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ArticleScientific reports2016

Deciphering the Counterplay of Aspergillus fumigatus Infection and Host Inflammation by Evolutionary Games on Graphs.

Johannes Pollmächer, Sandra Timme, Stefan Schuster, Axel A Brakhage, Peter F Zipfel, Marc Thilo Figge

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Johannes PollmächerResearch Group Applied Systems Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany.
Sandra TimmeResearch Group Applied Systems Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany.
Stefan SchusterDepartment of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Biology and Pharmacy, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany.
Axel A BrakhageFaculty of Biology and Pharmacy, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany.
Peter F ZipfelFaculty of Biology and Pharmacy, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany.
Marc Thilo FiggeResearch Group Applied Systems Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany.
Friedrich Schiller University Jena · DELeibniz-Institut für Naturstoff-Forschung und Infektionsbiologie e. V. - Hans-Knöll-Institut (HKI) · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbial invaders are ubiquitously present and pose the constant risk of infections that are opposed by various defence mechanisms of the human immune system. A tight regulation of the immune response ensures clearance of microbial invaders and concomitantly limits host damage that is crucial for host viability. To investigate the counterplay of infection and inflammation, we simulated the invasion of the human-pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus in lung alveoli by evolutionary games on graphs. The layered structure of the innate immune system is represented by a sequence of games in the virtual model. We show that the inflammatory cascade of the immune response is essential for microbial clearance and that the inflammation level correlates with the infection-dose. At low infection-doses, corresponding to daily inhalation of conidia, the resident alveolar macrophages may be sufficient to clear infections, however, at higher infection-doses their primary task shifts towards recruitment of neutrophils to infection sites.

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Aspergillus fumigatusHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansImmunity, InnateInflammationMacrophages, AlveolarModels, BiologicalNeutrophilsPhagocytosisPulmonary AlveoliPulmonary AspergillosisSpores, Fungal

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