Critical loss of the balance between Th17 and T regulatory cell populations in pathogenic SIV infection.

abstract：:The intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is distinguished by its ability to invade and replicate within mammalian cells. Remarkably, of the 15 serovars within the genus, strains belonging to serovar 4b cause the majority of listeriosis clinical cases and outbreaks. The Listeria O-antigens are defined by subtl...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sumrall ET,Shen Y,Keller AP,Rismondo J,Pavlou M,Eugster MR,Boulos S,Disson O,Thouvenot P,Kilcher S,Wollscheid B,Cabanes D,Lecuit M,Gründling A,Loessner MJ

更新日期：2019-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of mosquito populations with insecticide treated bed nets and indoor residual sprays remains the cornerstone of malaria reduction and elimination programs. In light of widespread insecticide resistance in mosquitoes, however, alternative strategies for reducing transmission by the mosquito vector are urgen...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Childs LM,Cai FY,Kakani EG,Mitchell SN,Paton D,Gabrieli P,Buckee CO,Catteruccia F

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera, the pandemic diarrheal disease caused by the gram-negative bacterium Vibrio cholerae, continues to be a major public health challenge in the developing world. Cholera toxin, which is responsible for the voluminous stools of cholera, causes constitutive activation of adenylyl cyclase, resulting in the export o...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Blow NS,Salomon RN,Garrity K,Reveillaud I,Kopin A,Jackson FR,Watnick PI

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV Nef acts as an anti-autophagic maturation factor through interaction with beclin-1 (BECN1). We report that exposure of macrophages to infectious or non-infectious purified HIV induces toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8) and BECN1 dependent dephosphorylation and nuclear translocation of TFEB and that this correlates with a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Campbell GR,Rawat P,Bruckman RS,Spector SA

更新日期：2015-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactoferrin binding protein B (LbpB) is a bi-lobed outer membrane-bound lipoprotein that comprises part of the lactoferrin (Lf) receptor complex in Neisseria meningitidis and other Gram-negative pathogens. Recent studies have demonstrated that LbpB plays a role in protecting the bacteria from cationic antimicrobial pe...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ostan NK,Yu RH,Ng D,Lai CC,Pogoutse AK,Sarpe V,Hepburn M,Sheff J,Raval S,Schriemer DC,Moraes TF,Schryvers AB

更新日期：2017-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:EBV transforms B cells in vitro and causes human B-cell lymphomas including classical Hodgkin lymphoma (CHL), Burkitt lymphoma (BL) and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). The EBV latency protein, EBNA2, transcriptionally activates the promoters of all latent viral protein-coding genes expressed in type III EBV lat...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Li C,Romero-Masters JC,Huebner S,Ohashi M,Hayes M,Bristol JA,Nelson SE,Eichelberg MR,Van Sciver N,Ranheim EA,Scott RS,Johannsen EC,Kenney SC

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial biofilm is considered as a particular lifestyle helping cells to survive hostile environments triggered by a variety of signals sensed and integrated through adequate regulatory pathways. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a Gram-negative bacterium causing severe infections in humans, forms biofilms and is a fantastic ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： de Bentzmann S,Giraud C,Bernard CS,Calderon V,Ewald F,Plésiat P,Nguyen C,Grunwald D,Attree I,Jeannot K,Fauvarque MO,Bordi C

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival and persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis depends on its capacity to manipulate multiple host defense pathways, including the ability to actively inhibit the death by apoptosis of infected host cells. The genetic basis for this anti-apoptotic activity and its implication for mycobacterial virulence ha...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Velmurugan K,Chen B,Miller JL,Azogue S,Gurses S,Hsu T,Glickman M,Jacobs WR Jr,Porcelli SA,Briken V

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) (genus Phlebovirus, family Bunyaviridae) is a negative-stranded RNA virus with a tripartite genome. RVFV is transmitted by mosquitoes and causes fever and severe hemorrhagic illness among humans, and fever and high rates of abortions in livestock. A nonstructural RVFV NSs protein inhibit...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ikegami T,Narayanan K,Won S,Kamitani W,Peters CJ,Makino S

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many viruses, one or two proteins allow cell attachment and entry, which occurs through the plasma membrane or following endocytosis at low pH. In contrast, vaccinia virus (VACV) enters cells by both neutral and low pH routes; four proteins mediate cell attachment and twelve that are associated in a membrane compl...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Laliberte JP,Weisberg AS,Moss B

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007696.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dewan KK,Taylor-Mulneix DL,Campos LL,Skarlupka AL,Wagner SM,Ryman VE,Gestal MC,Ma L,Blas-Machado U,Faddis BT,Harvill ET

更新日期：2019-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing experimental evidence indicates that, in addition to the physical virion components, the non-structural proteins of hepatitis C virus (HCV) are intimately involved in orchestrating morphogenesis. Since it is dispensable for HCV RNA replication, the non-structural viral protein NS2 is suggested to play a centra...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Popescu CI,Callens N,Trinel D,Roingeard P,Moradpour D,Descamps V,Duverlie G,Penin F,Héliot L,Rouillé Y,Dubuisson J

更新日期：2011-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:RsaE is a conserved small regulatory RNA (sRNA) which was previously reported to represent a riboregulator of central carbon flow and other metabolic pathways in Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis. Here we show that RsaE contributes to extracellular (e)DNA release and biofilm-matrix switching towards polysacc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Schoenfelder SMK,Lange C,Prakash SA,Marincola G,Lerch MF,Wencker FDR,Förstner KU,Sharma CM,Ziebuhr W

更新日期：2019-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcriptase (RT) is the target for the majority of anti-HIV-1 drugs. As with all anti-AIDS treatments, continued success of RT inhibitors is persistently disrupted by the occurrence of resistance mutations. To explore latent resistance mechanisms potentially accessible to therapeutically challenged HIV-1 vir...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Galilee M,Alian A

更新日期：2018-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria parasites must undergo a round of sexual reproduction in the blood meal of a mosquito vector to be transmitted between hosts. Developing a transmission-blocking intervention to prevent parasites from mating is a major goal of biomedicine, but its effectiveness could be compromised if parasites can compensate b...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ramiro RS,Alpedrinha J,Carter L,Gardner A,Reece SE

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The simultaneous targeting of host and pathogen processes represents an untapped approach for the treatment of intracellular infections. Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) is a host cell transcription factor that is activated by and required for the growth of the intracellular protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii at p...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Brown KM,Suvorova E,Farrell A,McLain A,Dittmar A,Wiley GB,Marth G,Gaffney PM,Gubbels MJ,White M,Blader IJ

更新日期：2014-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The infectious form of the parasitic nematode Strongyloides stercoralis is a developmentally arrested third-stage larva (L3i), which is morphologically similar to the developmentally arrested dauer larva in the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. We hypothesize that the molecular pathways regulating C. elegan...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Stoltzfus JD,Bart SM,Lok JB

更新日期：2014-07-10 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：:To replicate, HIV-1 capitalizes on endogenous cellular activation pathways resulting in recruitment of key host transcription factors to its viral enhancer. RNA interference has been a powerful tool for blocking key checkpoints in HIV-1 entry into cells. Here we apply RNA interference to HIV-1 transcription in primary...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ranjbar S,Tsytsykova AV,Lee SK,Rajsbaum R,Falvo JV,Lieberman J,Shankar P,Goldfeld AE

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloidosis describes a group of protein folding diseases in which amyloid proteins are abnormally deposited in organs and/or tissues as fine fibrils. Mouse senile amyloidosis is a disorder in which apolipoprotein A-II (apoA-II) deposits as amyloid fibrils (AApoAII) and can be transmitted from one animal to another bo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Qian J,Yan J,Ge F,Zhang B,Fu X,Tomozawa H,Sawashita J,Mori M,Higuchi K

更新日期：2010-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquito-borne flaviviruses are among the most significant arboviral pathogens worldwide. Vaccinations and mosquito population control programs remain the most reliable means for flavivirus disease prevention, and live attenuated viruses remain one of the most attractive flavivirus vaccine platforms. Some live attenua...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tsetsarkin KA,Liu G,Kenney H,Bustos-Arriaga J,Hanson CT,Whitehead SS,Pletnev AG

更新日期：2015-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) vGPCR is a constitutively active G protein-coupled receptor that subverts proliferative and inflammatory signaling pathways to induce cell transformation in Kaposi's sarcoma. Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) is an inflammatory mediator that plays a key regulatory role in the acti...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Medina MV,D Agostino A,Ma Q,Eroles P,Cavallin L,Chiozzini C,Sapochnik D,Cymeryng C,Hyjek E,Cesarman E,Naipauer J,Mesri EA,Coso OA

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the advent of genome-wide small interfering RNA screening, large numbers of cellular cofactors important for viral infection have been discovered at a rapid pace, but the viral targets and the mechanism of action for many of these cofactors remain undefined. One such cofactor is cyclophilin A (CyPA), upon which ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Yang F,Robotham JM,Grise H,Frausto S,Madan V,Zayas M,Bartenschlager R,Robinson M,Greenstein AE,Nag A,Logan TM,Bienkiewicz E,Tang H

更新日期：2010-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ronald Ross and George Macdonald are credited with developing a mathematical model of mosquito-borne pathogen transmission. A systematic historical review suggests that several mathematicians and scientists contributed to development of the Ross-Macdonald model over a period of 70 years. Ross developed two different m...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Smith DL,Battle KE,Hay SI,Barker CM,Scott TW,McKenzie FE

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral infections of central nervous system (CNS) often trigger inflammatory responses that give rise to a wide range of pathological outcomes. The CNS is equipped with an elaborate network of innate immune sentinels (e.g. microglia, macrophages, dendritic cells) that routinely serve as first responders to these infect...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Nayak D,Johnson KR,Heydari S,Roth TL,Zinselmeyer BH,McGavern DB

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardioviruses, including encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) and the human Saffold virus, are small non-enveloped viruses belonging to the Picornaviridae, a large family of positive-sense RNA [(+)RNA] viruses. All (+)RNA viruses remodel intracellular membranes into unique structures for viral genome replication. Accumul...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dorobantu CM,Albulescu L,Harak C,Feng Q,van Kampen M,Strating JR,Gorbalenya AE,Lohmann V,van der Schaar HM,van Kuppeveld FJ

更新日期：2015-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Host genetic variation modifying HIV-1 acquisition risk can inform development of HIV-1 prevention strategies. However, associations between rare or intermediate-frequency variants and HIV-1 acquisition are not well studied. We tested for the association between variation in genic regions and extreme HIV-1 acquisition...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mackelprang RD,Bamshad MJ,Chong JX,Hou X,Buckingham KJ,Shively K,deBruyn G,Mugo NR,Mullins JI,McElrath MJ,Baeten JM,Celum C,Emond MJ,Lingappa JR,Partners in Prevention HSV\/HIV Transmission Study and the Partners PrEP Study T

更新日期：2017-11-06 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：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006634.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Walsh D

更新日期：2018-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant number of environmental microorganisms can cause serious, even fatal, acute and chronic infections in humans. The severity and outcome of each type of infection depends on the expression of specific bacterial phenotypes controlled by complex regulatory networks that sense and respond to the host environm...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kesarwani M,Hazan R,He J,Que YA,Apidianakis Y,Lesic B,Xiao G,Dekimpe V,Milot S,Deziel E,Lépine F,Rahme LG

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00