A novel secretion pathway of Salmonella enterica acts as an antivirulence modulator during salmonellosis.

abstract：:Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus causes an acute vesicular disease of domesticated and wild ruminants and pigs. Identifying sources of FMD outbreaks is often confounded by incomplete epidemiological evidence and the numerous routes by which virus can spread (movements of infected animals or their products, contamina...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cottam EM,Wadsworth J,Shaw AE,Rowlands RJ,Goatley L,Maan S,Maan NS,Mertens PP,Ebert K,Li Y,Ryan ED,Juleff N,Ferris NP,Wilesmith JW,Haydon DT,King DP,Paton DJ,Knowles NJ

更新日期：2008-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A facile and efficient method for the precise editing of large viral genomes is required for the selection of attenuated vaccine strains and the construction of gene therapy vectors. The type II prokaryotic CRISPR-Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated (Cas)) RNA-guided nucl...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bi Y,Sun L,Gao D,Ding C,Li Z,Li Y,Cun W,Li Q

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All pathogenesis and death associated with Plasmodium falciparum malaria is due to parasite-infected erythrocytes. Invasion of erythrocytes by P. falciparum merozoites requires specific interactions between host receptors and parasite ligands that are localized in apical organelles called micronemes. Here, we identify...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dawn A,Singh S,More KR,Siddiqui FA,Pachikara N,Ramdani G,Langsley G,Chitnis CE

更新日期：2014-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Future HIV vaccines are expected to induce effective Th1 cell-mediated and Env-specific antibody responses that are necessary to offer protective immunity to HIV infection. However, HIV infections are highly prevalent in helminth endemic areas. Helminth infections induce polarised Th2 responses that may impair HIV vac...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dzhivhuho GA,Rehrl SA,Ndlovu H,Horsnell WGC,Brombacher F,Williamson AL,Chege GK

更新日期：2018-07-26 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：: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：:The opa genes of the Gram negative bacterium Neisseria meningitidis encode Opacity-associated outer membrane proteins whose role is to promote adhesion to the human host tissue during colonisation and invasion. Each meningococcus contains 3-4 opa loci, each of which may be occupied by one of a large number of alleles....

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Callaghan MJ,Buckee CO,Jolley KA,Kriz P,Maiden MC,Gupta S

更新日期：2008-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the substantial public health, economic, and societal consequences of virus spillover from a wildlife reservoir. Widespread human transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) also presents a new set of challenges when considering viral spillover from peo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Olival KJ,Cryan PM,Amman BR,Baric RS,Blehert DS,Brook CE,Calisher CH,Castle KT,Coleman JTH,Daszak P,Epstein JH,Field H,Frick WF,Gilbert AT,Hayman DTS,Ip HS,Karesh WB,Johnson CK,Kading RC,Kingston T,Lorch JM,Mend

更新日期：2020-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroautophagy has been shown to be important for the cellular remodelling required for Leishmania differentiation. We now demonstrate that L. major contains a functional ATG12-ATG5 conjugation system, which is required for ATG8-dependent autophagosome formation. Nascent autophagosomes were found commonly associated w...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Williams RA,Smith TK,Cull B,Mottram JC,Coombs GH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics and regulation of HIV-1 nuclear import and its intranuclear movements after import have not been studied. To elucidate these essential HIV-1 post-entry events, we labeled viral complexes with two fluorescently tagged virion-incorporated proteins (APOBEC3F or integrase), and analyzed the HIV-1 dynamics of ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Burdick RC,Delviks-Frankenberry KA,Chen J,Janaka SK,Sastri J,Hu WS,Pathak VK

更新日期：2017-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of concatemeric DNA is an essential step during HSV infection, as the packaging machinery must recognize longer-than-unit-length concatemers; however, the mechanism by which they are formed is poorly understood. Although it has been proposed that the viral genome circularizes and rolling circle replication ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Schumacher AJ,Mohni KN,Kan Y,Hendrickson EA,Stark JM,Weller SK

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the leading causes of nosocomial pneumonia and its associated mortality. Moreover, extensively drug-resistant high-risk clones are globally widespread, presenting a major challenge to the healthcare systems. Despite this, no vaccine is available against this high-concerning pathogen. H...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cabral MP,Correia A,Vilanova M,Gärtner F,Moscoso M,García P,Vallejo JA,Pérez A,Francisco-Tomé M,Fuentes-Valverde V,Bou G

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviral capsid recognition by Trim5 blocks productive infection. Rhesus macaques harbor three functionally distinct Trim5 alleles: Trim5α(Q) , Trim5α(TFP) and Trim5(CypA) . Despite the high degree of amino acid identity between Trim5α(Q) and Trim5α(TFP) alleles, the Q/TFP polymorphism results in the differential re...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： McCarthy KR,Schmidt AG,Kirmaier A,Wyand AL,Newman RM,Johnson WE

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic regulation of leukocyte population size and activation state is crucial for an effective immune response. In malaria, Plasmodium parasites elicit robust host expansion of macrophages and monocytes, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here we show that myeloid expansion during P. chabaudi infection is...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Fontana MF,de Melo GL,Anidi C,Hamburger R,Kim CY,Lee SY,Pham J,Kim CC

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The two-component system (TCS) KdpD/KdpE, extensively studied for its regulatory role in potassium (K(+)) transport, has more recently been identified as an adaptive regulator involved in the virulence and intracellular survival of pathogenic bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus, entero-haemorrhagic Escherichia c...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Freeman ZN,Dorus S,Waterfield NR

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The host's immune system plays a key role in modulating growth of pathogens and the intestinal microbiota in the gut. In particular, inflammatory bowel disorders and pathogen infections induce shifts of the resident commensal microbiota which can result in overgrowth of Enterobacteriaceae ("inflammation-inflicted bloo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Nedialkova LP,Denzler R,Koeppel MB,Diehl M,Ring D,Wille T,Gerlach RG,Stecher B

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While immunological memory has long been considered the province of T- and B-lymphocytes, it has recently been reported that innate cell populations are capable of mediating memory responses. We now show that an innate memory immune response is generated in mice following infection with vaccinia virus, a poxvirus for ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gillard GO,Bivas-Benita M,Hovav AH,Grandpre LE,Panas MW,Seaman MS,Haynes BF,Letvin NL

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The whipworm Trichuris trichiura is a soil-transmitted helminth that dwells in the epithelium of the caecum and proximal colon of their hosts causing the human disease, trichuriasis. Trichuriasis is characterized by colitis attributed to the inflammatory response elicited by the parasite while tunnelling through intes...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Duque-Correa MA,Karp NA,McCarthy C,Forman S,Goulding D,Sankaranarayanan G,Jenkins TP,Reid AJ,Cambridge EL,Ballesteros Reviriego C,Sanger Mouse Genetics Project.,3i consortium.,Müller W,Cantacessi C,Dougan G,Grencis RK,Ber

更新日期：2019-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The bank vole is a rodent susceptible to different prion strains from humans and various animal species. We analyzed the transmission features of different prions in a panel of seven rodent species which showed various degrees of phylogenetic affinity and specific prion protein (PrP) sequence divergences in order to i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Agrimi U,Nonno R,Dell'Omo G,Di Bari MA,Conte M,Chiappini B,Esposito E,Di Guardo G,Windl O,Vaccari G,Lipp HP

更新日期：2008-07-25 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：:Human herpesviruses are antigenically rich agents that induce strong CD8+T cell responses in primary infection yet persist for life, continually challenging T cell memory through recurrent lytic replication and potentially influencing the spectrum of antigen-specific responses. Here we describe the first lytic proteom...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Forrest C,Hislop AD,Rickinson AB,Zuo J

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the HSV-1 life cycle is carried out in the cell nucleus, including the expression, replication, repair, and packaging of viral genomes. Viral proteins, as well as cellular factors, play essential roles in these processes. Isolation of proteins on nascent DNA (iPOND) was developed to label and purify cellular r...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dembowski JA,DeLuca NA

更新日期：2015-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacterial pathogens and symbionts use type III secretion machines to interact with their hosts by injecting bacterial effector proteins into host target cells. A central component of this complex machine is the cytoplasmic sorting platform, which orchestrates the engagement and preparation of type III secreted pr...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lara-Tejero M,Qin Z,Hu B,Butan C,Liu J,Galán JE

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The high environmental adaptability of bacteria is contingent upon their ability to sense changes in their surroundings. Bacterial pathogen entry into host poses an abrupt and dramatic environmental change, during which successful pathogens gauge multiple parameters that signal host localization. The facultative human...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Haber A,Friedman S,Lobel L,Burg-Golani T,Sigal N,Rose J,Livnat-Levanon N,Lewinson O,Herskovits AA

更新日期：2017-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of the vascular system by Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) occurs during bacterial dissemination in the body or in blood-borne infections. Type 3 secretion system (T3SS) toxins from Pa induce a massive retraction when injected into endothelial cells. Here, we addressed the role of type 2 secretion system (T2SS) e...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Golovkine G,Faudry E,Bouillot S,Voulhoux R,Attrée I,Huber P

更新日期：2014-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Adjunctive vitamin D treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis enhances resolution of inflammation but has modest effects on bacterial clearance. Sodium 4-phenylbutyrate (PBA) is in clinical use for a range of conditions and has been shown to synergise with vitamin D metabolites to upregulate cathelicidin antimicrobial pep...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Coussens AK,Wilkinson RJ,Martineau AR

更新日期：2015-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The agr quorum-sensing system of Staphylococcus aureus modulates the expression of virulence factors in response to autoinducing peptides (AIPs). Recent studies have suggested a role for the agr system in S. aureus biofilm development, as agr mutants exhibit a high propensity to form biofilms, and cells dispersing fro...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Boles BR,Horswill AR

更新日期：2008-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 uses a number of means to manipulate the immune system, to avoid recognition and to highjack signaling pathways. HIV-1 infected cells show limited Toll-Like Receptor (TLR) responsiveness via as yet unknown mechanisms. Using biochemical and biophysical approaches, we demonstrate that the trans-membrane domain (TM...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Reuven EM,Ali M,Rotem E,Schwarzer R,Gramatica A,Futerman AH,Shai Y

更新日期：2014-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans exhibits morphological changes in cell size during lung infection, producing both typical size 5 to 7 μm cells and large titan cells (> 10 μm and up to 100 μm). We found and optimized in vitro conditions that produce titan cells in order to identify the ancestry of titan c...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hommel B,Mukaremera L,Cordero RJB,Coelho C,Desjardins CA,Sturny-Leclère A,Janbon G,Perfect JR,Fraser JA,Casadevall A,Cuomo CA,Dromer F,Nielsen K,Alanio A

更新日期：2018-05-18 00:00:00