KCNJ11 and infection: Recently, overexpression of the full-length (Bir1OE) or N-terminal Bir1 fragment that contains both BIR domains (Bir1OE-N) was observed to decrease A. fumigatus conidia susceptibility to exogenous H2O2 stress and result in increased fungal viability during leukocyte-fungal interactions in an immunocompetent murine infection model (9).