We are currently investigating the details of the signaling cascades involved in these phenomena, as well as attempting to identify cytoplasmic binding partners for NG2 which may serve as
effector molecules for activation of downstream signaling events.
Yang Y, Lu Y, Espejo A, Wu J, Xu W, Liang S, Bedford MT (2010) TDRD3 is
an effector molecule for arginine - methylated histone marks.
Not exact matches
They systematically deleted genes
for secreted
effector proteins —
molecules that the parasite injects into a host cell to modulate the immune system during infection — and injected the altered parasites into mice with aggressive ovarian cancer.
The attraction of large - scale compound screening
for life science researchers lies mainly in the technical challenge of assay design and the use of small -
molecule effectors for hypothesis - driven research.
In addition to being MHC II negative, MSC do not appear to express the co-stimulatory
molecules CD40, CD40L, CD80 or CD86 required
for effector T cell induction 104, 105.
She is registred to the National Order of Biologists in the province of Palermo; collaboration in research project from 2012 to 2015 at the Department of Biopathology and Biotechnology, University of Palermo, focusing the study on the identification of
molecules capable to modulate intracellular metabolic pathways
for the prevention and treatment of infectious, tumor and degenerative disease, in collaboration with Prof. Angela Santoni, University of Rome; collaboration in research project in 2011 at the hospital «Villa Sofia Cervello» of Palermo to study methods can cure the genetic defect that causes thalassemia through genetic engineering; she studies different mechanisms of the differentiation and the activation of human gammadelta T cells as
effector cells of the immune response against cancer and infectious diseases; she investigates about the identification and development of biomarkers of resistance and susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection; Valentina Orlando has published 13 papers in peer reviewed journals and 3 comunications at national and international congress.
Background: Many pathogens secrete
effector molecules to subvert host immune responses, to acquire nutrients, and / or to prepare host cells
for invasion.