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Petronela Ancuta

Petronela Ancuta

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Immunology

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Overview

Petronela Ancuta is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada. Their research focuses primarily on immunology and microbiology, with significant contributions to medicine. Within these disciplines, they have concentrated on several subfields including immunology, virology, infectious diseases, emergency medicine, and molecular biology.

Their scientific work covers a range of topics related to HIV, including HIV research and treatment, HIV-related health complications and treatments, immune cell function and interaction, HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, as well as T-cell and B-cell immunology.

Petronela Ancuta has contributed frequently to the following publication venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Cell Reports
  • Cells
  • Journal of Virology

Several recent papers illustrate their research interests and contributions:

  • A Tale of Two Viruses: Immunological Insights Into HCV/HIV Coinfection (2021), published in Frontiers in Immunology
  • LILAC pilot study: Effects of metformin on mTOR activation and HIV reservoir persistence during antiretroviral therapy (2021), published in EBioMedicine
  • Upregulated IL-32 Expression And Reduced Gut Short Chain Fatty Acid Caproic Acid in People Living With HIV With Subclinical Atherosclerosis (2021), published in Frontiers in Immunology
  • Repurposing Metformin in Nondiabetic People With HIV: Influence on Weight and Gut Microbiota (2020), published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • Th17 cell master transcription factor RORC2 regulates HIV-1 gene expression and viral outgrowth (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist often collaborates with a core group of co-authors, which includes:

  • Jean-Pierre Routy
  • Nicolas Chomont
  • Tomas Raul Wiche Salinas
  • Laurence Raymond Marchand
  • Delphine Planas

Petronela Ancuta's body of work emphasizes understanding immune mechanisms in viral infections, particularly HIV, and investigating therapeutic approaches and comorbidities related to HIV infection.

Best Publications

  • Nomenclature of monocytes and dendritic cells in blood.

    Loems Ziegler-Heitbrock;Petronela Ancuta;Suzanne Crowe;Marc Dalod;Marc Dalod

  • HIV reservoir size and persistence are driven by T cell survival and homeostatic proliferation

    Nicolas Chomont;Mohamed El-Far;Petronela Ancuta;Lydie Trautmann

  • Fractalkine Preferentially Mediates Arrest and Migration of CD16+ Monocytes

    Petronela Ancuta;Ravi Rao;Ashlee Moses;Andrew Mehle

  • Microbial translocation is associated with increased monocyte activation and dementia in AIDS patients.

    Petronela Ancuta;Anupa Kamat;Kevin J. Kunstman;Eun Young Kim

  • Vif Overcomes the Innate Antiviral Activity of APOBEC3G by Promoting Its Degradation in the Ubiquitin-Proteasome Pathway

    Andrew Mehle;Bettina Strack;Petronela Ancuta;Chengsheng Zhang

  • Programmed death-1-induced interleukin-10 production by monocytes impairs CD4+ T cell activation during HIV infection

    Elias A. Said;Franck P. Dupuy;Lydie Trautmann;Yuwei Zhang

  • Peripheral Blood CCR4 + CCR6 + and CXCR3 + CCR6 + CD4 + T Cells Are Highly Permissive to HIV-1 Infection

    Annie Gosselin;Patricia Monteiro;Nicolas Chomont;Felipe Diaz-Griffero

  • Transcriptional profiling reveals developmental relationship and distinct biological functions of CD16+ and CD16- monocyte subsets.

    Petronela Ancuta;Kuang-Yu Liu;Vikas Misra;Vanessa Sue Wacleche

  • Plasma sCD14 is a biomarker associated with impaired neurocognitive test performance in attention and learning domains in HIV infection.

    Jennifer L Lyons;Hajime Uno;Petronela Ancuta;Anupa Kamat

  • CD16+ monocytes produce IL-6, CCL2, and matrix metalloproteinase-9 upon interaction with CX3CL1-expressing endothelial cells.

    Petronela Ancuta;Jianbin Wang;Dana Gabuzda

  • Coreceptors and HIV-1 pathogenesis

    Paul R. Gorry;Paul R. Gorry;Paul R. Gorry;Petronela Ancuta

  • A plasma biomarker signature of immune activation in HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy.

    Anupa U Kamat;Vikas Misra;Edana Cassol;Petronela Ancuta

  • Memory CCR6+CD4+ T Cells Are Preferential Targets for Productive HIV Type 1 Infection Regardless of Their Expression of Integrin β7

    Patricia Monteiro;Annie Gosselin;Vanessa Sue Wacleche;Mohamed El-Far

  • CD14+CD16++ cells derived in vitro from peripheral blood monocytes exhibit phenotypic and functional dendritic cell-like characteristics

    Petronela Ancuta;Laurence Weiss;Nicole Haeffner-Cavaillon

  • HIV persists in CCR6+CD4+ T cells from colon and blood during antiretroviral therapy

    Annie Gosselin;Tomas Raul Wiche Salinas;Delphine Planas;Vanessa S. Wacleche

  • Transendothelial migration of CD16+ monocytes in response to fractalkine under constitutive and inflammatory conditions.

    Petronela Ancuta;Ashlee Moses;Dana Gabuzda

  • Immunosuppressive Tryptophan Catabolism and Gut Mucosal Dysfunction Following Early HIV Infection

    Mohammad-Ali Jenabian;Mohamed El-Far;Kishanda Vyboh;Ido Kema

  • Mechanisms of HIV-1 Neurotropism

    Rebecca Dunfee;Elaine R Thomas;Paul R Gorry;Jianbin Wang

  • CD16+ Monocyte-Derived Macrophages Activate Resting T Cells for HIV Infection by Producing CCR3 and CCR4 Ligands

    Petronela Ancuta;Patrick Autissier;Alysse Wurcel;Tauheed Zaman

  • The Th17 Lineage: From Barrier Surfaces Homeostasis to Autoimmunity, Cancer, and HIV-1 Pathogenesis

    Vanessa Sue Wacleche;Alan Landay;Jean-Pierre Routy;Petronela Ancuta

  • CD16+ monocytes exposed to HIV promote highly efficient viral replication upon differentiation into macrophages and interaction with T cells.

    Petronela Ancuta;Kevin J. Kunstman;Patrick Autissier;Tauheed Zaman

  • relationship and distinct biological functions of CD16+ and CD16- monocyte subsets.

    Petronela Ancuta;Kuang-Yu Liu;Vikas Misra;Vanessa Wacleche

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Pierre Routy
Jean-Pierre Routy McGill University Health Centre
Nicolas Chomont
Nicolas Chomont University of Montreal
Dana Gabuzda
Dana Gabuzda Harvard University
Éric A. Cohen
Éric A. Cohen University of Montreal
Danuta Radzioch
Danuta Radzioch McGill University
Alan L. Landay
Alan L. Landay The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Erwin Schurr
Erwin Schurr McGill University Health Centre
Jonathan B. Angel
Jonathan B. Angel University of Ottawa
Jérôme Estaquier
Jérôme Estaquier Université Paris Cité
Elias K. Haddad
Elias K. Haddad Drexel University

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