New collaborative study published in the prestigious journal Nature Immunology

| by Ana Depetris Chauvin

Albert Garcia-Lopez and Gianni Panagiotou collaborated in this exciting new study on human TH17 cells and their mode of action against fungal infection. The study, led by the Infection Immunology group, has been recently published in the prestigious journal Nature Immunology.

More information about the paper can be found at: https://www.leibniz-hki.de/en/press-release/holes-in-t-cells.html

Congratulations to all the authors!

Original publication

Chao YY, Puhach A, Frieser D, Arunkumar M, Lehner L, Seeholzer T, Garcia-Lopez A, van der Wal M, Fibi-Smetana S, Dietschmann A, Sommermann T, Taher L, Gresnigt MS, Vastert SJ, van Wijk F, Panagiotou G, Krappmann D, Groß O, Zielinski CE (2022). Human Th17 cells engage gasdermin E pores to release IL-1α upon NLRP3 inflammasome activation. Nature Immunology, doi: