Search Results - "Kochanowsky, Joshua A"
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ROP16-mediated activation of STAT6 enhances cyst development of type III Toxoplasma gondii in neurons
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-04-2023)“…Toxoplasma gondii establishes a long-lived latent infection in the central nervous system (CNS) of its hosts. Reactivation in immunocompromised individuals can…”
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IFN-γ stimulated murine and human neurons mount anti-parasitic defenses against the intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii
Published in Nature communications (08-08-2022)“…Dogma holds that Toxoplasma gondii persists in neurons because neurons cannot clear intracellular parasites, even with IFN-γ stimulation. As several recent…”
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The ROP16III-dependent early immune response determines the subacute CNS immune response and type III Toxoplasma gondii survival
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-10-2019)“…Toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular parasite that persistently infects the CNS and that has genetically distinct strains which provoke different acute immune…”
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Toxoplasma type II effector GRA15 has limited influence in vivo
Published in PloS one (29-03-2024)“…Toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular parasite that establishes a long-term infection in the brain of many warm-blooded hosts, including humans and rodents…”
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ROP16-Mediated Activation of STAT6 Suppresses Host Cell Reactive Oxygen Species Production, Facilitating Type III Toxoplasma gondii Growth and Survival
Published in mBio (02-03-2021)“…Polymorphic effector proteins determine the susceptibility of strains to IFN-γ-mediated clearance mechanisms deployed by murine host cells. However, less is…”
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Toxoplasma gondii
Published in Current biology (23-07-2018)“…Putting cat lovers on notice: Toxoplasma gondii is here to control your brain…or is it? Kochanowsky and Koshy shine the spotlight on this notorious pathogen…”
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A Single Transcription Factor Drives Toxoplasma gondii Differentiation
Published in Cell (23-01-2020)“…Microbes that cause persistent infections (e.g., herpes viruses) do so by switching from fast-growing lytic states to slow-growing latent states. Waldman…”
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Trichomonas vaginalis extracellular vesicles up-regulate and directly transfer adherence factors promoting host cell colonization
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (18-06-2024)“…, a common sexually transmitted parasite that colonizes the human urogenital tract, secretes extracellular vesicles (TvEVs) that are taken up by human cells…”
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The Toxoplasma gondii virulence factor ROP16 acts in cis and trans, and suppresses T cell responses
Published in The Journal of experimental medicine (02-03-2020)“…The ability of Toxoplasma gondii to inject the rhoptry kinase ROP16 into host cells results in the activation of the transcription factors STAT3 and STAT6, but…”
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The ROP16.sub.III-dependent early immune response determines the subacute CNS immune response and type III Toxoplasma gondii survival
Published in PLoS pathogens (24-10-2019)“…Toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular parasite that persistently infects the CNS and that has genetically distinct strains which provoke different acute immune…”
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