I've been on a bsky hiatus but I'm back to tell you to read this very cool paper if you're interested in IFNs & host-pathogen interactions! Our fav constitutively-expressed IFN, IFN-epsilon, facilitates immune evasion by Neisseria gonorrhoeae via modulation of sialic acid metabolism #immunosky
Nicole Campbell
Interferon-epsilon, an estrogen-induced type I interferon, is uniquely exploited by Neisseria gonorrhoeae via effects on sialic acid metabolism
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Kurt-Jones et al. examined IFN-ε, a hormone-responsive type I IFN expressed by genital
epithelial cells, during Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Ng) infection. They demonstrated that
mice lacking IFN-ε exhibit ...
