Immune Dysfunction in Acute Undernutrition: Driver of Acute and Chronic Disease Outcomes Immune dysfunction in SAM predisposes children to acute infections including enteric and respiratory illnesses, measles and malaria, while survivors experience growth failure and long-term metabolic disorders [104,105,106] Both acute undernutrition and obesity precipitate micronutrient insufficiency, which exacerbates the severity of these conditions in mutually reinforcing cycles [51, 107,108,109] Enteropathy, characterized by gut mucosal degeneration, villous atrophy and impaired gut structure, occurs through a cascade of nutrient deficiency-induced biochemical, physiological and histological changes [108, 109]
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This stops inflammation from spreading further
Slow down the degeneration of cells
g ) Previous cryo-EM structures of NMNAT1- and YPEL5-bound CTLH E3 assemblies (EMD-18175 and EMD-18170, respectively) 42 fit with segmented focused-refined maps of relevant modules (EMD-18345 and EMD-18316, respectively) explaining the biochemically defined mode of NMNAT1 targeting: YPEL5 and the oligomeric NMNAT1 substrate are engaged by the overlapping binding sites on the dimeric WDR26 modules
