Search Results - "Harrison, Oliver J."
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Thinking outside the cell: how cadherins drive adhesion
Published in Trends in cell biology (01-06-2012)“…Cadherins are a superfamily of cell surface glycoproteins whose ectodomains contain multiple repeats of β-sandwich extracellular cadherin (EC) domains that…”
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Structural basis of adhesive binding by desmocollins and desmogleins
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (28-06-2016)“…Desmosomes are intercellular adhesive junctions that impart strength to vertebrate tissues. Their dense, ordered intercellular attachments are formed by…”
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Prenatal maternal infection promotes tissue-specific immunity and inflammation in offspring
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (27-08-2021)“…Mom’s IL-6 rewires baby’s gut immunity Most infections that occur during pregnancy are mild and transient. However, whether such pathogen encounters can shape…”
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Non-classical Immunity Controls Microbiota Impact on Skin Immunity and Tissue Repair
Published in Cell (08-02-2018)“…Mammalian barrier surfaces are constitutively colonized by numerous microorganisms. We explored how the microbiota was sensed by the immune system and the…”
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Microbiota-Dependent Sequelae of Acute Infection Compromise Tissue-Specific Immunity
Published in Cell (08-10-2015)“…Infections have been proposed as initiating factors for inflammatory disorders; however, identifying associations between defined infectious agents and the…”
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Critical role of fatty acid metabolism in ILC2-mediated barrier protection during malnutrition and helminth infection
Published in The Journal of experimental medicine (25-07-2016)“…Innate lymphoid cells (ILC) play an important role in many immune processes, including control of infections, inflammation, and tissue repair. To date, little…”
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Discovery of an O-mannosylation pathway selectively serving cadherins and protocadherins
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (17-10-2017)“…The cadherin (cdh) superfamily of adhesion molecules carry O-linked mannose (O-Man) glycans at highly conserved sites localized to specific β-strands of their…”
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T-bet is a key modulator of IL-23-driven pathogenic CD4+ T cell responses in the intestine
Published in Nature communications (19-05-2016)“…IL-23 is a key driver of pathogenic Th17 cell responses. It has been suggested that the transcription factor T-bet is required to facilitate IL-23-driven…”
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The Extracellular Architecture of Adherens Junctions Revealed by Crystal Structures of Type I Cadherins
Published in Structure (London) (09-02-2011)“…Adherens junctions, which play a central role in intercellular adhesion, comprise clusters of type I classical cadherins that bind via extracellular domains…”
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The autophagy gene Atg16l1 differentially regulates Treg and TH2 cells to control intestinal inflammation
Published in eLife (24-02-2016)“…A polymorphism in the autophagy gene Atg16l1 is associated with susceptibility to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); however, it remains unclear how autophagy…”
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Homeostatic Immunity and the Microbiota
Published in Immunity (Cambridge, Mass.) (18-04-2017)“…The microbiota plays a fundamental role in the induction, education, and function of the host immune system. In return, the host immune system has evolved…”
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Homophilic and Heterophilic Interactions of Type II Cadherins Identify Specificity Groups Underlying Cell-Adhesive Behavior
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (08-05-2018)“…Type II cadherins are cell-cell adhesion proteins critical for tissue patterning and neuronal targeting but whose molecular binding code remains poorly…”
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Nectin ectodomain structures reveal a canonical adhesive interface
Published in Nature structural & molecular biology (01-09-2012)“…Nectins and nectin-like proteins promote intercellular adhesion and tissue patterning in vertebrates through homophilic or heterophilic interactions. Now the…”
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E-cadherin junction formation involves an active kinetic nucleation process
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (01-09-2015)“…Epithelial (E)-cadherin-mediated cell−cell junctions play important roles in the development and maintenance of tissue structure in multicellular organisms…”
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Structural and energetic determinants of adhesive binding specificity in type I cadherins
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (07-10-2014)“…Type I cadherin cell-adhesion proteins are similar in sequence and structure and yet are different enough to mediate highly specific cell-cell recognition…”
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Family-wide Structural and Biophysical Analysis of Binding Interactions among Non-clustered δ-Protocadherins
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (25-02-2020)“…Non-clustered δ1- and δ2-protocadherins, close relatives of clustered protocadherins, function in cell adhesion and motility and play essential roles in neural…”
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A conserved population of MHC II-restricted, innate-like, commensal-reactive T cells in the gut of humans and mice
Published in Nature communications (03-12-2022)“…Interactions with commensal microbes shape host immunity on multiple levels and play a pivotal role in human health and disease. Tissue-dwelling,…”
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Trans -endocytosis elicited by nectins transfers cytoplasmic cargo, including infectious material, between cells
Published in Journal of cell science (23-08-2019)“…Here, we show that cells expressing the adherens junction protein nectin-1 capture nectin-4-containing membranes from the surface of adjacent cells in a…”
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Endogenous Reference Genes for Gene Expression Studies on Bicuspid Aortic Valve Associated Aortopathy in Humans
Published in PloS one (11-10-2016)“…Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) disease is the most common congenital cardiac abnormality and predisposes patients to life-threatening aortic complications…”
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A cost analysis of robotic vs. video-assisted thoracic surgery: The impact of the learning curve and the COVID-19 pandemic
Published in Frontiers in surgery (25-04-2023)“…Robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) is an alternative to video-assessed thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for the treatment of lung cancer but concern…”
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