@article{3bdec0768d404cc4b08c09f120745323,
title = "Interactions between fungal hyaluronic acid and host CD44 promote internalization by recruiting host autophagy proteins to forming phagosomes",
abstract = "Immunology;",
keywords = "Immunology, Mycology",
author = "Shengli Ding and Jing Yang and Xuehuan Feng and Aseem Pandey and Rola Barhoumi and Dongmei Zhang and Bell, {Samantha L.} and Yue Liu and {da Costa}, {Luciana Fachini} and Allison Rice-Ficht and Watson, {Robert O.} and Patrick, {Kristin L.} and Qin, {Qing Ming} and Ficht, {Thomas A.} and {de Figueiredo}, Paul",
note = "Funding Information: We gratefully thank Dr. Arturo Casadevall (Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University) for anti-cryptococcal antibodies, Dr. Jong (University of California, Los Angeles) for Cn strains C177, cps1Δ, and C558, and Steve Fullwood and Kalli Landua (Nikon Instruments) for expert assistance with the microscopy analysis. This work was supported by the Texas A&M Clinical Science Translational Research Institute Pilot Grant CSTR2016-1, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (HR001118A0025-FoF-FP-006), NIH (R21AI139738-01A1, 1 R01AI141607-01A1, 1R21GM132705-01), the National Science Foundation (DBI 1532188, NSF0854684) and the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation to PdF; NIH grant awards NIH 1R01 AI48496-01A1 and NIH 1U54AI057156-0100 to TAF; the National Natural Science Foundation of China (# 81371773) to QMQ. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies. P.D. Q.M.Q. T.A.F. designed the experiments. S.L.D. J.Y. X.F. Q.M.Q, A.P. R.M. D.Z. S.L.B. L.F.d.C. performed experiments. P.D. T.A.F. Q.M.Q. A.R. R.M. R.O.W. K.L.P. provided reagents/analysis tools. P.D. Q.M.Q. S.L.D. X.F. A.P. Y.L. T.A.F. analyzed data. P.D. Q.M.Q. supervised the work and wrote the manuscript. All authors read approved the final manuscript. The authors declare no competing interests. Funding Information: We gratefully thank Dr. Arturo Casadevall (Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University) for anti-cryptococcal antibodies, Dr. Jong (University of California, Los Angeles) for Cn strains C177, cps1Δ, and C558, and Steve Fullwood and Kalli Landua (Nikon Instruments) for expert assistance with the microscopy analysis. This work was supported by the Texas A&M Clinical Science Translational Research Institute Pilot Grant CSTR2016-1 , the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) ( HR001118A0025-FoF-FP-006 ), NIH ( R21AI139738-01A1 , 1 R01AI141607-01A1 , 1R21GM132705-01 ), the National Science Foundation ( DBI 1532188 , NSF0854684 ) and the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation to PdF; NIH grant awards NIH 1R01 AI48496-01A1 and NIH 1U54AI057156-0100 to TAF; the National Natural Science Foundation of China (# 81371773 ) to QMQ. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 The Authors",
year = "2021",
month = mar,
day = "19",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102192",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "24",
journal = "iScience",
issn = "2589-0042",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
number = "3",
}