Genome sequence of Babesia bovis and comparative analysis of apicomplexan hemoprotozoa.

abstract：:The innate immune system is the first line of host defense against invading organisms. Thus, pathogens have developed virulence mechanisms to evade the innate immune system. Here, we report a novel means for inhibition of neutrophil recruitment by Group A Streptococcus (GAS). Deletion of the secreted esterase gene (de...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Liu M,Zhu H,Li J,Garcia CC,Feng W,Kirpotina LN,Hilmer J,Tavares LP,Layton AW,Quinn MT,Bothner B,Teixeira MM,Lei B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is a retrovirus that persists lifelong in the host. In ∼4% of infected people, HTLV-1 causes a chronic disabling neuroinflammatory disease known as HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP). The pathogenesis of HAM/TSP is unknown and treatment remain...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tattermusch S,Skinner JA,Chaussabel D,Banchereau J,Berry MP,McNab FW,O'Garra A,Taylor GP,Bangham CR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) suppress the transcriptional and post-transcriptional expression of genes in plants. Several miRNA families target genes encoding nucleotide-binding site-leucine-rich repeat (NB-LRR) plant innate immune receptors. The fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici causes vascular wilt disease in tomat...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ouyang S,Park G,Atamian HS,Han CS,Stajich JE,Kaloshian I,Borkovich KA

更新日期：2014-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigenic variation to evade host immunity has long been assumed to be a driving force of diversifying selection in pathogens. Colonization by Streptococcus pneumoniae, which is central to the organism's transmission and therefore evolution, is limited by two arms of the immune system: antibody- and T cell- mediated i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Li Y,Gierahn T,Thompson CM,Trzciński K,Ford CB,Croucher N,Gouveia P,Flechtner JB,Malley R,Lipsitch M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) belongs to a class of cellular proteins involved in lipid metabolism. ApoE is a polymorphic protein produced primarily in macrophages and astrocytes. Different isoforms of ApoE have been associated with susceptibility to various diseases including Alzheimer's and cardiovascular diseases. ApoE e...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Siddiqui R,Suzu S,Ueno M,Nasser H,Koba R,Bhuyan F,Noyori O,Hamidi S,Sheng G,Yasuda-Inoue M,Hishiki T,Sukegawa S,Miyagi E,Strebel K,Matsushita S,Shimotohno K,Ariumi Y

更新日期：2018-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The intrinsic oncotropism and oncosuppressive activities of rodent protoparvoviruses (PVs) are opening new prospects for cancer virotherapy. Virus propagation, cytolytic activity, and spread are tightly connected to activation of the PDK1 signaling cascade, which delays stress-induced cell death and sustains functioni...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bär S,Rommelaere J,Nüesch JP

更新日期：2015-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin recognition complex (ORC) coordinates a series of events that lead to initiation of DNA strand duplication. As a nuclear double stranded DNA plasmid, the papillomavirus (PV) genome resembles a mini-chromosome in infected cells. To initiate its replication, the viral E2 protein binds to and recruits the E1 D...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： DeSmet M,Kanginakudru S,Rietz A,Wu WH,Roden R,Androphy EJ

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiretroviral therapy, antibody and CD8+ T cell-mediated responses targeting human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) exert selection pressure on the virus necessitating escape; however, the ability of CD4+ T cells to exert selective pressure remains unclear. Using a computational approach on HIV gag/pol/nef sequences ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Erdmann N,Du VY,Carlson J,Schaefer M,Jureka A,Sterrett S,Yue L,Dilernia D,Lakhi S,Tang J,Sidney J,Gilmour J,Allen S,Hunter E,Heath S,Bansal A,Goepfert PA

更新日期：2015-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus is an emerging bacterial pathogen which colonizes the gastrointestinal tract and can cause severe enteritis and bacteraemia. During infection, V. parahaemolyticus primarily attaches to the small intestine, where it causes extensive tissue damage and compromises epithelial barrier integrity. We ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lim J,Stones DH,Hawley CA,Watson CA,Krachler AM

更新日期：2014-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The MHC class I D(k) molecule supplies vital host resistance during murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) infection. Natural killer (NK) cells expressing the Ly49G2 inhibitory receptor, which specifically binds D(k), are required to control viral spread. The extent of D(k)-dependent host resistance, however, differs significa...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gillespie AL,Teoh J,Lee H,Prince J,Stadnisky MD,Anderson M,Nash W,Rival C,Wei H,Gamache A,Farber CR,Tung K,Brown MG

更新日期：2016-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is a frequent complication in critical illness. The mechanisms that are involved in initiation and propagation of the disease are not well understood. Scavenger receptor A (SRA) is a membrane receptor that binds multiple polyanions such as oxidized LDL and endotoxin. Recent studies suggest that SRA acts as a pa...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ozment TR,Ha T,Breuel KF,Ford TR,Ferguson DA,Kalbfleisch J,Schweitzer JB,Kelley JL,Li C,Williams DL

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensing of viral RNA by RIG-I-like receptors initiates innate antiviral response, which is mediated by the central adaptor VISA. How the RIG-I-VISA-mediated antiviral response is terminated at the late phase of infection is enigmatic. Here we identified the protein kinase A catalytic (PKAC) subunits α and β as negativ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Yan BR,Zhou L,Hu MM,Li M,Lin H,Yang Y,Wang YY,Shu HB

更新日期：2017-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus equi subspecies equi (S. equi) is a clonal, equine host-adapted pathogen of global importance that causes a suppurative lymphodendopathy of the head and neck, more commonly known as Strangles. The disease is highly prevalent, can be severe and is highly contagious. Antibiotic treatment is usually ineffec...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Guss B,Flock M,Frykberg L,Waller AS,Robinson C,Smith KC,Flock JI

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:The role of Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID) in somatic hypermutation and polyclonal antibody affinity maturation has not been shown for polyclonal responses in humans. We investigated whether AID induction in human B cells following H1N1pdm09 vaccination correlated with in-vivo antibody affinity maturation...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Khurana S,Frasca D,Blomberg B,Golding H

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral late domains are used by many viruses to recruit the cellular endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) to mediate membrane scission during viral budding. Unlike the P(S/T)AP and YPX(1-3)L late domains, which interact directly with the ESCRT proteins Tsg101 and ALIX, the molecular linkage connecti...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ziegler CM,Dang L,Eisenhauer P,Kelly JA,King BR,Klaus JP,Manuelyan I,Mattice EB,Shirley DJ,Weir ME,Bruce EA,Ballif BA,Botten J

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The bactericidal function of macrophages against pneumococci is enhanced by their apoptotic demise, which is controlled by the anti-apoptotic protein Mcl-1. Here, we show that lysosomal membrane permeabilization (LMP) and cytosolic translocation of activated cathepsin D occur prior to activation of a mitochondrial pat...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bewley MA,Marriott HM,Tulone C,Francis SE,Mitchell TJ,Read RC,Chain B,Kroemer G,Whyte MK,Dockrell DH

更新日期：2011-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection induces an atypical CD8 T cell response, termed inflationary, that is characterised by accumulation and maintenance of high numbers of effector memory like cells in circulation and peripheral tissues-a feature being successfully harnessed for vaccine purposes. Although stability of this...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Baumann NS,Torti N,Welten SPM,Barnstorf I,Borsa M,Pallmer K,Oduro JD,Cicin-Sain L,Ikuta K,Ludewig B,Oxenius A

更新日期：2018-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Endemic Burkitt's lymphoma (eBL) arises from the germinal center (GC). It is a common tumor of young children in tropical Africa and its occurrence is closely linked geographically with the incidence of P. falciparum malaria. This association was noted more than 50 years ago. Since then we have learned that eBL contai...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Torgbor C,Awuah P,Deitsch K,Kalantari P,Duca KA,Thorley-Lawson DA

更新日期：2014-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Gut microbiota facilitate many aspects of human health and development, but dysbiotic microbiota can promote hyperplasia and inflammation and contribute to human diseases such as cancer. Human patients infected with the gastric cancer-causing bacterium Helicobacter pylori have altered microbiota; however, whether dysb...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Jones TA,Hernandez DZ,Wong ZC,Wandler AM,Guillemin K

更新日期：2017-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The tremendous success of S. aureus as a human pathogen has been explained primarily by its array of virulence factors that enable the organism to evade host immunity. Perhaps equally important, but less well understood, is the importance of the intensity of the host response in determining the extent of pathology ind...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Parker D,Planet PJ,Soong G,Narechania A,Prince A

更新日期：2014-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptolysin S (SLS) is a bacteriocin-like haemolytic and cytotoxic virulence factor that plays a key role in the virulence of Group A Streptococcus (GAS), the causative agent of pharyngitis, impetigo, necrotizing fasciitis and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome. Although it has long been thought that SLS and related ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cotter PD,Draper LA,Lawton EM,Daly KM,Groeger DS,Casey PG,Ross RP,Hill C

更新日期：2008-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolomics coupled with heavy-atom isotope-labelled glucose has been used to probe the metabolic pathways active in cultured bloodstream form trypomastigotes of Trypanosoma brucei, a parasite responsible for human African trypanosomiasis. Glucose enters many branches of metabolism beyond glycolysis, which has been w...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Creek DJ,Mazet M,Achcar F,Anderson J,Kim DH,Kamour R,Morand P,Millerioux Y,Biran M,Kerkhoven EJ,Chokkathukalam A,Weidt SK,Burgess KE,Breitling R,Watson DG,Bringaud F,Barrett MP

更新日期：2015-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of drug resistance, lack of an effective vaccine, and ongoing conflict and poverty means that malaria remains a major global health crisis. Understanding metabolic pathways at all parasite life stages is important in prioritising and targeting novel anti-parasitic compounds. The unusual heme synthesis ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Rathnapala UL,Goodman CD,McFadden GI

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Epitopes that are conserved among SARS-like coronaviruses are attractive targets for design of cross-reactive vaccines and therapeutics. CR3022 is a SARS-CoV neutralizing antibody to a highly conserved epitope on the receptor binding domain (RBD) on the spike protein that is able to cross-react with SARS-CoV-2, but wi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wu NC,Yuan M,Bangaru S,Huang D,Zhu X,Lee CD,Turner HL,Peng L,Yang L,Burton DR,Nemazee D,Ward AB,Wilson IA

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) US2, US3, US6 and US11 act in concert to prevent immune recognition of virally infected cells by CD8+ T-lymphocytes through downregulation of MHC class I molecules (MHC-I). Here we show that US2 function goes far beyond MHC-I degradation. A systematic proteomic study using Plasma Membrane ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hsu JL,van den Boomen DJ,Tomasec P,Weekes MP,Antrobus R,Stanton RJ,Ruckova E,Sugrue D,Wilkie GS,Davison AJ,Wilkinson GW,Lehner PJ

更新日期：2015-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The host response to mycobacterial infection depends on host and pathogen genetic factors. Recent studies in human populations suggest a strain specific genetic control of tuberculosis. To test for mycobacterial-strain specific genetic control of susceptibility to infection under highly controlled experimental conditi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Di Pietrantonio T,Hernandez C,Girard M,Verville A,Orlova M,Belley A,Behr MA,Loredo-Osti JC,Schurr E

更新日期：2010-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Many viruses subvert the host cell's ability to mount and complete various DNA damage responses (DDRs) after infection. HCMV infection of permissive fibroblasts activates host DDRs at the time of viral deposition and during replication, but the DDRs remain uncompleted without arrest or apoptosis. We believe this was i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： O'Dowd JM,Zavala AG,Brown CJ,Mori T,Fortunato EA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The macrophage is the primary host cell for the fungal pathogen Histoplasma capsulatum during mammalian infections, yet little is known about fungal genes required for intracellular replication in the host. Since the ability to scavenge iron from the host is important for the virulence of most pathogens, we investigat...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hwang LH,Mayfield JA,Rine J,Sil A

更新日期：2008-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Metalloproteases (MPs) have demonstrated roles in immune modulation. In some cases, these enzymes are produced by parasites to influence host immune responses such that parasite infection is facilitated. One of the best examples of parasite-mediated immune modulation is the matrix metalloprotease (MMP) leishmanolysin ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hambrook JR,Kaboré AL,Pila EA,Hanington PC

更新日期：2018-10-29 00:00:00