Kristin L. DeBord

TL;DR: Evidence is reported for microbial, antigen-specific activation of NKT cells against Gram-negative, lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-negative alpha-Proteobacteria such as Ehrlichia muris and Sphingomonas capsulata and shows that glycosylceramides are an alternative to LPS for innate recognition of the Gram- negative, LPS-negative bacterial cell wall.

TL;DR: Stable isotope labeling was applied to detect source-specific iron by mass spectrometry and show that Staphylococcus aureus preferentially imports heme iron over transferrin iron, indicating that hemeIron is the preferred iron source during the initiation of infection.

TL;DR: It appears that Y. pestis disables these cell populations to annihilate host immune responses during plague, and selected immune cells for injection are selected.

TL;DR: It appears that LcrV variants with reduced immune modulatory properties could be used as a human vaccine to generate protective immunity against plague.

TL;DR: Results suggest that B. anthracis SrtA anchors surface proteins bearing LPXTG motif sorting signals to the cell wall envelope of vegetative bacilli, which could be inhibited by thiol-reactive reagents, similar to staphylococcal sortases.