The role of innate immune responses in the outcome of interspecies competition for colonization of mucosal surfaces.

abstract：:During infection Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) encounters multiple environments within the host, which makes rapid adaptation a crucial factor for meningococcal survival. Despite the importance of invasion into the bloodstream in the meningococcal disease process, little is known about how Nm adapts to permit survival a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Echenique-Rivera H,Muzzi A,Del Tordello E,Seib KL,Francois P,Rappuoli R,Pizza M,Serruto D

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria vaccine candidate Apical Membrane Antigen-1 (AMA1) induces protection, but only against parasite strains that are closely related to the vaccine. Overcoming the AMA1 diversity problem will require an understanding of the structural basis of cross-strain invasion inhibition. A vaccine containing four diverse al...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dutta S,Dlugosz LS,Drew DR,Ge X,Ababacar D,Rovira YI,Moch JK,Shi M,Long CA,Foley M,Beeson JG,Anders RF,Miura K,Haynes JD,Batchelor AH

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Innate immune cells shape the host response to microbial pathogens. Here we elucidate critical differences in the molecular response of macrophages vs. dendritic cells (DCs) to Histoplasma capsulatum, an intracellular fungal pathogen of humans. It has long been known that macrophages are permissive for Histoplasma gro...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Van Prooyen N,Henderson CA,Hocking Murray D,Sil A

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas the majority of pathogenic Salmonella serovars are capable of infecting many different animal species, typically producing a self-limited gastroenteritis, serovars with narrow host-specificity exhibit increased virulence and their infections frequently result in fatal systemic diseases. In our study, a genetic...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kisiela DI,Chattopadhyay S,Libby SJ,Karlinsey JE,Fang FC,Tchesnokova V,Kramer JJ,Beskhlebnaya V,Samadpour M,Grzymajlo K,Ugorski M,Lankau EW,Mackie RI,Clegg S,Sokurenko EV

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pomalidomide (Pom) is an immunomodulatory drug that has efficacy against Kaposi's sarcoma, a tumor caused by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV). Pom also induces direct cytotoxicity in primary effusion lymphoma (PEL), a B-cell malignancy caused by KSHV, in part through downregulation of IRF4, cMyc, and CK1...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Shrestha P,Davis DA,Jaeger HK,Stream A,Aisabor AI,Yarchoan R

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspecific and intervarietal hybridization may contribute to the biological diversity of fungal populations. Cryptococcus neoformans is a pathogenic yeast and the most common fungal cause of meningitis in patients with AIDS. Most patients are infected with either of the two varieties of C. neoformans, designated as...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Litvintseva AP,Lin X,Templeton I,Heitman J,Mitchell TG

更新日期：2007-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 replication normally requires Vif-mediated neutralization of APOBEC3 antiviral enzymes. Viruses lacking Vif succumb to deamination-dependent and -independent restriction processes. Here, HIV-1 adaptation studies were leveraged to ask whether viruses with an irreparable vif deletion could develop resistance to re...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ikeda T,Symeonides M,Albin JS,Li M,Thali M,Harris RS

更新日期：2018-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Betanodaviruses cause massive mortality in marine fish species with viral nervous necrosis. The structure of a T = 3 Grouper nervous necrosis virus-like particle (GNNV-LP) is determined by the ab initio method with non-crystallographic symmetry averaging at 3.6 Å resolution. Each capsid protein (CP) shows three major ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chen NC,Yoshimura M,Guan HH,Wang TY,Misumi Y,Lin CC,Chuankhayan P,Nakagawa A,Chan SI,Tsukihara T,Chen TY,Chen CJ

更新日期：2015-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV capsid self-assembles a protective conical shell that simultaneously prevents host sensing whilst permitting the import of nucleotides to drive DNA synthesis. This is accomplished through the construction of dynamic, highly charged pores at the centre of each capsid multimer. The clustering of charges required...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Renner N,Mallery DL,Faysal KMR,Peng W,Jacques DA,Böcking T,James LC

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing number of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) are considered leads for HIV-1 vaccine development and novel therapeutics. Here, we systematically explored the capacity of bnAbs to neutralize HIV-1 prior to and post-CD4 engagement and to block HIV-1 cell-cell transmission. Cell-cell spread is known to ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Reh L,Magnus C,Schanz M,Weber J,Uhr T,Rusert P,Trkola A

更新日期：2015-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, transformation and restriction-modification (R-M) systems play potentially antagonistic roles. While the former, proposed as a form of sexuality, relies on internalized foreign DNA to create genetic diversity, the latter degrade foreign DNA to protect from bacteriophage attack. The human pathogen Streptoc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Johnston C,Martin B,Granadel C,Polard P,Claverys JP

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Trypanosoma brucei flagellum is a multifunctional organelle with critical roles in motility, cellular morphogenesis, and cell division. Although motility is thought to be important throughout the trypanosome lifecycle, most studies of flagellum structure and function have been restricted to the procyclic lifecycle...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ralston KS,Hill KL

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to complete their life cycle, papillomaviruses have evolved to manipulate a plethora of cellular pathways. The products of the human Alphapapillomavirus E6 proteins specifically interact with and target PDZ containing proteins for degradation. This viral phenotype has been suggested to play a role in viral on...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Van Doorslaer K,DeSalle R,Einstein MH,Burk RD

更新日期：2015-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxin serotype C (BoNT/C) is a neuroparalytic toxin associated with outbreaks of animal botulism, particularly in birds, and is the only BoNT known to cleave two different SNARE proteins, SNAP-25 and syntaxin. BoNT/C was shown to be a good substitute for BoNT/A1 in human dystonia therapy because of its ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zanetti G,Sikorra S,Rummel A,Krez N,Duregotti E,Negro S,Henke T,Rossetto O,Binz T,Pirazzini M

更新日期：2017-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Poliomyelitis has nearly been eradicated through the efforts of the World Health Organization's Global Eradication Initiative raising questions on containment of the virus after it has been eliminated in the wild. Most manufacture of inactivated polio vaccines currently requires the growth of large amounts of highly v...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Knowlson S,Burlison J,Giles E,Fox H,Macadam AJ,Minor PD

更新日期：2015-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonorchis sinensis is a carcinogenic human liver fluke, prolonged infection which provokes chronic inflammation, epithelial hyperplasia, periductal fibrosis, and even cholangiocarcinoma (CCA). These effects are driven by direct physical damage caused by the worms, as well as chemical irritation from their excretory-s...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Won J,Cho Y,Lee D,Jeon BY,Ju JW,Chung S,Pak JH

更新日期：2019-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The bunyavirus genome comprises a small (S), medium (M), and large (L) RNA segment of negative polarity. Although genome segmentation confers evolutionary advantages by enabling genome reassortment events with related viruses, genome segmentation also complicates genome replication and packaging. Accumulating evidence...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wichgers Schreur PJ,Kortekaas J

更新日期：2016-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanisms that help promote protective immune responses to pathogens is a major challenge in biomedical research and an important goal for the design of innovative therapeutic or vaccination strategies. While natural killer (NK) cells can directly contribute to the control of viral replication, whet...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Robbins SH,Bessou G,Cornillon A,Zucchini N,Rupp B,Ruzsics Z,Sacher T,Tomasello E,Vivier E,Koszinowski UH,Dalod M

更新日期：2007-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A virus (IAV) infection can be severe or even lethal in toddlers, the elderly and patients with certain medical conditions. Infection of apparently healthy individuals nonetheless accounts for many severe disease cases and deaths, suggesting that viruses with increased pathogenicity co-circulate with pandemi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vasilijevic J,Zamarreño N,Oliveros JC,Rodriguez-Frandsen A,Gómez G,Rodriguez G,Pérez-Ruiz M,Rey S,Barba I,Pozo F,Casas I,Nieto A,Falcón A

更新日期：2017-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes in pathogenic bacteria is a major challenge to treating many infectious diseases. The spread of these genes is driven by the strong selection imposed by the use of antibacterial drugs. However, in the absence of drug selection, antibiotic resistance genes impose a fitness ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Albarracín Orio AG,Piñas GE,Cortes PR,Cian MB,Echenique J

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions are unorthodox infectious agents that replicate by templating misfolded conformations of a host-encoded glycoprotein, collectively termed PrPSc. Prion diseases are invariably fatal and currently incurable, but oral drugs that can prolong incubation times in prion-infected mice have been developed. Here, we test...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Burke CM,Mark KMK,Kun J,Beauchemin KS,Supattapone S

更新日期：2020-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila translocates multiple bacterial effector proteins into host cells to direct formation of a replication vacuole for the bacterium. The emerging consensus is that formation of this compartment involves recruitment of membrane material that traffics between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and Golgi....

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dorer MS,Kirton D,Bader JS,Isberg RR

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host control of influenza A virus (IAV) is associated with exuberant pulmonary inflammation characterized by the influx of myeloid cells and production of proinflammatory cytokines including interferons (IFNs). It is unclear, however, how the immune system clears the virus without causing lethal immunopathology. Here,...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Stifter SA,Bhattacharyya N,Pillay R,Flórido M,Triccas JA,Britton WJ,Feng CG

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is an important nosocomial pathogen that accounts for up to 20 percent of infections in intensive care units worldwide. Furthermore, A. baumannii strains have emerged that are resistant to all available antimicrobials. These facts highlight the dire need for new therapeutic strategies to combat...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hood MI,Mortensen BL,Moore JL,Zhang Y,Kehl-Fie TE,Sugitani N,Chazin WJ,Caprioli RM,Skaar EP

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi infection is characterized by chronic parasitism of non-lymphoid tissues and is rarely eliminated despite potent adaptive immune responses. This failure to cure has frequently been attributed to a loss or impairment of anti-T. cruzi T cell responses over time, analogous to the T cell dysfunction desc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Pack AD,Collins MH,Rosenberg CS,Tarleton RL

更新日期：2018-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The apicomplexan, Cryptosporidium parvum, possesses a bacterial-type lactate dehydrogenase (CpLDH). This is considered to be an essential enzyme, as this parasite lacks the Krebs cycle and cytochrome-based respiration, and mainly-if not solely, relies on glycolysis to produce ATP. Here, we provide evidence that in ext...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhang H,Guo F,Zhu G

更新日期：2015-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence suggests important roles for long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) as new gene modulators involved in various biological processes. However, the function roles of lncRNAs in lower vertebrates are still unknown. Here, we firstly identify a lncRNA, named MAVS antiviral-related lncRNA (MARL), as a key regulat...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chu Q,Xu T,Zheng W,Chang R,Zhang L

更新日期：2020-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:RIG-I-Like Receptors (RLRs) sense cytosolic viral RNA to transiently activate type I IFN production. Here, we report that a type I IFN inducible DExD/H helicase, DDX24, exerts a negative-regulatory effect on RLR function. Expression of DDX24 specifically suppressed RLR activity, while DDX24 loss, which caused embryoni...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ma Z,Moore R,Xu X,Barber GN

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Necrotrophic plant pathogens acquire nutrients from dead plant cells, which requires the disintegration of the plant cell wall and tissue structures by the pathogen. Infected plants lose tissue integrity and functional immunity as a result, exposing the nutrient rich, decayed tissues to the environment. One challenge ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cui Z,Yang CH,Kharadi RR,Yuan X,Sundin GW,Triplett LR,Wang J,Zeng Q

更新日期：2019-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant pathogens secrete an arsenal of effector proteins to impair host immunity. Some effectors possess enzymatic activities that can modify their host targets. Previously, we demonstrated that a Phytophthora sojae RXLR effector Avr3b acts as a Nudix hydrolase when expressed in planta; and this enzymatic activity is r...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kong G,Zhao Y,Jing M,Huang J,Yang J,Xia Y,Kong L,Ye W,Xiong Q,Qiao Y,Dong S,Ma W,Wang Y

更新日期：2015-08-28 00:00:00