• Plasma membrane damage causes NLRP3 activation and pyroptosis during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection 

      Beckwith, Kai Sandvold; Beckwith, Marianne Sandvold; Ullmann, Sindre; Sætra, Ragnhild Sofie Ragnhildstveit; Kim, Haelin; Marstad, Anne; Åsberg, Signe Elisabeth; Strand, Trine Aakvik; Haug, Markus; Niederweis, Michael; Stenmark, Harald Alfred; Flo, Trude Helen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a global health problem in part as a result of extensive cytotoxicity caused by the infection. Here, we show how M. tuberculosis causes caspase-1/NLRP3/gasdermin D-mediated pyroptosis of human ...
    • Sensing of HIV-1 by TLR8 activates human T cells and reverses latency 

      Meås, Hany Zakaria; Haug, Markus; Beckwith, Marianne Sandvold; Louet, Claire; Ryan, Liv; Hu, Zhenyi; Landskron, Johannes; Nordbø, Svein Arne; Tasken, Kjetil; Yin, Hang; Damås, Jan Kristian; Flo, Trude Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      During HIV infection, cell-to-cell transmission results in endosomal uptake of the virus by target CD4+ T cells and potential exposure of the viral ssRNA genome to endosomal Toll-like receptors (TLRs). TLRs are instrumental ...