Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus ORF45 interacts with kinesin-2 transporting viral capsid-tegument complexes along microtubules.

abstract：:Host genetic variations play an important role in several pathogenic diseases, and we have previously provided strong evidences that these genetic variations contribute significantly to differences in susceptibility and clinical outcomes of invasive Group A Streptococcus (GAS) infections, including sepsis and necrotiz...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chella Krishnan K,Mukundan S,Alagarsamy J,Hur J,Nookala S,Siemens N,Svensson M,Hyldegaard O,Norrby-Teglund A,Kotb M

更新日期：2016-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis is sensitive to nitric oxide generated by inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS). Consequently, to ensure its survival in macrophages, M. tuberculosis inhibits iNOS recruitment to its phagosome by an unknown mechanism. Here we report the mechanism underlying this process, whereby mycobacteri...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Davis AS,Vergne I,Master SS,Kyei GB,Chua J,Deretic V

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：:Human rhinovirus (RV) infections are the principle cause of common colds and precipitate asthma and COPD exacerbations. There is currently no RV vaccine, largely due to the existence of ∼150 strains. We aimed to define highly conserved areas of the RV proteome and test their usefulness as candidate antigens for a broa...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Glanville N,McLean GR,Guy B,Lecouturier V,Berry C,Girerd Y,Gregoire C,Walton RP,Pearson RM,Kebadze T,Burdin N,Bartlett NW,Almond JW,Johnston SL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell division cycle of the unicellular eukaryote Trypanosome brucei is tightly regulated despite the paucity of transcriptional control that results from the arrangement of genes in polycistronic units and lack of dynamically regulated transcription factors. To identify the contribution of dynamic phosphorylation ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Benz C,Urbaniak MD

更新日期：2019-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The Aspergillus fumigatus sterol regulatory element binding protein (SREBP) SrbA belongs to the basic Helix-Loop-Helix (bHLH) family of transcription factors and is crucial for antifungal drug resistance and virulence. The latter phenotype is especially striking, as loss of SrbA results in complete loss of virulence i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chung D,Barker BM,Carey CC,Merriman B,Werner ER,Lechner BE,Dhingra S,Cheng C,Xu W,Blosser SJ,Morohashi K,Mazurie A,Mitchell TK,Haas H,Mitchell AP,Cramer RA

更新日期：2014-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus agalactiae is a common human commensal and a major life-threatening pathogen in neonates. Adherence to host epithelial cells is the first critical step of the infectious process. Pili have been observed on the surface of several gram-positive bacteria including S. agalactiae. We previously characterized ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Konto-Ghiorghi Y,Mairey E,Mallet A,Duménil G,Caliot E,Trieu-Cuot P,Dramsi S

更新日期：2009-05-01 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 essential transactivator function of the HIV Tat protein is regulated by multiple posttranslational modifications. Although individual modifications are well characterized, their crosstalk and dynamics of occurrence during the HIV transcription cycle remain unclear.We examine interactions between two critical modi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sakane N,Kwon HS,Pagans S,Kaehlcke K,Mizusawa Y,Kamada M,Lassen KG,Chan J,Greene WC,Schnoelzer M,Ott M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

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：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006120.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kinosada H,Yasunaga JI,Shimura K,Miyazato P,Onishi C,Iyoda T,Inaba K,Matsuoka M

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection is a chronic condition, where viral DNA integrates into the genome. Latently infected cells form a persistent, heterogeneous reservoir that at any time can reactivate the integrated HIV-1. Here we confirmed that latently infected cells from HIV-1 positive study par...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lindqvist B,Svensson Akusjärvi S,Sönnerborg A,Dimitriou M,Svensson JP

更新日期：2020-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a cellular process that is highly conserved among eukaryotes and permits the degradation of cellular material. Autophagy is involved in multiple survival-promoting processes. It not only facilitates the maintenance of cell homeostasis by degrading long-lived proteins and damaged organelles, but it also pl...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Besteiro S,Brooks CF,Striepen B,Dubremetz JF

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005822.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Abdelrahman Y,Ouellette SP,Belland RJ,Cox JV

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuraminidase (NA) inhibitor (NAI) oseltamivir (OST) is the most widely used influenza antiviral drug. Several NA amino acid substitutions are reported to reduce viral susceptibility to OST in in vitro assays. However, whether there is a correlation between the level of reduction in susceptibility in vitro and the...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Farrukee R,Tai CM,Oh DY,Anderson DE,Gunalan V,Hibberd M,Lau GY,Barr IG,Messling VV,Maurer-Stroh S,Hurt AC

更新日期：2020-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative roles of the endosomal TLR3/7/8 versus the intracellular RNA helicases RIG-I and MDA5 in viral infection is much debated. We investigated the roles of each pattern recognition receptor in rhinovirus infection using primary bronchial epithelial cells. TLR3 was constitutively expressed; however, RIG-I and M...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Slater L,Bartlett NW,Haas JJ,Zhu J,Message SD,Walton RP,Sykes A,Dahdaleh S,Clarke DL,Belvisi MG,Kon OM,Fujita T,Jeffery PK,Johnston SL,Edwards MR

更新日期：2010-11-04 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：: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：:Epigenetic mechanisms and chromatin structure play an important role in development. Their impact is therefore expected to be strong in parasites with complex life cycles and multiple, strikingly different, developmental stages, i.e. developmental plasticity. Some studies have already described how the chromatin struc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Roquis D,Taudt A,Geyer KK,Padalino G,Hoffmann KF,Holroyd N,Berriman M,Aliaga B,Chaparro C,Grunau C,Augusto RC

更新日期：2018-05-21 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：:Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), an enigmatic endothelial cell vascular neoplasm, is characterized by the proliferation of spindle shaped endothelial cells, inflammatory cytokines (ICs), growth factors (GFs) and angiogenic factors. KSHV is etiologically linked to KS and expresses its latent genes in KS lesion endothelial cells....

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sharma-Walia N,Paul AG,Bottero V,Sadagopan S,Veettil MV,Kerur N,Chandran B

更新日期：2010-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus (HSV)--and herpesviruses in general--encode for a multipartite entry/fusion apparatus. In HSV it consists of the HSV-specific glycoprotein D (gD), and three additional glycoproteins, gH/gL and gB, conserved across the Herpesviridae family and responsible for the execution of fusion. According to t...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gianni T,Salvioli S,Chesnokova LS,Hutt-Fletcher LM,Campadelli-Fiume G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many immune response genes are highly polymorphic, consistent with the selective pressure imposed by pathogens over evolutionary time, and the need to balance infection control with the risk of auto-immunity. Epidemiological and genomic studies have identified many genetic variants that confer susceptibility or resist...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Andoniou CE,Sutton VR,Wikstrom ME,Fleming P,Thia KY,Matthews AY,Kaiserman D,Schuster IS,Coudert JD,Eldi P,Chaudhri G,Karupiah G,Bird PI,Trapani JA,Degli-Esposti MA

更新日期：2014-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of peptidoglycan (PGN) is paramount for insect antibacterial defenses. In the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the transmembrane PGN Recognition Protein LC (PGRP-LC) is a receptor of the Imd signaling pathway that is activated after infection with bacteria, mainly Gram-negative (Gram-). Here we demonstra...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Meister S,Agianian B,Turlure F,Relógio A,Morlais I,Kafatos FC,Christophides GK

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA polyadenylation (pA) is one of the major steps in regulation of gene expression at the posttranscriptional level. In this report, a genome landscape of pA sites of viral transcripts in B lymphocytes with Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) infection was constructed using a modified PA-seq strategy. We ide...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Majerciak V,Ni T,Yang W,Meng B,Zhu J,Zheng ZM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm formation is an important virulence trait of the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans. We have combined gene overexpression, strain barcoding and microarray profiling to screen a library of 531 C. albicans conditional overexpression strains (∼10% of the genome) for genes affecting biofilm development in mixed-pop...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cabral V,Znaidi S,Walker LA,Martin-Yken H,Dague E,Legrand M,Lee K,Chauvel M,Firon A,Rossignol T,Richard ML,Munro CA,Bachellier-Bassi S,d'Enfert C

更新日期：2014-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon-γ (IFN-γ) represents one of the most important innate immunity responses in a host to combat infections of many human viruses including human herpesviruses. Human N-myc interactor (Nmi) protein, which has been shown to interact with signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) proteins including ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Feng L,Sheng J,Vu GP,Liu Y,Foo C,Wu S,Trang P,Paliza-Carre M,Ran Y,Yang X,Sun X,Deng Z,Zhou T,Lu S,Li H,Liu F

更新日期：2018-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV) is a widespread RNA virus of honey bees that has been linked with colony losses. Here we describe the transmission, prevalence, and genetic traits of this virus, along with host transcriptional responses to infections. Further, we present RNAi-based strategies for limiting an impor...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chen YP,Pettis JS,Corona M,Chen WP,Li CJ,Spivak M,Visscher PK,DeGrandi-Hoffman G,Boncristiani H,Zhao Y,vanEngelsdorp D,Delaplane K,Solter L,Drummond F,Kramer M,Lipkin WI,Palacios G,Hamilton MC,Smith B,Huang SK,Zhe

更新日期：2014-07-31 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：:Recombination, complementation and competition profoundly influence virus evolution and epidemiology. Since viruses are intracellular parasites, the basic parameter determining the potential for such interactions is the multiplicity of cellular infection (cellular MOI), i.e. the number of viral genome units that effec...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gutiérrez S,Yvon M,Thébaud G,Monsion B,Michalakis Y,Blanc S

更新日期：2010-09-16 00:00:00