Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Macrophage-associated wound healing contributes to African green monkey SIV pathogenesis control

  • Fredrik Barrenas,
  • Kevin Raehtz,
  • Cuiling Xu,
  • Lynn Law,
  • Richard R. Green,
  • Guido Silvestri,
  • Steven E. Bosinger,
  • Andrew Nishida,
  • Qingsheng Li,
  • Wuxun Lu,
  • Jianshui Zhang,
  • Matthew J. Thomas,
  • Jean Chang,
  • Elise Smith,
  • Jeffrey M. Weiss,
  • Reem A. Dawoud,
  • George H. Richter,
  • Anita Trichel,
  • Dongzhu Ma,
  • Xinxia Peng,
  • Jan Komorowski,
  • Cristian Apetrei,
  • Ivona Pandrea,
  • Michael Gale

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12987-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Here, the authors compare gene expression signatures in rectal tissues of African green monkeys (AGMs) and rhesus macaques (RMs) acutely infected with simian immunodeficiency virus and find that AGMs rapidly activate and maintain evolutionarily conserved regenerative wound healing mechanisms.