ReviewJournal of innate immunity2015
Natural killer cells: a coherent model for their functional role in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.
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- Research progress on the role and dysregulation of NK cells in anti-tuberculosis immunity.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- CD8α marks a Mycobacterium tuberculosis-reactive human NK cell population with high activation potential.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Integrated Bioinformatic Analyses Constructed a Novel Immune Escape-Related Signature and Classifier to Predict Tuberculosis.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2025Article
- Single-cell transcriptome sequencing reveals altered peripheral blood immune cells in patients with severe tuberculosis.European journal of medical research · 2024Article
- Loss of circulating CD8αbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- The changes and its significance of peripheral blood NK cells in patients with tuberculous meningitis.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Changes in immune status of circulating NK cells in patients with latent tuberculosis infection.Central-European journal of immunology · 2024Article
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- NK cell phenotypic profile during active TB in people living with HIV-evolution during TB treatment and implications for bacterial clearance and disease severity.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Harnessing Innate Immunity to TreatCells · 2023Article
- Characterization of natural killer cells in the blood and airways of cynomolgus macaques during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.Journal of medical primatology · 2023Article
- Early innate cell interactions withFrontiers in immunology · 2023Review
- Attenuated Cytokine-Induced Memory-Like Natural Killer Cell Responses toInfection and drug resistance · 2023Article
- Reinventing the human tuberculosis (TB) granuloma: Learning from the cancer field.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Review
- It Takes a Village: The Multifaceted Immune Response toFrontiers in immunology · 2022Review
- Targeting natural killer cells to enhance vaccine responses.Trends in pharmacological sciences · 2021Review
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific CD4 T cells expressing CD153 inversely associate with bacterial load and disease severity in human tuberculosis.Mucosal immunology · 2021Article
- Enhanced Proinflammatory Cytokine Production and Immunometabolic Impairment of NK Cells Exposed toFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Tuberculosis is still a leading cause of bacterial infection worldwide, with an estimate of over two billion people latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). A delicate interplay between MTB and the host's innate and acquired immune system can influence the outcome of the infection, which ranges from pathogen elimination to the establishment of a latent infection or a progressive disease. Although the host cell-mediated adaptive immune response is of vital importance in the control of MTB infection, growing evidence indicates that innate immune cells may greatly influence the outcome of the interaction between the bacterium and the host. Among the cell populations likely to play a role in the host immune response to MTB, natural killer (NK) cells have recently attracted considerable interest. This review is dedicated to dissecting the role of NK cells in immunity to tuberculosis, reporting the most relevant findings and providing a working model of the possible contribution of NK cells in early and late events associated with MTB infection.
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