T cell receptor recognition of peptide Ags presented by class I or class II MHC proteins is a cornerstone of cellular immunity. Recognition of foreign Ags forms the basis for defense against viruses and other pathogens, yet recognition of self Ags can lead to autoimmunity. Although the central tolerance mechanism of negative selection plays a protective role against autoimmunity, the high level of cross-reactivity present within the T cell repertoire can promote autoimmunity if T cells are activated by foreign Ags that share key structural or chemical features with self Ags. This concept of molecular mimicry has been implicated in a number of autoimmune pathologies, including type 1 diabetes, lupus, and multiple sclerosis (1-3).. Previously determined structures of TCRs in complex with self Ags associated with autoimmunity have shown deviations from the binding mode traditionally seen in TCR recognition of foreign Ags. The traditional binding mode, typified by the structure of the αβ A6 TCR ...

Among the many strategies employed by parasites for immune evasion and host manipulation, one of the most fascinating is molecular mimicry. With genome sequences available for host and parasite, mimicry of linear amino acid epitopes can be investigated by comparative genomics. Here we developed an in silico pipeline for genome-wide identification of molecular mimicry candidate proteins or epitopes. The predicted proteome of a given parasite was broken down into overlapping fragments, each of which was screened for close hits in the human proteome. Control searches were carried out against unrelated, free-living eukaryotes to eliminate the generally conserved proteins, and with randomized versions of the parasite proteins to get an estimate of statistical significance. This simple but computation-intensive approach yielded interesting candidates from human-pathogenic parasites. From Plasmodium falciparum, it returned a 14 amino acid motif in several of the PfEMP1 variants identical to part of the heparin

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The onset of autoimmune disease sometimes follows an acute viral infection. One possible explanation for this phenomenon is molecular mimicry. According to this hypothesis, a virus could trigger autoimmunity if one of the viral proteins is very similar in structure to a host protein. Thus, an immune response to the viral protein would also initiate an autoimmune response to a similar host protein. ...

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Structural and functional homology between bacterial proteins and host antigens, called molecular mimicry, is considered as significant pathogenic fac

Results 1165 patients were admitted to the HASU; 904 patients with stroke (77.6%), 163 medical mimics (14%) and 98 functional mimics (8.4%). Functional mimics were significantly more likely to be female (63.3%) versus 49.7% medical mimics and 45.5% stroke, and younger (mean age (SD)) 49.1 (18.8) than medical mimic (63.5 years (16.7)) and stroke cases (71 years (15.5)). Weakness and slurred speech were the commonest presentations of functional mimics and diagnostic MRI was used more often. Clinician recorded visual and speech symptoms and neglect were significantly more frequent in patients with stroke than either mimic group. Of the 68 functional mimics on whom follow-up information was obtained, 40 (59%) were referred to another service most often for a psychologically-based intervention. ...

Analysis of the expressed Ab repertoire in nonautoimmune BALB/c mice immunized with a peptide surrogate for dsDNA reveals several interesting features. Autoantibodies derived from peptide-immunized mice share several structural similarities with anti-dsDNA Abs from mice with spontaneous lupus, including gene family usage, pairing of particular VH and VL gene segments, and generation of arginines in VHCDR3. This would support the hypothesis that peptide Ags alone, without nucleic acid, are sufficient to induce an anti-dsDNA Ab response. Furthermore, the structural similarity between induced and spontaneous anti-dsDNA Abs as well as the isolation of an Ab closely resembling the anti-dsDNA Ab used to derive the peptide from a phage display library confirm that peptides can indeed be molecular mimics of dsDNA.. In spontaneous murine SLE, pathogenic autoantibodies are primarily of the IgM and IgG isotypes, and the IgG Abs are clonally related to the IgM Abs. The multiple features of structural ...

O-Glycopeptide structural studies, specifically related to Tn antigen, have pointed to intramolecular interactions between the GalNAc and the peptide backbone via H-bonding. Although molecular mimics to Tn antigen have been the target of numerous synthetic and immunological studies, many have not considered the established conformational preferences. Initiatives for the development of improved mimetic design are proposed here. Specifically a metabolically robust C-linkage is designed, yet one with a pendant hydroxyl to maintain the key H-bonding network to properly orient the glycan with respect to the peptide. We herein propose to synthesize pure, robust mimics of Tn antigen, with conformational realism, as they may be presented from the backbone of biomedically relevant peptides (such as MUC1) and to compare these mimics with Tn antigen itself, by NMR and molecular dynamics simulations for clarification of the essential structural features necessary to maximize biological activity. The most ...

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Research published in the online journal mBio® provides new insights into how this may happen and suggests potential strategies for reducing this risk.. Infection during pregnancy is associated with increased risk of damage to the developing nervous system. Given that many agents have been implicated, we decided to focus on mechanisms by which the maternal immune response, rather than direct infection of the fetus, might contribute to behavioral disturbances in the offspring of mothers who suffer infection during pregnancy, says W. Ian Lipkin of Columbia University, senior author on the study.. To better understand how the immune response causes these neurological changes, the researchers exposed pregnant mice to a synthetic molecular mimic of a replicating virus. Offspring of the exposed mice had impaired locomotor activity compared to controls. Further testing determined that the exposure inhibited embryonic neuronal stem cell replication, affecting brain development.. They also looked at ...

Enteropathogenic bacteria are responsible for a large number of diarrhoeal diseases, in particular among young children in developing countries. Shigella, the causative agent of bacillar dysentery, invades the colonic mucosa and induces an intense inflammatory reaction leading to tissue destruction. Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), a major cause of infantile diarrhea, induces characteristic attaching / effacing lesions corresponding to the disappearance of epithelial cell microvilli, while adhering to the intestinal epithelium. For both bacterial pathogens, cell adhesion or invasion is dependent on the activity of a specialized type III secretory apparatus (T3SS), that allows the injection of bacterial effectors into the host cell that reorganize the actin cytoskeleton. T3SS are widely expressed in gram-negative bacterial pathogens. Because of their intracellular function, these T3S effectors act individually as molecular mimics and various studies have highlighted their role in the ...

1CPI: REGIOSELECTIVE STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL MIMICRY OF PEPTIDES - DESIGN OF HYDROLYTICALLY-STABLE CYCLIC PEPTIDOMIMETIC INHIBITORS OF HIV-1 PROTEASE.

Mimicry has long been recognized as a striking example of adaptation through natural selection [1-4]. For instance, Fisher [5, p. 156] stated that Mimetic resemblances bear the hallmark of adaptation in the multiplicity of the simultaneous modifications to which they are due. The occurrence of mimicry is supported by observations of anatomical, behavioural and colour pattern changes acquired by mimics to better resemble their harmful assumed models [6]. However, the degree of mimetic similarity is quite variable in nature. There is a widespread (but usually not explicitly stated) conception that more perfect mimicry is achieved through similarity in a greater number of traits. Thus, similarity in a high number of traits is presumably good or perfect mimicry, and similarity in only few traits is regarded as imperfect or poor mimicry [7,8]. A closely related idea is that the more traits a mimic has in common with the model, the more avoided it is [9,10]. As a consequence, selection for an ...

Rapid development of antibody-based therapeutics are crucial to the agenda of innovative manufacturing of macromolecular therapies to combat emergent diseases. Although highly specific, antibody therapies are costly to produce. Molecularly-imprinted polymers (MIPs) constitute a rapidly-evolving class of antigen-recognition materials that act as synthetic antibodies. We report here on the virus neutralizing capacity of hydrogel-based MIPs. We produced MIPs using porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV-1), as a model mammalian virus. Assays were performed to evaluate the specificity of virus neutralization, the effect of incubation time and MIP concentration. Polyacrylamide and N-hydroxymethylacrylamide based MIPs produced a highly significant reduction in infectious viral titer recovered after treatment, reducing it to the limit of detection of the assay. MIP specificity was tested by comparing their neutralizing effects on PRRSV-1 to the effects on the unrelated bovine viral ...

Project 1: Molecular mimicry in host-pathogen interactions Many viruses hijack host cellular machinery through the molecular mimicry of host Short Linear Motifs (SLiMs). It is likely that pathogenic bacteria may employ similar strategies. This project will apply state-of-the-art SLiM prediction tools developed in our lab to published datasets of host-pathogen protein-protein interactions. This will help us understand how pathogens mess with their hosts - and how to stop them!. Project 2: Mining cancer genomics for disease mutations that disrupt protein function SLiMs tend to be involved in low affinity interactions and have a small number of amino acid residues that are required for function. These attributes make them potential sites of mutations that slightly disrupt cellular function, sometimes only in specific genetic backgrounds or environments. This project will combine methods for proteome-wide SLiM prediction with human genomics data and genetic variants associated with disease. This ...

Mimotopes are epitope-mimicking structures. When applied for immunizations they induce desired antibody specificities exclusively based on the principle of molecular mimicry. This is important as antibodies directed against tumor-associated antigens may harbor diverse biological effects depending on their epitope specificity. Thus they may inhibit or promote tumor growth. This review gives an update on different vaccination strategies based on the mimotope concept.

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Termination is beginning to resemble a typical translation mechanism with parallels to other phases of protein synthesis. Concepts such as structural mimicry between the complexes formed at each stage of protein synthesis emphasize this change in perception. This chapter focuses on how the information gathered principally since the last ribosome meeting has enhanced one's understanding of the termination phase of protein synthesis. RF3 has been shown to enhance the efficiency of decoding of stop signals and in particular the signals that are used by highly expressed genes. This suggests that when bacteria require high rates of translation and efficient decoding of stop signals, RF3 makes an important contribution to the translational efficiency. The structure of IF1 has been determined by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and is classified as a member of an oligomer binding (OB)-fold family of proteins, based on the ability of this structure to bind oligosaccharides and oligonucleotides. The

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In order to find new and efficient vaccine targets, NovartisVaccines tested the immunogenicity and protective activity in vivo of a large number of cell surface-exposed proteins from Meningococcus B. Amongst these only a limited number of proteins was able to induce protective antibodies. One protein, NMB033, induces protective immunity in mice. Immunological studies demonstrated that this is due to the ability of the protein to efficiently mimic an unrelated epitope of a well-known antigen named porA. Structural information is a fundamental element in elucidating such molecular mimicry, as well as in understanding the mechanisms through which some antibodies elicit microbicidal response.. Results ...

Allergies are associated to increased intestinal permeability, which means that your intestinal barrier is Leaky and allows increased passage of intestinal bacteria or food proteins into peripheral circulation. This fact sensitizes the immune system against several proteins (antigens) because immune tolerance is broken. Increased intestinal permeability allows paracellular transport of antigens which means that antigens pass between two cells and not through M-cells. M-cells are responsible for what is known as immune tolerance. If then any other part of your immune system, for example, mucous associated lymphoid tissue (nose), is challenged with proteins similar (molecular mimicry) to those of bacterial or food antigens your immune system will develop hyper reactivity producing normally a high amount of antibodies (IgE). This is due to the fact that the immune system, usually, is sensitized in the gut, although symptoms appear in the nose or eyes. IgE stimulate some immune cells, namely Mast ...

We are broadly interested in the role of commensal organisms in the development of autoimmunity. A major question in the lab is whether an autoimmune-prone host that is persistently colonized with cross-reactive commensals, develops chronic autoimmunity via molecular mimicry. We address this hypothesis using the

Molecular Mimicry in Type 1 Diabetes; Immune Cross-Reactivity between Islet Autoantigen and Human Cytomegalovirus but Not Coxsackie ...

Koenigs, C.; Pustowka, A.; Irving, I.; Kessel, C.; Klich, K.; Wegner, V.; Rowley, M. J.; Mackay, I. R.; Kreuz, W.; Griesinger, C. et al.; Dietrich, U.: Peptide mimotopes selected with HIV-1-blocking monoclonal antibodies against CCR5 represent motifs specific for HIV-1 entry. Immunology and Cell Biology 85 (7), pp. 511 - 517 (2007 ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Identification of peptide mimotopes of gp96 using single-chain antibody library. AU - Shanmugam, Arulkumaran. AU - Suriano, Robert. AU - Goswami, Neha. AU - Chaudhuri, Devyani. AU - Ashok, Badithe T.. AU - Rajoria, Shilpi. AU - George, Andrea L.. AU - Mittelman, Abraham. AU - Tiwari, Raj K.. N1 - Funding Information: Acknowledgments We gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance of AVT and the National Cancer Institute RO1 grant 1RO1CA131946 (RKT).. PY - 2011/3. Y1 - 2011/3. N2 - Heat shock proteins such as gp96 are immunogenic and are widely used as vaccines in immunotherapy of cancers. The present study focuses on the use of peptide mimotopes as immunotherapeutic vaccines for prostate cancer. To this end, we developed a 15-mer gp96 peptide mimotope specifically reactive to MAT-LyLu gp96-peptide complex using combinatorial single-chain antibody and peptide phage display library. The immunogenicity of the synthesized gp96 mimotope was analyzed initially in normal BALB/c mice ...

Our research in Academia Sinica involves the structural and functional analysis of proteins using synchrotron crystallography and other interdisciplinary approaches. In this lecture, I will present some examples which are interesting like DNA mimic proteins and useful like enzymes related to important diseases including cancers, infectious diseases, and Alzheimer disease.. DNA mimic proteins: A new paradigm for regulation of DNA functions: DNA mimic proteins (DMPs) occupy the DNA binding sites of DNA binding proteins, and prevent these sites from being accessed by DNA. To date, only a few DMPs have been reported. Several new DNA mimic proteins have been successfully identified and characterized using structural, proteomic, biochemical and bioinformatic approaches: (1) White spot syndrome virus ICP11. Functionally, ICP11 prevented DNA from binding to histone proteins and interfered with nucleosome assembly. (2) Neisseria DMP19: DMP19 used its dsDNA-like surface to interact with Neisseria ...

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Why do T-cells behave like prostitutes? #MSBlog #MSResearch #ResearchSpeak. As you know I think EBV causes MS, i.e. I think it is the pivotal factor in the causal pathway that leads to the onset of the disease. Studies have consistently shown that the immune response to EBNA-1 (EBV associated nuclear antigen-1) is increased in people at risk of MS and/or who have MS. Please note the use of and/or, because most people develop biological disease, i.e. MS, before their first symptoms. EBNA-1 is a so called latency programme antigen and keeps the EBV genome in hibernation. Some feel EBNA-1 is a molecular mimic and triggers cross-reactive immune responses to self-proteins. This is one of the main EBV hypotheses. Another hypothesis is that EBV infects cells within the brain and spinal cord and hence stimulates immune responses, by up-regulating innate immune mechanisms, or danger signals. If EBV does infect the central nervous system you would expect the nervous system to be enriched for T-cells ...

Molecular similarity aims to give a quantitative answer to the question of how similar two given molecules are. Such indices are of use in drug design as aids to the creation of molecular mimics and in structure-activity studies or measures of diversity. Similarity is most often computed in terms of molecular shape or electrostatic potential.The advent of combinatorial

TY - JOUR. T1 - Peptide mimotopes of oncoproteins as therapeutic agents in breast cancer.. AU - Ashok, B. T.. AU - David, L.. AU - Chen, Y. G.. AU - Garikapaty, V. P.. AU - Chander, B.. AU - Kanduc, D.. AU - Mittelman, A.. AU - Tiwari, R. K.. PY - 2003/4. Y1 - 2003/4. N2 - Generation of an immune response to oncoproteins can lead to a cancer specific protective immunity. Several such oncoproteins are being examined as tumor targets with mixed results. We are evaluating the clinical utility of synthetic peptides that would mimic the antigen immunologically and elicit a tumor specific immune response. HER-2/neu, an oncoprotein whose expression in breast cancer is associated with poor prognosis, lower disease free-survival and a propensity for metastases was chosen as a model. Antibodies, Ab2, Ab4 and Ab5 directed towards the extracellular domain of HER-2/neu were reacted to peptides from two synthetic phage display peptide libraries, LX-8 (12-mer peptide library containing disulfide bridge) and ...

Joachim Frank (Columbia University, New York, USA) is a pioneer of single particle reconstruction, which is the most used reconstruction method for 3DEM structures in EMDB and EM entries in PDB. And also, he is a develper of Spider, which is one of the most famous software in this field, and is used for some EM Navigor data (e.g. map projection/slice images ...

Dr. Carlson takes a comprehensive functional medicine approach to autoimmune conditions. Her goal is to help you lower and reverse antibodies, come off harsh medications, and become symptom free by determining the root cause of the underlying immune dysfunction. The causes of autoimmune disease are complex and multifactorial. Often there is a genetic predisposition, with many autoimmune conditions more common in women. Intestinal permeability or leaky gut, a condition in which the lining of the intestine becomes damaged, allowing for the immune system to encounter toxins and other microbes in the environment, plays a critical role. Gluten and dairy are the most common foods contributing to leaky gut. Gluten is especially problematic due to its overall inflammatory nature, further taxing the immune system and due to molecular mimicry. Molecular mimicry occurs because the gluten protein has a similar chemical structure to some of the bodys tissues, which can lead to a process in which the body ...

pharmacophore. // Tabers Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary;2005, p1652 A definition of the medical term pharmacore is presented. The term refers to the particular group or arrangement of atoms in a molecule that gives the material its medicinal activity. The definition is from the Tabers Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, published by F.A. Davis Co. The... ...

Pentapeptide repeats are a class of proteins characterized by the presence of multiple repeating sequences five amino acids in length. The sequences fold into a right-handed β-helix with a roughly squ

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One way to overcome the serious practical limitations of the monoclonal antibody approach could be to perform immunization with peptide mimics (mimotopes) of a naturally occurring epitope that is recognized by the desired antibody. To isolate mimotopes of Tocilizumab, which has been considered as a promising agent for treating RA, the phage display was exploited in this study. After four rounds of biopanning, we isolated four peptide mimics that were specifically recognized by Tocilizumab. IL-6 is the prototypic gp130-cytokine and binds the gp130 receptor through three conserved epitopes (sites I, II, and III), of which site III is unique to gp130-cytokines. IL-6 must first form a complex with a nonsignaling α receptor, IL-6Rα (PDB: 1N26_A), through site I. Phe229, Tyr230, Glu278 and Phe279 from the D3 domain of site I contribute the majority to form the initial IL-6/IL-6Rα binary complex [20, 21]. We aligned the mimotope sequences and found that phage mimics 4A124, 4A125 and 4A126 bear these ...

DURHAM, N.C. - A team of scientists at Duke Medicine and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has created an artificial protein coupled with a sugar molecule that mimics a key site on the outer coat of HIV where antibodies can bind to neutralize a wide variety of HIV strains.. Reported during the week of Oct. 21, 2013, in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the finding provides a potential new strategy in vaccine development to elicit the broadly neutralizing antibodies considered essential for long-lasting protection from the ever-changing HIV virus.. The new protein was designed by Duke and Harvard University scientists and made by Samuel Danishefsky, Ph.D., and his team at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.. This new protein will allow the testing of a major hypothesis for why broadly neutralizing antibodies are so difficult to produce -- that of competition between desired and undesired antibody responses, said senior author Barton F. Haynes, ...

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While genetic modification technologies have been expanding rapidly in the biological and medical spheres, there is an obvious limitation in how this sort of research is applied. For the microscopic level and the macro beyond it, only a select number of organisms have proven to be amenable to such modification techniques. Others have either shown […]. ...

Published on February 4, 2010 (authors listed below) Abstract: Infectious agents contribute to the environmental factors involved in the development of autoimmune diseases possibly through molecular mimicry mechanisms. Hence, it is feasible that vaccinations may also contribute to the mosaic of autoimmunity. Evidence for the association of vaccinations and the development of these diseases is presented ...

Molecular mimicry refers to a significant similarity between certain pathogenic elements contained in the vaccine and specific human proteins (shared motifs). The similarity leads to immune crossreactivity, wherein the reaction of the immune system towards the pathogenic antigens may harm similar human proteins, essentially causing autoimmune disease.. It is believed that upon exposure of the immune system to these shared motifs, while impairing immune tolerance (by adding an adjuvant), a reasonable outcome is the development of crossreactivity and eventually autoimmune condition.. The most staggering report of the relationship between the influenza vaccine and GBS dates back to 1976. During the mass influenza immunization in the United States prompted by a swine flu outbreak, there was a significant increase in GBS incidence among the vaccinated population, estimated later to represent a 4-8-fold increased risk attributed to the vaccine.. Thirty years later, it was demonstrated that this ...

RRx-001, sourced from the aerospace industry and currently in phase II clinical trials, is a novel anti-cancer agent that mediates immunomodulatory effects, either directly through polarization of tumor associated macrophages or indirectly through vascular normalization and increased T-lymphocyte infiltration. With multiple additional mechanisms of action including upregulation of oxidative stress, depletion of GSH and NADPH, anti-angiogenesis and epigenetic modulation, RRx-001 is being studied as a single chemotherapeutic agent to resensitize tumors to prior therapy and to prime tumors to respond to radiation, chemotherapy and immunotherapy in combination therapy studies. In this study, we identified another mechanism, viral mimicry, which refers to the unsilencing of epigenetically repressed viral genes present in the tumor that provokes an immune response and may contribute to the anti-cancer activity of RRx-001. Specifically, RRx-001 inhibited the growth of human colon cancer cells (HCT ...

The debate regarding the potential role that bacteria play in the pathophysiology of the SpAs has been, perhaps, the most contested with AS. Environmental triggers, such as bacteria, have not been definitively established as aetiological for AS but ample data suggest this possibility. For years, it has been suggested that Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kp) is responsible for disease initiation in AS [89]. Some of the earliest reports linking Kp to AS demonstrated increased prevalence of Kp in the stool microflora of patients with this condition; there was also a suggestion of Kp correlating with disease activity [89]. Proponents continue to cite several reasons for this association, including molecular mimicry between Klebsiella and the HLA-B27 antigen, as well as several types of spinal collagen, and increased antibodies to Klebsiella in AS patients from many different countries [90]. In keeping with this theory, other studies indicate that CD4 and CD8 T-cells are stimulated by Klebsiella HSP60 in the ...

Extensive DNA mimicry by the ArdA anti-restriction protein and its role in the spread of antibiotic resistance. McMahon, Stephen A., Roberts Gareth A., Johnson Kenneth A., Cooper Laurie P., Liu Huanting, White John H., Carter Lester G., Sanghvi Bansi, Oke Muse, Walkinshaw Malcolm D., et al. , Nucleic Acids Res, 2009 Aug, Volume 37, Issue 15, p.4887-97, (2009) ...

Envelope (E)- E protein acts as a viroporin and self-assembles in host membranes forming pentameric protein-lipid pores that allow ion transport. This protein is also involved with induction of host apoptosis. Additionally, it activates the host NLRP3 inflammasome which causes IL-1beta overproduction.2 E protein mimics acetylated histones and binds at the same site on BRD-2. BRD-2 is involved with causing the hyper-immune response that SARS-CoV-2 patients often exhibit. Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) may bind at the same place on BRD-2 where E protein binds, making it an effective BRD-2 inhibitor. Another drug, celecoxib (Celebrex), also binds in the same pocket of BRD-2. 36. ...

You know the story, they have hardly updated it. Screen writer Rumi Jafry re-hauls the storyline of the 1995 original almost in entirety. David Dhawan calls the shots on a familiar chain of events as attempted slapstick, overdone mimicry, some melodrama and the mandatory fight scenes unfold.

New Ideas Into Heterotroph Definition Biology Never Before RevealedThe procedure is called photosynthesis. There are two types of mimicry. Heterozygote a condition where the alleles of a certain https://papernow.org/speech-writing-help gene… ...

Inhibitory interneurons are essential components of the neural circuits underlying various brain functions. In the neocortex, a large diversity of GABAergic interneurons have been identified based on their morphology, molecular markers, biophysical properties, and innervation pattern 1,2,3 . However, how the activity of each subtype of interneurons contributes to sensory processing remains unclear. Here we show that optogenetic activation of parvalbumin-positive (PV+) interneurons in mouse V1 sharpens neuronal feature selectivity and improves perceptual discrimination. Using multichannel recording with silicon probes 4,5 and channelrhodopsin 2 (ChR2)-mediated optical activation 6 , we found that elevated spiking of PV+ interneurons markedly sharpened orientation tuning and enhanced direction selectivity of nearby neurons. These effects were caused by the activation of inhibitory neurons rather than decreased spiking of excitatory neurons, since