaling TCR cascades independent of protein kinase C.
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09/16/2021
Research Article
From Gibson, Pidwill and colleagues.
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09/24/2021
Research Article
From Aljedani and colleagues.
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09/21/2021
Research Article
From Vera-Otarola, Castillo-Vargas and colleagues.
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09/20/2021
Research Article
From Li, Nagy and colleagues.
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Kaminski and colleagues
Crilly and Mugnier
de Jong and colleagues
Culyba and Van Tyne
Taggart and colleagues
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