Editorial overview: Attrition warfare: host cell weapons against intracellular pathogens, and how the pathogens fight back.
Editorial overview: Attrition warfare: host cell weapons against intracellular pathogens, and how the pathogens fight back.
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编辑概述:消耗战:针对细胞内病原体的宿主细胞武器,以及病原体如何反击。
DOI:
10.1016/j.coi.2019.07.009
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
7
通讯作者:
Glickman,MichaelS
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作者:
Stallings,ChristinaL;Glickman,MichaelS
Intracellular pathogens represent a special challenge for the host. Because they reside within the host cell, elimination of the infection inevitably involves a balance between maximizing pathogen destruction while minimizing host cell damage. This balance between pathogen destruction and host cell preservation involves a spectrum of host strategies that range from direct pathogen killing with host cell survival to more suicidal strategies in which the infected host cell is sacrificed to facilitate pathogen killing. Intracellular pathogens have evolved to modify these host strategies to enable pathogenesis, leading to an arms race of host and pathogen defenses. In this issue, we will explore the diversity of cell intrinsic and cell extrinsic mechanisms deployed to control intracellular pathogens, with a particular emphasis on bacterial pathogens, and the mechanisms by which pathogens counteract these strategies.Brewer, Brubaker, Monack [1] review the broad role of the inflammasome, and the pathogen countermeasures that neutralize the inflammasome, in host defense. They present a conceptual framework to understand the varied inflammasomes by outlining the distinct sensors, adaptors, and effector proteins that assemble into inflammasome complexes, ultimately leading to cleavage or pro-IL1B, pro-IL-18, and Gasdermin D. The diverse pathogen strategies for neutralizing this potent host defense mechanism are comprehensively summarized.