Search Results - "Varani, Luca"
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Specificity, cross-reactivity, and function of antibodies elicited by Zika virus infection
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (19-08-2016)“…Zika virus (ZIKV), a mosquito-borne flavivirus with homology to Dengue virus (DENV), has become a public health emergency. By characterizing memory lymphocytes…”
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Balance of Anti-CD123 Chimeric Antigen Receptor Binding Affinity and Density for the Targeting of Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Published in Molecular therapy (02-08-2017)“…Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-redirected T lymphocytes are a promising immunotherapeutic approach and object of pre-clinical evaluation for the treatment of…”
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Recognition and inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 by humoral innate immunity pattern recognition molecules
Published in Nature immunology (01-02-2022)“…The humoral arm of innate immunity includes diverse molecules with antibody-like functions, some of which serve as disease severity biomarkers in coronavirus…”
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Terahertz Detection and Imaging Using Graphene Ballistic Rectifiers
Published in Nano letters (08-11-2017)“…A graphene ballistic rectifier is used in conjunction with an antenna to demonstrate a rectenna as a terahertz (THz) detector. A small-area (<1 μm2) local gate…”
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Machine learning analyses of antibody somatic mutations predict immunoglobulin light chain toxicity
Published in Nature communications (10-06-2021)“…In systemic light chain amyloidosis (AL), pathogenic monoclonal immunoglobulin light chains (LC) form toxic aggregates and amyloid fibrils in target organs…”
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Translocon component Sec62 acts in endoplasmic reticulum turnover during stress recovery
Published in Nature cell biology (01-11-2016)“…The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a site of protein biogenesis in eukaryotic cells. Perturbing ER homeostasis activates stress programs collectively called the…”
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Prophylactic and postexposure efficacy of a potent human monoclonal antibody against MERS coronavirus
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (18-08-2015)“…Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is a highly lethal pulmonary infection caused by a previously unidentified coronavirus (CoV), likely transmitted to…”
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Mutually exclusive redox forms of HMGB1 promote cell recruitment or proinflammatory cytokine release
Published in The Journal of experimental medicine (27-08-2012)“…Tissue damage causes inflammation, by recruiting leukocytes and activating them to release proinflammatory mediators. We show that high-mobility group box 1…”
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The Tim-3-Galectin-9 Pathway and Its Regulatory Mechanisms in Human Breast Cancer
Published in Frontiers in immunology (11-07-2019)“…Human cancer cells operate a variety of effective molecular and signaling mechanisms which allow them to escape host immune surveillance and thus progress the…”
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Ligand-Receptor Interactions of Galectin-9 and VISTA Suppress Human T Lymphocyte Cytotoxic Activity
Published in Frontiers in immunology (20-11-2020)“…Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a blood/bone marrow cancer, is a severe and often fatal malignancy. AML cells are capable of impairing the anti-cancer activities…”
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The Tim-3-galectin-9 Secretory Pathway is Involved in the Immune Escape of Human Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells
Published in EBioMedicine (01-08-2017)“…Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a severe and often fatal systemic malignancy. Malignant cells are capable of escaping host immune surveillance by inactivating…”
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Humoral and cell-mediated response against SARS-CoV-2 variants elicited by mRNA vaccine BNT162b2 in healthcare workers: a longitudinal observational study
Published in Clinical microbiology and infection (01-02-2022)“…To assess the humoral and cell-mediated response to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) elicited by the mRNA BNT162b2 vaccine in…”
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Plasma wave resonances in Graphene channels under controlled gate for high frequency applications
Published in Materials research express (01-07-2023)“…Abstract Several devices based on 2D materials have become interesting for high-frequency applications especially sensors, amplifiers and modulators of…”
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Analytical Ultracentrifugation Detects Quaternary Rearrangements and Antibody-Induced Conformational Selection of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Trimer
Published in International journal of molecular sciences (01-10-2023)“…Analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) analysis shows that the SARS-CoV-2 trimeric Spike (S) protein adopts different quaternary conformations in solution. The…”
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Out-of-Equilibrium Collective Oscillation as Phonon Condensation in a Model Protein
Published in Physical review. X (10-09-2018)“…We describe the activation of out-of-equilibrium collective oscillations of a macromolecule as a classical phonon condensation phenomenon. If a macromolecule…”
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Differential expression and biochemical activity of the immune receptor Tim-3 in healthy and malignant human myeloid cells
Published in Oncotarget (20-10-2015)“…The T cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain 3 (Tim-3) is a plasma membrane-associated receptor which is involved in a variety of biological responses in human…”
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A bispecific immunotweezer prevents soluble PrP oligomers and abolishes prion toxicity
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-10-2018)“…Antibodies to the prion protein, PrP, represent a promising therapeutic approach against prion diseases but the neurotoxicity of certain anti-PrP antibodies…”
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Rational engineering of the lccβ T. versicolor laccase for the mediator-less oxidation of large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Published in Computational and structural biotechnology journal (01-01-2021)“…[Display omitted] •Computational-assisted protein engineering of the binding pocket of laccases.•Mutants have activity increased up to ~ 300% in a broader pH…”
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Human antibodies in Mexico and Brazil neutralizing tick-borne flaviviruses
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (25-06-2024)“…Flaviviruses such as dengue virus (DENV), Zika virus (ZIKV), and yellow fever virus (YFV) are spread by mosquitoes and cause human disease and mortality in…”
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The immune receptor Tim-3 acts as a trafficker in a Tim-3/galectin-9 autocrine loop in human myeloid leukemia cells
Published in Oncoimmunology (02-07-2016)“…The immune receptor Tim-3 is often highly expressed in human acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells where it acts as a growth factor and inflammatory receptor…”
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