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Leijie Jia

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Junior group leader @ Leibniz-HKI, focusing on fungal pathogenesis.

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Manipulation of host phagocytosis by fungal pathogens and therapeutic opportunities Nature Microbiology - In this Review, the authors discuss fungal pathogen–host interactions with a focus on phagocytosis and intracellular processing of pathogens within phagosomes. They also...

Last year, our first review article on how fungal pathogens manipulate host cell phagocytosis was published in Nature Microbiology rdcu.be/ecNgW.

09.03.2025 16:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Convergent evolution of a fungal effector enabling phagosome membrane penetration The ability of pathogens to evade phagosomal killing is critical for their pathogenicity. Previously, we had identified the HscA effector protein in the clinically important fungal pathogen Aspergillu...

Our junior research group just published our first article on bioRxiv! 📄 Check it out here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

09.03.2025 16:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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