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ArticleiScience2022

Innate immune Galectin-7 specifically targets microbes that decorate themselves in blood group-like antigens.

Shang-Chuen Wu, Nourine A Kamili, Marcelo Dias-Baruffi, Cassandra D Josephson, Matthew F Rathgeber, Melissa Y Yeung, William J Lane, Jianmei Wang, Hau-Ming Jan, Seth Rakoff-Nahoum and 3 more

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Article in iScience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Shang-Chuen WuJoint Program in Transfusion Medicine, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Nourine A KamiliJoint Program in Transfusion Medicine, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Marcelo Dias-BaruffiDepartment of Clinical Analysis, Toxicology, and Food Sciences, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Cassandra D JosephsonCenter for Transfusion Medicine and Cellular Therapies, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Matthew F RathgeberJoint Program in Transfusion Medicine, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Melissa Y YeungDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
William J LaneJoint Program in Transfusion Medicine, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Jianmei WangCenter for Transfusion Medicine and Cellular Therapies, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Hau-Ming JanJoint Program in Transfusion Medicine, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Seth Rakoff-NahoumDivision of Infectious Disease, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Richard D CummingsHarvard Glycomics Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Sean R StowellJoint Program in Transfusion Medicine, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Connie M ArthurJoint Program in Transfusion Medicine, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USEmory University · USBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USBoston Children's Hospital · USUniversidade de São Paulo · BR

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008169 · NIGMS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI GROSS, ROBERT E · 1987 to 2021
$20.3M
Programmable benchtop bioreactors for scalable eco-evolutionary dynamics of the human microbiomeR01AI171100 · NIAID · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI KHALIL, AHMAD SAMIR, RAKOFF-NAHOUM, SETH · 2022 to 2025
$4.1M
Positive Selection as a Host Mechanism to Control the MicrobiomeDP2GM136652 · NIGMS · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI RAKOFF-NAHOUM, SETH · 2019 to 2019
$2.7M
Examination of Innate Immunity Against Molecular MimicryDP5OD019892 · OD · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI STOWELL, SEAN R · 2014 to 2018
$2.2M
Integrating microbial glycan arrays with genomic sequences to study host microbe interactionsU01CA242109 · NCI · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI CUMMINGS, RICHARD D, STOWELL, SEAN R · 2019 to 2021
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA242109NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI171100NIGMS NIH HHS DP2 GM136652NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008169NIH HHS DP5 OD019892
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adaptive immunity can target a nearly infinite range of antigens, yet it is tempered by tolerogenic mechanisms that limit autoimmunity. Such immunological tolerance, however, creates a gap in adaptive immunity against microbes decorated with self-like antigens as a form of molecular mimicry. Our results demonstrate that the innate immune lectin galectin-7 (Gal-7) binds a variety of distinct microbes, all of which share features of blood group-like antigens. Gal-7 binding to each blood group expressing microbe, including strains of

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