18 February, 2010
Volume 7, Issue 2

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Volume 7, Issue 2

On the cover: Autophagy clears damaged or unwanted cellular proteins and organelles through lysosomal degradation to prevent their toxic accumulation. In this issue, Orvedahl et al. (pp. 115–127) show that autophagy may also target viral proteins to promote cell survival during infection. Depicted on the cover is a model where Sindbis virus capsid particles (red) are linked by the autophagic adaptor p62 (blue) to LC3 (green) in the autophagosomal membrane. Artwork by Elizabeth C. Smith (UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas).

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Featured Topic:
Bacteria and Immune Homeostasis

A balanced host immune response is actively established and maintained - with bacteria playing a key role.

Mammalian tolerance
of microbiota

IgA Response to Symbiotic Bacteria as a Mediator of Gut Homeostasis

Daniel A. Peterson, Nathan P. McNulty, Janaki L. Guruge, Jeffrey I. Gordon

Zebrafish tolerance
of microbiota

Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase Detoxifies Lipopolysaccharide and Prevents Inflammation in Zebrafish in Response to the Gut Microbiota

Jennifer M. Bates, Janie Akerlund, Erika Mittge, Karen Guillemin

Mammalian tolerance
of lipopolysaccharide

Host Inactivation of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide Prevents Prolonged Tolerance Following Gram-Negative Bacterial Infection

Mingfang Lu, Alan W. Varley, Shoichiro Ohta, John Hardwick, Robert S. Munford

Drosophila tolerance
of microbiota

PIMS Modulates Immune Tolerance by Negatively Regulating Drosophila Innate Immune Signaling

Nouara Lhocine, Paulo S. Ribeiro, Nicolas Buchon, Alexander Wepf, Rebecca Wilson, Tencho Tenev, Bruno Lemaitre, Matthias Gstaiger, Pascal Meier, François Leulier

Drosophila tolerance
of microbiota

The Drosophila Ubiquitin Specific Protease dUSP36/Scny Targets IMD to Prevent Constitutive Immune Signaling

Dominique Thevenon, Elodie Engel, Amélie Avet-Rochex, Marie Gottar, ... Emmanuel Taillebourg, Marie-Odile Fauvarque

Peptidoglycan recognition
and arthritis

PGLYRP-2 and Nod2 Are Both Required for Peptidoglycan-Induced Arthritis and Local Inflammation

Sukumar Saha, Jin Qi, Shiyong Wang, Minhui Wang, Xinna Li, Yun-Gi Kim, Gabriel Núñez, Dipika Gupta, Roman Dziarski

Drosophila tolerance
of peptidoglycan

The Drosophila Peptidoglycan Recognition Protein PGRP-LF Blocks PGRP-LC and IMD/JNK Pathway Activation

Frédéric Maillet, Vincent Bischoff, Cécile Vignal, Jules Hoffmann, Julien Royet

Microbiota promote
resistance to Toxoplasma

Gut Commensal Bacteria Direct a Protective Immune Response against Toxoplasma gondii

Alicia Benson, Reed Pifer, Cassie L. Behrendt, Lora V. Hooper, Felix Yarovinsky

Microbiota and
immune development

Specific Microbiota Direct the Differentiation of IL-17-Producing T-Helper Cells in the Mucosa of the Small Intestine

Ivaylo I. Ivanov, Rosa de Llanos Frutos, Nicolas Manel, Keiji Yoshinaga, Daniel B. Rifkin, R. Balfour Sartor, B. Brett Finlay, Dan R. Littman

Bacteria-induced
autoimmunity

Liver Autoimmunity Triggered by Microbial Activation of Natural Killer T Cells

Jochen Mattner, Paul B. Savage, Patrick Leung, Sabine S. Oertelt, Vivien Wang, Omita Trivedi, Seth T. Scanlon, Krishna Pendem, Luc Teyton, John Hart...Albert Bendelac

Bacteria and
intestinal inflammation

Commensals, Bacterial Pathogens and Intestinal Inflammation: An Intriguing Ménage à Trois (Review)

Thierry Pédron, Philippe Sansonetti

Microbiota in
inflammatory bowel disease

Metagenomic Approaches for Defining the Pathogenesis of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (Review)

Daniel A. Peterson, Daniel N. Frank, Norman R. Pace, Jeffrey I. Gordon


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In the February Issue


Influenza Virus-Induced Glucocorticoids and Immunosuppressiona
Autophagic Viral Protein Clearance in Antiviral DefenseaPreview
Antibody Dependent Enhancement of Dengue Disease in MiceaPreview
Microbiota Regulate IL-17 Producing γ/δ T cells
GM-CSF in Intestinal Mucosal Defense to an Enteric Pathogen
Plant Signaling Pathway Activated by P. syringae AvrB

Review: Metabolomics of Host-Parasite Interactions

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Next issue: March 18, 2010


Featured Articles

Featured Articles are freely available to all readers.

Jaimeson Jaimeson et al. find that influenza virus infection triggers a generalized stress response leading to glucocorticoid induction, systemic immune suppression, and increased burden of a coinfecting systemic bacterial pathogen.
Orvedahl Orvedahl et al. demonstrate that autophagy protects mice against lethal Sindbis virus CNS infection by degrading viral proteins whose accumulation would otherwise cause neuronal cell death. Preview by Yoshimori.
Zellweger Zellweger et al. describe a murine model of antibody-enhanced dengue virus infection and disease providing formal proof that a subprotective humoral response may have pathological consequences. Preview by Pierson.

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Host-Microbe Papers in Other Cell Press Journals

Immunity, January 2010
Distinct Melanization Pathways in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti
Zhen Zou, Sang Woon Shin, Kanwal S. Alvarez, Vladimir Kokoza, Alexander S. Raikhel

Molecular Cell, January 2010
Caspase-Mediated Cleavage, IAP Binding, and Ubiquitination: Linking Three Mechanisms Crucial for Drosophila NF-κB Signaling
Nicholas Paquette, Meike Broemer, Kamna Aggarwal, Li Chen, Marie Husson, Deniz Ertürk-Hasdemir, Jean-Marc Reichhart, Pascal Meier, Neal Silverman

Molecular Cell, February 2010
Sublethal Antibiotic Treatment Leads to Multidrug Resistance via Radical-Induced Mutagenesis
Michael A. Kohanski, Mark A. DePristo, James J. Collins

Cell, February 2010
RIG-I Detects Viral Genomic RNA during Negative-Strand RNA Virus Infection
Jan Rehwinkel, Choon Ping Tan, Delphine Goubau, Oliver Schulz, Andreas Pichlmair, Katja Bier, Nicole Robb, Frank Vreede, Wendy Barclay, Ervin Fodor, Caetano Reis e Sousa