Expression of human ficolin-2 in hepatocytes confers resistance to infection by diverse hepatotropic viruses

Irving, William L.; Jalal, Paywast J.; Urbanowicz, Richard A.; Horncastle, Emma; Pathak, Monika; Goddard, Chun; Saeed, Amanj; Mason, Christopher P.; Ball, Jonathan K.; McClure, C. Patrick; King, Barnabas J.; Tarr, Alexander W.

doi:10.1099/jmm.0.000935

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Identification of infectious agents in high-throughput sequencing data sets is easily achievable using free, cloud-based bioinformatics platforms (2019)
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Chappell, J. G., Byaruhanga, T., Tsoleridis, T., Ball, J. K., & Patrick McClure, C. (2019). Identification of infectious agents in high-throughput sequencing data sets is easily achievable using free, cloud-based bioinformatics platforms. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 57(12), https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01386-19

IFITMs mediate viral evasion in acute and chronic hepatitis C virus infection (2019)
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Wrensch, F., Ligat, G., Heydmann, L., Schuster, C., Zeisel, M. B., Pessaux, P., …Baumert, T. F. (2019). IFITMs mediate viral evasion in acute and chronic hepatitis C virus infection. Hepatology, 70(5), 1506-1520. https://doi.org/10.1002/hep.30699

While adaptive immune responses against hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection have been studied in great detail, the role of innate immunity in protection against HCV infection and immune evasion is only partially understood. Interferon‐induced transmemb... Read More about IFITMs mediate viral evasion in acute and chronic hepatitis C virus infection.

Cross-genotype AR3-specific neutralizing antibodies confer long-term protection in injecting drug users after HCV clearance (2019)
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Merat, S. J., Bru, C., van de Berg, D., Molenkamp, R., Tarr, A. W., Koekkoek, S., …Schinkel, J. (2019). Cross-genotype AR3-specific neutralizing antibodies confer long-term protection in injecting drug users after HCV clearance. Journal of Hepatology, 71(1), 14-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2019.02.013

Background & Aims Understanding immune protection against hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is necessary for designing an effective vaccine. A number of broadly-reactive, neutralizing antibodies have been isolated from B cells of HCV-infected subjec... Read More about Cross-genotype AR3-specific neutralizing antibodies confer long-term protection in injecting drug users after HCV clearance.

Expression of human ficolin-2 in hepatocytes confers resistance to infection by diverse hepatotropic viruses (2019)
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Irving, W. L., Jalal, P. J., Urbanowicz, R. A., Horncastle, E., Pathak, M., Goddard, C., …Tarr, A. W. (2019). Expression of human ficolin-2 in hepatocytes confers resistance to infection by diverse hepatotropic viruses. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 68(4), 642-648. https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.000935

The liver-expressed pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) mannose binding lectin (MBL), ficolin-2 and ficolin-3 contribute to the innate immune response by activating complement. Binding of soluble ficolin-2 to viral pathogens can directly neutralize... Read More about Expression of human ficolin-2 in hepatocytes confers resistance to infection by diverse hepatotropic viruses.