| | FEBS Letters Biology of Danger and Defence
Virtual Special Issue FEBS Letters is proud to launch a new series of Virtual Special Issues which will highlight a collection of outstanding articles recently published in the journal, focusing on a selection of topics that we hope will be of general interest to our readers. We encourage all FEBS Letters readers to take a look at the Virtual Special Issue on "Biology of Danger and Defence", our latest collection of some of the best articles published in FEBS Letters in the field of immunology and beyond. When an organism comes into contact with a noxious entity, it is normally capable of recognizing it as a potential source of danger. The danger stimulus is then translated into a network of signals, which ultimately switch on an ad hoc defence programme. Understanding the mechanisms underlying these pathways is a matter of utmost importance in biology and medicine. With this Virtual Special Issue we would like to highlight some of the most important contributions on the topic that were published in FEBS Letters in the last two years. The issue brings together not only articles in the field of immunology, but also includes essays in microbiology and plant biology. Many of the studies within this Special Issue focus on signalling pathways, shedding light onto the molecular mechanisms of danger and defence. We hope you will find this issue illuminating.
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I. Inflammatory response
II. Toll-like receptor signalling
III. The cell's response to microbial insults
IV. Defence mechanisms in plants |
I. Inflammatory response
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Involvement of phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase and ERK pathways in the production of TGF-β1 by macrophages treated with liposomes composed of phosphatidylserine
, 03 January 2007
Masaki Otsuka, Yoichi Negishi, Yukihiko Aramaki
FEBS Letters
23 January 2007 (Vol. 581, Issue 2, Pages 325-330)
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Interferon gamma-dependent transactivation of epidermal growth factor receptor
, 09 March 2007
Elena Burova, Konstantin Vassilenko, Victoria Dorosh, Ilya Gonchar, Nikolai Nikolsky
FEBS Letters
3 April 2007 (Vol. 581, Issue 7, Pages 1475-1480)
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Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) promotes fibroblast migration in scratch-wounded monolayers in vitro
, 06 September 2007
Manfred Dewor, Guy Steffens, Regina Krohn, Christian Weber, Jens Baron, Jürgen Bernhagen
FEBS Letters
2 October 2007 (Vol. 581, Issue 24, Pages 4734-4742)
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Up-regulation of heme oxygenase-1 expression through the Rac1/NADPH oxidase/ROS/p38 signaling cascade mediates the anti-inflammatory effect of 15-deoxy-Δ12,14-prostaglandin J2 in murine macrophages
, 19 February 2008
Hye-Young Hong, Woo-Kwang Jeon, Byung-Chul Kim
FEBS Letters
19 March 2008 (Vol. 582, Issue 6, Pages 861-868)
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Acute internalization of gap junctions in vascular endothelial cells in response to inflammatory mediator-induced G-protein coupled receptor activation
, 05 November 2008
Susan M. Baker, Namho Kim, Anna M. Gumpert, Dominique Segretain, Matthias M. Falk
FEBS Letters
10 December 2008 (Vol. 582, Issue 29, Pages 4039-4046)
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Contribution of IL-12R mediated feedback loop to Th1 cell differentiation
, 12 October 2007
Attila Becskei, Michael J. Grusby
FEBS Letters
13 November 2007 (Vol. 581, Issue 27, Pages 5199-5206)
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Crystal structure of the IL-22/IL-22R1 complex and its implications for the IL-22 signaling mechanism
, 01 August 2008
Lucas Bleicher, Patricia Ribeiro de Moura, Leandra Watanabe, Didier Colau, Laure Dumoutier, Jean-Christophe Renauld, Igor Polikarpov
FEBS Letters
3 September 2008 (Vol. 582, Issue 20, Pages 2985-2992)
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Structure-dependent functional properties of human defensin 5
, 03 January 2007
Erik de Leeuw, Scott R. Burks, Xiangqun Li, Joseph P.Y. Kao, Wuyuan Lu
FEBS Letters
6 February 2007 (Vol. 581, Issue 3, Pages 515-520)
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| II. Toll-like receptor signalling |
MAPPIT analysis of TLR adaptor complexes
, 18 January 2007
Peter Ulrichts, Frank Peelman, Rudi Beyaert, Jan Tavernier
FEBS Letters
20 February 2007 (Vol. 581, Issue 4, Pages 629-636)
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Distinct roles of TIR and non-TIR regions in the subcellular localization and signaling properties of MyD88
, 19 June 2007
Tadashi Nishiya, Emi Kajita, Takahiro Horinouchi, Arata Nishimoto, Soichi Miwa
FEBS Letters
10 July 2007 (Vol. 581, Issue 17, Pages 3223-3229)
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Protein phosphatase 4 negatively regulates LPS cascade by inhibiting ubiquitination of TRAF6
, 15 July 2008
Lu Chen, Wei Dong, Tingting Zou, Lu Ouyang, Guoqing He, Yingle Liu, Yipeng Qi
FEBS Letters
20 August 2008 (Vol. 582, Issue 19, Pages 2843-2849)
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Toll-like receptors stimulate regulated intramembrane proteolysis of the CSF-1 receptor through Erk activation
, 21 February 2008
Gary Glenn, Peter van der Geer
FEBS Letters
19 March 2008 (Vol. 582, Issue 6, Pages 911-915)
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| III. The cell's response to microbial insults |
Characterisation of cyclin D1 down-regulation in coronavirus infected cells
, 01 March 2007
Sally M. Harrison, Brian K. Dove, Lisa Rothwell, Pete Kaiser, Ian Tarpey, Gavin Brooks, Julian A. Hiscox
FEBS Letters
3 April 2007 (Vol. 581, Issue 7, Pages 1275-1286)
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Elimination of a bacterial pore-forming toxin by sequential endocytosis and exocytosis
, 19 December 2008
Matthias Husmann, Erik Beckmann, Klaus Boller, Nicole Kloft, Stefan Tenzer, Wiesia Bobkiewicz, Claudia Neukirch, Hagan Bayley, Sucharit Bhakdi
FEBS Letters
22 January 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 2, Pages 337-344)
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Mycobacterial lipomannan induces MAP kinase phosphatase-1 expression in macrophages
, 15 January 2008
Elisabeth Elass, Bernadette Coddeville, Laurent Kremer, Marlène Mortuaire, Joël Mazurier, Yann Guérardel
FEBS Letters
6 February 2008 (Vol. 582, Issue 3, Pages 445-450)
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| IV. Defence mechanisms in plants |
Diverse stress signals activate the C1 subgroup MAP kinases of Arabidopsis
, 11 April 2007
Dolores Ortiz-Masia, Miguel A. Perez-Amador, Juan Carbonell, Maria J. Marcote
FEBS Letters
1 May 2007 (Vol. 581, Issue 9, Pages 1834-1840)
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Genetic interaction and phenotypic analysis of the Arabidopsis MAP kinase pathway mutations mekk1 and mpk4 suggests signaling pathway complexity
, 12 June 2007
Shih-Heng Su, Maria Cristina Suarez-Rodriguez, Patrick Krysan
FEBS Letters
10 July 2007 (Vol. 581, Issue 17, Pages 3171-3177)
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Calmodulin-binding transcription activator (CAMTA) 3 mediates biotic defense responses in Arabidopsis
, 25 February 2008
Yael Galon, Roy Nave, Joy M. Boyce, Dikla Nachmias, Marc R. Knight, Hillel Fromm
FEBS Letters
19 March 2008 (Vol. 582, Issue 6, Pages 943-948)
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Salicylic acid production in response to biotic and abiotic stress depends on isochorismate in Nicotiana benthamiana
, 15 January 2008
Jérémy Catinot, Antony Buchala, Eliane Abou-Mansour, Jean-Pierre Métraux
FEBS Letters
20 February 2008 (Vol. 582, Issue 4, Pages 473-478)
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