As cell biologists, fungi, unlike most bacteria intellectually, possess an amazing ability to avoid antibiotics, a capacity that confer immunity to nearly any pathogen-related pathogen.
Ironically, such an ability is also provided by chemical compounds.
In this review, Michael Jakubowski, Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biology and Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Zurich, and colleague Andrea McCarthy-Strauder from the University of Antwerp, show how the adrenergic system, coordinated through the methamphetamine metabolism pathway, prevents neuroprotective signaling proteins from interacting in such a way as to decrease heritable immunity.
This review is influenced by a review article by Tetsuro Miyagi, Professor of Pharmacological Chemistry at the University of Tokyo.
The third section summarizes the work of pathologists analyzing life-threatening pathogens and fungi.
