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- Title
Sneaking Out for Happy Hour: Yeast-Based Approaches to Explore and Modulate Immune Response and Immune Evasion.
- Authors
Angrand, Gaëlle; Quillévéré, Alicia; Loaëc, Nadège; Daskalogianni, Chrysoula; Granzhan, Anton; Teulade-Fichou, Marie-Paule; Fahraeus, Robin; Prado Martins, Rodrigo; Blondel, Marc
- Abstract
Many pathogens (virus, bacteria, fungi, or parasites) have developed a wide variety of mechanisms to evade their host immune system. The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has successfully been used to decipher some of these immune evasion strategies. This includes the cis-acting mechanism that limits the expression of the oncogenic Epstein–Barr virus (EBV)-encoded EBNA1 and thus of antigenic peptides derived from this essential but highly antigenic viral protein. Studies based on budding yeast have also revealed the molecular bases of epigenetic switching or recombination underlying the silencing of all except one members of extended families of genes that encode closely related and highly antigenic surface proteins. This mechanism is exploited by several parasites (that include pathogens such as Plasmodium, Trypanosoma, Candida, or Pneumocystis) to alternate their surface antigens, thereby evading the immune system. Yeast can itself be a pathogen, and pathogenic fungi such as Candida albicans, which is phylogenetically very close to S. cerevisiae, have developed stealthiness strategies that include changes in their cell wall composition, or epitope-masking, to control production or exposure of highly antigenic but essential polysaccharides in their cell wall. Finally, due to the high antigenicity of its cell wall, yeast has been opportunistically exploited to create adjuvants and vectors for vaccination.
- Subjects
EPSTEIN-Barr virus; IMMUNE response; PATHOGENIC fungi; HAPPY hours; VIRAL proteins; EXTENDED families
- Publication
Genes, 2019, Vol 10, Issue 9, p667
- ISSN
2073-4425
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/genes10090667