ILC1 confer early host protection at initial sites of viral infection

OE Weizman, NM Adams, IS Schuster, C Krishna… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Infection is restrained by the concerted activation of tissue-resident and circulating immune
cells. Whether tissue-resident lymphocytes confer early antiviral immunity at local sites of …

Neuroinvasion of SARS-CoV-2 in human and mouse brain

E Song, C Zhang, B Israelow, A Lu-Culligan… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - rupress.org
Although COVID-19 is considered to be primarily a respiratory disease, SARS-CoV-2 affects
multiple organ systems including the central nervous system (CNS). Yet, there is no …

Saliva or nasopharyngeal swab specimens for detection of SARS-CoV-2

AL Wyllie, J Fournier… - … England Journal of …, 2020 - Mass Medical Soc
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Analytical sensitivity and efficiency comparisons of SARS-CoV-2 RT–qPCR primer–probe sets

CBF Vogels, AF Brito, AL Wyllie, JR Fauver, IM Ott… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The recent spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
exemplifies the critical need for accurate and rapid diagnostic assays to prompt clinical and …

Saliva is more sensitive for SARS-CoV-2 detection in COVID-19 patients than nasopharyngeal swabs

AL Wyllie, J Fournier, A Casanovas-Massana… - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Rapid and accurate SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing is essential for controlling the ongoing
COVID-19 pandemic. The current gold standard for COVID-19 diagnosis is real-time RT …

IL-18BP is a secreted immune checkpoint and barrier to IL-18 immunotherapy

T Zhou, W Damsky, OE Weizman, MK McGeary… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cytokines were the first modern immunotherapies to produce durable responses in patients
with advanced cancer, but they have only modest efficacy and limited tolerability,. In an effort …

Adipose-resident group 1 innate lymphoid cells promote obesity-associated insulin resistance

TE O'Sullivan, M Rapp, X Fan, OE Weizman… - Immunity, 2016 - cell.com
Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) function to protect epithelial barriers against pathogens and
maintain tissue homeostasis in both barrier and non-barrier tissues. Here, utilizing Eomes …

Epigenetic control of innate and adaptive immune memory

CM Lau, NM Adams, CD Geary, OE Weizman… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Clonal expansion and immunological memory are hallmark features of the mammalian
adaptive immune response and essential for prolonged host control of pathogens. Recent …

Mouse cytomegalovirus-experienced ILC1s acquire a memory response dependent on the viral glycoprotein m12

OE Weizman, E Song, NM Adams, AD Hildreth… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are tissue-resident sentinels that are essential for early host
protection from pathogens at initial sites of infection. However, whether pathogen-derived …

Inherited mutations in the helicase RTEL1 cause telomere dysfunction and Hoyeraal–Hreidarsson syndrome

Z Deng, G Glousker, A Molczan, AJ Fox… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - pnas.org
Telomeres repress the DNA damage response at the natural chromosome ends to prevent
cell-cycle arrest and maintain genome stability. Telomeres are elongated by telomerase in a …