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Pınar Engin Zerk

National Institutes of HealthORCID 0000-0002-4292-6392Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 1 Assay:flow cytometry· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Approach:microscopy & imaging analysis· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Assay:spatial transcriptomics· 1

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Alternatively activated monocyte-derived myeloid cells promote extracellular pathogen persistence within pulmonary fungal granulomas.

Yufan Zheng, Makheni Jean Pierre, Eduard Ansaldo, Hannah E. Dobson, Olena Kamenyeva, Chinaemerem U. Onyishi, Sarah Douglas, Christopher A. Febres‐Aldana, Pınar Engin Zerk, Irini Sereti, Jovany Jordan Betancourt, Kirsten Nielsen, Erin McCaffrey, Eric V. Dang

This study identifies alternatively activated myeloid cells as drivers of extracellular fungal persistence in pulmonary granulomas through T helper 2 cell signaling.

The Journal of Experimental Medicine · Mar 14, 2026Peer-reviewedImmunology