Estimation of transmission parameters of H5N1 avian influenza virus in chickens.

abstract：:The Pseudomonas syringae acetyltransferase HopZ1a is delivered into host cells by the type III secretion system to promote bacterial growth. However, in the model plant host Arabidopsis thaliana, HopZ1a activity results in an effector-triggered immune response (ETI) that limits bacterial proliferation. HopZ1a-triggere...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bastedo DP,Khan M,Martel A,Seto D,Kireeva I,Zhang J,Masud W,Millar D,Lee JY,Lee AH,Gong Y,Santos-Severino A,Guttman DS,Desveaux D

更新日期：2019-07-03 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：:The AraC Negative Regulators (ANR) comprise a large family of virulence regulators distributed among diverse clinically important Gram-negative pathogens, including Vibrio spp., Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., Yersinia spp., Citrobacter spp., and pathogenic E. coli strains. We have previously reported broad effects of...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Santiago AE,Yan MB,Hazen TH,Sauder B,Meza-Segura M,Rasko DA,Kendall MM,Ruiz-Perez F,Nataro JP

更新日期：2017-08-14 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：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) nonstructural protein 2 (NS2) is a hydrophobic, transmembrane protein that is required not only for NS2-NS3 cleavage, but also for infectious virus production. To identify cellular factors that interact with NS2 and are important for HCV propagation, we screened a human liver cDNA library by sp...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Suzuki R,Matsuda M,Watashi K,Aizaki H,Matsuura Y,Wakita T,Suzuki T

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Hospitalization of the elderly for invasive pneumococcal disease is frequently accompanied by the occurrence of an adverse cardiac event; these are primarily new or worsened heart failure and cardiac arrhythmia. Herein, we describe previously unrecognized microscopic lesions (microlesions) formed within the myocardium...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Brown AO,Mann B,Gao G,Hankins JS,Humann J,Giardina J,Faverio P,Restrepo MI,Halade GV,Mortensen EM,Lindsey ML,Hanes M,Happel KI,Nelson S,Bagby GJ,Lorent JA,Cardinal P,Granados R,Esteban A,LeSaux CJ,Tuomanen EI,Or

更新日期：2014-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The Vibrio cholerae type VI secretion system (T6SS) assembles as a molecular syringe that injects toxic protein effectors into both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. We previously reported that the V. cholerae O37 serogroup strain V52 maintains a constitutively active T6SS to kill other Gram-negative bacteria while be...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Miyata ST,Unterweger D,Rudko SP,Pukatzki S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inability of sodium antimony gluconate (SAG)-unresponsive kala-azar patients to clear Leishmania donovani (LD) infection despite SAG therapy is partly due to an ill-defined immune-dysfunction. Since dendritic cells (DCs) typically initiate anti-leishmanial immunity, a role for DCs in aberrant LD clearance was inve...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Haldar AK,Yadav V,Singhal E,Bisht KK,Singh A,Bhaumik S,Basu R,Sen P,Roy S

更新日期：2010-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the TRIpartite interaction Motif (TRIM) family of E3 ligases have been shown to exhibit antiviral activities. Here we report a near comprehensive screen for antiretroviral activities of 55 TRIM proteins (36 human, 19 mouse). We identified approximately 20 TRIM proteins that, when transiently expressed in HE...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Uchil PD,Quinlan BD,Chan WT,Luna JM,Mothes W

更新日期：2008-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The Venus kinase receptor (VKR) is a single transmembrane molecule composed of an intracellular tyrosine kinase domain close to that of insulin receptor and an extracellular Venus Flytrap (VFT) structure similar to the ligand binding domain of many class C G protein coupled receptors. This receptor tyrosine kinase (RT...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vanderstraete M,Gouignard N,Cailliau K,Morel M,Hahnel S,Leutner S,Beckmann S,Grevelding CG,Dissous C

更新日期：2014-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Eradication of tuberculosis (TB), the world's leading cause of death due to infectious disease, requires a highly efficacious TB vaccine. Many TB vaccine candidates are in pre-clinical and clinical development but only a few can be advanced to large-scale efficacy trials due to limited global resources. We aimed to pe...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Rodo MJ,Rozot V,Nemes E,Dintwe O,Hatherill M,Little F,Scriba TJ

更新日期：2019-03-04 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：:KSHV is the etiological agent of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), primary effusion lymphoma (PEL), and a subset of multicentricCastleman's disease (MCD). The fact that KSHV-encoded miRNAs are readily detectable in all KSHV-associated tumors suggests a potential role in viral pathogenesis and tumorigenesis. MiRNA-mediated regula...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Haecker I,Gay LA,Yang Y,Hu J,Morse AM,McIntyre LM,Renne R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) core protein (HBc) contains an N-terminal domain (NTD, assembly domain) and a C-terminal domain (CTD), which are linked by a flexible linker region. HBc plays multiple essential roles in viral replication, including capsid assembly, packaging of the viral pregenomic RNA (pgRNA) into nucleocapsi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Liu K,Luckenbaugh L,Ning X,Xi J,Hu J

更新日期：2018-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A pandemic-capable influenza virus requires a hemagglutinin (HA) surface glycoprotein that is immunologically unseen by most people and is capable of supporting replication and transmission in humans. HA stabilization has been linked to 2009 pH1N1 pandemic potential in humans and H5N1 airborne transmissibility in the ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Russier M,Yang G,Marinova-Petkova A,Vogel P,Kaplan BS,Webby RJ,Russell CJ

更新日期：2017-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Many thousands of endoparasitic wasp species are known to inject polydnavirus (PDV) particles into their caterpillar host during oviposition, causing immune and developmental dysfunctions that benefit the wasp larva. PDVs associated with braconid and ichneumonid wasps, bracoviruses and ichnoviruses respectively, both ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Volkoff AN,Jouan V,Urbach S,Samain S,Bergoin M,Wincker P,Demettre E,Cousserans F,Provost B,Coulibaly F,Legeai F,Béliveau C,Cusson M,Gyapay G,Drezen JM

更新日期：2010-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Human defensins are at the forefront of the host responses to HIV and other pathogens in mucosal tissues. However, their ability to inactivate HIV in the bloodstream has been questioned due to the antagonistic effect of serum. In this study, we have examined the effect of sub-inhibitory concentrations of human α-defen...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Demirkhanyan L,Marin M,Lu W,Melikyan GB

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bursaphelenchus xylophilus is the nematode responsible for a devastating epidemic of pine wilt disease in Asia and Europe, and represents a recent, independent origin of plant parasitism in nematodes, ecologically and taxonomically distinct from other nematodes for which genomic data is available. As well as being an ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kikuchi T,Cotton JA,Dalzell JJ,Hasegawa K,Kanzaki N,McVeigh P,Takanashi T,Tsai IJ,Assefa SA,Cock PJ,Otto TD,Hunt M,Reid AJ,Sanchez-Flores A,Tsuchihara K,Yokoi T,Larsson MC,Miwa J,Maule AG,Sahashi N,Jones JT,Berr

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-cysteine peroxiredoxins are ubiquitous peroxidases that play various functions in cells. In Leishmania and related trypanosomatids, which lack catalase and selenium-glutathione peroxidases, the discovery of this family of enzymes provided the molecular basis for peroxide removal in these organisms. In this report ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Castro H,Teixeira F,Romao S,Santos M,Cruz T,Flórido M,Appelberg R,Oliveira P,Ferreira-da-Silva F,Tomás AM

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RANTES (CCL5) is a chemokine expressed by many hematopoietic and non-hematopoietic cell types that plays an important role in homing and migration of effector and memory T cells during acute infections. The RANTES receptor, CCR5, is a major target of anti-HIV drugs based on blocking viral entry. However, defects in RA...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Crawford A,Angelosanto JM,Nadwodny KL,Blackburn SD,Wherry EJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse polyomavirus (MPyV) lytically infects mouse cells, transforms rat cells in culture, and is highly oncogenic in rodents. We have used deep sequencing to follow MPyV infection of mouse NIH3T6 cells at various times after infection and analyzed both the viral and cellular transcriptomes. Alignment of sequencing rea...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Garren SB,Kondaveeti Y,Duff MO,Carmichael GG

更新日期：2015-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichothecenes are a family of terpenoid toxins produced by multiple genera of fungi, including plant and insect pathogens. Some trichothecenes produced by the fungus Fusarium are among the mycotoxins of greatest concern to food and feed safety because of their toxicity and frequent occurrence in cereal crops, and tri...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Proctor RH,McCormick SP,Kim HS,Cardoza RE,Stanley AM,Lindo L,Kelly A,Brown DW,Lee T,Vaughan MM,Alexander NJ,Busman M,Gutiérrez S

更新日期：2018-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungal pathogen Candida albicans is frequently associated with catheter-based infections because of its ability to form resilient biofilms. Prior studies have shown that the transcription factor Bcr1 governs biofilm formation in an in vitro catheter model. However, the mechanistic role of the Bcr1 pathway and its ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Nobile CJ,Andes DR,Nett JE,Smith FJ,Yue F,Phan QT,Edwards JE,Filler SG,Mitchell AP

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human pegivirus (HPgV), formerly GBV-C, are the only known human viruses in the Hepacivirus and Pegivirus genera, respectively, of the family Flaviviridae. We present the discovery of a second pegivirus, provisionally designated human pegivirus 2 (HPgV-2), by next-generation sequencing of p...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Berg MG,Lee D,Coller K,Frankel M,Aronsohn A,Cheng K,Forberg K,Marcinkus M,Naccache SN,Dawson G,Brennan C,Jensen DM,Hackett J Jr,Chiu CY

更新日期：2015-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissemination of HIV in the host involves transit of the virus and virus-infected cells across the lymphatic endothelium. HIV may alter lymphatic endothelial permeability to foster dissemination, but the mechanism is largely unexplored. Using a primary human lymphatic endothelial cell model, we found that HIV-1 envelo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhang X,Yu J,Kuzontkoski PM,Zhu W,Li DY,Groopman JE

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I interferons (T1-IFN) are critical in the innate immune response, acting upon infected and uninfected cells to initiate an antiviral state by expressing genes that inhibit multiple stages of the lifecycle of many viruses. T1-IFN triggers the production of Interferon-Stimulated Genes (ISGs), activating an antivir...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Parekh NJ,Krouse TE,Reider IE,Hobbs RP,Ward BM,Norbury CC

更新日期：2019-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the significance of a conserved five-amino acid motif 'AELPR' in the C-terminal region of helper component-proteinase (HCPro) for potato virus A (PVA; genus Potyvirus) infection. This motif is a putative interaction site for WD40 domain-containing proteins, including VARICOSE (VCS). We a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： De S,Pollari M,Varjosalo M,Mäkinen K

更新日期：2020-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The obligate intracellular, gram-negative bacterium Chlamydophila pneumoniae (Cpn) has impact as a human pathogen. Little is known about changes in the Cpn transcriptome during its biphasic developmental cycle (the acute infection) and persistence. The latter stage has been linked to chronic diseases. To analyze Cpn C...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mäurer AP,Mehlitz A,Mollenkopf HJ,Meyer TF

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 maturation inhibitors (MIs) disrupt the final step in the HIV-1 protease-mediated cleavage of the Gag polyprotein between capsid p24 capsid (CA) and spacer peptide 1 (SP1), leading to the production of infectious virus. BMS-955176 is a second generation MI with improved antiviral activity toward polymorphic Gag ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lin Z,Cantone J,Lu H,Nowicka-Sans B,Protack T,Yuan T,Yang H,Liu Z,Drexler D,Regueiro-Ren A,Meanwell NA,Cockett M,Krystal M,Lataillade M,Dicker IB

更新日期：2016-11-28 00:00:00