BookDakang Xu, editor.
Summary: "This book discusses recent research in innate immunity, which has revealed a large number of receptors that sense the presence of microorganisms or cellular damage in tissues. In complex tissues, many of these sensing events occur simultaneously. Thus, the downstream signaling pathways need to be integrated so that an appropriate cellular inflammatory response can be initiated. In addition, the inflammasome defines the molecular and cellular processes of inflammation in response to microbial infection. Previous data suggested that regulation of inflammasomes is mediated by microbes, but inflammasomes also have antimicrobial functions. Increasing evidence in mouse models, together with human data, strongly implicates an involvement of the inflammasome and uncontrolled inflammation in the initiation and progression of diseases with a high impact on public health. The book reviews novel aspects of functional genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, post-translational modifications, microbiome and immunometabolism in order to understand inflammatory signaling and responses, covering recent findings on the mechanisms underlying the regulation of inflammatory responses to pathogens, dysregulation of these responses in inflammatory disease, and the use of such mechanisms to boost or subdue the inflammatory response. Bridging the gaps in understanding between the fields of human and mouse immunology, it provides valuable insights into inflammatory-mediated disease and immune defense. Such innovative perspectives in both basic and clinical research promote the translation of knowledge to the clinic"--Publisher's description.
Contents:
Activation of the innate immune receptors: guardians of the micro galaxy / Dominic De Nardo
Posttranslational modification control of inflammatory signaling / Yibo Si, Yunlu Zhang, Zijuan Chen, Ruixue Zhou, Yihua Zhang, Doudou Hao, Dapeng Yan
Emerging roles for epigenetic programming in the control of inflammatory signaling integration in heath and disease / Yiqun Hu, Feng Yan, Le Ying, Dakang Xu
Roles of HDACs in the responses of innate immune cells and as targets in inflammatory diseases / Yiqun Hu, Bandar Ali Suliman
miR-155 dysregulation and therapeutic intervention in multiple sclerosis / Claire E. McCoy
Inflammasomes in the gut mucosal homeostasis / Xiaomin Yao, Guangxun Meng
Microbial factors in inflammatory diseases and cancers / Hong Sheng Ong, Howard Chi Ho Yim
cGAS-STING activation in the tumor microenvironment and its role in cancer immunity / Geneviève Pépin, Michael P. Gantier
TLR agonists as adjuvants for cancer vaccines / Ji-Kun Li, Jesse J. Balic, Liang Yu, Brendan Jenkins
Telomere damage response and low-grade inflammation / Lihui Wang, Xianhua Yu, Jun-Ping Liu
The development and diversity of ILCs, NK cells and their relevance in health and diseases / Yuxia Zhang, Bing Huang.