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Co-assembling living material as an in vitro lung epithelial infection model (2023)
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Wu, Y., Romero, M., Robertson, S. N., Fenn, S., Fisher, L., Willingham, I., …Mata, A. (2024). Co-assembling living material as an in vitro lung epithelial infection model. Matter, 7(1), 216-236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2023.10.029

Biofilms are robust living 3D materials that play key roles in nature but also cause major problems, such as tolerance to antibiotic treatment. Recreation of these living structures in vitro is critical to understand their biology and develop solutio... Read More about Co-assembling living material as an in vitro lung epithelial infection model.

Identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa exopolysaccharide Psl in biofilms using 3D OrbiSIMS (2023)
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Khateb, H., Hook, A. L., Kern, S., Watts, J. A., Singh, S., Jackson, D., …Alexander, M. R. (2023). Identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa exopolysaccharide Psl in biofilms using 3D OrbiSIMS. Biointerphases, 18(3), Article 031007. https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0002604

Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) offers advantages over both liquid extraction mass spectrometry and matrix assisted laser desorption mass spectrometry in that it provides the direct in situ analysis of molecules and has the potential to preser... Read More about Identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa exopolysaccharide Psl in biofilms using 3D OrbiSIMS.

Variable disruption of epithelial monolayers by Neisseria meningitidis carriage isolates of the hypervirulent MenW cc11 and MenY cc23 lineages (2023)
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Dave, N., Albiheyri, R. S., Wanford, J. J., Green, L. R., Oldfield, N. J., Turner, D. P., …Bayliss, C. D. (2023). Variable disruption of epithelial monolayers by Neisseria meningitidis carriage isolates of the hypervirulent MenW cc11 and MenY cc23 lineages. Microbiology, 169(2), https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001305

Colonization of mucosal tissues by Neisseria meningitidis requires adhesion mediated by the type IV pilus and multiple outer-membrane proteins. Penetration of the mucosa and invasion of epithelial cells are thought to contribute to host persistence a... Read More about Variable disruption of epithelial monolayers by Neisseria meningitidis carriage isolates of the hypervirulent MenW cc11 and MenY cc23 lineages.

Sulfation at Glycopolymer Side Chains Switches Activity at the Macrophage Mannose Receptor (CD206) In Vitro and In Vivo (2022)
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Mastrotto, F., Pirazzini, M., Negro, S., Salama, A., Martinez-Pomares, L., & Mantovani, G. (2022). Sulfation at Glycopolymer Side Chains Switches Activity at the Macrophage Mannose Receptor (CD206) In Vitro and In Vivo. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144(50), 23134–23147. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c10757

The mannose receptor (CD206) is an endocytic receptor expressed by selected innate immune cells and nonvascular endothelium, which plays a critical role in both homeostasis and pathogen recognition. Although its involvement in the development of seve... Read More about Sulfation at Glycopolymer Side Chains Switches Activity at the Macrophage Mannose Receptor (CD206) In Vitro and In Vivo.

Sulfation at Glycopolymer Side Chains Switches Activity at the Macrophage Mannose Receptor (CD206) In Vitro and In Vivo (2022)
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Mastrotto, F., Pirazzini, M., Negro, S., Salama, A., Martinez-Pomares, L., & Mantovani, G. (2022). Sulfation at Glycopolymer Side Chains Switches Activity at the Macrophage Mannose Receptor (CD206) In Vitro and In Vivo. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144(50), 23134-23147. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c10757

The mannose receptor (CD206) is an endocytic receptor expressed by selected innate immune cells and nonvascular endothelium, which plays a critical role in both homeostasis and pathogen recognition. Although its involvement in the development of seve... Read More about Sulfation at Glycopolymer Side Chains Switches Activity at the Macrophage Mannose Receptor (CD206) In Vitro and In Vivo.

Intracellular replication of Streptococcus pneumoniae inside splenic macrophages serves as a reservoir for septicaemia (2018)
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Ercoli, G., Fernandes, V. E., Chung, W. Y., Wanford, J. J., Thomson, S., Bayliss, C. D., Straatman, K., Crocker, P. R., Dennison, A., Martinez-Pomares, L., Andrew, P. W., Moxon, E. R., & Oggioni, M. R. (2018). Intracellular replication of Streptococcus pneumoniae inside splenic macrophages serves as a reservoir for septicaemia. Nature Microbiology, 3, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-018-0147-1

Bacterial septicaemia is a major cause of mortality, but its pathogenesis remains poorly understood. In experimental pneumococcal murine intravenous infection, an initial reduction of bacteria in the blood is followed hours later by a fatal septicaem... Read More about Intracellular replication of Streptococcus pneumoniae inside splenic macrophages serves as a reservoir for septicaemia.

Physiological roles of macrophages (2017)
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Gordon, S., & Martinez-Pomares, L. (in press). Physiological roles of macrophages. Pflügers Archiv European Journal of Physiology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00424-017-1945-7

Macrophages are present in mammals from midgestation, contributing to physiologic homeostasis throughout life. Macrophages arise from yolk sac and foetal liver progenitors during embryonic development in the mouse and persist in different organs as h... Read More about Physiological roles of macrophages.

Modulation of the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis during malaria/M. tuberculosis co-infection (2016)
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Chukwuanukwu, R. C., Onyenekwe, C. C., Martinez-Pomares, L., Flynn, R. J., Singh, S., Amilo, G. I., …Okoye, J. O. (in press). Modulation of the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis during malaria/M. tuberculosis co-infection. Clinical and Experimental Immunology, 187(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/cei.12861

Tuberculosis (TB) causes significant morbidity and mortality on a global scale. The African region has 24% of the world's TB cases. TB overlaps with other infectious diseases such as malaria and HIV, which are also highly prevalent in the African reg... Read More about Modulation of the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis during malaria/M. tuberculosis co-infection.

Immune dysfunction in patients with obstructive jaundice before and after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (2016)
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Chowdhury, A. H., Camara, M., Martinez-Pomares, L., Zaitoun, A. M., Eremin, O., Aithal, G. P., & Lobo, D. (2016). Immune dysfunction in patients with obstructive jaundice before and after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. Clinical Science, 130(17), 1535-1544. https://doi.org/10.1042/CS20160326

© 2016 The Author(s). This prospective observational study investigated monocyte cytokine responses to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in patients with obstructive jaundice (OJ) before and after endoscopic biliary drainage. Dendritic cell (DC) subsets and t... Read More about Immune dysfunction in patients with obstructive jaundice before and after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.

Granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulatory factor enhances the pro-inflammatory response of interferon-γ-treated macrophages to pseudomonas aeruginosa infection (2015)
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Singh, S., Barr, H. L., Liu, Y.-C., Robins, A., Heeb, S., Williams, P., …Martinez-Pomares, L. (2015). Granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulatory factor enhances the pro-inflammatory response of interferon-γ-treated macrophages to pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. PLoS ONE, 10(2), Article e0117447. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117447

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that can cause severe infections at compromised epithelial surfaces, such those found in burns, wounds, and in lungs damaged by mechanical ventilation or recurrent infections, particularly in cystic... Read More about Granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulatory factor enhances the pro-inflammatory response of interferon-γ-treated macrophages to pseudomonas aeruginosa infection.

Recognition of the major cat allergen Fel d 1 through the cysteine-rich domain of the mannose receptor determines its allergenicity (2011)
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Emara, M., Royer, P. J., Abbas, Z., Sewell, H. F., Gebriel Mohamed, G., Singh, S., …Ghaemmaghami, A. M. (2011). Recognition of the major cat allergen Fel d 1 through the cysteine-rich domain of the mannose receptor determines its allergenicity. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 286(15), 13033-13040. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M111.220657

Dendritic cells are professional antigen-presenting cells that are specialized in antigen uptake and presentation. Allergy to cat has increased substantially in recent years and has been shown to be positively associated with asthma.Wehave recently s... Read More about Recognition of the major cat allergen Fel d 1 through the cysteine-rich domain of the mannose receptor determines its allergenicity.

Glycosylation of surface Ig creates a functional bridge between human follicular lymphoma and microenvironmental lectins (2010)
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Coelho, V., Krysov, S., Ghaemmaghami, A. M., Emara, M., Potter, K. N., Johnson, P., …Stevenson, F. K. (2010). Glycosylation of surface Ig creates a functional bridge between human follicular lymphoma and microenvironmental lectins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(43), 18587-18592. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1009388107

Surface Ig (sIg) of follicular lymphoma (FL) is vital for tumor cell survival. We found previously that the Ig in FL is unusual, because the variable region genes carry sequence motifs for N-glycan addition. These are introduced by somatic mutation a... Read More about Glycosylation of surface Ig creates a functional bridge between human follicular lymphoma and microenvironmental lectins.

The mannose receptor mediates the uptake of diverse native allergens by dendritic cells and determines allergen-induced T cell polarization through modulation of IDO Activity (2010)
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Royer, P. J., Emara, M., Yang, C., Al-Ghouleh, A., Tighe, P., Jones, N., …Ghaemmaghami, A. M. (2010). The mannose receptor mediates the uptake of diverse native allergens by dendritic cells and determines allergen-induced T cell polarization through modulation of IDO Activity. Journal of Immunology, 185(3), 1522-1531. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1000774

The mannose receptor (MR) is a C-type lectin expressed by dendritic cells (DCs). We have investigated the ability of MR to recognize glycosylated allergens. Using a gene silencing strategy, we have specifically inhibited the expression of MR on human... Read More about The mannose receptor mediates the uptake of diverse native allergens by dendritic cells and determines allergen-induced T cell polarization through modulation of IDO Activity.