细胞状态过渡分析确定了改善通过易感巨细胞控制结核菌菌感染的干预措施

Shivraj M Yabaji1, Oleksii S Rukhlenko2, Sujoy Chatterjee1

  • 1The National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.

Science advances
|September 27, 2023
PubMed
概括

研究人员确定了一种基因表达模式,区分了结核病易感和耐药的巨细胞. 他们使用细胞状态过渡评估和调节 (cSTAR) 发现化合物,这些化合物将易受性巨细胞转移到耐药性,增强对Mycobacterium结核病的保护.

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